Reverse the Verse: June 3rd, 2016

I don't think we can confirm either way yet.

Well, the ones that have been sold.

Oh, yeah. The ones that have been sold are the cargo version.

So anybody who owns a Caterpillar at this moment will get four cargo modules.

Is it four or is it?

So that's the question. Let's avoid the number. But say you'll get cargo modules. It is a number of cargo modules. So INN doing your transcript, remember that I said we can't confirm the number.

For me, it was the ones that dealt with the personal backstory of the person. The thing was you're supposed to write a backstory for your character, and many people did, but some people did not do that. The folks who really put a lot of effort into their background lore, some of them were pretty amusing, and that generally gets my vote.

We saw a lot of memes, all the old Star Citizen memes. There was space lube in there and space whales and all sorts of stuff that made us chuckle. Some people apparently just see a form on the internet and they start cursing into it for no reason.

The intention is yes. We haven't done any work on that yet, but right now the current intention is yes.

We are ready to ship soon. We're working out some last-minute warehousing things. I think they'll probably be ready to ship in the next couple weeks. We had a deadline: if you purchased one of the star maps a couple years ago, we needed to update your address. There is a part in your account where you can confirm an address if you have an item like that that's ready to ship. We did send out an email to all those folks. So if you're one of those people and you didn't confirm your address, just submit a CS ticket and I can help you out. But that is just for the rolled ones. It's not for the folded box maps or anything like that.

Mustang did very well, and we are certainly looking at the next Consolidated Outland ship. As we kind of have a standard for multi-crew now with the Constellation, we're definitely looking at building multi-crew ships from other manufacturers. We have one in the works. It's not the Consolidated Outland one, but instead of looking at new starters, we're looking at that tier of ship. So I expect Silas Koerner, he'll have his Constellation killer at some point.

I know Silas got his name from your brother. Where did Koerner come from?

I think I just pulled it from a Wing Commander fan.

I know the base will be on sale. I don't know if we're bringing back the variants at this point.

It's going to be the Starfarer, the Gemini, the Reliant base.

And the new gun. We have our part of that all done. The post is ready to go and get published. We just are waiting for the build. But it's one of those things where it's frustrating not to have it out now. We would all love to have it out now. But it's for the best that it's getting this attention, that these bugs are being fixed now. That's the whole point of the process. But darn it, do we ever want it to be done soon.

If I remember our walkthrough with Calix correctly, the habitat portion is on the main part of the ship, the primary hull. So it's not part of the four or three or two or number-unconfirmed modules that can be swapped out. So, pretty sure the answer to that is no.

Oh, absolutely. Redeemer's a big guy. Redeemer's a multi-crew ship. The Buccaneer's a single-seat fighter.

That was Jared. That was a temp thing. I put it in there and specifically told Ben we want to replace that with a better joke.

I'm just going to go ahead and say no.

Probably not, but it's a good idea. I just don't see us doing that.

We have not shipped Jump Point yet. It is still in production.

Had to make some edits to the layout.

Yes, the layout is being adjusted. As soon as we have a clearer shipping date, we're going to update all of the folks that bought one.

It shouldn't be too long. David Ladyman has to go through a bunch of stuff.

So we know we're a bit delayed on that one, but we are working on it.

That's precisely the point of Alpha UEC. We're going to have plenty of times where it gets wiped. Especially with the PTU stuff, they're going to want to reset quite often.

The reason we've created Alpha UEC is so we can not touch your regular earned UEC, and so they can wipe it, grant it, increase it, deflate it at will as we're testing different things.

Yeah, I guarantee we'll have points in the future where you log in and you have a kajillion UEC for no reason, and then there'll be other days where you don't have any, and it's all part of the process.

Alpha UEC, don't get attached.

I think we put a little matrix in the 2.3 posts that shows what will happen, the number of other shield generators you'll get depending on what you have right now.

That's something that Matt and Kirk and Calix and one other, I can't remember his name right now, are all working on, that conversion process for the old components into the new components. So rest assured that there is a plan. They are still developing it.

Well, no, it's actually printed. It's in the 2.2 or 2.3 posts, wherever we premiered the shield thing, there's a thing that says exactly what we're doing.

It should be fine if you do it after it's been attributed, but not before. So don't buy a Buccaneer and melt it before the sale ends.

On Sunday, we're going to announce what the winning item is.

And it's 50-50 right now because we've had two days of each.

Yeah, two days of each. Towards the end of business Sunday, we'll know. We'll have an idea what it is. And we will attribute the item X to that item on Monday, according to Mr. Benjamin Fardell. So on Monday you will see the item appear on the website when you look at your virtual hangar, and you will have access to it in game if you bought it later this week. It requires another platform backend thing by Felix and he can't push that until Thursday of next week.

I don't know the answer.

Can't talk about the Caterpillar yet.

Oh, yeah, we're still working on it.

Yes. Well, that's part of what we're clearing. We want to share the winning entries with you, and we have to get permission.

They are in production right now. And I'd say probably ready to ship in three to four weeks.

Yes! We have one we're talking about right now. I can't give any details yet, though.

There's all sorts of different reasons for things we do. Caterpillar is because we have gotten to that stage of the ships. We just built the Starfarer, so that prototyped all the technology we need for ships that are that size. We just finished the Drake style guide and component kit parts for building ships. We're doing the Herald right now. We built the [unclear] and all the Drake ships at once. So you'll tend to see ships bunch up like that. Sometimes there are Squadron 42-specific needs that we can't call out directly. But usually ships happen for a reason. We're also not too far from cargo. And one of the things we're going to need for cargo is ships to fly around.

Like with most things, there's more than one reason for anything worth doing.

No, no, it's their space parody game. It's like Spaceballs to our Star Wars.

So is it a parody of space games or is it a parody of Star Citizen?

It's space games in general, but Star Citizen specifically gets mentioned or implied.

It's on the plate. We're just waiting. We want Chris to do it.

And he's in Europe right now. But when he gets back, I'm sure he will do the Willy Wonka thing. Yeah, it's Chris's baby.

He should be the one to show it off.

That is one of the bugs we're working on. In fact, I think it's one of the specific blockers, the spawn issue.

Other than saying it's a bug that we're aware of, I can't explain why it's happening.

Figuring out why it's happening is actually one of the things our folks are doing right now.

Mark was filling in for another developer who was in an accident and they were out for a couple days. He was filling in specifically for 2.4 stuff. We figured we wouldn't waste his time with our community stuff while he was focusing on that.

I don't want to say it's going to be next week. Let's let him do his work and we will get it as soon as he can spare the time for us.

Yeah, we always want to avoid stepping on the dev team's toes while they're working on stuff like this. But Bugsmashers will return.

There are. We have some Squadron 42 hoodies that we are currently working on.

Can we tell them what color they are?

Sure. They are like an olive, grayish military green.

My understanding is that yes, that's an immersion breaker, just to see a bunch of item port dots all the time. We see dots everywhere all the time. Again, it goes back to the features thing. Right now we're trying to get them to work. Then we can work on turning them on and off.

That's part of the new overall UI stuff that Zane's working on, the new, I can't remember what the word is for the title concept. So you're replacing the use button with kind of like an inner monologue type thing that highlights options in the world around you. So they're working on that right now. I've seen some look dev coming along. But it's not a new way to enter the Avenger from the side. We've had that. You've been able to enter the Avenger from the side in previous builds, and the ladders were broken for a while and now the ladders are getting fixed. The Avenger has a ladder that pops out of the side. It wasn't popping out for a while. It was there at the beginning when it first came in, and then they redid the Avenger and it broke, and now it's back.

No, I don't think that's what I meant if I said that.

Why don't you tell them what you meant regardless?

I don't remember what the question was, though.

My understanding is it's supposed to be more like augmented reality.

No, they won't.

It's a pirate raider.

It's intended to raid convoys. You take out the Hull or some other cargo ship, you load up the stuff you want and you get out.

You might also want to check ATV from last week, where Matt Sherman talks about all the ships in the Drake line and their specific role. So he talks a bit about how he envisions the Cutlass to perform and what its role should be. So, ATV, last week.

There'll be more customization down the road.

Another great example of keeping it simple right now while we're implementing features.

And we're doing some customization for the body, and then we'll do the armor after that. We're getting there.

That's generally determined by game support and what their needs are.

Yeah, we don't do the PTU to advertise or anything like that. The minute they say we need another group of people, we will let them in. They seem to be pretty happy with what they have right now. So if they make the request, we'll make it happen.

No, no update yet. Still waiting for a tech designer.

We've talked about it, but there's so much information that it goes in every different direction.

We are in the prototype stage, and I've just emailed to see if we can try and get some kind of image for it, because I know everybody's hankering to see it. So as soon as I know, I will let everybody else know that it is happening.

They do have the prototype now that they're evaluating.

Yes. We have to make sure everybody knows that, but we will make it happen.

No, we'll talk about it next week.

I know it's a when question, but it's coming up.

I don't think there is an RSI ship in the works right now. Well, the Polaris.

Polaris, yeah, the Polaris. That's definitely not between an Aurora and a Constellation.

I mean, we will certainly have more RSI ships in the future, but for now, I know the Aurora is getting another look and we're going to do the variants of the Constellation, but nothing you guys don't know about already.

Potentially. I know we will look at it, see about the other seat down the line, but it won't be anything that happens anytime soon.

No ship in the game is 100%. They're all going to see revisions and upgrades down the line.

It is much larger now. I would say it changed between initial imagination, where it was just kind of an evil Freelancer, and then the first drawings we did with Jim. Because it's been this Starfarer-sized ship ever since then, at least. So not a massive change since you've seen it.

Working on it.

Carrack's going into active dev shortly, and we're going to follow it as it...

We're trying to get in on the ground floor and show you as much as we can, because we know how much Carrack love there is out there.

Absolutely. Oh, yes. Hundreds of them. Many new landing zones.

It's going to be a little bit of time before the Reclaimer, but we are looking at bringing back the Caterpillar in the not too distant future.

No, we're looking into options right now, but it has not happened.

That is a mind-boggling experience that I'm right in the middle of right now. Well, to all the countries that we ship to.

I think it's more involved than people realize.

Yes.

Yes, we can confirm that.

We can almost always assure that that will happen. It's our anniversary.

That aforementioned new use system.

Yeah, the new flow from Zane.

Wish I could remember what he was calling it. There's a name for this new type of system. I can't remember what it's called right now.

No. I said in that question I'm not going to elaborate. When it happens, you'll know.

You mean the items that collect the poster and the model and the gun? Is that what he means?

I think he means, can you buy multiple Buccaneers and get multiple of the prize gun? If you have five Buccaneers, we'll give you five of the guns. One per ship. Please buy five Buccaneers.

It's not an either-or thing. They're starting to do some work on variants now.

We're just putting out the Gemini in 2.4.

Yeah, Gemini just hit, and then we'll be looking at the Aurora and the 300 later this year. I think at least one of the Constellations, too.

These are AKG P120s that we bought at Guitar Center.

Yeah, we've been talking about that.

Stay tuned.

We've never done a booth or a show or anything at E3. I think a bunch of folks here will take the day off and go to E3 because it's right here in Los Angeles. Yeah, we prefer the conventions that are open to the public. This was actually a thing this week. Everyone was like, oh, they're not doing E3. We never do E3. We've never done E3.

Still in development.

Probably be like two year or something. Whatever we do for the special events.

It's been on sale more than once, though. We bring it back for the anniversary sales, and in the anniversary sales it always has, depending on what the anniversary is.

We'll do whatever the highest non-LTI one is for this, which I think is three years.

There's not that we're ready to share.