Wingman's Hangar ep030 . July 19, 2013

So the plan is every time we reach a new million mark, we make sure we reveal the next two.

Right. So when you get to whatever 15 million will be next, we would maybe reveal the 17 million one, right? So that's how we're doing this. And so you're just going to have to wait. Patience. Or they don't. They can get to the million quicker and then just put it right up there, right?

Well, if we're talking about the M50. M50's an Origin ship. Yep, that'll be, we're working on that now, I believe. Yeah, we are. It's a very spiffy little ship. It's pretty cool. So, yes. Other Origin ships? Probably not anytime soon. Probably not before November 26th, but there will be others. Someday. I mean, they're a manufacturer, they're working hard.

Of course we're going to have weather. You've seen Pete Mackey, the weather wizard. It's about time. I think Pete's about healed up. He may need to make a weather appearance coming up here.

Don't suck.

Yeah, there will definitely be some kind of monetary reward if you survive. And there's also, you'll carry over some of your reputation if you earn that during the game. And then you may have the option to continue service with the military in like a call-up fashion. They call you up.

You're in the reserves, right? There's some campaigns that pop up here and there and they need reserves. We may call all hands on deck and see if you choose in the universe whether you want to go. It'd just be kind of like a mission pack, right? And you might get medals and stuff that you can see in your hangar. That's right, bling. Everybody needs bling, baby.

Well, it's a little complicated.

There's a lot of code involved. But basically, think of it in terms of the bigger your ship, the nicer your hangar.

Right, so there's not really a monetary level that decides that. It's really, in fiction, number of ships, size of ship kind of deal. I mean, if you have 500 Auroras, you're not going to be in a little cheap hangar. Anyway, so the hangar is determined by the ships that you have.

Yes.

Well, gee, isn't it a good idea to look when you're firing anyway? I think that's important. So will there be friendly fire? Yeah. So you can actually shoot your friend down on accident or do damage. So pay attention.

We'd love to do that. I mean, ship names, pilot names, it would be neat. We'll have to check out the impact of it and see how possible it is.

Yeah, because we're pushing a lot of polygons, textures and stuff across there. And it could be a situation where, and we don't know, we'll have to do this and test everything, where you get to see it or maybe just your group of friends sees it. Doing it for yourself might be the answer. So we'll see. We'll test that out. And the beauty is they're going to get a chance to test it with us. So during the Dogfighting Module, we'll play around with all that kind of stuff.

Your ship is where you left it, so if you need to get back to it, you have to find your way back. There will be taxis and stuff. You can get back to your hangar if you're in the wrong place. Space taxis.

Yeah, space taxis. You don't expect things to show up and be there. It's a real living, breathing world we're trying to create here, or universe. You could have a couple of hangars dotted across the galaxy.

And ships in every one.

I mean, our good friend Simon's probably going to have ships in every system. And Lance too, for that matter.

Oh yeah, definitely. I'll be focusing on testing mostly. We're developing a working relationship with a very professional QA operation, and it's going to be really lucky for us to leverage their resources for our compatibility testing so we can identify any hardware conflicts and also nail down exactly what our minimum specifications will be.

Right, and we're going to be using some of the fans out there to help us test in some regards too, like we did with the website. Because without them, there's not us.

Yeah, the community has been incredibly helpful with that.

And so you'll be the one probably liaising with all of them too.

Yeah, I'll be the point of contact for all that and trying to organize it.