Wingman's Hangar ep010 . March 1, 2013

Well, you know what? There's no system like that where you can stay in the military, but we are going to let you join militia forces. If your reputation perhaps is high enough, if you're the lawful good character, then you'll be able to get some missions to go out and maybe chase some bounty hunters through the UEE. But we feel if you're playing a military officer and you're constantly taking orders in the universe, it might get kind of boring. We want the free flow, baby, it's a sandbox. And we want you to have control over where you go, what you're going to do, things like that. And there might be other campaigns in the future, because war, good god, what is it good for? Video gaming. Of course it's always good, so we need some wars popping up every now and then.

Yeah, well, so what was that? Mining, dead civilizations, alien artifacts? Dude, of course, mining's not just going to be about grabbing everything off the periodic table. There's going to be all kinds of things to find out there. A lot of things that'll enhance things in the game: missiles, weaponry, stuff like that. There'll be people looking for specific types of things that are only found in certain systems. So mining is going to be much more interesting than just going off and dropping off a mining droid and grabbing some iron ore. So yes, lots of stuff to discover. What that is, well, you'll just have to wait and see, baby.

Yeah, they are super important and super classified. Sorry!

Yeah, we've actually talked about that quite a bit, whether we're going to have some sort of recording system in there. We'd like to, but again, it comes down to time and things like that. And there are third-party applications like Fraps out there that let you do those things already. So maybe that's something that we do later or maybe we partner with somebody. That's still one of those TBD questions, but we certainly know that it's cool that you record stuff. We like to record stuff too because that's how we roll, baby.

Yes, that's one of the cool things, right? So if you find a secret mining area and it's got some specific minerals or things that are needed in a certain area, you can keep it to yourself. You can share it with your friends. You do not have to report it. However, if somebody else finds it and they report it and you have it, they get to name it. So that's going to be up to you. You get to decide what you want to do. That's the risk you take. Are you going to be greedy or do you want to be famous? Up to you.

So anyway, the answer to that question is we're not sure if they're showing it live. We don't control that. That's South by Southwest. But we are going to be at the show recording a lot of video ourselves. In fact, Wingman's Hangar next week might actually be taking place at South by Southwest with a little bit of a walk around, perhaps, and some talking to people and see if they know about us. If they don't know about us, well, they damn well should.

No. The way it's going to work is, well, sometimes we might, but for the most part, ships get revealed to the general community and they will have brochures and everything like that for everybody. But in Jump Point, we'll show you how they were made. We'll show you a little more in-depth stuff. But you'll never be meeting the ship for the first time in Jump Point. We'll just reveal those ships in a brochure format because that's what we like to do and it seems like you guys like it. Subscribers are allowing us to do those kinds of things, those brochures. Without them, we couldn't have the extra manpower to put those things out. So big ups to them.

Wow, that was really, really a good video. To answer that question would require more than I can actually say right now. So let's just say that we are thinking along similar lines. But we didn't want to leave that question out because it's just so cool that we wanted to get it out there for everybody to see. But you might be somewhat accurate. Just have to wait and see. That might be a big thing that gets written up later like Death of a Spaceman was or something like that.

Electroskin is a device that lets you switch colors at the flip of a switch so you can change your ship's color instantly. So maybe somebody's looking at you at a distance or they're chasing you down and it automatically makes you look different. So it's kind of a little bit like camouflage.

Well, Brocephus, way too early and all that. But we have no minimum requirement. That's the cool thing. We're not a publisher. We don't have to worry about disc size, stuff like that. It's going to be as big as we need it to be to get everything we all want in the game. So the answer to that is huge, probably.

Well, for one thing, it's where I belong. This is exactly where I should be, but partially I was getting bored of the adult world. It was kind of sad out there, and then what do I get? I got a call from my old buddy Eric saying, hey, you want a job, so I'm back.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. It fits with my sim background. I've worked on the hardcore sims, and Strike Commander is kind of a hardcore sim. Wing Commanders, and then I worked on online games. And I love the Wing Commander universe, and I love space. And why grow up when you don't have to, right? We didn't have nearly enough Nerf weapons in my last office.

Catching up. There's so much out there already. Even the fans out there are going crazy giving us all this cool stuff, but I've got to read it at some point, so I've been reading most of my time. Reading and writing documents and dropping the fish hook into Chris's ear and ripping out the nuggets for Star Citizen.

It's some tough fishing.

It is, it is. He's got a really good vision and we have to get it all out and get it on paper so we know what's going on.

I think the biggest thing we have to do is to be able to provide content automatically, I'll call it, because we've got to be able to have a universe that's so alive that there's always something for you to do.

Right, if we want to support the fans out there creating lore and stuff of that nature, then it's got to be a system design that really works and supports all that, right?

Absolutely, and the economy is a big part of that, and mission generation.

Well, I think I want a lot, especially from the hardcore sims like Longbow: the measuring, the research that went into that game, the things we weren't even allowed to be told that we really wanted to know. It's like, how does this missile really work? 'We can't tell you how fast that flies.' But the kind of research from that, and then from UO, the fans. Working with the fans is so big in this kind of a game.

Yeah, and we're even taking that to the next level.