Why was the Mustang Alpha and its variants chosen to be pushed into 3.3 instead of, say, the Aegis Avenger and its variants?
TL;DRThe Mustangs weren't ready by the ship team's earlier feature lock date, whereas the Avenger rework got a head start from Squadron 42 and began earlier.
Essentially, the Mustangs weren't ready enough for it. They needed a bit extra time. And as soon as you miss that, we have a feature lock date that is six, seven weeks before the release date. If stuff is not ready by that date, then it moves to the next one. It just wasn't ready in time for that date, so we moved it.
Some features have a locked date six to seven weeks out. Some features have a locked date sooner, and we're going to talk about that later in the show. The ship team, they have their feature lock date earlier. Other teams, they will push things right to the level. Plus, the Avenger rework had the benefit of being utilized in Squadron 42, so it got kind of a head start. It was originally started by the Squadron 42 ship team, wasn't it?
Yes, and it started a lot sooner than the Mustangs. I don't know when they officially started, so I'm not going to speculate, but I know the Avenger was started last year for the livestream.