When the Dogfighting Module is released, do you need to own a ship if you want to fly it? Are you able to test all the ships that have already been made in the game?asked by Villa Ovi
TL;DRPlayers should generally need to own ships to fly them in the Dogfighting Module, but early on only one or two ships, such as a test Hornet, may be flyable.
The concept with the Dogfighting Module is you should be able to fly the ships that you have in your hangar out there in the Dogfighting Module. So generally the answer would be no, you need to own them. Although I will add the caveat that in the very early stage of the Dogfighting Module we are not going to have every one of the ships at the stage where they can actually dogfight. So yes, you can climb in them, you can see them in the hangar, but there's a lot of extra detail that goes into the ships. There are all the different items, the thrusters, the damage states, the damage models that have to be done for the ships, and that just takes a lot of work and effort. So it's probably going to be a case where we will maybe only have one ship or two ships at the beginning, and then it will increase. The Hornet's the one we're focusing on right now, and obviously things like the HUD change for different ships and all the rest of it. So there may be a case where at the very beginning everyone basically can fly the same ship, and we just put a temporary sort of test Hornet in the hangar and they get into that and they do the Dogfighting Module. But longer term, the ships you can take to play in arena mode against other people would be the ones you own in the hangar.