Will you please give us a firing range?
TL;DRA firing range is wanted, ideally inside some shops, and a prototype exists internally, but there is no timeframe, it's not a top priority, and green-zone complexities may block it.
So yes, absolutely. Firing range is something that we really want to do for a multitude of reasons. One, you want to try before you buy in shops, and the intent there is definitely to have that within shops. As to when that's going to happen, not sure. We do have a prototype that's been signed off internally. I was lucky enough to work on that and have fun doing that. But again, time frame-wise, it's uncertain. We have lots of other priorities, obviously, and that's not at the top right now. And the other side as well is, obviously, it's a level design team feature mostly, with a bit of systems involved, so that would be more their thing. So unfortunately, I won't get to do that sort of stuff anymore. The other side of things in terms of what we need to work out, which are potentially blocking us: there's some complexities in it. For example, if you're getting the gun out, if you're in a shop, you're going to be in a green zone. And obviously the plan is to remove those at some point and have something more complicated involving NPCs and whatnot policing you, rather than you just can't get your gun out. So it might be that when that comes along, it'll be a bit easier to get this in. But we'll have to wait and see.
And of course, we don't want all places to be all things. So we might add them to some shops, but not necessarily every single shop throughout the Stanton system. You want things to drive people to different areas of the star system. So if we do add them to weapon shops or Garrity Defense, it might be in some of them and not all of them, stuff like that. But I think the one thing that we can absolutely commit to is that we want it as much as the folks want it.