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Will flight decks and Wing Commander style carriers be the only form of carriers we'll see in Star Citizen? Or will we see the drop bay approach you used in Starlancer? Or another idea?asked by Wolf_Frakken

TL;DRChris Roberts says Wing Commander-style flight-deck carriers won't be the only kind, and there will be a variety, including helipad-style and drop-down bay ships, parasite-style ships, and differently designed alien carriers, with more added over time.

Well I think in general, I mean obviously Wing Commander style is sort of influenced by the classic WWII and modern day style and the Bengal, obviously saw back in the 2012 video we did and will be in Squadron 42 is very much along those lines and in some ways the Idris is like a small, I know we call it a frigate, but really it's kind of a small escort carrier or something like that, or a scout carrier. It has a very similar flight deck where it's sort of encased, but can open up and you can fly in and out of it.We will have some other ships that will be more like sort of helipad style. So if you think about say some modern day ships, they have a helipad or a hangar for a helicopter and stuff like that. There'll definitely be some sort of drop down where bays open up and you drop down on some ships and ships can land and be inside it and of course you have some sort of parasite style ships which the Constellation is a good example, where there's a Merlin that's docked in the back that you can get in and fly around. So we'll have various different styles, I think for instance the Vanduul carrier has a different sort of launching and sort of loading mechanism for the ships it's not quite the same for the human ones which makes sense because they're alien. So there'll be variety and we'll increase that as time goes on, so there you go!

10 for the Chairman›Episode 77·
Published on this date.29 Feb 2016
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