Both the Herald and the Caterpillar are advertised as being intended for nefarious (pirate) purposes. A common example is the Herald jamming signals while the Caterpillar (with Cutlass escort) does the dirty work. How do both of you envision piracy to work within Star Citizen, and how have you designed the Herald and Caterpillar in accordance with that understanding?asked by Beer4TheBeerGod
TL;DRThe Caterpillar was originally a search-and-rescue ship designed to work alongside other Drake ships like the Herald, but piracy gameplay details are still being ironed out and can't be discussed yet.
The caterpillar in particular was always designed as a search and rescue right? and the other variants starting to be designed and concepted, that's when it was taken to like, Oh we can do this and do this. It was always kind of designed to support and work in tandem with the other drake ships, so it kind of started with that. So basically, talking a lot of the other designers and seeing what there were because, *Looks at Kirk Tome* I think you and sherman were working on the Herald for a bit.
As far as the internal components and flight values yup.
So that gave me a better chance of looking at that, looking at the components they're doing and look at the intent of that and kind of just build in stuff right to the caterpillar to kind of work with those guys so, I can't really talk about too much gameplay yet because it's still being designed and whenever I'm actually able to show them the internal spaces and talk about more of the caterpillar designs I'll be able to get more information but there are built with the intention to support one another and an example I gave you earlier being,I really see the Herald running close support and being really close the caterpillar and the caterpillar is the main person of the formation and then have the cutlasses sit around him and just being support and dropping in and taking out stuff. so that way they can do the quick dash and grabs and store it right on the caterpillar as well as kind of an area where there's Ewar stuff.
Right and piracy seems to be a very popular topic and truth is we're still ironing out a lot of the details but rest assured, where were designing any systems for these ships, because of how pirates scentric the ship is, that's always at the forefront of any of the designs we implement for this ship.