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Do you plan on any of the larger ships, i.e. the Starfarer or Carrack, to be hangar ready in 2015?asked by Eoi Telemnar

TL;DRChris Roberts says the Starfarer will definitely be hangar ready this year, is unsure about the Carrack, and notes big ships need a lot of work and more modellers.

Starfarer I'd say yes, I don't know about the Carrack, I'd have to check our ship schedule. The SF is definitely a yes as it's one of the ships that is being worked on now and has a place in SQ42, which is out this year, so it obviously has to be finished for hangars and flight before that. Our biggest challenge with other ships like the Carrack is the sheer amount of work that has to go into making them and getting them ready for Hangars and flight. We're hiring, any great 3D hard modellers out there get us a yell, we're ramping up our UK branch with those positions too. We had a ship summit very recently, where we sorted out not only the plan for which ships go where and how to build them, but we have a whole technique now for building the bigger ships with the retaliator as a prototype. We're sorting out ways to make them look like pre-rendered assets while being rendered real-time. The retaliator is a prototype for not only multi-crew functionality but for much more stuff we look for in the bigger ships. We have a total of 12 vehicle modelling specialists at the moment, but we're looking for more to hire, you guys want space-ships and we want to build them!

10 for the Chairman›Episode 51 (2015.01.26)·
Published on this date.26 Jan 2015