With the growing clamor for "bigger", "better", "badder" capital/multi-crewed ships, should we expect CIG to continue introducing additional smaller and medium sized ships for those players who, because of choice or circumstance, don't want to (or can't) play the bigger ships? Or do you feel the current line-up of starter and medium sized ships is sufficient?asked by Juris Storm
TL;DRWhether more small and medium ships come depends on the game's design; several one-to-three-seat ships are already coming, and gaps may show up as the Persistent Universe fills out.
Well, the simple answer is in the long run that's going to be informed by the design, but in the near term, I think we've talked about on some of the pledge goals, the ships like the MISC Reliant, the Aegis Bulldog - so there are a fair number of individual, or two-seater, or three-seater ships coming along. And once we start filling out the Persistent Universe and filling it out with all the different roles that we want to have, and the ships to service those roles, and the paths of scale in those roles, then yeah, we may find gaps we need to fill, we may find new-... I mean it's kind of similar to what Darian said, I think previously, where once you start playing the game more and more, and you have more and more of the systems fleshed out, you start to see where your weaknesses are and where you need to augment it with more ships, and... you know, the ships are in service of the design of the game. So it's really heavily dependent on the design.