With multi-crew ships going to be available on Arena Commander in the (hopefully) not too distant future, have you given any thought to gifting guest passes so we can invite non-backers to join us for a week or so?asked by Randi Barsteward

Okay, so the multi-crew ships are not going to be available in Arena Commander in the next few months because, first of all we've gotta get v0.9 out, and then v1.0. But hopefully by the end of the year we should have a drop with some multi-crew ships in, but we still have some technical stuff... So, we showed kind of the prototype at Gamescom but we have to get the double precision working, 'cause we really need bigger spaces and bigger areas when we get bigger ships. So that's kind of what we want to have working before we roll out the multi-crew ships to everyone, which hopefully will be by the end of this year, but we'll see.So, gift passes to invite non-backers to join us for a week or so... So that's kind of a cool idea. I mean at the moment we weren't necessarily planning on that because that's sort of extra functionality, like a guest pass or something like that. But I would assume that perhaps you could do something where someone would have to have a registered account, and as long as they installed and downloaded it, and then we could basically assign a badge, or you as a backer could assign a badge - like a "crew badge" - that would enable them to maybe join as a crew member. But we'd have to have the lobby system for the multi-crew ships going on. So I'll take that under consideration. It could actually be pretty cool. It'd certainly be fun to have a multi-crew ship and get some of your friends to join you and have some fun on it, and go from there. So thanks for the suggestion, Randi!