How can we expect Spectrum matchmaking (public or private) to work with groups? Will lobbies or group invites be involved in some way? Will that process change with the addition of multi-crew ships?asked by KitBash

So, yes, yes, yes, and yes!Yeah, we're actually working... we have a design for the lobby and the matchmaking system. It's obviously going to involve the organizations. So basically organizations will be sort of groups, and we'll fold in a part of the organization system to also support ad hoc groups that you could build - so almost like an ad hoc organization, cos really an organization is just a grouping of people. So like just a friends list, or an ad hoc group, is really just a flat organization that you can create and destroy on the fly. But yeah, we're working on that, so we've been sort of fleshing out the design for that, and our goal is to get that up and running... hopefully by 1.0. So 0.9, which is what we're gonna be releasing just after Gamescom is... we call it interally "release 13" and the next big one will be release 14, and I'm expecting that we should have some kind of lobby and matchmaking stuff by release 14 - which is Arena Commander v1.0. (Which actually will have more features in that we'd originally promised in PAX, but that's us - we like to put more things in!)The process will change slightly with the addition of multi-crew ships, but we've also designed out an aspect where you can invite people to be on your crew and stuff. Obviously that won't roll out with v1.0 because the multi-crew stuff won't be out then, but we're already designing and building towards that.