With the newer ship designs (vanguard, retaliator) as well as the reworks of some other multi-crew ships I've noticed a move to "isolate" external facing positions (pilot, gunner, etc.). I'm curious if some of these choices are a way to use design to help solve technical issues.asked by ZenMonkey

Not really. I'm assuming that when you're saying to isolate external facing positions it means, you know, that you have a gunner and a turret and a pilot over here and they're not in the same place. If you take a look at the Constellation there's three people in the front seats of the Constellation. There's not a particular design choice, I think it comes out of what we think that works for the ship itself so a lot of the functionality is driven by the needs so something like the Vanguard or the Retaliator, sort of military ships, in those sort of cases it feels like you've got the pilot and maybe you've got the gunner and they're obviously not necessarily going to be in the same place. Where as the Constellation is sort of more of a communal, team ship and is more general purpose so you can see the three main crew members sitting in those front three seats. So, it wasn't really to do with technical issues, it sort of depends on the ship itself.