Will the OEM paint on a ship when you first buy it look new or battered. For example the Taurus, although a industrial ship, has marks and scratches all over the interior and exterior. We are buying a new ship right?asked by Sudden Darkness

You are buying a new ship. You're absolutely right. In the game world, the way that the shaders are set up and the textures are being ported too is that when you purchase the ship, it will be pristine. Just like purchasing a new car. You drive it off the lot, it's brand new. As soon as it gets off the lot, it's never really brand new again, you know your value goes down. And then we start factoring in the code that will kind of procedurally blend in the wear over time. It'll kinda be like a Grand Theft Auto type of thing, I think we're taking your space garage and get it cleaned up and washed and detailed I guess...So, these are new systems that we've been working on and coming online. A lot of the earlier ships were just get it in there, lets see how it works, how it looks like – wear it up a little bit – but now we're starting to backtrack, and you'll notice that the newer ships like the Retaliator and whatnot, has much cleaner materials, and then we're going to figure out how we're going to start blending in that wear because that is something that we definitely want to do.

Yeah, we're still early on in that technology, but we kinda know how we want to do it. We pretty much know how to do it, and then a lot of it is retrofitting and stuff like that. Also, I think for industrial ships, they're never... they'll come with a little bit of wear probably, like you normally would if you're making on an industrial scale, but it'll never get cleaner than when you buy it.

Absolutely. For sure. But even the clothing, like we're messing with jeans and stuff. So even the PU clothing is going to wear over time. Jeans start getting faded, start getting dirt on the bottom of your pants, which is kinda cool. So the whole system around all the items in the game and the ships, and the characters, are going to have some kind of wearing and be pristine when you purchase it, and that's cool, cause you sell it, it's used, it looks kinda dirty...

That'll probably be the first demonstration for people to see would probably be the clothing, because it's simpler for us to kind of start off fresh with, like a fresh shirt, and do all the tests we need to do. Cause ships, obviously we go as in depth as we possibly can, and that would take definitely a lot of work. Yup, that's what you'll see first.