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Manufacturers continually update their designs or drop them and replace them with newer models.Will ships in Star Citizen be built on a similar basis? Where the 2944 Aurora gives way to the updated 2945 Aurora?It would be interesting to see if a "classic" ship market emerges , or if a particular series of ships becomes highly sought after for some reason or another.asked by Traveling Matt

TL;DRShips will be updated over time, much like car models, and this is already being done, with the Aurora, Hornet and 300i given as examples of upgraded designs.

That is a great suggestion, it's also something we're actually doing.I mean we did for the Aurora, in case you don't remember, the 2943 Aurora was the first Aurora that you backed for, then we launched the brochure last year which was the updated 2944, introducing the Legionnaire variant.We definitely plan to upgrade and change the ships as we go along.In fact if you actually take a look at the Hornet at the very beginning and the Hornet in the hangar that was released in August and look at the Hornet that you have now in dogfighting, they're fairly different. The Hornet has gone through quite a lot of changes, it looks a lot better, it has moved to PBR, it has higher res textures, more geometry added to it, and the same is also happening to the 300i, it has had a significant upgrade.And I think that we will be sort of following the car model where we will be occasionally upgrading the ships and also upgrading their performance and changing around the stuff, because I think it would be very cool to make it like cars where models change out and you can have a collector's edition or something like 1965 corvette was a classic and I love touring around in it.So yeah, I think that's very much in the spirit, and it's definitely something we're doing, so great question Traveling Matt.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 27. June 30th, 2014·
Published on this date.30 Jun 2014