Hi Chris, tablet support was unlocked as a stretch goal (many millions ago), but you never mentioned how you think they will work.Have you can the team had any thoughts on what the use for tablets will be?Such as an extra screen, a way to mod your ship in and out of SC and access stores, or maybe a real world mobiGlas for example? Also, any ETA on release of the app?asked by dOmcat
TL;DRThe tablet app is envisioned as a personal-management tool for inventory, jobs, missions and friends, not for flying; second-screen support is only discussed as something for later, and no release date is given.
We were thinking in terms of the tablet support, it would be more an app that you could log into your account, manage your inventory, look for work, sort out future missions with friends, organize your business dealings, and personal stuff, but not fly, 'cause right now tablets aren't gonna be close to as powerful as we need to do Star Citizen.It's more like personal management. I guess you could consider it like your mobiGlas version, other than the fact that you won't be in augmented reality the same way that mobiGlas is in the game.And we have talked about having a second screen support, like you're in a ship potentially, some of the screen stuff can go from the cockpit on to a second screen, but we haven't really done much with that, and that's certainly, I don't think that's going to be a primary thing at the beginning. It will probably be something that we add later on, because we've got a lot of other things to do.So look for the app to be mostly about managing your possessions, jobs, missions, friends, setting yourself up for when you get on your desktop and start to fly around in space.