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When Dogfighting Module is released, do you need to own the ship if you want to fly it or are you able to test all the ships which has been already made in the game?asked by Villaovi

TL;DRGenerally you need to own a ship to fly it in the Dogfighting Module, but early on only one or two ships may be ready, so everyone might just get a temporary test Hornet.

So the concept with the Dogfighting Module is you should be able to fly the ships that you have in your hangar out there in the Dogfighting Module. Generally the answer would be "No, you need to own them," although I will have the caveat: In the very early stage of the Dogfighting Module, we are not going to have every one of the ships to the stage that they can actually dogfight. Yes you can climb in them, you can see them in the hangar, but there's a lot of extra detail that goes into the ships. All the different items, the thrusters, the damage states, the damage models, have to be done for the ship. And that just takes a lot of work and effort. So it will probably be the case where we may only have one ship or two ships at the beginning, and then it will increase. So the Hornet is the one we're focusing on right now, and obviously things like HUD change for different ships and all of that stuff, so it may be the case at the very beginning we just give everyone, everyone can basically fly the same ship. We just put a temporary "test Hornet" in the hangar and they get into that and they do the Dogfighting Module. But longer term, the ships you can take to play in arena mode against other people will be the ones you own in the hangar.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 02 (2013.12.13)·
Published on this date.7 Feb 2014