Dear Chris, there's a rumor floating around general chat that once you fly a ship in the Dogfighting module that you own you can no longer melt that ship. Is that true? Or does that only apply once the package or ship is applied to a character in the persistent universe?asked by Tsubaki
TL;DRNo decision yet on melting ships from the Dogfighting module; his initial inclination is to allow it, but he doesn't promise it, and ships applied to a persistent universe character can't be melted.
So we haven't made a decision on that. Definitely once the game is live and the Persistent Universe is live and you take your ship and apply it to a Persistent Universe character, yes, you will not be able to melt it, you will not be able to trade it a back, as you're playing the game and using the ship. My sort of initial response right now is on the dogfighting module, we'll probably give you a pass and let you fly around and have some fun and potentially melt your ship. I'm not promising it just yet cause I wouldn't want people to abuse that, but I think it would be a sort of opportunity for people to try out things that they like, and decide what they really want to play with. But definitely, once the persistent universe happens, once you apply the package to a real in game character and the in game character enters the world, you won't just arbitrarily melt it and change it around.