Yes or no answer is acceptable here, John. Are there things not on the roadmap for vehicles and ships?
TL;DRYes: Crewe says some vehicles and ships will be unannounced surprises, and Roberts says the long-term plan is to move toward ships that are playable straight away, as staffing grows.
Absolutely, yeah. As we did last year with the Valkyrie and Arrow, our first two ships that went from concept straight through the pipeline. The Valkyrie people didn't know about until they walked through the doors at CitizenCon and saw it plastered on the walls. And then they saw it in the demo. Almost certainly there would be more things like that.
Our long-term goal is to sort of move towards more straight-to-playable stuff. Obviously our vehicle team is decent-sized, but it's not enough to get everything done, so we're still going to have a balance of some stuff that's sort of a bit more longer term and then some stuff that would be playable. But as we move forward and as we get the vehicle team staffed up a bit more, our plan is to shift to basically, nope, here's a new ship, you can play it in the game right now. So there'll be a few surprises this year.