Tyler Witkin · Co-host, Community Manager

While we can't go into detail about 2.0 and what all it will contain, it's actually going really well. John Erskine in Austin has been traveling and working really closely with Turbulent. And it's going to be awesome. As you guys know, it went from one thing and now it has encompassed many things. But it's on track for when it's planned to come out so far. And it looks awesome.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community Manager

What I will tell you now is that it's not called Org 2.0 anymore. Org 2.0 was an idea that was this big. That's where it started. And when they got into it, they realized that all these things that we wanted to build for Org 2.0 would benefit everything. Because we wanted to give orgs their own forums. We wanted to give them their own chat. We wanted to give them proper friends lists and stuff like that. And then we realized, well, it would be really cool if it all synced with the game and stuff. And you'd be able to talk in game and through the website. So it started growing. We realized this isn't just a thing that we want for orgs. This is a thing we want for our entire game. Communications platform. So it's now what will eventually become the entirely new communications platform for the Roberts Space Industries website. It means new forums, bespoke forums that our friends at Turbulent have created themselves, not repurposing an existing thing like Vanilla. The forums we use now are based on Vanilla. The chat is based on an XMPP client, and they're drastically modified, drastically. Turbulent made so many modifications to Vanilla that Vanilla started buying their modifications to add back to Vanilla from them. But again, there's only so far using something else can take you. Star Citizen is such a bespoke, unique project, and there's so many things that we want to do, and Chris is, God love the man. He's just like, why don't we do that? It's like, well, nobody does that. Nobody has that. It's like, well, then we should be the first. It's like, I love you.

Tyler Witkin · Co-host, Community Manager

It's really cool, and you'd think that there may not be something to get actually hyped about, but there is. It's cool.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community Manager

So Org 2.0 is now a global thing that will affect everybody, whether you're in an organization or not. It still has everything that we said it was going to do for the organizations, but it's a new chat. It's new forums. It has similar functionality to Discord in a lot of ways. Again, if we get half the stuff that we're shooting for, it will be amazing. So that's why I'm not sitting here listing off a bunch of details, because you shoot for the moon and you try to land as close to the moon as you can. So we are shooting for Saturn on this. And if we land on the moon, it'll be fantastic.

Tyler Witkin · Co-host, Community Manager

And we already have working prototypes that we're testing. So it's definitely coming.