How is the Carrack development coming along? I heard you guys were starting the design phase. Any progress past that?asked by Blinky
TL;DRCarrack development hasn't started; it is on the schedule but waiting on earlier work and limited resources, with no start date, since beginning-of-game content takes priority.
It hasn't started yet. Basically, there are things before it that need to happen. It's on the schedule. It's just the things that are before it. Some Squadron 42 stuff. Some stuff that Gurmukh's working on already. Gurmukh's playing with space stations right now, actually. It's really cool. But it's basically when things align, we're ready to move on to the next phase. But it has not moved on to that phase yet. So the Carrack is right now in the same place it's been for quite some time. It's just waiting for resources. We've got a team of over 300 people working internally now, not counting all of our third-party resources. And that's huge, but that's still finite. There's still only so many things that somebody can work on at any given time. While the Carrack is super important, it's more representative of mid-gameplay or end-gameplay, and we're still building the beginning gameplay stuff, so it's not the super huge priority at the moment. But it's on the schedule, and I don't know when it's going to start. It'll start when it's ready, basically. It's the best I can give you at this point.