Aside from those currently listed on the roadmap, what ships are expected to need a significant rework?
TL;DRBeyond roadmap reworks, a few ships are only candidates for a visual update, not committed; the Redeemer needs a rework but shouldn't be expected this year.
So in regards to the ones that are currently being reworked, actually going into the year, we realized, okay, we really need to get a go on these. We really need to prioritize these. We managed to get everyone to agree: let's get these out of the way, let's focus on them. So beyond the Cutlass variants, the 300 series, the Freelancer, the Constellation, and the Redeemer that we're going to be jumping on as well, there's only really the M50, the buggy and the Merlin as potential candidates of ships that we would like to not so much rework to the same extent that we have done something like the Aurora or the Cutlass, but more apply an update to. So a good example would probably be something like the Hornet, where that wasn't a complete remodel per se, but we remade an aspect of it and then we applied new materials and shaders onto the actual ship, and it made it look a bit more fancy and modern. So the Merlin, buggy and M50 are the ones that don't really look up to par with the rest of the ships and are potential areas that we may want to go back and look into.
So just to clarify, so everybody's on the same page, we're considering the M50, the Merlin, and the Greycat buggy for revisions at some point in the future. But we're not committed to it. It may be decided that they're fine the way they are.
No, I mean, these are just ones that we would like to have a look at, but it's not confirmed yet in terms of going on the schedule.
And so the only remakes that we do know that we definitely need to do are the Freelancer variants, the Cutlass variants, the remaining Constellation variants, which are the Phoenix, which everybody knows is already underway, and the Taurus, and the Redeemer. Now, that's not to say that those are all going to get done in 2018. Obviously, you can see our public roadmap, available on robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap. You see the ones that are on there. The Redeemer is not on there. So don't come out of here expecting it to be out in 2018, guys. We're just acknowledging that it needs to be reworked.
To give some insight, we've prioritized all the ships that are on the roadmap right now. The Redeemer is simply the next in line. So yeah, definitely don't expect that this year.