Ben Lesnick · Director of Community Engagement, Online Strategy and Spaceships

We've got physicalized EVA, we've got the flyable Sabre, hangar-ready Xi'an Scout, 24 player max in instances, the very first installation of the reputation system, made some changes to the layout of the Crusader region of space so it seems more realistic, added some bits and bobs around there. It's going to be a nice update. We switched our exclude process mid-month to one that's better, but it caused all sorts of issues. We had to go back and reimport all sorts of textures and missing models and things. So some of the early PTU builds were a little shaky. In fact, all of space was going red 'replace me' because there was a missing light for a while. Or if you got in, I think it was the 315, the inside of the ship looked like a seedy nightclub. Remember the Windows hot dog stand theme for Windows 3.1? It looked kind of like that.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community Manager

Oh, Port Olisar looked like that. The landing pads were fine, then you'd go to the edge, and as you looked out over the rest of Port Olisar, it looked like it had a hot dog skin on it.

Ben Lesnick · Director of Community Engagement, Online Strategy and Spaceships

In fact, we had an initial PTU build, the candidate, last Friday, and we loaded it up, and every single character had a 'replace me' tomato around them. It looked like that movie about killer tomatoes. And there is a new build for the PTU going out later today, hopefully. These things can always get screwed up somewhere between them telling us and it actually happening. They've got a build that's being put together right now. It is looking good. It'll go to the PTU. It's a potential release candidate. We don't know that we can go to live tonight. It'll be something we'll have a go/no-go. We'll discuss that later today after we get a little bit of reaction from the PTU. But at the very least, watch for an attempt at a nice PTU patch later today.