One of the additions to 2.2 is the Xi'an Scout. Kirk Tome, in this week's 10 for the Developers, revealed that the ship has gone from a two-seater to a one-seater.

Yes. This is a big discussion on the forums right now. And we've looked into why that happened and how to make it not happen again. And this is what we figured out in the last 24 hours. Several months ago, a tech producer, I'm not going to name any names because I'm not a jerk... You've all seen the earlier concept model with the two seats. One of our tech producers looked at it and said, well, this won't work because you can't have a ship where one person is blocked in. This is a problem with the Gladiator right now and they're refactoring some of it. Essentially, it was a design no-no to have one person blocked in. And their response was, okay, remove this extra seat. It didn't have a function at the point. We hadn't come up with a function for it. Where the process fell down is that that was not really communicated. It was put into our internal Confluence, which is what went to the tech setup team, but it did not propagate to design or community. So that's how that happened. It's kind of like when, you remember that probe that NASA sent? I think it was a Mars probe where they mixed up miles and kilometers. So it was an honest mistake, but unfortunate. So we're going to look at a way to have a second seat. It's not something we can necessarily promise, because it is still a tech blocker and because it will be more work that's not scheduled.

When we found out, it was very soon, just before you guys found out. It was the day we were filming that 10 for the Developers. And that's why Kirk leads off with it in the episode, even though that's not what the question's about. As soon as we figured it out, we wanted to get that information out there.

I told them on the forums that we would figure out what happened. And that is exactly what happened.