[In a demo] we saw the hangar doors open, which doesn't happen in the hangars right now. What sort of tech is required to make that actually happen?
TL;DRMega map is the tech that makes opening hangar doors easier, though fitting huge numbers of players' hangars into one landing area still needs hand-wavy workarounds they are already looking at.
Mega map is exactly that tech, so I thought I'd tie that together. With the advent of mega map, that actually makes it a lot easier for us to do this. With that said, consider the amount of players we have, and then consider the landing location. So how do you put, conceptually, what could be a thousand people with their hangars into that level, so that when their hangar door opens, they've got a spot in there? We're coming up with some little hand-wavy ways, a little bit, so there's not going to be 10,000 hangars on one landing zone. You always come out of the same sort of area. But we're already taking a look at that, so that'll be a big thing. It'll be fun. It'll be nice to just actually see that damn door open and actually have a level there.
It's very common in Star Citizen's development. You push for the absolute realism and then you bring it back to what works for gameplay. You develop to make things as real and as awesome as possible, and then you have to tweak for gameplay reasons.
Yeah, exactly. And I say that to the guys all the time, that there's reality and then there's games, of course. And if you want reality, go outside, sit on the bus bench and come back and tell me how fun it was.