We haven't had a design post in ages. When's the next design post going to be?asked by Isagen
TL;DRNo date is given, but design posts on mining and the economy are in flux, with ship pricing in credits being worked on and some ships soon to be sellable for earned credits.
That is a good question. I have been talking to the folks. We've got two that are kind of in flux right now. One is mining, which is getting serious. And the other is the economy, because we're just about ready to answer one of the questions people have had forever, ever, ever. Which is how much our ships are going to cost in the game. You kind of notice there's an immersion problem right now with Flair item prices versus ship prices in the store. Is an Aurora, a futuristic spaceship that can take you anywhere in the galaxy, the same thing as 25 posters of Eric Peterson? We don't know. Maybe in the future, spaceships are really cheap. Posters of Eric are very expensive. Neither of those explanations is very satisfying, and chief among the people who are not satisfied with that explanation is Chris Roberts, who has directed Design to come up with not the final plan, but as close to the final plan as we can get before people get in there and wreck it.
And if you watch this week's ATV, you'll see Jake Ross and our own Tyler Witkin talking a little bit to that effect about Pete Mackay's work.
Pete has been working on this very extensively. And it goes along with shopping, which is something we're getting ready to put in the game. And we're going to start to sell a couple of ship models with earned credits rather than with actual dollars. We're finally getting to that stage, which is really cool. But, spoiler warning, a ship bought during the pledge campaign does not translate directly into UEC. The actual ships are some number of times that in credits.
And we had a long meeting about persistence with the guys at Turbulent and the guys in Austin this week. So it's coming.