When we talked during ISC, the capacitors were not a physicalized item on the ship. Is that still the case?asked by Riss Croberts
TL;DRThe weapon capacitor isn't a physicalized item on ships yet, though it is a swappable item in the system, and whether it becomes physicalized is a question for the future.
OK, so physicalized. At the moment, not, because the items which we would build into the ships haven't been set up to be measured and fit into the ship. So at the moment, not. But specifically the weapon part, because it's an extra separate item that powers all the weapons, is a thing we would like to swap out and turn on and off separately in the future. So practically the idea is if this thing goes offline or if you turn it off, all your energy weapons will stop working. So as in physicalized, I don't know yet. This is more a question for the future.
Just for the benefit of someone who might not understand, by physicalized, Jared, you mean that the capacitor has an actual interactable object that you can see in the ship, right?
An object that can be swapped out, upgraded, damaged.
So the thing to keep in mind is that even though right now it is not a physicalized object, because we need to work very heavily with the content teams to actually modify ships and so on to do that, it is still an item, even though it may not have a representation. So we still do have the ability to swap it out and upgrade it and so on, which we haven't done for this patch, but we do have the ability to do that.
It's a proper item with pipes and everything.