What is the cargo capacity of the 890 Jump?
TL;DRCargo capacity is just under 500 SCU, not the website's 1600, which was an old freight-unit figure that wouldn't fit the ship, and older ships may see similar adjustments when put into production.
Cargo capacity. I think it's probably the number one thing that people ask me. So this is just under 500 SCU. It's like 484 or something like that. Obviously that is not 1600, like the website says.
That was done before SCU, though.
That was done before SCU. That 1600 was the original freight units. And then when we did the post to convert to SCU, we actually listed it as 1600 again, incorrectly. And when we came to make this ship, with all the other ships that we have now, putting 1600 SCU of cargo in a ship this size wouldn't have fit with all this other stuff in here. When you see this thing fully stacked with cargo, there's 400-odd that goes on that rear cargo lift, and then there's more in the front hangar. Being able to fit 1,600 probably would have required the entire lower deck to be purely cargo. And that was just a lot for how all the ships are going to perform their roles. Just less than 500 is not an insignificant amount of cargo. And the sort of cargo this is going to be carrying, it's going to be valuable.
And that's just a consequence of us refactoring how we calculate cargo units to begin with, from the old FUs when we converted to SCUs.
And when I first started, it was actually in cubic meters as well. So we've changed it quite a lot over the years. And there will probably be more ships, like the older ships, that when they get put into production, they will have some adjustments done to them. It's not intentional nerfing of ships. It's putting them into the role that they need to be alongside everything else. So it may seem like, oh, we've chopped it in half, but actually relative to the other ships in the game, they fit where they should.