What was the rationale behind removing the kitchen from the M2 Hercules?
TL;DRThe kitchen was cut to fit the space and they likely went too far, so they'll look in future patches at adding some food-making facility back, though not the full kitchenette the C2 has.
The original concept layout for the ship certainly never had the full kitchen that the C2 now has in there, because when we came to build these ships, we almost entirely changed the interior design and layout. And having the full kitchenette for the C2 was something that we built in, and then we take it away for the other variants to make it fit in the space. And we probably went a bit too far in taking things away. So we'll be looking at, in future patches, a way of getting food-making facilities back. It won't be the full kitchenette like the C2 has, I can guarantee that. But there will be something on there. There have been some wild suggestions.
Barbecue. It's a little bit odd as well, because I was actually supposed to be doing it today, but I haven't quite got to it yet. Looking at the different modules we have for all three variants and what we share between all three variants, you're like, oh yeah, okay, this feels quite natural. And then you're like, oh no, but in the next variant that puts it right next to the armory. Why would you want to be making your coffee while getting armored up? Maybe that works. But trying to find a natural place for it to fit is... we'll work something out.
The M2 and A2, again, is another problem where there is very limited commonality between the two of them internally.
At least we've got a toilet next to the seats.