Is the M50 a military ship? What can you tell us about the M50? Anything?asked by JD binge
TL;DRThe M50 is a racer/interceptor; its second-engine variant is art-complete but has dropped in priority, since the tech team must first make flight control handle losing a thruster properly.
It's a racer slash interceptor. It gets half a question by being half a military ship.
Is there any new plan for it? I know it was going to get different engines at one point.
We still have those second engines to make, but it's just gone down the priority list of things. The art is done, but it requires some work from the tech team, because we have two ways to set it up: one is a bad way of setting it up that would get it sooner, and one is the correct way of doing it. The problem being it has two thrusters on the back, and swapping it out changes it to one thruster, so we need to make sure IFCS handles that scenario, which is not a common scenario, where we tune a ship and then by attaching an item, you lose half your main thrust. So it needs to work with that, and we want to do it the proper way, because then that will allow us to do it to other ships in the future.