So the obvious question then is, when is the dogfighting module coming out?
TL;DRThe plan, subject to change, is to unveil the dogfighting module at PAX East and release it shortly after, depending on testing of newly brought-online universe servers.
Well, here is the plan as it currently stands, and that is that we are going to do an unveiling of the dogfighting module at PAX East. Check your calendars real quickly. Just like we did the hangar last year. If all goes as planned, then we will release it to the public shortly after that reveal. Now there's a lot of moving parts. We're just bringing on the world servers, the universe servers. This week, in fact. This is a big deal. This is a huge thing. One of the reasons we pushed it back was we're getting what's going to power our entire persistent universe online now and getting started testing that as we go. So it's going to take a lot of iterations to get that running properly and get it ready to host what's going to be half a million people potentially by that time.
So essentially, this week, we've built the universe, the system cluster, and we're just now starting to test that. The dogfighting module we showed you guys in December was over a LAN, right? And now we're getting the cloud-based system in place, the back end. And we're now going to be able to test between offices and have those dogfights. We're all testing in our own individual space, but now we're going to be able to test. And that'll help us determine lag, how many ships, the question earlier about the instance size. All that stuff's got to be determined. And we're just getting that in this week. So to recap, dogfighting module plan, subject to change, is we're going to reveal at PAX East. You might catch a clue on the date if you look at the website and look at when a poll for a certain event is going on there. So we'll be able to reveal, sort of like we did with the hangar, right? And then a little bit after that, when everybody gets back, if everything's ready to go, we'll then have that big dogfighting module release. If it's not then, it'll be dang close to then because we're working hard and everybody's cranking and we're ready to get it out to you guys.