Has there been any more thought about putting stages of ships into the hangar, such as outside-only ready or gray box versions?
TL;DRThey are thinking of releasing some upcoming hangar-ready ships earlier as far-along gray box versions, though tech setup effort and missing LODs hurting hangar performance still have to be evaluated.
Someone asked us that a while ago, and I said I'd run it up the chain. And we actually are thinking for some of the next ships that might be hangar ready, we might try to release those a little bit earlier so you guys can see them there in a sort of very far along gray box version and then sort of continue working on them and updating them after you guys already have access. So that's probably something that you'll see with, I don't know if it's the next one, but a few of the next several ships that you'll see in your hangar.
There's a bunch of considerations. One, the tech setup is a lot of work to put something into the hangar and we have to evaluate whether it's worth doing that for interim models. And second, the lower stage models won't have LODs. We want to put something in there, but if it destroys the performance in your hangar, it ultimately won't be worth it. So there's a lot of evaluation to that.