How is ship modularity coming along?
TL;DRThe modularity feature works and is live on the Retaliator, with the Apollo's six modules due next month; spreading it to other promised ships is mainly a matter of time and resources.
I mean, it's out there now with the Retaliator, which is another one of those things, along with the Hull C, that took a long time. And we talked about it for a long time in SCLs and ISCs. It's out there with the Retaliator now. So really the only thing that stops it spreading further onto other ships that we promised it with is just simply time and resources to go through those other ships and do it. Same reason we haven't done the last one or two modules for the Retaliator. Feature-wise, it's there, it's working as much as we need it to work for ships such as the Apollo, which I'll say now is coming out next month with all of its modules, so all six modules. So it has the left and right tier one, two, three modules, so you can mix and match between them all. There might be some ships that I can't think of in the back of my mind that have a feature inside their modules that doesn't work yet. But if that's the case, we're probably not working on those ships anyway. But modularity, the feature works.
It's technically six modules, but it's two. It's the left and right with a tier one bed, a left and right with two tier two beds, and a left and right with three tier three beds.
I still get confused by the tiers. It's the wrong way around in my head.
It is. Everything in Star Citizen is generally, tier one is your starting and then you go up, and tier two is more than tier one and tier three is more than tier one. With the Apollo, because of whatever decision we made back in 2018, I think it matches actual first responder injury steps. I'm not sure. I don't remember. But it's inverse. So the Apollo is the only one that's inverse, where tier one med beds are the best of the med beds, and then tier two are the medium, and then tier three are the lesser ones. That is confusing a lot of people. Like John said, the September promotional ships, flight-ready ships, are the Apollo Triage and the Medivac.