As of 2025, most starter ships are far from being gold-passed. These ships are the ones new players use to discover the game, and they are sometimes so outdated and featureless that it feels wrong. Any plans to prioritize legacy starters to gold-pass them?

Short answer, yes. In fact, this week we actually did the kickoff for gold-standarding the Aurora series. What do we mean by that? That means giving it all its physical components, updating the dashboard to current MFD standards, fire extinguishers, weapons locker, just fixing all the stuff that's wrong with it that doesn't suit the game today versus when it was made. And it's going to be, I think, quite a nice update for those owners, of which there are many millions.

I have a little bit of an issue with the term gold standard, because gold standard is an ever-moving line. So it's more about bringing the ships up to current standard, or 1.0 standard, or however you want to stage it. It's bringing the ships up to the standard where they support all the current gameplay and features that we know about now. Who knows what's going to happen in the future and where we'll take things. This is about making them the best that we can make them today, effectively. And I think in terms of starter ships, I don't think we can say that we're doing all starter ships first, and then we're doing this, and then we're doing that. It's generally prioritized by ship popularity in some sense. So the most popular ships with the worst issues are the ones we want to try and fix up sooner. But then also what makes sense from a gameplay and a business sense. So if we've got a feature coming out that we know is going to use a certain class of ships, and we've got some of those ships that are maybe lacking, then if we've got time in the schedule and everything aligns nicely, then hopefully we can try and bring those up to standard as well where we can. But it's quite a lot of juggling of different things to do the picking of exactly which ships are getting their pass when.