Why was the Aurora removed as a starter package?asked by Denon Tonic
TL;DRThe Aurora was removed from starter packages because it still needs a gold-standard pass and other starters are a better start; it remains buyable and may return once brought up to standard.
Simply put, it's a two-factor thing. I can't remember when we did it. We did it a little while back. One, I think the Aurora MR alone, there's like 490,000 of them across accounts in the PU. When you factor in all the Auroras, it's definitely our most populous ship, and it was still needing a gold standard pass. It needs all that work. The dashboard they mentioned, the damage mesh, the ground fuel ports, the radar, it needed work. We felt that there were other starters that were a better start for people, just like the question originally said. So we removed it from the starter packages. You can still buy it individually if you want it. But we felt it was more customer-facing to push ships that were closer to the current standard, as Ben said. And when the Aurora is back and up to the current standard, we'll look at bringing it back into the starter package.