Does the tuning of ships for combat adversely affect their tuning for racing? If you slow these ships down, is racing just going to become boring and tedious?

So we don't plan on actually slowing the ships down. It's just that certain things won't perform maybe as well as they do at lower speed. So the racing ships will still be able to go as fast as they go now. So we don't actually plan to stop players from going quickly. It's just there's an element of risk involved in going quickly if you're in a particular engagement with another player. So that's what we're trying to encourage, whereas you'll still be able to go as fast as you can now with the racing ships.

Yeah, so it's more encouragement than forbidding something.