Andreas Johansson · Lead Level Designer, Persistent Universe

Yes. The space stations we have at the moment are really just the first version of the new larger interiors that we have with the larger exteriors. The layouts themselves are pretty much just the first version. So we will be reworking the stations over and over again. We will have many iterations as we move along. We're going to reorganize the way it's connected together. We knew from very early on that we also needed signs inside the stations for the players to orient themselves, but it is a procedural station and we don't want to go in and hand place the signs. We want the tool to do that. So rather than doing that, we are waiting for the tools to become available for us to automatically seed various boards inside the stations with whatever content is coming down the corridor or whatever it might be. And as far as I know, we actually have an early prototype that's working already.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

I was actually talking to Todd about this a couple weeks ago, about basically the tool that would generate the signage automatically in maps like this. Because with the way Star Citizen is built and the scale that we're attempting, you want to try to limit as much of that by-hand stuff as possible where tools can come in.

Andreas Johansson · Lead Level Designer, Persistent Universe

Yeah, I mean, the entire thing with signs and stuff is a big thing in the game, even if you look at flagship landing zones. For example, I know that a lot of people were kind of racing: oh, we can only see the train time when we get to the train, we want something earlier in the level somewhere where we can see the train is coming in one minute, I'm going to go to the train station. Now, we want to do that. The problem is there's a radius from the train station on how far we can actually broadcast that information. That's why the sign is not actually further away, right? And this is also something that we want to look into, so we can have boards in the city that say, next shuttle to spaceport in 30 seconds, so it's time to get moving.