Will ships like the Caterpillar and Kraken have cargo lift functionality? Loading and unloading on the ground is currently cumbersome.

The Caterpillar's an interesting pain point. So we recently changed the side doors to go down to the ground to sort of improve that. And it sort of improved some things, made other things worse. That's not how we want to do it. I think retrospectively, if we were to design the Caterpillar today, it would not have doors like that, knowing what we know today versus what we knew in 2013. So we're sort of hamstrung by that design. Whether we will entirely redo that, I don't know yet. But if it stays in that design, we do still want to have the three-state doors. The current limitation with the existing door tech, and I saw someone moaning on Reddit about this today: doors in Star Citizen have two states, open or closed. The Caterpillar side doors are doors, so they are closed or they're open, and it's just where that open state is. So we chose to move it all the way down to the ground to improve things. We can't currently add a third interim state, so open and keep it there. We do want to have that state, but again, it's a feature. Anyone that's ever worked in games knows how horrendously complicated doors are. It's the big meme. Doors and elevators. And we can't use elevators or transits, because they're essentially using platforms, which we could get to rotate and translate, but you wouldn't be able to have all the synchronized animation for all the pistons on the side. That's why we have to use doors. That's why we're stuck with two states.

And then the Kraken. I honestly cannot remember right now how the main entranceway to the cargo bay is. I think it does have a lift on the bottom.

I think it just kind of tips on its side.

It just all falls out. Drops everything off. But we are going to be looking again at the Kraken concept soon, because hopefully towards the end of this year it will be going into pre-production.

Going into pre-production. Not coming out this year.