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Why is the Dragonfly not out yet? I doubt it would take much time. It's a space motorcycle, not a super destroyer.asked by Kalrazan

TL;DRThe Dragonfly is coming in the not-too-distant future, but finding a visual concept is art and unpredictable, as another ship needed weeks of iterations.

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement

It's in the near term. You'll be seeing the Dragonfly in the not too distant future.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community Manager

You never know how long it's going to take to find a visual concept. It's art. We're talking art. It's what Chris likes. It's what you like. It's what the developers like, the designers like. So you can't just sit there and say, oh, we're only spending two weeks, and then whatever we have is what we're going with.

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement

Yeah, in fact, we're doing a bunch of ships that we have not talked about yet right now. One of them is the Polaris corvette, and a corvette takes a lot more time because you plan the interiors and it's a large ship, but our artists nailed the look almost immediately. It was one pass. Whereas we have another ship right now, we went through a couple iterations, and it was weeks and weeks and weeks. We go, okay, this one looks really cool. And then someone's like, yeah, it looks really cool because it looks just like the ship from Elite Dangerous. We went back and changed, then we did another pass, and it's different now.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community Manager

I remember the comment. He's like, what? Hold on, let me look. And the guy goes and checks and goes, oh, wow.

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement

So we actually made an Elite ship, so that had to go for another pass. It looked amazing.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community Manager

There's just no predicting how long something's going to take to find a look that you're happy with. And everybody's got their idea of what a space motorcycle should look like.

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement

Oh my, yes they do. I've never seen this sort of debate in any other design ever.

Reverse the Verse›May 20th, 2016·
Published on this date.20 May 2016