At some point in the future, will we be able to assemble modding teams that can start an in-game ship manufacturing company, whereby they produce new ships for the game, subject to CIG approval of course?asked by First Ancestor
TL;DRNot definitively; CIG must keep tight control of its universe, and may later let players pitch ideas to a review board, noting the Next Great Starship contest as a first step.
That's a tricky one. So obviously if you're running a local server you can do whatever you want. But we do have to keep kind of tight controls on what goes in our universe. Like any other persistent universe game, you have to make sure you're keeping your fiction intact. So we've talked a little bit about this and this may be a thing later on down the road where we let people come up with ideas and present them to a review board of some sort at CIG and then potentially bring them into the game. But there's a lot of work required to bring a ship idea into the game as an actual functioning piece of equipment.
The Next Great Starship is kind of doing a little bit of that right now.
Yeah, it's a lot like that.
So it's a first step for us to also test and see what's out there and for people to do that too.