A while back, around when the racer was introduced, there was some discussion about potential changes to ships with a racer and interceptor role like the M50, such as why racers have weapons at all. Has there been any further development on that?

No. For me personally, as a developer, if I wasn't in the position I'm in and I had no influence, I would want them to be two separate things. But that is not an official change we're doing at this time. I would like to have an interceptor ship and a racing ship.

Yeah, I remember when Capture the Core was out there, the M50 being able to fly around and take the core all over the place was as intended, but the fact that it could also draw a bead on people and kill people, it was a bit OP.

Yeah. Whilst it's one of those great things on paper, the way our ships are distributed, you have the people that go, yeah, that'd be great for me, because I get something out of it. And then you've got the other half who have that ship and go, oh no, you've taken it all away from me. And if we wanted to do something like that, we need to do it in a way that both sides are happy with.

And just to reiterate, in case it gets lost in the conversation there, that was John speaking of something that he would like to do, but no plans have been made. No decisions are made in a vacuum here. Lots of developers have lots of opinions about the things that they like, and we have to reach an internal consensus before we do much of anything. So John saying that he'd like to build some separation is not the same as us saying that we are going to do separation. That has not been decided.

I have lots of bosses that need to sign off on things like that.