Will the cockpit design be different in older and rare derelict ships that can be salvaged and restored or sold on the collector's market? Finding a first Vanduul War Hornet floating on the borders of Orion, perhaps, or an even rarer interwar design?asked by 5x5
TL;DROlder ships might occasionally be added and could have different cockpits and HUDs, but players shouldn't expect to find random old ships lying around, since each ship takes huge effort and might need towing.
There's a whole lot of cascading assumptions in that question too. It's like there's just going to be random ships lying around from whenever. Just something random. It's like, oh, this one was mentioned in Jump Point number four. So starting with the first assumption and unraveling it a little bit: as we've told you all many times before, a ship in our universe is a huge, huge undertaking. It is a big, long timeline with a lot of things that have to be done to get that game-worthy. So it's not like we're going to be running into just random one-off ships all over the place. It can't be done easily. So things might be added over time, but we'd rather move forward than back probably. So if there are occasionally some of these older ships thrown in, then yes, maybe they would have different HUDs, I guess is the answer to the original question, different cockpits, yes. But don't expect to just be tripping over random ships all over the place when you're flying in.
Yeah, you would think that if you find something, even if there were something populated out there in the verse, then it wouldn't necessarily be something you just jump in and fly home. Maybe you'd have to tow it or tractor beam it, so to speak.