The Star Citizen universe is full of history. In the Aurora brochure, the Aurora is specifically called the 2943 Aurora model spacecraft, and there are other ships such as the Constellation MK3, an ancient RSI Zeus, an X-7, and the aging Retaliator. Will older and newer models of ships be released as time goes on?asked by Scrambled Legs
TL;DRYes, new ships and revised editions of existing ships will keep being released after launch, like real product lines, with some only sold in certain places and scarcer ones needing a wait.
Yeah, absolutely. So part of the goal is to have, I think I've talked about before, the idea of this living universe that carries on. So even once we're live, we will be releasing new kinds of spaceships and even new models of existing spaceships. So just like today, in the real world, there's the 2013 edition of this car or that car. And every two or three years, they do a revamp. So you've been able to buy, I don't know, Ford Focuses for a while, but the Ford Focus you buy today isn't necessarily the same as the Ford Focus you bought five years ago. So that will definitely be the case on our ships. So the one we did the Aurora brochure for was a 2943 edition of the Aurora. And down the road that probably would get revamped by RSI, maybe change a little bit, maybe have some new equipment. And then on top of that, we'll also have newer ships that will be coming to the marketplace. So the idea is it's sort of meant to be like the real world, where new products are coming to market. And also in the game, you won't be able to buy them just everywhere. Some of them, you'll have to go to this part of the galaxy where you've just heard there's this new cool ship and it's got some cool new features, but it's only built by the shipyard over on this corner of the galaxy, so you would fly over there to buy it. And some of the bigger ships, different ships take different times to produce. So if you want to buy something that would be akin to a Corvette in game, well, they don't make a lot of those. So you may even have to pay your money and wait some game turns for it before it's ready. And then they'll send you a message saying, okay, your ship's now ready to be picked up. So it's going to be kind of cool. We're going to have supply and demand even on the ship manufacturing in the universe. And so, like I said, some of the ships will be more scarce than other ones. And I think it will make some pretty interesting game dynamics.