Will we be able to pledge for different versions of other ships, such as the 300i, like the Aurora and the Aurora LX?asked by IMWeasel
TL;DRYes, ships will come in pre-configured variants like real aircraft models, and players can buy base or preset versions and customize them, even saving different loadouts as profiles for different roles.
Yes, absolutely. So we're definitely going to make all the ship, think of it like the modern world where you have different models, even like aircraft. There's different versions of an F-18. There's a Super Hornet and the basic and they have the sort of trainer roles and all the rest. So we will definitely have that on all our ships. And think of those as sort of like pre-configured packages for you, but there's nothing to stop you from buying the base model or even one of the sort of pre-configured models and then switching and changing it, customizing it to the way you want with additional items, avionic packages, shields, weapons, all the rest of that stuff. So think of that as just sort of for ease of convenience of playing. So some people don't want to deal with configuring and setting it up, just the same way you would just buy a Dell computer to play, or you may want to order all the parts from Newegg and build your own computer. So we sort of allow you those two options.
And you may actually change configurations based on your mission parameters. So we're going to let you really, really gussy it up.
No, definitely. I mean, I actually think that there will be cases where players will have setups. They'll have their dogfighting setup and they'll have their trading setup and they'll have their courier setup, or they'll have their exploration setup for the same hull. And we're going to let you sort of pre-configure them. And then when you go back to your hangar, you can say, OK, I want to put my dogfighting setup as sort of like a profile that you've saved for your ship or something like that. So essentially, you should be able to sort of profile those out and then change the ship out depending on kind of what your role is. So that's kind of part of the concept. I think it's just going to add a lot of detail and nuance, and so it's going to be about essentially how you equip your ship for your specific mission.