Will we still see ships hangar ready [before they are flight ready]?
TL;DRMost ships will still appear hangar ready before flight ready, with exceptions for surprises or batch releases, since hangar ready takes far more work and some ships come out flyable directly.
Definitely. Most ships will go through a hangar ready stage before you see them flight ready. Exceptions might be for certain events, if we really want to surprise you guys, or if we have a bunch of stuff ready at once for a different module and we're just like, oh, let's bring it over here. So there will be exceptions, but the majority of ships you will see hangar ready first and then flight ready. For us on our side, getting something to hangar ready is exponentially more time and work than taking it from hangar ready to flyable. So that's why sometimes you'll see things just come out as flyable, because we'll just wait a little bit longer and get the whole thing out. But most of the time you'll see that breakdown still.
Yeah, like the Merlin, the amount of work to just get that hangar ready was about a half day less than what it took to get it flight ready, so that one rolled right in. But especially into the multi-crew ships, we'll probably have to start seeing those in the hangar for just how complex the ship could really be.