What are our thoughts, plans and current ideas about being able to further customize our ships with loadouts, colors, decals and stuff like that?
TL;DRFurther ship customization is something the team wants to do, but they're studying 300 series usage data first to focus effort on what players actually use, and building it into concept stages.
It's something we want to do. We're still looking at the data from the 300 series, because there's still a lot of activity going on with that. The short answer is there's a lot of development time on the asset production side that went into the 300. And we want to make sure when we do it again that we put our effort into the places that people actually care about, because there were a lot of areas that we as developers thought, that's surefire, people are going to love doing that. And then nobody did it. And the stuff we thought, well, nobody's going to do that, everybody did. So we want to make sure. We also want to do it on ships where it makes sense at a concept stage, and not just for new ships at concept, but also for some of the larger ships like the 890 and Carrack. When we start production on them, we're now doing a second concept pass to bring them up to the same standard as the current ships when they go through concept. We're incorporating customization into those stages. If that ship is something that is going to have customization at launch or release, we have the time spent identifying avenues there rather than having to retrofit it in.