David Colson · Gameplay Programmer

I think this is just because ground vehicles are counted as spaceships. I don't actually know if that's intentional or not.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

It's not, but as it stands, you can only have one summoned vehicle at the moment. If you've got one out there, it just goes. I think we may have even done something for 3.6 for that, because I'm sure I saw a forum post. It's not something either of us actively deal with.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Are we safe saying that it's not a design intention? We're not sitting here saying we want it forever to be a ship or a vehicle, because obviously many ships are designed to carry vehicles.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

For ships that are designed to come with vehicles, you'll eventually be able to spawn the vehicles in them. But if you wanted to spawn a PTV and a Valkyrie separately, you should be able to do that and just load it up and then go on your travels.

David Colson · Gameplay Programmer

Honestly, I think originally that decision was made as a performance improvement to stop having too many vehicles on the server, because a lot of people have a lot of ships.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Just spawn a ship, let somebody take it out, then spawn a ship, move it out. Because somebody would try to spawn their entire fleet just to take a picture of it.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

And someone would do that at the landing pads, seeing the framerate tank.