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To what extent can the 890 Jump and other capitals be customized? Or at least, what is the planned extent?
Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Right now, there's no plans to use the web platform for it, so we're going to focus on in-game.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

So capital ships generally have most, if not all, of their items size four or capital class, which means they are bespoke modeled into the ship. So size zero, which is vehicle, one, two, three, small, medium, large, those items are actually made by the props team, and they are essentially swappable between any vehicle that can take them. Whereas when you get to capitals, they become an integrated feature of the ship. So they're made by the ship team themselves as they're making the ship. On the 890, the power plants, you probably would have seen them in whatever media we've shown of it, are the two long, huge tubes in the engineering bay. Those are the power plants, rather than being this cube. Well, you're going to see it soon. And there's lots of other things in there that are specific to the ship. That doesn't mean we're never going to give an upgraded 890 Jump power plant. It's just going to be a very rare thing to have. It's going to take time to fit, because essentially you have to take your ship to a dry dock and leave it there for a period of time, because they've got to rip out half the ship to put this new thing in. There might be a subtle change to how it looks, but it's not as easy as the current ship customization. The 890 does have some size 3 items in there, so there is some level of items you can tweak, and of course all the weapons and missiles.

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