The Constellation is getting a little long in the tooth compared to a lot of the other ships, and it's one of Star Citizen's signature ships. Any joy? Anything you can tell us?
TL;DRThe Constellation will get a big gold-standard interior pass, mainly replacing outdated components and bays, keeping its art style, and trying to remove the worst cockpit struts, though nothing is promised in detail.
What I'm hearing is people love struts and they want more struts in the cockpit to obscure the view. Yep, like gold standard on all the other ships, when we get to the Constellation, a big thing for it will be putting the components in. People will see there are component bays in there already. They were done a long time ago. Components have changed in how they are used, the quantities, even some of the sizes of them. It shows you how old it is: I think somewhere it says it's got two quantum drives if you go look at all the hatches in there. So we'll be going through and ripping all those out, putting proper ones in, which will necessitate other interior changes. So we'll collect everything up in one big pass and do a big pass across the interior. Not going to say it's going to look wildly different. It's got a very key art style that we want to keep. We do want to do something about the struts on the bridge. We had planned to do that with the Taurus. But instead, we spent the extra time we had available to us on the pilot seat, which is why you see it has all the buttons and flip-up displays now, which benefits all of them. We had hoped we could reduce some of those struts in the forward view at the same time, but we just didn't have time. And that would have only fixed two or three of the variants; we wouldn't have had time to do the Aquila as well. So when we get to gold standard, we'll sort them all out so they all have a good view out the front. It's still going to have struts, like the Carrack has struts, but we'll try and get rid of those particularly annoying ones that are through the center view.