Will repair of ships be automated (repair bots, repair shops), or will we be able to repair them ourselves to some degree?asked by Zlinga

So it's going to be a combination. So we were thinking that generally for the heavy repairs, you have to be down on a planet and have proper repairs, and your repair bot will be able to do certain level repairs. But we're also thinking about having a situation on the bigger ships that maybe there's some damage that you can go and sort of patch over and repair, kind of think of the Millennium Falcon and getting the jump drive working, or maybe even potentially, which I'd like to try and get and we'll see though, some EVA, like you could maybe get outside your ship and patch up a few things so you can sort of limp to the nearest space port and then have them properly repaired. So a little of both is the correct answer.

That'd be kind of fun to do, actually, getting out there and zooming around in space.

No, it'd be cool. I mean, it's a first-person engine. We just have to do some stuff for the zero-g maneuvering. We're going to have some of that already. So then it's really a matter of getting in and out. Some ships it will be easier in than other ships, because they have airlocks and stuff. And we've got to deal with the transition animations, which just adds more sort of content we have to do on the animation side. But other than that, it should actually be quite doable.

Brian can do that, though. One-man animation gang, right?

I know, we're going to have more animators.