Will citizens who own a number of the same ships be able to see them all in the hangar? And what will happen to my Connie and Corvette? In the recent hangar preview, it appears they will be too big to fit.asked by Ruben02
TL;DRYes, owners will see multiple ships in size-scaled hangars, though the first hangar drop won't include every ship (no Idris, maybe no Cutlass), more will be added iteratively, and frame rate with many ships isn't guaranteed.
So the simple answer is yes. And I think we've discussed it, but there are different levels of hangars. So the hangar that we were showing in the very early preview is the base level of hangar. So that's the hangar that's really for if you've just got an Aurora and basically an Aurora, not much else. The next level of hangar up, I think, I'm not sure if it starts at the 300i, it may start at the Hornet; a Freelancer level is one level up, and then there's another level of hangar above that where the Constellation would fit inside. They're all built to design and fit the ships, and they all sort of modularly scale depending on how many ships you've got. So yes, we're trying to support some of the crazy number of ships and configurations we have out there. I can't warrant that the frame rate is going to be amazing in the first drop if you happen to have 50 ships sitting in it, because we're not really working on the LOD aspects of the engine right now. And in the first iteration of the hangar, we probably won't have every single ship. Like for instance, we won't have the Idris Corvette and a few other things that you can have in the hangar and have access to in the first drop. Eventually we will, we'll iteratively do it. So the drop of the hangar that will be in August at Gamescom is the one that will have all the ships that were the base pledge ships. So Aurora, 300i, Hornet, Freelancer, Constellation; may or may not have the Cutlass, we don't know, because that's sort of on the edge of potentially being done or not. And there's a very small number of backers that only have a Cutlass. I think there's like 200 out of the hundreds of thousands of all you guys. And then as we go on, as the new ships are finished, they'll automatically get dropped into the hangar, and we're also going to be expanding the hangar locations. So it's all part of our iterative development. So we'll see. So this will be good. But yes, Ruben, don't worry. Your Constellation will have plenty of room, and room for its friends. He's got quite a few ships in his hangar. So big thanks, definitely big thanks for doing that. And just make sure you have a fast machine, because that's going to be a lot of polys to draw.