John Crewe · Vehicle Director

Hull D and E owners, sit down, because this is going to sound like bad news, but it's the news. Your cargo capacity is going quite a long way down. So the D, and I've got my notes here, is going down to 6,912 SCU, which is a lot of SCU. And the E is going down to 12,288 SCU. Gut reaction, that's a big drop from, I think, 98,000, and I can't remember what the D was. But for years, people quite rightly said, this is going to be so boring, I don't want to sit and load 3,000-plus 32 SCU containers by hand, or even in an org. Economy-wise, huge concerns. And then performance-wise, also huge concerns. So whilst they have on paper gone down by a big percentage, they are still the absolute top. And we have no plans currently to have any ships that get anywhere near those. I can't think of one that actually beats the Hull C at this point in terms of cargo capacity. So the D and E are still the cream of the crop. Their role remains unchanged as the bulk and super carriers. Their SCU comes down to more reasonable levels.

Mark Gibson · Lead Vehicle Content Designer

I'd genuinely be curious to see how long it would take to load a Hull E with the original numbers. Hand on heart, genuinely curious how long it would take to put that many 32 SCUs on it.

John Crewe · Vehicle Director

Yeah, and we looked at the concept meshes of it, and there are some quirks. They basically add an extra spindle for the D and then for the E. But the scaling's all off, and there was just no way we could even get to those numbers with the current actual cargo metrics. The spindles would have had to quadruple in size. I think proportionally it would look interesting.

Ben Curtis · Vehicle Art Director

And obviously, we will revisit the concepts when we get to that point as well, because they're going to need a real pass.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

These are ships that are not coming in 2026, but we know the answer now; we know what the correction is.