What does the single-seat vs. multi-crew designation in the ship loaner matrix mean?
TL;DRThe single-seat versus multi-crew label was an internal shorthand for personal craft versus large crew craft, not a literal seat count, and no seats are being removed.
Earlier this week, we put up the ship loaner matrix, which ships go to which ships and whatnot. One of the columns on that list was a designation between single player and multi-crew, and people are asking me about that. I've explained it on the forums, but for those who haven't seen it, that was an internal designation for me, so I can keep ships separated in mindset. It's not a literal single seat versus multi. We were talking about this yesterday, coming up with a more official designation and that stuff. But don't take the single seat literally on that. Yes, the Reliant has two seats. Yes, the Super Hornet has two seats and whatnot. It was more a mental designation for: this is meant as a personal craft versus this is meant as a giant crew craft.
It's systemic, really. This is the ship we would have put in Arena Commander, this is the ship we put in the PTU.
Exactly. So we're working on better designations for them.
If you guys have an idea for what to refer to them as, because we have snub fighters. Although we talked yesterday about ultralights. So if you guys have a cool designation for essentially... They're not starters. They include starters, but the Herald is not a starter. So if you can think of a cool name that encompasses them all, let us know on the forums.
But the single seat/multi-crew thing on that list, it's not something you should take literally. It was literally just: these are in two separate classes. Vanguards exist in a class with a Hornet and with a Reliant and with a Herald and whatnot. And then Constellations and Freelancers, those are in a different class. They're ships for different kinds of roles.
It does not mean we're removing seats from some of the ships.
No. It was just something so I could keep them straight in my head.