Players often see uses for ships outside of the strict concept of the first release, e.g. the Valkyrie having cargo, the Vanguard being used for exploration, or the Vulcan being used for salvage and not repair. How open are you to allowing more creative flexibility in designs, and do you ever think of alternative uses for ships when you're designing them?

I mean, you can't stop a player doing what they want with it, because it's like the real world, right? I could take somebody's Aston Martin and put a luggage rack on it and put a ton of cargo on the top of it. No one's stopping me, but just because you can... It's like a transit van as well. You can make it a racing transit van, or you can make it a camper van, or you can make it an amphibious transit van, I guess.

You can spend a lot of money on your transit van to make it a racing transit van. You probably could have spent less on buying an actual race car, but two different experiences.