Player housing & hangars

The team is working on hangar bugs such as exterior doors staying closed, players being told to enter someone else's hangar, and repositioning getting stuck after impound, mostly from failed handshakes, missing timeouts or invalid reposition positions.

They want to fix players losing their persistent hangar, which they suspect is stowed in another inventory, and are working on login issues like 64008 errors caused by location resolution being handed to dead or rebooting servers.

The ship has six small side hangars, three per side, plus one medium hangar, sized by hangar metric rather than specific vehicles, so ships such as Cutlasses can fit.

Separating docking from hangar requests would be welcome and is on the feature request list, but it's a priority call with no commitment, and the speakers suggest the command module team might fit it in.

ATC is disliked and unstable with poor queue times; the team is still gathering metrics and plans to split hangar management out of ATC, but this year's other priorities stopped that work.

Lost ships come from the long-term persistence system being fragile, since stowing happens through many paths that don't always record correctly, and the team is still finding cases where records are wrong.

Furniture can be mag-locked so only the owner or credentialed people can move it; ways to disable the lock and PVP implications are planned for a later patch.

Players choose a plot size paid for in UEC or claimed with a beacon, then owe recurring tax or eventually lose the land, with no-build national parks and exclusion zones around plots.

The plan is to let personal hangars expand with modules whose exact list is undecided, and to split instance and personal hangar data so personal ones can be emptied, with no timeline given.

In the developers' private test server it was always Hangar 3 for unclear reasons; on live servers it will be whichever hangar is assigned, and the larger hangars might be 1 and 2.

The Galaxy's rear hangar is too small for a Prospector and has no ramp, so only the central area works with ground vehicles, though the refinery module can still take Prospector and MOLE cargo.

Ship components can't be moved because inventory spans several teams and couldn't all be delivered at once; the intention is a future hangar management app, with the current friction accepted as groundwork.

The team is updating older Stanton locations, such as adding hangars at Grim Hex and finishing New Babbage details, building foundations other teams can add content to later, with not every change advertised.

Hailing your ship from a runabout or vehicle seems like something they should do, but there's no commitment or timeline, and it would need to be built as a general gameplay feature rather than vehicle-specific.

The Endeavor will stay modular with swappable modules and a detachable front section, but nothing has progressed since the concept, and what fits in its hangar is undecided and it is a way out.

John Crewe walks through images of the 890 Jump's current state, including a medical bay, atrium, engineering, cargo bay and private crew pods, noting production resumed after the team was paused for the Kraken.

The 890 Jump can store two 85Xs but comes with only one as standard, and has no dedicated X1 hangar, though its cargo bay has enough space to carry an X1 or ground vehicles.

The habs are deliberately lived-in with personality rather than squeaky clean, and Lorville's workers' district suits a disgruntled workforce, with more upmarket, classy locations expected in the future.

A planetside or large asteroid hangar should let you reach local shops and pubs, but there'd be no shuttle service to places elsewhere, so you'd need to fly your own ship there.

The hangar patch adds the new Avenger and Cutlass to walk around in, plus a space crab, jellyfish and a sucker fish, and some UEC to test client-side persistence; the ships aren't PBR yet.

The hangar gets a firing range for testing a few weapons on targets, with more added as effects, animation and sound come online; a room system, with the asteroid hangar first, is expected sometime in the new year.