Are we gonna get any capship manu this year ? Been waiting from december for capella manu :/

Probably. But it isn't the top priority, compared to other aspects of gameplay and technology.

The other Trident variants are more likely to emerge before the Capella. And other capship content, like addons and new features and the like.

Note that we never promised any kind of specific timeline on the Capella.

We did do some work recently to even make the Capella even theoretically usable (it was impossible to fly before), but there's still more to re-tuning a lot of other things to make ships of that scale have greater.. meaningful value? Something other than "Look at me in my giant ship".

What about making the Goliath a straight buy? =)

Fine i can wait for trident type p & s , uit can manu them too right ? :p

so basically Capella was intended for NPC usage only? Just something that's there for you to shoot at and destroy?

No, it'll eventually be available to players as well. I'm just saying.. we never claimed it would be on some specific timeline, like "March 2018!". Some ships, like Goliath, were intended to be rolled out for Manufacturing immediately (as soon as it.. worked). But the Capella is a much bigger deal, and isn't on the same kind of schedule.

In the meantime, there are some things to sort out with.. ship storage within capships, and re-balancing cargo capacity, and how to handle turret defenses (it's an awful lot more turrets, some gimmicky turret-hopping thing isn't really sufficient), and so on. I'm not ready to open it up for Manufacturing as-is, and I'm not sure that it would be that exciting for people yet. I want it to be something that's really worth having, by the time you get to acquire one.

I'm also planning some other changes to the game that will have impact on the specs of other ships (which I'm not going to go into now), and I'd rather sort through some of that before defining the player-owned Capella.

Terradons seem to work good and look pimp can we have those to build?

Terradons are pretty turret heavy, actually, so I wouldn't expect to see player versions until after the turret control overhaul.

Teradons also lack a docking bay, I'm not sure if that is really a problem though, I would be kinda interested in seeing how that effects their tactical usage.

Do we really need more capships for lagdoram to use?

Could we not get some proper content like the long talked about explore addon at least worked on before we give into more of this (pretty much) useless endgame content? I mean I get why Pando wants it, there is very little else he can do in VO but grind, but c'mon. Trident Mk1 never got finished properly, do we need new types before they do?

@yoda sup lol

Do it inc we want something to manu , give us type s & p then :)

I get where people are coming from. Some people want long-term personal gameplay goals, like capships. Other people want broader gameplay enhancements. Others want still other things (Steam, Droidbuttons integration, you name it).

We are working on "proper content". We are also working on new capships. We're also working on Steam and other projects. They are not all mutually exclusive, but order can be important to development efficiency, as well as the quality of the resulting enhancement.

I do my best to plan our pipeline as efficiently as I can, to be the best result (timing, efficiency, order, quality of execution) for the game overall, including all the different archtypes of players.

No, the Capella is not at the top of my priority list.

That being said, releasing Type-P and Type-S does not meaningfully delay universe expansions or major gameplay changes. There's nothing wrong with a couple more Trident variants.

There is a middle-ground that will work pretty well for most people, and that's where I'm trying to go.

So i just saw Incarnate mention ship storage within capships. Does that mean in the near future the XC overstuffing will be patched? Or is it going to be something like being able to move around cargo between two ships in your capship?

"I get where people are coming from. Some people want long-term personal gameplay goals, like capships. Other people want broader gameplay enhancements. Others want still other things"

I just want SOME use for the Prosus and Siepos Master Computers and Sensor Arrays you put in the manufacturing chain long before you gave us the Type M mission, but if you're taking requests, I want a Constellation!

I would like to see Terradons as manufacurable, but those things are OP. They need to cost an exorbitant amount of creds and take forever to manu, or get a nerf imo.

Replying to Barktooth:

The Terradon comes pre nerfed; it has no dock. It will be the perfect manued ship to balance with the Capella.