Predictions: Idris-M, Javelin and Hull-C before/unveiled during the next citizencon.

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Okey, so Idris-M, Aegis Javelin are supposedly quite far in development on SQ42 side of things.
Javelin is 60/70, Idris-M is 49/64. Of course, these are "only" the implementations for SQ42, so could be some functionality required for SC will be missing. However, all the heavy lifting should be done, like designing the interiors etc, so whatever needs to be done for SC, like defining cargo grids, maybe actually placing thrusters, some interactable stations not required for SQ42 and so forth, shouldn't require that much work. Should be more or less routine from implementing the same stuff on every single other ship in the universe.

I mean, sure, it'll require work. But it's not going to take another year. (Conspiracy hat: Unless they WANT it to take longer for some fundraising reasons, they have quite well designed sales schemes.) Now, side note, these were on the roadmap for Q3, which they obviously missed by... quite a lot. Could be there is some unseen blocker or some work intensive task taking up time, or maybe some key person quit/got sick.

Also coming along nicely are MISC Hull-C and RSI Bengal, they were supposed to be on Q4 milestone, but... eh, they'll be running late along with Q3 milestone for sure. I'm thinking we might see Hull-C in 4.1 roadmap. Or maybe even added to 4.0

Greycat Industrial Cydnus. Hmm.

Well, I think this explains why the current roadmap seems rather light on vehicles. The vehicle team is working on these and a whole bunch of vanduul ships for SQ42.
 

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Good thoughts. I personally haven't spent a whole lot of time thinking about the bigger ships, but now that you've mentioned them, colour me intrigued.

I know that they so require them for SQ42, but I'd be hella interested to see these assets in game for us to meander about. And the state of them is definitely a sign as to the status of SQ42 itself. At least to an extent. Just the rambling thoughts of an old Owl
Greycat Industrial Cydnus.
What is this?
 
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What is this?
It's a semi-autonomous max 2 crew (min 0?) mining vessel from Greycat. I wonder if it'd be just "surprise" addition to SC once it's ready on SQ42. At least as a crewed vessel.
 

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It's a semi-autonomous max 2 crew (min 0?) mining vessel from Greycat. I wonder if it'd be just "surprise" addition to SC once it's ready on SQ42. At least as a crewed vessel.
One of the ones from the ship panel at CitCon? Or is this a historical ship to come? (that's a fucking conundrum if I've ever said one)
 
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One of the ones from the ship panel at CitCon? Or is this a historical ship to come? (that's a fucking conundrum if I've ever said one)
Hmm, I had to go look. No, doesn't seem like it was discussed on the Ship Panel. However, it's been around since 2014 at least, seems like.
 

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I think both Idris and Jav are done, for awhile now, maybe just some minor tweaking that they're taking their time with. There were videos of the Idris battling each other 2 years ago. Cig is purposely holding them back so not to spoil SQ 42. Also imo, not very useful to release these ships that require so many crew members on a server with max 50 players.
 

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I think both Idris and Jav are done, for awhile now, maybe just some minor tweaking that they're taking their time with. There were videos of the Idris battling each other 2 years ago. Cig is purposely holding them back so not to spoil SQ 42. Also imo, not very useful to release these ships that require so many crew members on a server with max 50 players.
I had forgotten about that video, but now that you mention it, yeah. Idris has been quite far along for a long while, tho during that video they were obviously very early implementations.
And you're right, could very well be they're sitting on them. But hey, SQ42 will come out next year and the server caps will also be increasing, so... still optimistic!
 
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