base building

so this is my intended gameplay loop, and with them starting to work on the pioneer, and stating that base building will be out before it is out, and now the tracker showing this.... does it mean we will get this early next year?

After seeing the recent citcon, and knowing myself, i'm probably going to be changing my fleet into a more focused base builder crafter type. i just like to build bases in most games. So now to figure out if i should buy the new Starlancer BLD or get the pioneer ( that pioneer is probably...