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I would bet release in a year at the next IAE. Around the same time, they may announce some other major rework that will undoubtedly take "considerable" dev time.
do you sell tinfoil hats by any chance?
It's funny because it's true! Wait, now I feel sad...
Marketing aside.. reworking ships is one of the last things they want to do. 'Finishing ships' is part of the plan (and a huge part of their acknowledged tech debt) but having to task very busy people with years worth of backlog to go back and redo a thing does not make anyone happy. As the game has evolved the demands required of a ship have forced some reworks/reconcepting, and we will see more of that for sure.. scope creep is real.
Not to put too fine a point on it, my good man, but wouldn't you say that is such a pedestrian detail? Let the artists do their aaaaahhrrrrrt... here, this bottle cost as much as a 600i's engine, it should take your mind off such trivial matters.
for the pricepoint of the 600i explorer ship it just doesnt live up to it costs and doesnt provide really anything in compared with some of the other ships. i melted mine i think 2 years ago and got a carrack package. hard to take that ship seriously. it was beautiful but needs alot more fine tuning.
No, I would not share that perspective. I view it as CIG potentially suggesting they might create a $450-scale issue for loyal backers to buy a new or extra ship they might not want. I'm a Legatus backer and specifically have avoided the 600i Exploration because I have it as a reward. And because I don't need the 600i twice, so I've avoided the Touring model. If CIG changes the reward from a exploration to touring model, they would essentially be removing value from the reward while simultaneously causing backers to spend more to get back to where they were. A double whammy. For me the point is isn't about cash, its about how customers are advertised then later treated. Business principles, including standing behind advertising, matter. Let's see how they do with this.
That they acknowledged it didn't live up to expectations was refreshing for me; simply because it didn't. Don't own one largely because of what you say here, it didn't offer enough for the price, AND the old Explorer Package offered a lot more ship for slightly more cash. When I decided to move up from the starter pack it was not a difficult choice.
