Access to one of the new 5 ships as promised to the beta testers in a previous news letter

[Mr Vamps]

hi can any one tell me or remember in one of the previous news letters back in beta testing the last of the 5 ships will be added in the next update 1.3 power play there has been no mention of this going to happen at all can anyone recall this

 

[Trafalgar Law]

We still haven't got the 25 ships that were originally promised. I can't imagine that the extra 5 ships will gat added anytime soon.

 

[killminster]

Here's to hoping that update 1.4 will be called The Armada. I think an update with 6 or more ships and nothing else (except tweaks and fixes) would be really exciting.

 

[Controlledpress]

Very doubtful,

Each update will contain a little of everything, You don't put graphic artists on server side programming and vice versa, so they're busy working on their slice of the pie.

The only ways we'd get a faster rate of ships being introduced would be 1. Lower the quality of work or 2. Hire more of the people that make them.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Here's to hoping that update 1.4 will be called The Armada. I think an update with 6 or more ships and nothing else (except tweaks and fixes) would be really exciting.

I dunno..... to each their own but I personally would rather a couple of ships a month and have more fleshed out content rather than just more ships.

in my mind (its my damn imagination in overdrive) I was expecting pirate bases hidden in asteroids, space stations under construction with bots buzzing around building them over the course of months (with missions tied to them), giant spaceship factories in space (with missions associated with them), mining facilities with strange and wonderful machinery unloading our ships when we docked, damage occuring to space stations *the larger ones probably only cosmetic* but again with missions to defend them or bring in emergency supplies to repair them, possibly having to run blockades of ai ships trying to force the inhabitants to starve .

I guess I was way dialed up on the good stuff when I pictured this.... but I have not given up on it yet..... I would take all of that over a bunch of new ships

 

[Blake_Dragon]

Quit adding new ships Dagnabit.... my hangars getting full and it becomes an expensive hobby..

Spoiler

good thing they don't charge me for parking (yet)

 

[ape808]

You misunderstood the quote (which was poorly worded, TBH).

"free access for Beta and Alpha backers to one of the 5 new ships that David announced in his piece above when it’s released!"
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=cea4f4cd56#newbetabenefits

Meaning when that specific ship is released, you'll get if for 'free'.

There were 25 planned ships.
We'll have 19/25-ish of them by powerplay
When those 25 are done, they begin work on 5 extra ships (promised in late beta newsletter).
When those 5 bonus ships are released, you'll get a specific one of them for free.

So, not anytime soon.

 

[Agrar Therenus]

I wouldn't be surprised if the 1.4 ships will be two traders, at the very least one trading vessel-- maybe the Panther?

I just hope they won't just stop at 25/30. Indeed, I expect them to slow down, but it'd be nice to see the occasional ship added in every few patches.

 

[avow555]

I wouldn't be surprised if the 1.4 ships will be two traders, at the very least one trading vessel-- maybe the Panther?

I just hope they won't just stop at 25/30. Indeed, I expect them to slow down, but it'd be nice to see the occasional ship added in every few patches.

Agree with this totally.
I also hope they get more faction ships in even if they are npc only. Combat zones are getting tiresome with mostly eagles, vipers and cobras.