It's Manifesto Season...

tarks382 · Apr 15, 2015

... so I was thinking about pledges and promises.

On 14/11/14, in Newsletter #49, David Braben announced there would be no single player mode. I didn't mind one bit, not then nor now. Others did though and that occupied the zeitgeist for the next few weeks. Hardly anything else got discussed for a while.

Lost in the noise, perhaps, it was also announced that there would eventually be 30 playable ships as well as...

"...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!"

I was wondering what became/will become of that?

Lestenio · Apr 15, 2015

Still coming. The amount of effort that goes into designing a ship and the work involved in extending it to the oculus rift is huge.
hang tight

tarks382 · Apr 17, 2015

Agreed. Just keeping it on the table.

Ancipital · Apr 17, 2015

Lestenio said:
Still coming. The amount of effort that goes into designing a ship and the work involved in extending it to the oculus rift is huge.
hang tight

There's no "extending it to the oculus rift". All the cockpits are appropriately scaled 3D models right from the get-go.

Dr Roly · Apr 17, 2015

I've been wondering about the free apps
ships too. It would be nice to have an update from FD.

Lestenio · Apr 17, 2015

Ancipital said:
There's no "extending it to the oculus rift". All the cockpits are appropriately scaled 3D models right from the get-go.

Then even more reason for people to be patient.

Riedquat · Apr 17, 2015

Lestenio said:
Still coming. The amount of effort that goes into designing a ship and the work involved in extending it to the oculus rift is huge.
hang tight

Then what happened with the Adder?

Poseidal · Apr 17, 2015

Logically, those 5 ships will be later than the 25 initial ships originally planned. Since we're on 17, there are 8 more to go (we've seen previews for 3, the Imperial Courier, Federal Corvette and the Diamondback coming up) before these will start to surface.

On top of the previous 20 mentioned, I think we will see the Imperial Cutter (big Imperial ship), Dolphin liner (Saud Kruger medium ship), Beluga liner (Saud Kruger huge ship) and Panther Clipper (huge trader, apparently Zorgon Peterson).

This leaves one 'mystery' originally planned ship, before the 5 which we don't know anything (but I'm hoping for a new company to get involved for a new aesthetic).

scorpyon · Apr 17, 2015

I always assumed this was the Free Eagle?
Could have misunderstood though...

Poseidal · Apr 17, 2015

scorpyon said:
I always assumed this was the Free Eagle?
Could have misunderstood though...

Free Eagle was the preorder bonus.

Riedquat said:
Then what happened with the Adder?

To be fair, you get to see a lot more of the ship's interior than the outside with the Adder than most other ships. If anything, it is more designed for the rift!