New ships?

If anything, I'm sure there'll be a good amount of time post-release dedicated to refining/enhancing ship-base gameplay, and I wouldn't be surprised if they add more diverse ship options.

 

That is what I'm thinking probably not going to be in the initial release but in the ship combat one (Assumeing it happens) I think it would be a given. We would at least have a ship upgrade as the ships in theyre current state have no weak points or systems to disable as far as I can see.

Thank you for that I shall reread the newsletter and mine desperately for any dregs of information I missed.

 

The way that they've referred to ships heavily implies that there will be more options later on; coupled with the fact that it would just be ridiculous to NOT feature additional ships makes it very likely there will be.

 

I'd like to see the "starter ship" as more of a large carrier ship, these carrier ships never seeing battle for the sake of keeping a safe respawn point and housing the areas for a bit of item storage, pets, etc. but also having a larger cargo hold to carry smaller combat ships.

 

That is an interesting thought. Kinda like a hanger ship or a aircraft carrier for space, a spacecraft carrier! Very good idea.

 

Sounds more like an endgame ship, or one of the conceptual "guild" space stations to me.

 

I know that they're including modding support, so I have no doubt that you will be able to get (or make) custom ship designs in future.

 

Oh with mods definitely, If modding is going to be as easy as they make it sound then I have great faith in the modding community to add in as many ship mods as they possibly can. From endgame star-destroyer style ships to build your own ships I have a feeling we will see every flavor of ship mod we can dream of and then some. I was simply wondering if some measure of that would be a component of the vanilla game.

 

Despite the seemingly large amounts of updates we get, I still believe there is A LOT of things they haven't even mentioned or gone into much detail about, ship design being one of the lesser talked about (from what I've read anyway), so who knows? Maybe we'll get the ability to get another ship later in the game. I enjoy the fact that we can upgrade the existing one though, if new ships isn't the case.