Ship Upgrade

Hey guys, I'm wondering, if they implement the ship upgrade, will the old ship be erased?

 

From the looks of their designs for the human ships, they are planned to expand on rather then replace.

 

If they do, will they wipe the old ships(including stuff in) ?

 

The ships will most likely be a craftable upgrade, which adds areas to your ships - meaning you will not lose anything.
Ships at the moment before the ships update are LEVEL 1 ships.
The updates will grant LEVEL 2 and LEVEL 3 ships which will add more space.

Imagine a hamster cage, but get three in a row and add tubes connecting them, the original cage wouldn't lose anything.

 

Pretty sure you might have to probably make a new character when they impliment them but then you could always store your stuff on a planet, write the coords down and go there on the new character.

 

It would better if they don't have to. Hope they'll say if there will be a wipe.

 

I'm not positive that there won't be any changes to our current ships. If you look at the image they released a couple of weeks ago, you can see that the starter ships are graphically distinct from what we have right now (notice the battle damage). Whether or not that will require a ship wipe or not is beyond me, but it's worth bearing in mind, until we hear one way or another.

They'll probably be giving us fair warning if there is a wipe, but I'd move any precious cargo you have down to your home planet, just in case.

 

Most likely there will be a wipe; Or there may be an option once you upgrade the game giving you the ability to switch to the new model.

 

Yeah, I hope warn us before doing so. xD and thanks for the advice Janus.

 

Given I use an expanded ship mod, I'll definitely have to restart / delete my ship file at some point to make use of upgradeable ships when they're added. I'd imagine that part of them implementing the upgradeable ships, they'll also implement shifting objects from the old one to the new (and that may be adding to the time needed to implement it, and rightfully so.) Either that... or some sort of warning that upgrading the ship will nuke the contents of that ship.

 

It would be the best option for upgradeable ship. Thanks for your opinion Gorun. I hope they read the forum xD

 

Ships are changing a bit. I'm pretty sure your stuff will be safe though.

Some people will probably have a somewhat glitched T1 ship. We've messed with some settings like changing the placement of some stuff like the engine effects but those changes wouldn't happen until you upgrade. But some stuff might be misaligned for that T1 if you use an old file (because deleting and replacing those effects doesn't happen until you USE the upgrade). Don't quote me, we might put something in so that's not an issue.

Visually your ships will probably change. Besides some basic cosmetic repairs on all ships the Hyltol and Floran are getting a complete redesign. This means they'll suddenly look very different.


There's a few oddities we'll probably have to address but I won't get into that.

 

Just out of curiousity (and as a random guess), would the mechanism for upgrading the ship be a similar, stripped down, simpler version to how dungeons are applied to a game world? (i.e. template bitmap overlaid on the existing ship data to guide / mask the new extension in over existing data)? Seems the best way to apply a standard change without messing with what's already there, given that people can remove the default wall panels and doors (i.e. can't assume the basic structure is completely unmodified).

Baah, I'm babbling again. ^^'

 

YES! Glad to hear those ships are getting some love.

 

Well, obviously. Glitch ships are awesome.

 

Thanks for this post George. Now my question is answered

 

But some of us like our dragon-ships.

 

this is my ship ^_^

 

So basically, we get to keep our ship, but should probably replace it anyway?