OE: How many ships is the CIG LA office currently working on and how many of those have been unveiled?
EKD: So the cool thing is being a global company, we can’t just say what LA is working because we are acting as one as best we possibly can with the time zones given to us and in LA currently have 5 that we’re working on at different capacities. 2 of which we’ve talked about recently, but the other ones are ones we’re either working on with our partners in UK on or are different forms of production or pre-production.
Ships are one of our biggest thing to working on so we’re always having them flown in and out. We have what I call a subsect of our tech design team here and our ship team comparatively to our partners in the other region. So yeah touch quite a few in different capacities and they kind of flow in and out and it’s the most exciting about being such a large, free flowing community of people making this game and product.
OE: And the big one to end on, any update on 3.0 what will be in it and what you think you will be doing in the verse when you get your hands on that build?
ST: I know what I’ll be doing!
EKD: As like a player? You know we don’t just play, we go home at night and when our family have gone to sleep, and we’re playing a video game that we’re getting into 3.0. You mean that? Like what are we going do as a player?
OE: Yeah what are you going do yourself as a player in the verse as well as any update you can give on it.
EKD: Who are you going be?
ST: I’m going fix bugs! That’s what I’m going do! I’m going play, and I’m going to see something and I’m going to close it and I’m going to open Perforce and I’m going to fix the bug and I’m going to play again.
EKD: Bug hunter!
ST: Err yeah. It’s a new Career maybe.
EKD: Yeah so, you know we obviously have aims here internal about 3.0 and exactly what we’re going to achieve, and what we’re looking to achieve, we’re aren’t in a place to public go with more information yet. We’re still aiming for the original goal of you know basic profession functions like trading and cargo and several new ships. One including the Drake Caterpillar, which may or may not be actually already be available, so there’s a piece of 3.0 that’s already out there. And then the full Stanton system and targeting all the elements that come with that. And then who will I be in 3.0? I like to explore. I’m a big fan of exploration.
There’s a little test you can take, for people that play online games called the Bartle test. And I took it, everyone should take it, it’s fun. Dr Bartle he’s actually a really cool guy and it breaks down into 4 categories. My top one is achievement. Funnily enough so I like to achieve things, but right behind that is exploration. I want to explore. So everything that 3.0 will afford us in exploration and have a little work that comes along with that, mining and cargo and trading and you know things that go there. But I love exploration, I’m a big fan. I don’t want to fly though. I’ve already explained this, many things ago. I love flying, but I’d rather be flown around. Is that a thing? I’d rather find someone who loves to pilot. My wife actually has a pilot’s license. She can fly I will just be like “Please let’s land here and I’ll go running around and have fun.”
OE: So you’d like a chauffeur service?
EKD: That’s right. Yeah! If anyone is out that looking to chauffeur me around, please let me know, reach out to me on Spectrum… anytime.
OE: Well there you go, thank you very much guys for all your time and thank you for answering so many questions in such depth.
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