(08-20-2013, 04:06 AM)Challenger Wrote: What's your motivation for planning this ahead of the S.C. release? Shouldn't the new game's mechanics and modding environment significantly influence your planning?
Not trying to rain on your parade, but what makes you think any plans made pre-release will necessarily apply to the game after it's playable?
Because now is as good a time as ever.
As you probably know, Star Citizen doesn't have a traditional release scheme; it's being released in separate modules. In fact, the earliest version of the ship hangar module will be out this weekend. That alone will give us a pretty big amount of information on ship design.
We can't yet do everything, but there are some things we can do. Half the process is finding out what those things are and then acting on them. The great thing about Star Citizen is its openness. The amount of design info they release this early on is staggering, meaning we don't have to wait for full release to start thinking about possible mods. If you check Star Citizen's own mod forum, you'll see some pretty damn amazing ships proposed by modders already.
Sure, we don't know the exact details of everything in Star Citizen, but we know the general lines of where it's going. Enough to get started. What I'm trying to create is a design plan, not an implementation. What I'm proposing here, is a collection of mostly lore, art and discussion on what would be nice to have, *if* it can be done. The point is to have something to start from when the modding tools are released.
