Official Discovery Model to-do list

[Enkidu]

why are the xenos, a liberty faction, where most people play, at the bottom of the list
that doesnt even make any sense why are inconsequential stuff like gallic brigand ships so high on the list
what are you doing

at least buff the eagle and fix the floating shield hardpoint on it my god i know you hate reeves but jesus hes not the only one that plays xenos

The list hasn't been updated for a while and doesn't reflect current attitudes necessarily.

If somebody made a good xeno VHF tomorrow it'd get in. And I like Reeves - I'm sure most of the rest of the team don't really have any oorp biases against xeno players - the dev team usually works according to what indies are doing rather than factions.

I'd do it personally but I need to do a few more test ships before my modelling quality is up to discovery standards. The current 3 or 4 people who do infrequently make ships on the team are overworked and are currently mostly committed on other things. That Unioner Raba/Salvager class GB isn't being worked on anymore because Felsvar's time is better spent doing other tasks right now. If OORP preference was a factor, there'd be a Unioner cruiser in the mod by now, and all of the HF ships would be reworked, etc.

Also making any one ship takes about a week (of continuous work) and needs a bunch of non-overlapping skills, hindered by antique workflows and nascent incompatibilities/the extremely odd way Freelancer is put together.

Dev bias towards factions doesn't really exist - or if it does I'm not seeing it yet. I am only a junior member. If anything we have a priorities list that creates the impression of bias because sometimes we have to do multiple updates focusing on a particular area of the mod due to the need to finish one storyline/get to a fun gameplay environment to set another in motion - or everything would get twisted up without resolution. That's how 'Devtonia' came about.

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