Revamp of the front page, new Star Citizen trailer, and revamp of "about" page coming.
They want to do the cheap Aurora sale again.
First cheap Aurora sale: 1000 went to brand new users, 4000 went to existing users. 30% of those sold to existing users have now been gifted to new users. CIG expects many of the others will be gifted over Christmas.
CIG was very happy with how the "free week" of AC at DragonCon worked. Will do this again, possibly over Christmas.
With the choice of allowing large ships to be somewhat solo flyable, they wanted to "allow players to fail themselves" rather than artificially limiting them.
Citizen journalists are still in the plans; will interact with the Galactapedia.
CIG will adhere to the "spirit" of the Avenger. All ships will change from original stats as the game progresses.
Balance pass coming (M50 adjustments).
Convergence bug is on the list of things to be fixed.
CIG is ready for Operation Pitchfork.
Will is talking about how great Operation Pitchfork is as a tool for new players to get into the game.
Races will have prizes.
My question: How much detail is planned for Star Systems? Should we expect to see moons, dwarf planets, comets? Thanks Ben!
Ben's answer: Short answer is yes. A lot of working is going into "making space more interesting". Great quote: "At some point Wing Commander just became Doom without a floor."
CIG wants to stay away from the tired "ancient space race that made everything" story.
"Fingers crossed" on future physical models. Said the Constellation model was great practice.
Star Citizen's plan beyond the first 10 years? Just keep going. Can do a lot of other stories (read: singleplayer campaigns) within the universe.
Making great progress on 64-bit floating point for large maps.
Freelancer will be in AC V2.0.
Wulf sent CIG Santa Monica nerf guns.
Banu not heavily involved in SQ42 Chapter 1.
Squadron 42 script has not been significantly reduced from the original finished script. Will be bigger, more involved, and longer than originally planned (Wing Commander type campaign).
Political situation within the 'verse will be fluid over time (example: UEE may become weakened).
90% of account hacks are local (friends or family members messing with people), or false.
Ben: "I think the Origin 85X can equip a jump drive."
No significant changes yet to the 890 JUMP.
Considering allowing small scout on board Carrack to have a jump drive, but no final decision made at this point.
MISC Hull C expected to be very modular. Concept is in progress and expected to be delivered "in the not too distant future".
Better you treat NPCs, the better they perform.
Some pre-orders for new physical merchandise will go up during the December 19th livestream.
Sharing of tech is underway with Warhorse Studios.
FPS and Planetside modules are tracking to be released very close to each other... to the point where they are unsure which will launch first.
The Kr'Thak are still in the plans for the game.
Will, Ben, and James talking about how much they love working at CIG and working together. Mentioned that they worked 24 hours straight recently and had fun.
A nerf war has erupted at CIG Santa Monica... and the interview has ended...

Freelancer will be in AC V2.0.

FPS and Planetside modules are tracking to be released very close to each other... to the point where they are unsure which will launch first.

There will likely be some sort of in-universe way to tell how far/long your ship has run.
CR is flying back today.
Gladiator being a medium-sized ship was a mistake and has already been fixed.
Uncertain which cargo boxes will fit the Mustang.
Gamescom 2014 hangar trophy is on the schedule but not an immediate priority. They want to make an all-new trophy rather than just changing the number on the 2013 one.
NPC slots will be available in the pledge store closer to launch.
CIG is closed for the holidays from December 24th until January 5th. (Some very well-earned time off for the developers.)
There are a bunch of Comm-Links that will be "pre-packaged" before the holidays so that there will still be regular posts to the website while they are closed.
Gamepad sensitivity problem is known and a fix is coming but unknown when.
Revamped $1000+ packages will be ready for the December 19th livestream.
CIG is pushing to get the Cutlass Black in for AC V1.0. If it doesn't make it for whatever reason, it will follow shortly afterwards.
We will "absolutely" see more capital ships (UEE and Vanduul for sure) in the coming year as Foundry 42 continues ship development for Squadron 42.
Vanduul ships will probably not be for sale in the near future... there has to be a good story reason for it to happen. Some gameplay events may cause Vanduul ships to be available, however.
Criminal activities: Piracy, smuggling, data theft, petty theft, espionage, vandalism/tagging plus more to come.
Cannot access another player's hangar when they are not there unless they specifically give you authorization.
[Q: Pet death?] A: Unsure at this point. However, "if Chris Roberts is going to be killing your relatives, he is probably also going to be killing your pets."
Manufacturer-specific HUDs not ready for AC V1.0 but Zane is working hard on them.
HUD will have changes in AC V1.0, as new systems need to activate.
[Pet murder?] "Star Citizen: The $60 Million Pet Murder Simulator. That's our Gamespot headline tomorrow."
Repair ships can take damaged ships aboard [presumably only if they fit of course] and jump away to safety, if needed.
There will be an event before SC goes live where people choose where their hangar will be located.
[Will you be addressing the holotable?] Everything you see today will look nothing like it does right now, holotable especially.
There WILL be a holotable, however. They don't want absolutely everything to be in mobiGlas.
They will do the first test run-through for the livestream tomorrow. Need to test a lot of things technically as they will be livestreaming from all of the studios around the world and also want to have live Arena Commander matches.
Voyager Direct will get some new items with AC V1.0 including some missiles.
[How in-depth will the character creator be?] Very in-depth.
Awkward photo of Ben and Summer Glau from DragonCon 2010
Rough order of studios for the Livestream UK, Austin, then Santa Monica. (But it sounds like other studios will be shown as well)
In terms of smuggling, in order to get past the planetside cargo scan (as seen in PU demo video) you will need electronic countermeasures to set off a false cargo manifest.
No more concept sales for this year. Next one is unsure, either MISC Hull C or RSI Orion depending upon which is ready first. Concept sales don't have a hard and fast schedule - it happens when the development team is ready.
Turbulent will have a portion of the livestream. "You're about to see some big stuff out of Turbulent here pretty soon."
Hornet nose and canard turret will be fixed in AC V1.0.
Ben likes the idea of an AC map builder and will pass it along. "It seems like building levels is so much harder now than it was back in the Doom days though. Honestly, if there are people out there who are talented enough to build great Arena Commander levels, send us your resume now - we need you!"
[If you fly an alien ship, will that affect your standing with that race?] Yes, to some degree.
FOV slider will not be in AC V1.0 but is being worked on.
When 64 bit floating point is implemented, maps will get larger. In terms of ship speed it will be dependent on balance.
[How many planetside locations are currently at the level of detail that Arc Corp is?] Two. Five initial systems are being built right now, and at the same time the tools for building star systems are also being created. Those five are being built to show that all of the aspects of the game work, and the tools to build star systems are being built separately using the assets from those and all sorts of other things. Towards the end of development there will be a point where we have 100 technical animators working on systems and you will see them all come together, as intended. It's all scheduled out properly. (My comment: I believe those five initial systems, once complete and once all of the pre-alpha modules are done, will become the PU alpha.)
AC credits will be important for multiple reasons. It will allow some early economy testing but, "the most important part is the good faith aspect. We're not going to be pay to win and we want to prove that now, if at all possible."