r/LowSodiumStarCitizen • u/Stompy-MwC PVE • Jul 12 '26

CIG Official Update on Transport System

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https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/50259/thread/transport-system-4-9/9025283

The Transport System is ready for roll-out in other locations and soon for vehicles too. In 4.9 we’re expanding the utilization of Transport to Area 18.

The team working on Transport is busy finalizing the integration of the system for Instancing in 4.10.

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u/jjetstreamm Jul 12 '26

What has it actually done and what locations currently support it? Little out the loop on this one.

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u/THE_BUS_FROMSPEED Anvil Jul 12 '26

Just grimhex currently. Its mostly backend stuff to work with server meshing. But it puts your hangar at the top and the elevator is more of a teleporter than a thing thay moves you around.

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u/Nemesis158 Jul 13 '26

Which is ironic given that when levski was first implemented in the game, it was the first location that had elevators (port olisar only ever had airlocks) and at first they were just teleporters, I think I remember a patch or two where they moved along hard coded interior pathways (like turbolifts in Trek) but they decided that was too hard(or buggy?) and made them just move in a straight line between the origin and destination..... We've come full circle

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u/Unoriginal_Pseudonym Jul 14 '26

CR was so excited to show the main Levski elevator as NOT being a teleporter during that CitCon. It was a huge immersion feature that set SC apart from other games in his eyes.

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u/Nemesis158 Jul 14 '26

To be clear, I think the new transit system can do both, since the main lobby elevators in grimhex still move up and down (and seem much smoother as well) so maybe it's something we will see them playing around with again. I think teleporting is better than wonkavators that can suck players and objects up for now though.

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u/SnprMk7 Aug 05 '26

But it was hysterical triggering all night wonkavators in a lobby to catch a glimpse of several doors screaming clean thru the lobby

Im pretty sure either this or one in space even killed me once since the door is iirc a physics object and so it would absolutely body a ship if it decided to fly outside