PAX West Panel Discussion
The discussion took place on Sunday, September 3rd in the Cat Theater, during the PAX West 2017 convention. The panel was moderated by Bicycle Walrus of DM21 Gaming, a gaming channel on YouTube.
Casey McGeever, CEO of Heroic Games, presented slides showing the key features that Ship of Heroes feels are critical to its success:

McGeever also revealed the current planned schedule for testing and community, including:

Alpha Test for the CCT
The first Ship of Heroes Character Creator Alpha is occurring. As promised, we started a small-scale alpha test of the character creation tool (CCT) in late September.
Remembering the Torch
This video records a network test that some of the devs from Ship of Heroes conducted using a rented server on March 11th, 2017. Optimizing network structure is an ongoing activity for most MMOs.