Communication is not the concern, it is the calculation. The galaxy map in game was generated from using known star formation theories and simulated for a few 'virtual' billion years.
No Single Player offline Mode then?
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Communication is not the concern, it is the calculation. The galaxy map in game was generated from using known star formation theories and simulated for a few 'virtual' billion years.
It's a good thing that your idea of defamation doesn't match up to the legal definition eitherJust because you say something is the case doesn't make it so, no matter how often you repeat it.
That's the point, I wasn't suggesting they had a case at all
"I would say good thing a few people on a forum don't really add up to much"
And certainly nothing matches "Requirement of serious harm" and certainly I can appreciate a lot of it falling under "Honest Opinion".
But the language and tone on these forums that implies it does no one any good.
I did buy a Physical DRM free edition,though. They won't deliver that. In those cases kickstarter says the creator is legally bound to refund.
Of course I would. Whether I am affected or not does not effect the validity of what I said.
Exactly!
To be honest, 400 billions system is spectacular number, but let's be straight here - nobodz will ever manage to explore even a 1% of that!
I must say that I would'd be happy with say... 10.000 systems! Boring too much - put procedural generatin with every new start, and you will have 10.000 different system every time! Fun enough.
And I must say this - I have feeling that they shoul'd stat from offline mode first, and then put MMO features above it - not the other way arround!
To be honest, 400 billions system is spectacular number, but let's be straight here - nobodz will ever manage to explore even a 1% of that!
I must say that I would'd be happy with say... 10.000 systems! Boring too much - put procedural generatin with every new start, and you will have 10.000 different system every time! Fun enough.
And I must say this - I have feeling that they shoul'd stat from offline mode first, and then put MMO features above it - not the other way arround!
Almighty Bob
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150,000 People.
1. At a guess that means they have about $15million revenue so far. I think they can afford to keep us entertained for a few months
2. From one day viewing this forum at a guess, it means that 149,950 are either happy with not having off line or have already left us to get on with it.
4. Is there a silent majority?
Well managed companies *always* have plans for everything they can, including "What if we fail?".
You invalidated your whole point with this right there - physical and digital sales are two completely different things
http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-contracts-regulations
Because it was an apology, and an explanation from someone who actually knows what he's talking about... no offence.
Except it wasn't. Reading is fun.
I shall quote him verbatim.
"I am sorry that people are so upset about it, but it was the right decision."
He's not apologising for taking out offline mode, he's only apologising for the fact we're upset about it. Nothing more. He's standing by, and defending the removal of offline mode, as evidenced by the fact that FDEV are denying refunds.
Not really, size is quite irrelevant in procedural generation... number of players should be the real limiting factor (and thus irrelevant for offline mode).
I thought about snipping this down a little but it is too good not to post twice.
I, fortunately, was burned by pre-ordering a game last year that promised much and delivered little so I resisted putting any cash at risk here but your post exactly echo'd my own feeling of disappointment.
I was looking forward to playing the original Elite that I spent too long playing whilst hunched over a hot BBC B back in the day, only with better graphics and richer visual effects.
Instead I am now offered a chance to join in a free for all, probably dog eat dog universe or choose to go solo in that same universe that constantly evolves even when I have not played for a week.
It would be like going to bed and waking the next morning to find someone had knocked down the neighbourhood and built flats while you slept.
I think I will let the youngsters have this one and accept that probably my favoured type of game is no longer likely to be ever produced again.
How does KS define DRM ?
Physical version isn't a problem and there's no DRM in the game apart from requirement to login to the game server so I'm curious on what they'll do with that ... also since you bought a physical version you're much more likely to actually get refunded than any of the people who bought the digital edition from FD store
Pfft. Whatever. It was a good answer. I'm not going to abuse the guy no matter what. He's the creator of Elite.
I still don't like that he dropped offline, and I'm not happy about the reasons for it because they're entirely self-inflicted. The situation, and the way it was handled, stinks.
But promising to release the servers if they ever needed to shut them down, and phrasing an apology that was less like the curt "Go away - I'm busy!" that Michael typically produces deserves a modicum of respect & thanks.
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I wanted to rep, because you said it better than I did. But I can't rep until I rep some other people. I hope some repworthy stuff comes around and then I'll rep a more recent post by you. You'll know then that it is actually intended for this post. Sorry, dude.
Oh come on. Refunds are being looked at on a case by case basis so of course some are going to be denied. Your point is not valid.
Well, it might if you intended to run the galaxy at minimal abstraction across the entirety of it (as apparently FDEV intend), but for a singleplayer experience that would be utter overkill, as we've already discussed and as I've already elucidated, that's entirely unnecessary and there's plenty of ways to optimise the computational load to bring it down to more sane requirements and even make it tolerable to say 16-32 people being within a local copy on a server.
Sorry but I don't get what you want to say If someone will take over the company and want to make profit than there will be servers still If not and FD want to have a way to pass over the server code to the public for that case they will able to do it. There are lots of other MMO games with unofficial private servers although they are still have official ones and yes they are pirated but I won't care playing on an unofficial pirated server if there won't be any other way. So as I see there will be always an option to play Elite so this estimation of "2 year life cycle" is pretty ridicilous to me.
Would you care to go in detail, this does not answer anything.
Agreed, I merely wanted to inject some humor. I can appreciate that it fell flat though.
Then go get your refund. Sue. Have a blast.
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