My fear is Frontier will change how the economies and all of it works, and they'll announce it with a vague tweet saying "Stuff is different now, check it out!" and people will have to figure it out all over again.
Elite has always been a game with a lot of 'mysteries' and cryptic stuff. Raxxla, spectrograms, horizon signal, people figuring things out by decoding binary messages from listening posts, etc. Frontier leans a lot into it.
I can't help but think they like to apply the same logic to documentation which is dumbfoundingly baffling. Just as with all the other things, they like players to 'figure it out themselves'. But in this case we're dealing with apples and oranges. Documentation for background simulation stuff? People had to figure it out themselves, and still today a lot of it is a black box that people don't understand nor do they know how it works. (Does anybody actually know what, specifically, makes Infrastructure Failure happen? How to induce it? Not at all). People had to document everything with powerplay as well. And now with Colonization people are supposed to figure out the holy mysticism of the machine god behind the arbitrary stats such as development level and how markets are supposed to work.
I'm certain they have someone in the game development room advocating for this and Elite would be a much better game if they just fired him, with no severance package I might add
Elite has always been a game with a lot of 'mysteries' and cryptic stuff. Raxxla, spectrograms, horizon signal, people figuring things out by decoding binary messages from listening posts, etc. Frontier leans a lot into it.
I can't help but think they like to apply the same logic to documentation which is dumbfoundingly baffling. Just as with all the other things, they like players to 'figure it out themselves'. But in this case we're dealing with apples and oranges. Documentation for background simulation stuff? People had to figure it out themselves, and still today a lot of it is a black box that people don't understand nor do they know how it works. (Does anybody actually know what, specifically, makes Infrastructure Failure happen? How to induce it? Not at all). People had to document everything with powerplay as well. And now with Colonization people are supposed to figure out the holy mysticism of the machine god behind the arbitrary stats such as development level and how markets are supposed to work.
I'm certain they have someone in the game development room advocating for this and Elite would be a much better game if they just fired him, with no severance package I might add
both of these occurences a bug or intentional in some way I wonder