News Development Update - 15th Jan

[Vikinger]

V1.1 will also have a significant increase in the maximum distance for the route planner. We’re currently looking at extending this to 1,000 light years!



Michael

Hi Michael.

Iam not sure this extended route planner will work.
Iam currently quite far out from any populated system. And ive noticed when I face a large cluster of stars, eg many, many stars close to each other. it take the current route planner long time to calculate closest route just to do a 90LY calculation.
I can watch how the route planner work.
Example: if iam gona do an 90LY jump. And mouse over a system that is just 40LY in jump from my location, I can se when its ready to activate as a valid jump target ( red turns white). Then I mouse over another system 50LY away and wait until that become clear. its like watching rings that spread over water until it reach my 90LY designated target.
It actually goes faster to do single jumps then wait for the route planner to calculate my jumps.
It seams it take into account every possible jumps between any stars in an 3D 360 degree area, so if there is plenty of stars it take forever to calculate longer jumps, so 1000LY would take more than an hour to calculate.

 

[LivingLegend]

Seriously, waiting for a month or two is "outrageous" to you? How about all those of us who have waited for Elite 4 since the mid-90's?

A couple of months, or even a year, is not that long, really.

Well, I wanted to read a whole thread but here I quit.
Not only did Susimetsa, company representatives, ridiculing players that the game paid.


But as the top inforamci is that the wing will be earlier than the end of March. Which is 1/4 of the year when the game was transferred from beta to final. So I ja paying players buy MMO game. That it is not actually.What is my view deception players. I played mmo style "Hoj where you were?" "Hi, I'm with XYZ" Oh me too, but I'll never see it. "" Hmm stupid so I'll fly At least this way .... "


That they are not able to do a reasonable system for the transmission of money between the players is embarrassing sad but still understands it. It does not work from the alliance and wings already understand. How it can issue a sharp game? And wanting for her as for AAA title?


If all this gamer changes, even if you actually deceived him. So he scoffs at the forum directly representative of the company !!!




Unbelievable how last time behave development studio for the gaming community. It's not just Frontier but the big studios like Ubisoft, etc.


Sorry for my bad english

 

[Gimmee]

Sad to see MARCH for wings update ,FD you are causing players to give up with delays to Wings . I have 10 friends who do not play and haven't since Gamma the reason ,no wings .grouping co-op ,and now wait til March .Are you deliberately trying to make people give up ? Because this is how it seems.
As for galaxy map route planner 1000ly range? Please explain will this still be the same as in all routes will be found by route planner as now or will you direct route planner in general direction you wish to head for ? If its still in every direction the wait for route planner to plan route will be stupidly long.

 

[Adept]

What game you're playing? I want in.

Throttle up to about 50 - 60%, point at the destination, and you have cruise control.

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Susimetsä is a volunteer working as a moderator on the forum. He is here as a private individual.

Well, I wanted to read a whole thread but here I quit.
Not only did Susimetsa, company representatives, ridiculing players that the game paid.


But as the top inforamci is that the wing will be earlier than the end of March. Which is 1/4 of the year when the game was transferred from beta to final. So I ja paying players buy MMO game. That it is not actually.What is my view deception players. I played mmo style "Hoj where you were?" "Hi, I'm with XYZ" Oh me too, but I'll never see it. "" Hmm stupid so I'll fly At least this way .... "


That they are not able to do a reasonable system for the transmission of money between the players is embarrassing sad but still understands it. It does not work from the alliance and wings already understand. How it can issue a sharp game? And wanting for her as for AAA title?


If all this gamer changes, even if you actually deceived him. So he scoffs at the forum directly representative of the company !!!




Unbelievable how last time behave development studio for the gaming community. It's not just Frontier but the big studios like Ubisoft, etc.


Sorry for my bad english

 

[Astaced]

Any newsletter? Today?

 

[Vikinger]

Any newsletter? Today?

Newsletters usually arrives in the evening. So be patience at least 6 more hour

 

[Abomination]

"We aren't planning an autopilot.
Michael"

GOOD SO ... how stupid would be that, strange what some players want ...

Agreed.
Next thing they want is a Queeg 500.

 

[adio]

You're right. In fact, they wouldn't have human pilots at all. That would be a fun game to play, where you log on to see what your robot player has done recently.

A lot of us play this game so we can fly the ships.

Isn't that... Eve?

 

[Tinman]

Newsletters usually arrives in the evening. So be patience at least 6 more hour

Yes...looking forward to it...

"What!? No, news!? Michael already posted this on the forum yesterday!!"

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I'm fairly ambivalent about auto-pilot - it'd be nice but I'm not that fussed. But the discussion has made me wonder why so many people are interested in controlling how other people play the game. No-one has yet suggested that auto-pilot is forced on others. If you didn't want it you could just not use it. Yet many have complained. Makes no sense to me. Then again many things in this forum don't.

It is not coming according to MB, but just for fun, if it did, a few thoughts.

So long as it took up an equipment slot and added weight and power drain, I would have no issue with it, choices and all that BUT.........

have you SEEN the docking computer? if what ever company made the AI (ingame, I am not knocking anyone at FD) for the docking computer, made the AI for the auto pilot, there is no way on gods green earth I would be trusting it when I am only a few hundred K away from a sun!

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Well done on the news. Looking forward to it. Can you guys implement a log of places we have visited, even if it is a trail on the nav map that can be enabled to view the traveled locations and maybe a balance sheet of how credits were made(Expenses and income). It's nice to keep track of where i made the most profit . .

+ 1 on this, a captains log along with personal galmap of places we visited is one of my most wished for features

 

[Elegan]

Calculating route on a map of the galaxy.

We’re currently looking at extending this to 1,000 light years!

Michael

Does anyone know, who calculates the route on a map of the galaxy?
Processor or graphics card? Because my processor is not busy (i5 4670k around c.20-35%).
I'm waiting quite a long time (more then 1min) to calculate the way around 100Ly.

Thanks for for answer!

 

[Stoo]

Alpha backers would have the lifetime pass already.

Michael

Yay us

 

[Capt. Dallas's beard]

Really REALLY not liking this idea. Why should we have to PAY you to HELP you? I know of no other game that does this.

Then dont, you can just wait until the beta is bug free and released as normal, the same as every other developer does. Youre not getting the finished article when paying for beta, youre paying to get in early and take part in the testing. Seems you want to take part in the beta, but for free, sadly if you werent a beta tester already in this game, you have to wait. Its no different to other developers who probably wouldnt let you into their beta anyway.

 

[OldSchoolPlayer]

I approve!

 

[Michael Brookes]

Thanks Mike. Fun times ahead!

Are there any plans to share a release schedule for additional ships?

I expect news on ships as part of future newsletters.

Michael

 

[Vulcan24v]

I don't think "most people" are, but maybe some of the squeakiest wheels on the forums are. I'm only worth a few million too but damn I'm enjoying the ride.

(and I get "that bloody game" comments too... )

Lol I can sympathise... my wife describes what I do....

You take off from that hexagonny thing, fly a bit then the screen goes squirly. You land at another hexagonny thing and look at loads of words for a bit then you take off again and the screen goes squirly and you do it all again.
Occasionally but not often when the screen is squirly it suddenly stops with a bang and you then fight with someone... then the screen goes squirly again and it goes round and round....

Sort of sums it up...

 

[Tinman]

I expect news on ships as part of future newsletters.

Michael

Hehe...that's cheeky...since there is one coming out today.

 

[graham.reeds]

As the thread has reached 29 pages and is growing rapidly: Can I use my current character in v1.1 and progress him and will that exclude me from the Race to Elite - if it is still going then?

 

[GibMeister]

You might not be able to tell us right now but I have to ask, will wings have the ability to make wing decals or other customization options?

'Cyncial Mode Engaged': Sure you will be able to do this, nothing else will work as intended or as you'd hope/expect. Oops sorry couldnt help myself. Sorry, not very optimistic, I am sure it will alll be great

 

[jebeltarik]

Thanks FD and Micheal for your hard work. The game is already super and I look forward to test the new beta features. To those people who are complaining about paying for joining the beta I would say that this game is being made by fans of Elite (1984) for fans of Elite (2015) and if we have to pay extra to test the beta features (even if we are Alpha testers) we will, because we are making OUR game together and we want it to be the best space sim in the history of gaming.
Thanks again FD.