Elite Dangerous in the Media thread

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David Braben spoke about this before, and said that in the Elite timeline by 3300 the cities on Earth are very different compared to today.

That makes sense...though, at least a few of today's alpha cities are much bigger. Like, new York and London would cover massive metros while others may have been wiped out by war.....Can't wait to see some pictures and then develop a narrative for the geopolitical history
 
Hmmm.

If this universe is supposed to be "accurate" and there are city lights on planets, then.... does Frontier know something we don't....?

:-D
 
Probably a dumb question, will the lights on Earth be accurate?

Yeah - if you zoom in close enough you will be able to see my house too :D (joke)

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Pecisk - nice link, means nothing until it's in the game though. To me FD's word isn't worth much (sadly) - once a few announcements have been made and delivered I will start to believe again ;)
 
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Michael talks with PCGamer about new stuff coming up in 1.1 - I just want to say this - CITY LIGHTS HECK YEAH!


What will the difference be between that and the missions we have been running until now? Just scale? Will there be many simultaneous such events for different parts of the galaxy, or will it be like a "humanitarian crisis in Lave, commanders of the galaxy unite" type of thing? What will the results be like in case of failure or success? Are we going to see domino effects of systems turning or will it be like "crisis averted, congratulations". Will there be massive rewards or just the usual 15K type of thing? Will there be incentive for working against the flow "the opposite side has an open bounty on people carrying food, 200K per head" or just "go there and bring that". I'd like to go to a system and see a couple of enormous ships blockading the station, sidewinders all around and me trying to bring the food with my Type 7 to the poor Lavians, while other Cmd's fall in a protective formation around me but I don't know if I will be bothered to go there just to haul food for the Lavians and wait in lines with other folks at the station.

I guess my question in short is, is it a gameplay update, or a teamplay update?

Oh and city lights hurray of course.
 
What will the difference be between that and the missions we have been running until now? Just scale? Will there be many simultaneous such events for different parts of the galaxy, or will it be like a "humanitarian crisis in Lave, commanders of the galaxy unite" type of thing? What will the results be like in case of failure or success? Are we going to see domino effects of systems turning or will it be like "crisis averted, congratulations". Will there be massive rewards or just the usual 15K type of thing? Will there be incentive for working against the flow "the opposite side has an open bounty on people carrying food, 200K per head" or just "go there and bring that". I'd like to go to a system and see a couple of enormous ships blockading the station, sidewinders all around and me trying to bring the food with my Type 7 to the poor Lavians, while other Cmd's fall in a protective formation around me but I don't know if I will be bothered to go there just to haul food for the Lavians and wait in lines with other folks at the station.

I guess my question in short is, is it a gameplay update, or a teamplay update?

Oh and city lights hurray of course.

It will be global goal (we kinda have already something like this, just less pronounced), not team goal if you thought about that. As for group missions I expect them to land in March with 1.2 version.
 
So why are they talking with PC gamer, and ignoring the backers on the forum?
More marketing spin beats looking after your existing paying customers, eh?
Feeding the media keeps them sweet (thus you'll expect to get good publicity) and keeps the game in the spotlight. I suspect that this interview was supposed to go out after the weekly production update on the forum, and PCG have simply jumped the gun.

[edit]And if not, I agree that Frontier should treat its customers and backers to that sort of information first.[/edit]
 
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So why are they talking with PC gamer, and ignoring the backers on the forum?
More marketing spin beats looking after your existing paying customers, eh?

Ignoring? Most likely all this information will come with weekly dev update by Michael. As for order of things I personally find it totally OK for FD feeding media with exclusive bits - I don't care how we get this information, as long as we get it - few days later doesn't make any difference for me (and my guess for majority of players).

Remember, they don't have tons of green to burn for PR and using every old trick in market matters - as media goodwill towards company.
 
So why are they talking with PC gamer, and ignoring the backers on the forum?
More marketing spin beats looking after your existing paying customers, eh?

I'm sure Michael was fully aware that as soon as this article appeared it would be linked and quoted here.

Moaning and naivety in one post ... well done :rolleyes:
 
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