At no point has it ever been stated that backers will get to CHOOSE one of the ships, it has been stated that we will get one ship for free not that we get our choice of ship for free.
I don't expect it to be the panther clipper or federal corvette
Vulture available in 1.2? So three new ships altogether?
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At no point has it ever been stated that backers will get to CHOOSE one of the ships, it has been stated that we will get one ship for free not that we get our choice of ship for free.
I don't expect it to be the panther clipper or federal corvette
The '3' is the size class, not the count.
Well... actually we don't because because we all know that...
size doesn't matter !!! What matters is the way you use your toy.
Use your 'imagination' and have some 'fun'
Hell ya...
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Octapod has been confirmed!!
http://www.brownbagfilms.com/images/blog/legacy-files/2010/09/The-Octonauts_Octopod.jpg
Much to my three year old copilot's delight!
http://www.brownbagfilms.com/images/blog/legacy-files/2010/09/The-Octonauts_Octopod.jpg
Much to my three year old copilot's delight!
I am disappointed...
I was really hoping Corvette was going to be released for 1.2
Opposite for me. When I saw #61 and it clearly indicated that the fed ship (curse their bones) would be #2 of 2, and we already knew FdL would be #1 of 2 I was sorely disappointed that my bird of Prey seemed to have been shuffled to the back-burner.
And the idea, the simple audacity of the concept, that the Feds were capable of pushing out a new ship before the Empire was... Well, it strained credibility.
So, now all is right with the universe. fed dogs will need to wait for their bone, like good little mutts.
(All in jest guys and gals, all in jest)
Made me giggle
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How do we ignore this guy here? I can't take anymore.
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Yep I had to double check to make sure.
Whoever wrote the Newsletter was given a screenshot of The Corvette and assumed it would be 1.2 rather than clarifying that it was just a Peek of the Week and nothing to do with the upcoming patch.
The only other logical explanation is that something else was supposed to be in the Peek, but was replaced at the last minute after that copy had already been written?
(And people wonder why I say as much as I do on the comms matter - now people are confused and some will get angry over it - not that they should it's just internet spaceships and I doubt they could afford it anyway yet
Or that, without a sense of scale, the vulture and corvette look similar to the layman? And an intern messed up?
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Gonna join the rank of dissapointed people who were expecting the corvette to be with the 1.2 update.
Doing abit of searching, and many seems to get the impression from the newsletter the corvette would be with that update,
since it did say "...sneaking a look at March's Update 1.2 in our Peek Of The Week." Which now have been changed..
Doing abit of searching, and many seems to get the impression from the newsletter the corvette would be with that update,
since it did say "...sneaking a look at March's Update 1.2 in our Peek Of The Week." Which now have been changed..
I agree with the comments about the newsletters, dev posts and FD communication in general, it's a pretty solid example of how to do it badly. I think the main issue may not be the devs or marketting folks not being able to post something with some actual depth to it, but rather the lack of anything with depth to write about. The recent 'oops, wrong ship' stuff up aside, afaics there has been very poor communcation between FD and the community. I dont refer to the number or even the content of the short dev posts, though they err on the 'say nothing so they cant hold us to it later' side too much for my liking, but rather the vacuum of ongoing communcation required for an ongoing game development which one would guess is stil going to require further funding and purchase of expansions, fluff and DLC. It seems to feel that once the launch was done with FD moved on.
Since launch there have been a pretty decent number of bug fixes, there is still a pretty decent number of bugs but Im willing to call that all square as every game has bugs and they are mostly not easy to fix.
But in terms of ongoing delivery.... by 1.2 we will have 2 new ships of the remaining 10 expected, Jaques station, community goals and basic 4 player group mechanics with some up scaled USS content/missions. Throughout this the community has basically fed itself on the dwindling hopes and dreams of the game ever delivering what FD claimed for it, no one expected it all on day one, most would be happy with it at some reasonable point in the future, but FD seem to have decided that not saying much of anything is their best action. I can honestly think that launching was better than waiting and trying to add more depth and content, but FD are not saying, so why should I?
I would think by now/soon the forums will start to quieten down a bit, mostly people who feel the game lacks whatever their 'thing' is will have shelved it or be playing a lot less, some will look back when major patches are released which is good, some wont. The thing that might bring them back is news, of the good to awesome variety, ideally focussed on an area they feel is lacking (right now all of them), but if FD cant get the communication right, well, even if you have some great news to talk about if you dont know how to deliver it you've had it.
The newsletter is really something that needs to be an email teaser to draw people in, right now its the the main course and its unsatisfying and often incorrect or simply misleading. The real meat of the news and whats happening with ED development needs to be a real serious undertaking, a dev blog is a common format and typically works well. I thought it was a little odd to put the Wings news into eurogamer(was that the one?), for two reasons; one anyone reading it is going to most likely think, "so they launhced multiplayer game with no grouping? huh?" and two, it would have at least been couteous to the community to post it here at the same time (unless I missed it, sorry)
In some regards the less time wasted on the production of the vehicle the better, put the time into the content, 10 minutes of someone able to talk in sentences with actual facts doing a talking head once every two weeks would go so much further than the current format. Delivery of wafer thin content like Jaques and Community Goals will be taken a lot better if its presented as a small first step with some solid talk of what WILL be coming later, but if you just send thin content and the only thing people focus on is the hint of what might come next with no promise or ETA, then quite frankly that tells you everything you need to know about the content.
Since launch there have been a pretty decent number of bug fixes, there is still a pretty decent number of bugs but Im willing to call that all square as every game has bugs and they are mostly not easy to fix.
But in terms of ongoing delivery.... by 1.2 we will have 2 new ships of the remaining 10 expected, Jaques station, community goals and basic 4 player group mechanics with some up scaled USS content/missions. Throughout this the community has basically fed itself on the dwindling hopes and dreams of the game ever delivering what FD claimed for it, no one expected it all on day one, most would be happy with it at some reasonable point in the future, but FD seem to have decided that not saying much of anything is their best action. I can honestly think that launching was better than waiting and trying to add more depth and content, but FD are not saying, so why should I?
I would think by now/soon the forums will start to quieten down a bit, mostly people who feel the game lacks whatever their 'thing' is will have shelved it or be playing a lot less, some will look back when major patches are released which is good, some wont. The thing that might bring them back is news, of the good to awesome variety, ideally focussed on an area they feel is lacking (right now all of them), but if FD cant get the communication right, well, even if you have some great news to talk about if you dont know how to deliver it you've had it.
The newsletter is really something that needs to be an email teaser to draw people in, right now its the the main course and its unsatisfying and often incorrect or simply misleading. The real meat of the news and whats happening with ED development needs to be a real serious undertaking, a dev blog is a common format and typically works well. I thought it was a little odd to put the Wings news into eurogamer(was that the one?), for two reasons; one anyone reading it is going to most likely think, "so they launhced multiplayer game with no grouping? huh?" and two, it would have at least been couteous to the community to post it here at the same time (unless I missed it, sorry)
In some regards the less time wasted on the production of the vehicle the better, put the time into the content, 10 minutes of someone able to talk in sentences with actual facts doing a talking head once every two weeks would go so much further than the current format. Delivery of wafer thin content like Jaques and Community Goals will be taken a lot better if its presented as a small first step with some solid talk of what WILL be coming later, but if you just send thin content and the only thing people focus on is the hint of what might come next with no promise or ETA, then quite frankly that tells you everything you need to know about the content.
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A typographical error perhaps? I dunno I didn't write it nor read it
It's possible? Why don't you go find out?
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Patience, patience, Commanders ! No matter how much new stuff FD give us everyone seems to want more, and voice their discontent on the forums. The devs must think we are never happy, no matter how much they give and how busy they are.
Do you want everything all at once, with nothing to look forward to ? Wings, new ships...not good enough, I want another ship ! *shakes his head in disbelief*
I, for one, am amazed and delighted about how much new stuff we get on a regular basis. I hate to take the 'old-timer' stance, but hell, in the original Elite we had one ship. One ship ! And it was amazing. ED is even more amazing, so let's please give the devs some praise, and back off a little with the demands.
Do you want everything all at once, with nothing to look forward to ? Wings, new ships...not good enough, I want another ship ! *shakes his head in disbelief*
I, for one, am amazed and delighted about how much new stuff we get on a regular basis. I hate to take the 'old-timer' stance, but hell, in the original Elite we had one ship. One ship ! And it was amazing. ED is even more amazing, so let's please give the devs some praise, and back off a little with the demands.
Yes but it's not coming so that's that. Nothing to be done about it.
I'm much happier with the vulture.
1 ship, 2 ships or 3... it makes little difference to me. By the time I get back from whatever this system is called we will all be flying Battlestars anyway
I really hope the person wanting compensation was joking otherwise I weep for humanity.
I really hope the person wanting compensation was joking otherwise I weep for humanity.
At no point has it ever been stated that backers will get to CHOOSE one of the ships, it has been stated that we will get one ship for free not that we get our choice of ship for free.
I don't expect it to be the panther clipper or federal corvette
I wouldn't expect that either to be fair. Of course you are also correct that 'choose' was not included when specifying access to one of the new ships...
Guess I was jumping the gun a bit too
Even so, I hope whatever the ship is, whenever it happens, its not just going to be dumped 100,000ly away... unless of course "access to" means something completely different... like you get access to call the 'new delivery ship' service, where you can arrange your ships to be transported to a starport of your choosing.. hmm that could be handy.
Pffff, Gabe could walk up to my door with a free copy of HL3 at this point and I'd still play ED.
No episode 3 is unforgivable.
Strawberry! Or maybe mango. An apple laser and a chocolate multicannon? Dammit, now I'm hungry.