Power Play...speculation

nats

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nats
I would love 'Powerplay' to be better stealth mechanics plus cargo cloaking equipment for better smuggling gameplay. But I think it will be something dull probably.

I want to see a lot more improvement over the basic game features before more work is spent on the 'background' and 'story'.

I want to see subscriptions to news items, like in the previous games, before anymore background development. They need to create a convincing galaxy of news, but at the moment its not even a countries worth of news items.

They need at least 2 or 3 people doing nothing but news items or alternatively have many of the news items procedurally generated like they were in Simcity 2000, although without the lamas.
 
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Makaan

Makaan
AlianAnt said:
Not sure if anyone's said this but, has anyone noticed that GalNet story about the parasite infection in Lugh? I don't know the lore very well - correct me if I'm wrong - but the only developed life that's been found are Thargoids. Suddenly this parasite shows up in arguably the most war-torn and unstable system in the galaxy?

Then there's that crap about the Old Worlds and their technology influx? And the "alien weaponry"?

Who's got more advanced technology? Thargoids, that's who.

PowerPlay.... by the Thargoids. I'm getting the Raid Cannons ready right now, just in case.

In any event, serious stuff is going down in the Milky Way and I can't wait to put my ships in the middle of it.
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It's too early for the Thargoids I think. Power Play could be a hint that perhaps we may see signs of them as they make their move to take advantage of the unstable situations throughout the human factions.

Personally, like what's been said throughout this thread, is that Power Play is going to be lots of small additions/tweaks that have a big impact.

I certainly think we're going to see an escalation in the conflicts and situations that are currently unfolding and they'll affect/interact with us more and we'll be able to affect/interact with them more too.

Will this pave the way for the Thargoids to appear in a future update? Who knows, it's 50/50 until we get word from the developers.
 
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AnnuverScotinExile

AnnuverScotinExile
Dave Angel said:
Where has someone with appropriate authority said planetary landings and/or walking on ships will be a paid expansion, all the literature I've seen from FD says that it's part of the core gaming coming this year.
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All over the kickstarter, plus multiple interviews with DBOBE, etc. If you have seen no literature mentioning it, you cannot have seen much literature.
 

Kyokushin

Kyokushin
nicomak said:
As said previously this is not going to be in a major update, paid for expansion only(the walking part not the crafting).
See NL#29 & 32 http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5112

As to "crafting" well i dont think it's enough for them to call that "the biggest content addition so far". But maybe i'm wrong, if only we knew!!! ;)
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As i remember a walking and landing on rocky planet will not be paid, and full landing on more advandec planet will be paid (i have readed somerwhere here a long time ago). Maybe i am wrong, hmm...
 

Tinman

Tinman
Dave Angel said:
Where has someone with appropriate authority said planetary landings and/or walking on ships will be a paid expansion, all the literature I've seen from FD says that it's part of the core gaming coming this year.
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In Newsletter 32 among other places.

But that won’t stop development. We plan to continue to significantly enhance the game via further expansions after the launch date, using the same incremental development philosophy that we’ve used so far.

Major new features will include planetary landings and even walking around inside ships, stations, and planet surfaces with time.

For those who have a Lifetime Expansion Pass (included in Premium Beta and Alpha, and also still available here until 29th July) all such significant expansion will be included. Those without the Lifetime Expansion Pass will be charged for each expansion as they are released.
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There is plenty of other places they have said it too...

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Kyokushin said:
As i remember a walking and landing on rocky planet will not be paid, and full landing on more advandec planet will be paid (i have readed somerwhere here a long time ago). Maybe i am wrong, hmm...
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Pretty sure you are wrong. ;)
 

Makaan

Makaan
nats said:
I would love 'Powerplay' to be better stealth mechanics plus cargo cloaking equipment for better smuggling gameplay. But I think it will be something dull probably.

I want to see a lot more improvement over the basic game features before more work is spent on the 'background' and 'story'.

I want to see subscriptions to news items, like in the previous games, before anymore background development. They need to create a convincing galaxy of news, but at the moment its not even a countries worth of news items.

They need at least 2 or 3 people doing nothing but news items or alternatively have many of the news items procedurally generated like they were in Simcity 2000, although without the lamas.
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I don't think it will be dull. They've told us about drones, mission overhauling and confirmed new ships.

They said all this barely scratches the surface of the Power Play update and we haven't seen anything yet.

Just read the last 2-3 newsletters and you can see that we should be expecting quite an interesting update.
 

nicomak

nicomak
Kyokushin said:
As i remember a walking and landing on rocky planet will not be paid, and full landing on more advandec planet will be paid (i have readed somerwhere here a long time ago). Maybe i am wrong, hmm...
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When i say look at newsletter 29 & 32 i mean it, i gave the link, it's in there see the quote above from Tinman ^^

the 29th clearly puts landing on (any) planets in the expansions.
And walking around as well(ship/stations...)
 
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Spartan089

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I really hope the "power play" update has some coherent questing arches, and dynamic events. We literally have an entire galaxy with a myriad of factions and governments who don't get a long and the only way we can interact with them is trade. If the devs put in localized story arches and dynamic events that changed the balance of power between local factions, I think it would give the game a lot more continuity and depth the game currently lacks, not to mention some added staying power. I played for about a week and am already pretty bored. If I had the option to get invested in a local rebel factions bid for independence, I'd feel like I could make a difference in this awesome world.
 

Arubeto

Arubeto
Like others did, I'd like to speculate that "a new way to interact with the galaxy" indeed describes some substantial new feature. My hope is that by this FD means that NPCs are finally introduced/brought up to the standard they deserve. Hopefully, some or most of the ideas from the DDA are getting implemented, like persistent NPCs, NPC comms (that's what I think and hope the "new way to interact" means), NPC contacts and NPC wings.

Edit: just two more days until the big announcement! Can't wait! (Hype train, here you go :D)
 
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Insomnia

Insomnia
PvP arena style. Someone posted this on reddit claiming he found unused strings of codes in the 1.2 beta.

But I'm hoping for EVA or at least walking around in my ship. ;)
 

pryzm

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slashgoh said:
I think that we will likely be able to walk around on ship and stations. The pictures from the inside of the Courier are explicit enough.
Moreover, I not agree with the total war hypotesis, but it's time for Targhoid to appear and with the new mission system, there will be new missions involving the reach and investigation of areas far from civilized space (e.g. Hyponia and Regor sector). With the new alien party, Fed and Imp will lower their tension, allowing a new tech to arise: Fed/Imp hybrid technology for higher FDL range engines in order to enabling the new missions in alien space.
IMHO, this is a good way for putting all together the good elements in ED actually unused, i.e. the big, detailed, realistic but completely content's empty galaxy.

I would like to get the planet landing too, but I think that we never see this feature in the currently purchased game.
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Have you had a look around the stations or closely at the cockpit interiors using the debug cam? if you had you would see that this is just not currently possible- the textures on the stations would look terrible up close, also there seems to be nothing actually there behind the facades.. it would currently look terrible if you were to walk around. I think that part requires a major overhaul, that's why it will be a paid to play expansion... not PowerPlay.

New way to interact with galaxy? my bet is wormholes or jump gates allowing further/faster travel.
 

Ghost1

Ghost1
im gonna guess asteroid bases will be added and since there is a bigger class ship new weapon types?



Also i think all out war is coming, that being said, i wonder if the thargoids will be inserted in along with alien weaponry.
 

[VR] Frank_G

[VR] Frank_G
Taimaru said:
I think Power Play will allow us to change E = mc2 to E=mc3 for our Plasma Accelerators :D.
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Thats indeed a lot of power to play with.... From now on, light travels in rays, waves and err cubes :D love it.

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Asteroid bases would be nice indeed. Our pirates need bases to go to, when they get banned from civilized space by the new crime mechanics.

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insidah

insidah
Did somebody say POWERPLAY???

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