Please FD, do not forget about the ice rings! Use them!!!

Flimley · Jan 2, 2016

Colossal sized Martini with ice anyone. Hehe

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CaptainKremmen said:
Perhaps mining in ice rings could generate fragments we could collect for our Rock Collection, in our magic Horizons...

http://www.shepher.com/sitemedia/product/extralargeimages/FPB-Y5723.JPG

...that allows us to carry everything from phosphorous to polonium, safely and conveniently!

hilarious and it also goes nicely with the new alphabet child friendly bobble heads.

Junky Juke · Jan 2, 2016

Ice cream!!! Huge one!!!

Jypson · Jan 2, 2016

Kiobi said:
nah...FD like to add things just for taking screens. Placeholders are their specialty.

Sorry, couldn't help myself!

Sentenza · Jan 2, 2016

Well, I actually did combat over an ice ring and HATED it. It is so bright you can't see anything

Varrag · Jan 2, 2016

Sentenza said:
Well, I actually did combat over an ice ring and HATED it. It is so bright you can't see anything

Oddly enough, metallic rings also appear blinding white, until you drop into it and see them dark rocks all around. Huh?

Privata · Jan 2, 2016

and fix the horrible pop in and lods

Crank Larson · Jan 2, 2016

Iskariot said:
These environments are so incredibly beautiful!

Yes, I rediscovered this yesterday when I did the training missions (was testing out controller on new machine... Didn't want to make a silly mistake

). It really is a shame that there is nothing that entices you to check them out in the main game. I'd completely forgotten just how much nicer they look than the rocks.

Privata · Jan 2, 2016

Kiobi said:
nah...FD like to add things just for taking screens. Placeholders are their specialty. They just refusing to add valuable fun content. I have collected some pics from ED early stage about rings. very sad.

http://i.imgur.com/7FWyw7h.jpg

I hope they add this at some point

Oheck · Jan 2, 2016

Kiobi said:
nah...FD like to add things just for taking screens. Placeholders are their specialty. They just refusing to add valuable fun content. I have collected some pics from ED early stage about rings. very sad.

http://i.imgur.com/7FWyw7h.jpg

Jeez man, look at those. I dunno what FD is thinking when it comes to the rings. Those amazing textures. The volumetric dust...gone. And they said there is no ETA when they will get back to looking at the rings. Shame.

Ixnatifual · Jan 2, 2016

Sentenza said:
Well, I actually did combat over an ice ring and HATED it. It is so bright you can't see anything

I think that really depends on the star and how it lights up the ring.

Privata · Jan 2, 2016

Oheck said:
Jeez man, look at those. I dunno what FD is thinking when it comes to the rings. Those amazing textures. The volumetric dust...gone. And they said there is no ETA when they will get back to looking at the rings. Shame.

Its crazy... I love elite but its getting wierd and somewhat stupid.
they dont tell us what is a placeholder , nor what is going to be improved they just keep us in the dark and only tell us about the headline features like multicrew. granted , multicrew is cool but I rather them focus on the graphics , AI , and core first rather than the extra stuff.

But whats even more crazy is they had this in game at some point , so what in oblivion is stoping them from using it? are they just waiting for a convenient expansion about rings and so on to enchance them? or maybe its a graphic nerf so the game can stay static in quality and run on consoles?
I have to be honest I have no clue what FD are doing , and if its even going to be the game I hoped for. even if its not I still consider the lifetime pass way worth the money I spent but I dont see any other space sim with a real scale or realism (for space , not tech) like elite.

William J Smith · Jan 2, 2016

Ice ring mission proposal:

"The <blah blah blah> system has a pirate base located in the planetary rings at <blah blah blah>planet 5, we need you to go in and obtain a scan of the base in preparation of it being attacked by <power> military forces.
Remain undetected if you can, if not, making it back here with the information is a top priority
Combat rank needed : whatever
Payment: lots if undetected, 50% of lots if detected and you make it back alive"

Do you use a small fast ship? silent running? combat in the ice field and a scan as you swoop past?

Bill

<<just having ideas

Lobstris · Jan 2, 2016

William J Smith said:
Ice ring mission proposal:

"The <blah blah blah> system has a pirate base located in the planetary rings at <blah blah blah>planet 5, we need you to go in and obtain a scan of the base in preparation of it being attacked by <power> military forces.
Remain undetected if you can, if not, making it back here with the information is a top priority
Combat rank needed : whatever
Payment: lots if undetected, 50% of lots if detected and you make it back alive"

Do you use a small fast ship? silent running? combat in the ice field and a scan as you swoop past?

Bill

<<just having ideas

Gah! Was just about to suggest the same. Have some rep.

Being unpopulated and useless surely ice rings would be ideal for, ahem... less than scrupulous sorts to base themselves out of?

And it would also be nice to see a return of the Frontier/FFE photo recon missions.

grammatonfeather · Jan 2, 2016

Iskariot said:
Perhaps it is a bit presumptuous of me, and it already has been mentioned before, but please FD... create some sort of activities in the ice rings of planets.

These environments are so incredibly beautiful!
Please make use of them.
We need some game play reasons to go into them.
Create something to do there.
Perhaps there could be some sort of mining activities, combat zones, piracy stuff, whatever...
It would be awesome to do combat in these magical rings.

Just... use... these... incredible... environments.

Agree. I've been earning money at the innermost ring of one planet although the rocks there are dark. The outer rings are all white ice so I stopped at one of them on my way back to the station.

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Kiobi said:
nah...FD like to add things just for taking screens. Placeholders are their specialty. They just refusing to add valuable fun content. I have collected some pics from ED early stage about rings. very sad.

"They just refusing to add valuable fun content. " <<< Really? Funny that. I've been having nothing but fun since ED and Horizons.

I make sure I play Elite the way it was meant to be played though in terms of hardware.

n4p0l3on · Jan 2, 2016

Privata said:
But whats even more crazy is they had this in game at some point , so what in oblivion is stoping them from using it? are they just waiting for a convenient expansion about rings and so on to enchance them? or maybe its a graphic nerf so the game can stay static in quality and run on consoles?

exactly, microsoft demand parity for xbone.

Privata · Jan 2, 2016

n4p0l3on said:
exactly, microsoft demand parity for xbone.

I hope not... If so I might end up not playing the game , and I LOVE elite and have spent insane ammount of money on paintjobs and the lifetime pass hopeing to maybe get graphical updates of sorts but beyond horizons everything has downgraded with evey single patch and its got me very scared.

n4p0l3on · Jan 2, 2016

Privata said:
I hope not... If so I might end up not playing the game , and I LOVE elite and have spent insane ammount of money on paintjobs and the lifetime pass hopeing to maybe get graphical updates of sorts but beyond horizons everything has downgraded with evey single patch and its got me very scared.

you hope not? lol it's already done deal, MS and Sony would never accept multiplatform games to look worse on their platforms aside from little things like slightly (and inconsequential) worse textures and jaggies... that's why we (or rather myself) love star citizen and willing to pay stupid money for CIG.

Privata · Jan 2, 2016

n4p0l3on said:
you hope not? lol it's already done deal, MS and Sony would never accept multiplatform games to look worse on their platforms aside from little things like slightly (and inconsequential) worse textures and jaggies... that's why we (or rather myself) love star citizen and willing to pay stupid money for CIG.

The only thing I like about SC is its disregard to low end hardware.
FD said downgrades are not intentional and I am going to wait and see , however... if it continues I might find myself making the jump so SC even if its universe is less intresting , and overall less realistic dipiction of space (more fantasy than science)
but I still have hope for ED , so lets just see

Crank Larson · Jan 2, 2016

n4p0l3on said:
exactly, microsoft demand parity for xbone.

No they don't, or many games wouldn't make it to the Xbox. You can't have parity between an Xbox One and a powerful PC - it just isn't there. The Xbox is pretty good for a console, but that's as far as it goes.

Lobstris · Jan 2, 2016

Privata said:
I hope not... If so I might end up not playing the game , and I LOVE elite and have spent insane ammount of money on paintjobs and the lifetime pass hopeing to maybe get graphical updates of sorts but beyond horizons everything has downgraded with evey single patch and its got me very scared.

Whilst a lot of things certainly do look more ugly for me texture wise since Horizons, I have a feeling that's more to do with my card running out of texture memory (2GB only) when near planet surfaces.
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I'd spare a thought for our mac-using friends at present...