People complaining about planet coaster...

Flash_Baggins

Flash_Baggins
So I know a few people have been complaining about frontier and planet coaster, and how more time should be spent on Elite.
I agreed. Until I saw it.
WOW. THIS GAME IS BEAUTIFUL. It combines everything I ever loved about thrillville and cities skylines and made them into this beautiful lovechild:
[video=youtube;BAmxXh9TyrU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAmxXh9TyrU[/video]
ps: I know there is a planet coaster forum but I thought it beneficial to put on here as well (please dont kill me mods :p)
 

Privata

Privata
For me its the otherway around.
I did not mind (much) then I saw this and I felt a deep feeling of sadness.

The dynamic lensflairs , specular maps , HD textures... why does elite not get any of that? (or will Planet coaster get a graphical nerf during gamma as well?)

I hate to hate on anything , realy... I allways get the feeling that elite does not want to have good graphics (just look at the vulture paintjobs like the white one)

Anyway I am happy for those who want this game , but I wish elite would get all the same effects... maybe one day
 

Lily from anim.o.v.e

Lily from anim.o.v.e
I would care more about a proper new rollercoaster than Elite.

but then the lightning placed in here does nto alter the shadow, so a bit too much excitied fanboish praising in the vid.
Also will there be vomit? no vomit no chance to beat rollercoaster clone :p

also at around 4:40 it shows the most annoying part that cities skyline has as well, inaccurate building of roads where the game tries to "autoguess" or align stuff, which is probably the most annyoing and worst thing in skylines look at around 6:50, classic part of "roadbuilding sucks totally" placing roads is rather inaccurate when it comes to corners and stuff.
 
Last edited:

Flash_Baggins

Flash_Baggins
Privata said:
For me its the otherway around.
I did not mind (much) then I saw this and I felt a deep feeling of sadness.

The dynamic lensflairs , specular maps , HD textures... why does elite not get any of that? (or will Planet coaster get a graphical nerf during gamma as well?)

I hate to hate on anything , realy... I allways get the feeling that elite does not want to have good graphics (just look at the vulture paintjobs like the white one)

Anyway I am happy for those who want this game , but I wish elite would get all the same effects... maybe one day
Click to expand...
I completely agree, I do so hope Elite gets so much more love- Frontier has shown they can do it with this so far, now they just need to transfer it to Elite (not that easy I know)

Lily from anim.o.v.e said:
I would care more about a proper new rollercoaster than Elite.

but then the lightning placed in here does nto alter the shadow, so a bit too much excitied fanboish praising in the vid.
Also will there be vomit? no vomit no chance to beat rollercoaster clone :p

also at around 4:40 it shows the most annoying part that cities skyline has as well, inaccurate building of roads where the game tries to "autoguess" or align stuff, which is probably the most annyoing and worst thing in skylines look at around 6:50, classic part of "roadbuilding sucks totally" placing roads is rather inaccurate when it comes to corners and stuff.
Click to expand...
I reckon there will be vomit- what good rollercoaster game doesnt have vomit? :p
I agree with the roads, they are a pain in the backside to build with any such game, but I like how the snapping can be altered degrees wise. Yes Nerdcubed went overfanboy in the vid
 

Privata

Privata
Flash_Baggins said:
I completely agree, I do so hope Elite gets so much more love- Frontier has shown they can do it with this so far, now they just need to transfer it to Elite (not that easy I know)


I reckon there will be vomit- what good rollercoaster game doesnt have vomit? :p
I agree with the roads, they are a pain in the backside to build with any such game, but I like how the snapping can be altered degrees wise. Yes Nerdcubed went overfanboy in the vid
Click to expand...

I dont think he went fanboy , he was just happy about something he has been begging for sins for ever.
I mean every time a new elder scrolls game trailer , or something about elite or mass effect comes out or just a trailer in some cases I loose sleep over just how happy I can get
 

Lily from anim.o.v.e

Lily from anim.o.v.e
Flash_Baggins said:
I completely agree, I do so hope Elite gets so much more love- Frontier has shown they can do it with this so far, now they just need to transfer it to Elite (not that easy I know)


I reckon there will be vomit- what good rollercoaster game doesnt have vomit? :p
I agree with the roads, they are a pain in the backside to build with any such game, but I like how the snapping can be altered degrees wise. Yes Nerdcubed went overfanboy in the vid
Click to expand...

One of the mobile versions is named rollercoaster tycoon something, and doesn't include vomit.

But vomiting guests are the only true emasurement of having built the right rollercoaster :p. and the army of cleaners to fight against that.
 

CommanderFredo

Banned
C
Privata said:
The dynamic lensflairs , specular maps , HD textures... why does elite not get any of that?
Click to expand...

Frontier have got more people working on Planet Coaster that Elite Dangerous. Which is probably the right business decision. This company needs to make a profit and PC has a much better chance of that than ED.
 
Last edited:

Flash_Baggins

Flash_Baggins
Lily from anim.o.v.e said:
One of the mobile versions is named rollercoaster tycoon something, and doesn't include vomit.

But vomiting guests are the only true emasurement of having built the right rollercoaster :p. and the army of cleaners to fight against that.
Click to expand...
I remember the janitor missions/minigames in thrillville where you had to clean up. Boy were they fun :D
 

ShimEnki

ShimEnki
Why should they...we pay a year and a lifetime in advance for this.

They can toss ED table scraps and with that anytime they want and laugh all the way to the bank to boot
 

Tinman

Tinman
CommanderFredo said:
Frontier have got more people working on Planet Coaster that Elite Dangerous. Which is probably the right business decision. This company needs to make a profit and PC has a much better chance of that than ED.
Click to expand...

No they don't...their workforce is split pretty much 50/50 between the games. And the work the "engine team" does benefit both games.

ED also DO have dynamic lensflares, speculars maps and HD textures...

In terms of profit ED has done well enough to fund itself AND bring in the money to get Planet Coaster up and running.

Short term I do agree that Planet Coaster has the potential to bring in more money. People do like their building/crafting games nowadays. Me too...have actually splashed out for the Early bird access for Planet Coaster and it's brilliant! :cool:

Long term I do believe ED has a much bigger potential, but we need to get down on the "human level" (the ability to move around as a person, and not just inside spaceships) before wide adaptation can be expected. Strictly flying spaceships is too niche for the "general public".
 
Last edited:

xondk

X
Flash_Baggins said:
.
Click to expand...
A lot of people don't understand the nature of development, and think planet coaster takes away people that could work on Elite, doesn't work like that.
Privata said:
The dynamic lensflairs , specular maps , HD textures... why does elite not get any of that? (or will Planet coaster get a graphical nerf during gamma as well?)
Click to expand...
Elite does have that? or could you maybe give an example of what you mean when you say Elite doesn't have any of that?
 

deathmagnet

deathmagnet
One thing to remember is Frontier is running a business. Ultimately they are trying to make money. Creating another game allows them to make more money. And in business each branch of the business will have a G and L report. Each portion of the business will be expected to hold it's own and make it's own money. I highly doubt they have the same programmers working on Roller Coaster as they do Elite. It would be like Sears Holding Corp having a manager that works for Kmart also work for Sears. It's not going to happen. Each group has it's own budget and staff. If anything it just makes the company stronger...not weaker.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom