OK, so for 2015 50+ demographic beats the 18 below demographic by a whole 1 percent. Using some critical thinking, I would much rather put place my bet on the 18 and below demographic as they have 40 years more years of being a consumer as well as influencing their future children on what products to buy. It's one thing to be able to read simple data, but interpreting it and using it to your advantage is another.
You seem to feel that I want the game to cater to me and my own purposes and refuse to accept any of them as decent ideas simply because you have labeled me as part of the community that is hated around here. Sure there's emergent content out there, but again you want to stop at a certain point, according to your own personal needs and wants. You are being just as greedy as you feel I am. Me and my buddies have been thanked in the past by once strictly solo players for their experiences in Open, being positive. Just because you don't agree with it does not mean there's no place for it. I cannot say this enough but you seem to not want to listen. We don't want another Eve or SC. We want this game to improve to be better than the both. We excited about the new things coming out but or more hesitant to believe the hype, as Horizons was more than lack luster.
Just because you are pleased with what is happening does not mean there are improvements that could be made. Sorry to say but most of us transitioned to PvP because we've done everything else in the game and thoroughly. We've experienced all of what this game has to offer and at the end of the day it's not the game itself that saves us from leaving, but the human element.
Sure it doesn't have to be conflict with each other but why not. At the end of the day FD advertised and promoted that you can have conflict with each other. At the end of the day we are playing the game as advertised to us as well as using the in game tools to do so. FD allowed us to interdict other CMDRs, FD gave us hatch breakers, FD made our lasers damage other CMDRs ships. This is something you need to accept. You say FD doesn't want this or that, but the way they have developed the game and promoted disagrees with you. Plain and simple. You are using your personal tastes to try to counter what FD themselves have promoted and marketed.
Sorry you disagree, but people like you are really stuck in 1984 and want nothing more than to hamper what this game can be. Which is not SC or Eve, but something greater. No you are not reaching for the stars, you are accepting that there are a certain amount of stars and not wiling to fly further to find the hidden stars in the sky.
First off, the data is the data, you trying to make it show something to suit your desires is just . As a wise man said, 'there's lies, damned lies and statistics'. I pointed out what the data shows, you called it false, despite it not being false, again, trying to make it show what you want despite the reality being what it is.
You keep saying I don't like PvP, despite me saying I do. I've been doing online PvP game since Doom, I ran top teams in the leagues for many games over the years, been a top player myself, I love PvP in games designed for PvP. E: D isn't one of those, claiming otherwise simply shows a total lack of experience in PvP gaming. I didn't get E: D to do PvP, I knew it sucked for that before I got it, still not sure how people get the idea it's a PvP game, guess they just don't have much PvP gaming experience, only thing I can think of. First clue...Solo and Group modes...that doesn't give it away, well, nevermind.
As to Horizons being lackluster...since we've only gotten a very small part of the Horizons season, how can you make that call? That tells me all I need to know....
There are a LOT of things coming to E: D, I'm aware of what they are because I've read the KS and all the stuff since then, the stuff actually being stated as being IN, not the blue skying and what ifs, although some of that would be awesome. Storylines, already in the game world. Owning stuff, not happening, get over it. Controlling areas, not possible due to the modes, get over it. The modes, not being changed, part of the package from the inception, get over it. What's coming is what's coming, and it's pretty damn cool, essentially, it's Star Citizen on much more massive scale and with less socialization. FPS, walking around ships, walking around planets, atmospheric planets, alien life forms, hunting them, all that stuff, it's coming, it's part of the actual design plan. So I'm good with waiting for it and I'll judge it as it comes around, not before then, as that's just silly as hell to do. Law and Order system, something I've stated many times that FD need to fix, which they've said is coming this season, so I'll wait and see what happens on that side. I see no reason to keep demanding something that's not only been admitted by FD but also stated to be in this season's updates. But you keep on doing that, asking for the stuff that's slated for this season, show us how in the know you really are!
Kristov my friend, whilst I always enjoy your posts - I'd like to ask you to drop the use of "netcode". We both know such a thing doesn't exist and it is simply a nonsense word spouted by people who have absolutely no idea what is involved in network transactions
Sometimes, you gotta speak the language that people understand so they know what you are talking about. That's what made Carl Sagan so great, he could tell someone with a 3rd grade education how a black hole comes into existence and that person would understand it. Him and Darth Vader, pre-Return mind you and totally ignoring I-III, are my heroes... The stuff CryTek did for multiplayer...even for client auth, it's horrible. Took the head engineer over at PGI over 6 months to get that refactored, 18 months total to make it work mostly right..he's still working on that all the time. CIG is taking longer, but they've also changed their minds a few times on how to do it, and realized that they could do it so much better as they went along. Taking data that's 5MB and turning it into a 5kb chunk...that's good stuff man, I'm impressed. You been keeping up with it?
