For me it looks like the most useful update we got so far for ED. Lots of sensible features and game mechanics ED needed for a long time.
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For me it looks like the most useful update we got so far for ED. Lots of sensible features and game mechanics ED needed for a long time.
Lol. I cannot comprehend that anyone still believes this '10 year plan' thing, as if that number were some holy writ, etched in stone. Lifespan is entirely due to economic conditions. And we've already seen that plans change in the face of the enemy (is a 'season' one 'year' or not? remind me again?)
If insufficient numbers are playing in future, not enough people buy expansions, so no money for continued development. The longer it takes major features to appear, the more likelihood of that happening. Fortunately for Elite, it's going to be one of those games where people probably 'dip in and dip out' for many years.
It is not a blind belief in the second coming or anything like that it is more a recognition of the corporate strategy. You hire differently for a one off project than you do for a longer term one. You plan your cash flows differently too.
If you are making a one off 'big bang' game then you hire the best, on freelance contracts, that end when the game is built. I don't see FDev doing that so have to assume it is not just because they missed that brief at computer game school and that they actually have a different strategy?
Then they should D-E-S-I-G-N the game around this type of game play, Mass Effect type of Relays, you get close to it, request destination and boooom off you go!
That would be a lot more incorporated into the game instead of just another patch that really doesn't fit in anywhere.
Good design, and I guess that include game design is to think of all the possibilities and usage of an item, good and bad. This is still on the napkin stage.
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FDEV do so many things right, however this instant thingy is just plain wrong!!!
Brilliant. Thanks for that, with some much new stuff coming out it's hard to keep up! (and we haven't even finished yet).
P.S. re: instant transportation ... there's a whole separate thread about it over here for people that feel strongly one way or the other ...
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Instant-Ship-and-Module-Transport-Yay-or-Nay
How can someone's opinion be wrong, simply because of a supposed majority (which you can't even prove)?
Just assume your pilot forward-planned and ordered the ship delivery some hours earlier. The Bubble is tiny anyway.
Thankyou for posting this summary - so helpful ! +1 [up]
Wireframe paintjobs for Anaconda, Python, Fer Del Lance, Vulture (and more?).
Also paintjobs for SRVs and ship kits for Python, Viper, Asp (and more?).
Jesus, 2.2 is an absolute feast of delights.
Also paintjobs for SRVs and ship kits for Python, Viper, Asp (and more?).
Jesus, 2.2 is an absolute feast of delights.
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and i've gotta agree with Adam, the specular lighting/reflections on the cockpit glass in the hangar vids did look awsome.
Are there any chrome or gold paint jobs for the AspX? Otherwise it'll have to be the wireframe for me...
AspX yes (although I can't remember if I bought that or whether it was a special giveaway) ...
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More ship kits? Oh yes!
The new star details looks great - can scoop them to supercharge your FSD (with great risk!)? Oh yeah!
Ship transfers? Whoohoo? Instataneous? BLERGH!!!!!
Ah, sod it. Can they just add the ability to insta-jump to Beagle Point in my Corvette? Also, I'd like to fly to Station X and have 1,000 items of every commodity delivered to me. I know it's not realistic, but gameplay. I want it all and I want it now.
The new star details looks great - can scoop them to supercharge your FSD (with great risk!)? Oh yeah!
Ship transfers? Whoohoo? Instataneous? BLERGH!!!!!
Ah, sod it. Can they just add the ability to insta-jump to Beagle Point in my Corvette? Also, I'd like to fly to Station X and have 1,000 items of every commodity delivered to me. I know it's not realistic, but gameplay. I want it all and I want it now.
Man, you're the best!
Glorious!!! I hope they give it away again one day. Though I'd settle for chrome. I couldn't see any metallic AspX ones in the shop.
At this point, I would say it mostly certain.
There's going to be a bit more tomorrow. I suspect some of the changes to the planets in terms of new materials/vents etc. as that's been released to the media but we'ven ot seen it yet.... (?)
More than likely. Unless they're already quite far along with stuff for 2.3 and 2.4, I can't see them getting them out before the end of the year given 2.2's October release.
Who knows though. They might be working on all these things concurrently.