Okay, except now you're tying a player asset to a timer, and if the player starts moving around and progressively adds more and more assets to more and more timers, you get a situation where the database gets clogged with a ton of temporal entries (something Sandro is trying to avoid, if you start having lots and lots of ships in transit - "Stateful" ships - the database size could start growing in fun ways). So the only way it works is if the timer is REALLY short, like, 5 mins or so tops. In which case there's no point having a timer at all.
If you query sends as one-to-many (as that's what they would be as a CPU problem), well, you're generating so much CPU overhead that the AWS bill for the month is going to "Blow players faces off"
Kinda funny how people can't do multitasking to the point that they can't wait for a ship to arrive and do something in the ship they are currently in at the same time. Guess that says a lot about the target audience of FDThats a good idea, a simple re-purposing of an already in place game mechanic to good effect.
However I dont think the implementation is the issue, they said it themselves in the livestream, its a gameplay design decision. They just dont think (rightly or wrongly) that forcing people to wait for 10's of minutes or hours to get their ships is practical.
I like the "idea" of having to wait as it is unarguably more realistic, but I think making it more accessible is a better design choice. YMMV.
I think the real balance will come down to how much it costs. Get you Beta feedback ready!
Yeah, because swimming in a pool full of turds is loads of fun if I just pretend hard enough.
Wrong. That "straw poll" that has the same result as the first two choices in the forum poll. "Do you want ship transfers?" Yes/No. If they left out the "instant" they'd get the same result, because of course people want ship transfers. That's not the question!!!
The question is, should they be instant?? And that Reddit straw poll fails to ask that question.
But on this forum poll, they actually give the option to say you don't want it to instant, and guess what? 78% do not want it to be instant.
Also straw polls are extremely easy to cheat. Nothing on Elite Reddit ever gets above a few hundred upvotes, let alone THOUSANDS.
That said, from either the reddit poll, this forum, or my social media exchanges, we just don't know 'true' opinion. And won't till this goes live...
Okay, except now you're tying a player asset to a timer, and if the player starts moving around and progressively adds more and more assets to more and more timers, you get a situation where the database gets clogged with a ton of temporal entries (something Sandro is trying to avoid, if you start having lots and lots of ships in transit - "Stateful" ships - the database size could start growing in fun ways). So the only way it works is if the timer is REALLY short, like, 5 mins or so tops. In which case there's no point having a timer at all.
If you query sends as one-to-many (as that's what they would be as a CPU problem), well, you're generating so much CPU overhead that the AWS bill for the month is going to "Blow players faces off"
