Emergent gameplay fellers! Don't you see?
Dropping the Ball
- Thread starter MadDogMurdock
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I see all the gameplay emerging in the form of forum posts - Gary Gygax would be proud.
I have no problem with this. Lots of games started out on the back of a bar napkin. It's what happens after that counts.
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The only thing emerging from this gameplay is a bad smell.
Well played Frontier, Biggest Hint of the Elite Universe reveals tonight!
-- Another riddle gameplay on forums!
I know this might seem a disorganised gaggle, but TBH i'd have it no other way. We've been so conditioned into 'Go to A, do A, go to B do B' sorts of quests anything chaotic seems wrong.
I've no issues with it being in open either. How else are they supposed to GM an unscripted RP event?
The reality of what happened today is far more natural. People missing out, wrong information, wild goose chases, pure speculation and the occasional nugget of truth.
Instead of being sheep, wanting stuff spoon fed, enjoy the journey no matter how chaotic.
In Elite, just like IRL people don't just wait around with ! above their heads.
So bravo FD, and thank you for giving up your weekend it's been a blast and long may it continue
I've no issues with it being in open either. How else are they supposed to GM an unscripted RP event?
The reality of what happened today is far more natural. People missing out, wrong information, wild goose chases, pure speculation and the occasional nugget of truth.
Instead of being sheep, wanting stuff spoon fed, enjoy the journey no matter how chaotic.
In Elite, just like IRL people don't just wait around with ! above their heads.
So bravo FD, and thank you for giving up your weekend it's been a blast and long may it continue
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I have no problem with it being in open. If I recall, Frontier said in the past that the attitude of the aliens depends upon how first contact went which would imply that it is possible that the npc is being directly controlled by one of the frontier team.
Extremely disappointed that this was handled this way. FD advertised this very cleverly during Gamescom - and it surely did generate a lot of buzz around the community etc.
To execute it in a way which was so as to only involve a handful of commanders is really poor. Only making it available in open, and only in a low number (?) of instances without explicitly specifying that would be the case is a huge slap in the face to anyone who'd got on board with the Gamescom stuff. I should add I've no issue with it being done in open - just ****ing tell people!
Gamescom
"Want to get involved in Elite? Look at all this interesting stuff happening! Wowsers!"
**eagerly anticipates the event over the next few weeks, keeps an eye on all clues/megathread etc**
11:03am - Sunday 28th August
"Oh, no. You missed it! It was in Open/In another instance/someone ruined it for you by destroying X"
There's a lot of "well it would technically have been impossible" chatter, and I think that's giving FD a free pass - I do not believe it would be that hard to implement this in the same way that many of the "looking for x" traders were implemented. Spawning as an NPC in any instance at the specified time, in the specified system - delivering the message to anyone who interdicted/dropped in. Instead we just got this wet fart of an event. Well done.
To execute it in a way which was so as to only involve a handful of commanders is really poor. Only making it available in open, and only in a low number (?) of instances without explicitly specifying that would be the case is a huge slap in the face to anyone who'd got on board with the Gamescom stuff. I should add I've no issue with it being done in open - just ****ing tell people!
Gamescom
"Want to get involved in Elite? Look at all this interesting stuff happening! Wowsers!"
**eagerly anticipates the event over the next few weeks, keeps an eye on all clues/megathread etc**
11:03am - Sunday 28th August
"Oh, no. You missed it! It was in Open/In another instance/someone ruined it for you by destroying X"
There's a lot of "well it would technically have been impossible" chatter, and I think that's giving FD a free pass - I do not believe it would be that hard to implement this in the same way that many of the "looking for x" traders were implemented. Spawning as an NPC in any instance at the specified time, in the specified system - delivering the message to anyone who interdicted/dropped in. Instead we just got this wet fart of an event. Well done.
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Maybe a reason why there was only one.
It had no bearing, because he had already said his piece. The word was already out there. They had no effect on play.
I don't think the trail of clues are supposed to be solved alone, as a 'single player' quest. It's a community effort. As such, I think it is a bit much to expect for a single commander to complete it alone.
That was never the intention.
Chris Roberts had a goal of 2 million dollars to fund his game. He got 90 million.
We still don't have a game.
Chris Roberts can kiss our collective game playing @sses, because there is one thing we are doing that the Star Citizen fanbois are not:
Playing a Game!
Explain how that works again for the xbox community, or the AUS players who can't join the UK players due to shoddy coding by Frontier
Yea, too bad the majority will have to deal with the 'first contact' of the few.
Explain how that works again for the xbox community, or the AUS players who can't join the UK players due to shoddy coding by Frontier
I'm in Guam, I feel your pain. I am quite against their P2P instance rubbishhit network architecture. Nevertheless, the one way you can guarantee you won't see a damn thing is by playing solo.
In open I see CMDRs from time to time. My ISP doesn't allow port forwarding so I kinda get shafted......it's almost like playing solo plus.
What about people in Asia or USA where the event takes place during sleeping hours or working hours?
They can't make it perfect for everybody, they have to shoot for a middle ground.
No one could have seen that one coming *straight face*
you might want to stop evading the forum swear filters ..