All things Frontier Developments at E3 2014!

[Cody]

Did you really have to show me that link? I am now salivating all over my keyboard. Not a pretty site...

<chortles> Some of those DDF Archive proposals can do that to you.

 

[Vargur]

Hello there!

Thanks for the link, i remember having read it a while ago but forgot about it

 

[Winterwalker]

Are you incredulous as to the amount of star systems in the game, or about the ability of a single player to visit them all?

Yes there are 400 billion systems. No, you won't be able to visit them all (do the math, as our American chums say).

Well, if you played the game non-stop for a million years you might be able to... and you never know, Star Citizen might even be out by then!

Of course this is good news for explorers .. 4 million of them would have 100,000 unexplored systems to report on?

Question: what's official FD definition of a billion please? US 1E+09 (thousand million), or UK 1E+12 (million million)??

Either way it's a shed load.

 

[deej]

Is it just me or is there nowhere near enough ED 'chatter' coming out of E3?

 

[nicomak]

Of course this is good news for explorers .. 4 million of them would have 10 million unexplored systems to report back on?

Question: what's official FD definition of a billion please? US 1E+09 (thousand million), or UK 1E+12 (million million)??

Either way it's a shed load.

most probably this is 1,000,000,000

in french we use "milliards", "billion" is another number(bigger), and we definitely have "400 milliards" systems in the galaxy, no confusion possible
so "400 E9" or "400,000,000,000

 

[Vargur]

Of course this is good news for explorers .. 4 million of them would have 100,000 unexplored systems to report on?

Question: what's official FD definition of a billion please? US 1E+09 (thousand million), or UK 1E+12 (million million)??

Either way it's a shed load.

In English correspondence you can pretty much assume they use short scale, so 1 billion is 10^9

 

[Ayo]

Is it just me or is there nowhere near enough ED 'chatter' coming out of E3?

The day is just starting over there. This isn't a gamers convention but a developers convention, so most people at the event are business/developer/press type people. ED I'm sure will be mentioned in many articles over the coming days. If they live stream a demo of Elite, (which I may have heard they would?), that is when the chatter will be.

 

[Dave Leestir]

O(n!)

Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged is up to the challenge.

...in alphabetical order presumably?


That still might be quicker than running the travelling salesman computation.

 

[Asp Explorer]

Paradiso station? A tribute to Rik perhaps?

 

[pocketmoon]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[Marc Alexander]

Apologies if already posted

http://www.pcgamesn.com/elite-dangerous/fly-through-letterbox-space-elite-dangerous-e3-trailer

 

[Xzanron]

You can see the original sized image here.

The system is 17 Draconis, by the looks of it. Bloody miles away from us!

Can't quite see the name of the outpost though. Peraligo? Paralido?

I note the build number at the top is a custom build for E3. You can just make out/guesstimate the "E3" at the top left.

 

[Memnoch]

Woohoo!

Is that the first ever confirmation of rogue planets???

I think so! As if 400 billions systems wasn't enough, we now have stuff floating about between all those points of light.

 

[Seonid]

Paradiso station? A tribute to Rik perhaps?

Not unless FD predicted it.

 

[bujin]

Magnetic boots.

That's only a partial answer. It explains how they stick to the ground, however, their motion in 0.1G would still be a bit different. The guy running on ~30 seconds would be bouncing higher and taking much longer strides, regardless of whether or not he's wearing magnetic boots.

But now I'm just nitpicking...

 

[Tinman]

That's only a partial answer. It explains how they stick to the ground, however, their motion in 0.1G would still be a bit different. The guy running on ~30 seconds would be bouncing higher and taking much longer strides, regardless of whether or not he's wearing magnetic boots.

But now I'm just nitpicking...

Good thing that the people are pre-rendered animations composited on top then, instead of actual in-game NPCs!

 

[Maruun]

What makes me right now most exciteted about the new build is this:

Other major additions include five new star systems and more ships. Instead of just choosing between two decent combat vessels, pilots now can select from craft with more cargo capabilities, better combat capabilities, or a mixture of both.

The other main feature included in the premium beta release was the galaxy map. This map not only shows players where they can go, but it also offers more information for each system, such as economies (ideal for knowing where to unload your latest cargo,) and allegiances. One peek at the map and you can see that the game has basically limitless exploration potential. To give an inkling of the scope of space, Braben emphasized that no player could ever travel the entirety of this game and visit every planet. "There are 400 billion stars, and each one has planets," he said.

Source:http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/06/11/e3-2014-hands-on-with-elite-dangerous-on-the-oculus-rift/

Trading startes to get interesting

EDIT: Misread - Forget it had hoped for the new build and finally a cargo ship in the lower "tiers" of game

 

[azdour]

What makes me right now most exciteted about the new build is this:


Trading startes to get interesting

I have a sneaky suspicion that the article is talking about the current premium build and not the one at E3.

 

[M.E.A.T]

All this thread does is making me become more and more impatient for the expansions...and we still at PB stage. I was content at the speed of development now I want moreeeeee and fasterrrrrrr....

Not good. Not good at all. Arg!!!!!

 

[Ulysses_W]

Not good. Not good at all. Arg!!!!!

Tell me about it, I'm still salivating on me keyboard... might have to call an ambulance soon...