Gunner = Arcade Action Cam for the 12 yr olds?

You repeated a belief that is not based in any kind of objective assessment of the existing trajectory of the game. Instead positing a false declaration that the game hadn't slid any further into arcade mode with the new vanity cam (which btw you can dynamically shoot from now), and that 3rd person combat cam with gunnery was completely unrelated. Another false claim, since pro-arcade people have already made the same connection and request in this very thread.

You're argument seems to be rooted in a either a strong denial of the facts or ignorance of the facts. Either way, it was pretty unpersuasive that we aren't already sliding down a slippery slope.


I'd love a response to this -


I'm sorry but you are misprepresenting what I have said.

Your objection to the third person turret is that it represents a movement toward third person piloting - that's your argument.
I have pointed out that this same argument was used in 2014 against the original external cam and that as a 'slippery slope' it didn't come true.

Please quote any false claim I have made and if it's demonstrably false I will retract it straight away and apologise.
 
There honestly isn't need for a limpet or camera drone working at all. Don't know why this keeps coming up. The 3rd person view can be easily explained as a virtual representation, based on sensor data. You don't NEED a camera at all to pull it off.

Thank you. Why we keep limiting ourselves to the camera idea when sitting at machines that can render simulations I don't understand.
 
This is true. There is no technical reason why they couldn't implement this. And it means that soon first-person-cockpit will become a quaint old-timey way to fly your ship.

What? A lore-based explanation for the third person camera guarantees that in the future ships will be flown in third person? For the love of all that's holy explain this logic cause you've skipped several steps and probably your meds.
 
There honestly isn't need for a limpet or camera drone working at all. Don't know why this keeps coming up. The 3rd person view can be easily explained as a virtual representation, based on sensor data. You don't NEED a camera at all to pull it off.

Yes it's not like we don't have sensors on our ship? I don't really think it matters if it's a camera, drone or magic space fairy; as long as it works and keeps you grounded in what's going on and offers good situational awareness, then it's probably working as intended.

In ship view automatically means poor vision (unless we are going to give every ship a large canopy) making the position pretty much irrelevant.

The only other option is to place people in a single turret, if many, then lock their view to match. This is going to be a miserable experience if you can't identify your vector, let alone "see".
 
What? A lore-based explanation for the third person camera guarantees that in the future ships will be flown in third person? For the love of all that's holy explain this logic cause you've skipped several steps and probably your meds.

His argument was that it will be mandated by tactical superiority. He basically doesn't allow for preference there.
 
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This is true. There is no technical reason why they couldn't implement this. And it means that soon first-person-cockpit view will become a quaint old-timey way to fly your ship.


For that to be true BOTH of these things would also need to be true-

1. Frontier want to have third person piloting
AND
2. The players want to have third person piloting


If one or both of those are false, logic dictates your concern and argument has no credibility.
 
Edit: This message was edited by moderation and therefore, it no longer accurately represented my views on the issue. So I eliminated it altogether.
 
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I'd love a response to this -

No you wouldn't. Because apparently you didn't even read the quote above your self quote...

you claim it "didn't come true", and I showed with 3 facts about 2.3 that we are not only half way there, we are still sliding.
 
No you wouldn't. Because apparently you didn't even read the quote above your self quote...

you claim it "didn't come true", and I showed with 3 facts about 2.3 that we are not only half way there, we are still sliding.

Slippery slope arguments are not logic. Explain the logical steps that lead from the vanity camera now to third person flight in the future.
 
This is true. There is no technical reason why they couldn't implement this. And it means that soon first-person-cockpit view will become a quaint old-timey way to fly your ship.

I am calling you on this garbage. It's a clear logical falicy. The slippery slope. In fact the developer has been very very careful to NOT make the entire flight model an external view. They have endlessly resisted calls for third person view.

The new camera views are a boon for content creators and allow us to be engaged in what is going on like never before. The developer is trying to strike a balance between ways the player can engage with the view they have, and keeping that very vital first person view.

You are sounding incredibly religious today, rather than the more level headed and logical Ziljan I know and love. What is going on?
 
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No you wouldn't. Because apparently you didn't even read the quote above your self quote...

you claim it "didn't come true", and I showed with 3 facts about 2.3 that we are not only half way there, we are still sliding.

you don't need to show facts, you need to convince him that your premise is acceptable

think about this, think really hard about how to do this. otherwise you're just mentally playing yourself and wondering why people around you are getting mad
 
What? A lore-based explanation for the third person camera guarantees that in the future ships will be flown in third person? For the love of all that's holy explain this logic cause you've skipped several steps and probably your meds.

There is a 100% chance that you wouldn't understand the explanation. And even if you defied the odds, you'd still reject it out spite. So why bother?
 
There is a 100% chance that you wouldn't understand the explanation. And even if you defied the odds, you'd still reject it out spite. So why bother?

So you can't.

Alright let me put it this way. Assume I'm the dumbest, most spiteful guy in the universe. Logically, everyone else reading this thread is therefore more intelligent and open-minded than me. So by trying to explain it to me, you'll convince all of them. By refusing to explain it to anyone, you just look like an idiot jumping to conclusions because you think everyone else is playing video games wrong.
 
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I am calling you on this garbage. It's a clear logical falicy. The slippery slope. In fact the developer has been very very careful to NOT make the entire flight model an external view. They have endlessly resisted calls for third person view.

You are sounding incredibly religious today, rather than the more level headed and logical Ziljan I know and love. What is going on?

No, this is my fault. See, a few pages back he was all like "You know people are going to ask for it in helm position" and I responded "Yeah, that would actually be pretty cool" to which he was like "See, told you" and then it just escalated from there.

Apparently not being married to first person view when the possibility exists for my commander in game to be looking at a 3rd person view with lore explanation is heresy of the highest order.
 
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you don't need to show facts, you need to convince him that your premise is acceptable

think about this, think really hard about how to do this. otherwise you're just mentally playing yourself and wondering why people around you are getting mad

That isn't really possible though, because if someone doesn't accept the same version of reality (basic facts) then no premise can be shared. It's like trying to agree with someone in a different universe with different constants about the behavior of gravity.
 
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