#support3rdparty - Why we temporarily shut down our sites.

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Just loaded up E : D for the first time since the beta and was looking forward to experimenting with the Dolphin. Went to Coriolis (as always, its an open saved tab) and found out about this.

Then I closed E : D :(
 
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Every time I discover a new Third party tool or feature in a tool I've been using, I gain more appreciation for the game. Third Party developers ease the burden of FDev to provide in-game tools. Elite would be VERY difficult to play effectively without the third-party community. PLEASE SUPPORT THE API

me and many other feels this way. Please support the API
 
i hide in bushes and on rooftops with a zoom lens and take candid snapshots of Kim Kardashian, i upload them to a facebook page for other perves to look at. but Kim Kardashian wont give me the support i need so im taking the site down until she does.

people say they watch her on tv so it wont effect them, but this is 2017... c'mon who watches tv anymore pfft
 
To everyone asking why the strike should be this weekend and asking the 3rd party developers to reinstate the tools since they made their case known to the public, you're missing the point. You're inconvenienced - that means the strike is working as intended. If you weren't inconvenienced, then the strike could be ignored, which defeats the whole purpose.
 
3rd part tools

It saddens me to know that the 3rd party developers are getting the "cold shoulder" as I and countless others rely on their sites and services to enhance our game play experience. I'm not prepared to roam about the galaxy aimlessly just to find a module, commodity, ship. I understand the temporary shut down of these tools/sites now. I SUPPORT 3RD PARTY Developers & Tools!!! o7
 
I just bought a Beluga and I can't for the life of me find a 7A fsd for it without these websites. Although it is a mild inconvenience for me right now I fully support the people who work on these sites because without them this game would be nearly unplayable.


It's funny how a lot of "mostly harmless" commentators have this exact same reaction. Is that you 3rd party devs in disguise?
 
2M+ Players >
82K forum users >
503 people in this thread >
??% agree

Even with a very generous percentage in favour, it doesn't look good.

TBF. I love the 3rd party tools, I think they are great. But stomping your feet like petulant children is just going to burn bridges. :(


Depends on who is doing the burning
 
I totally agree with this

as i said in reddit
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I fully support the measure and the idea, these tools are an absolute must for the game and frontier should be fully aware of how these tools complement their game.

These guys are making tools which allows frontier to not have those tools in the game, they're fans and they're doing this for the community, but come on, FDEV you know you can do it better :)
 
I have no idea where i would be without coriolis :|
thank you very much Developers of all these nice 3rd party tools, great work and i will fully support this.

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Incidentally it is hilarious to me just how many of you seem to have absolutely no idea what the purpose of a strike is or how it works. Here's a hot tip: they're deliberately inconvenient, because they don't work otherwise.
The removal of these tools at any time would be inconvenient enough. Doing it with no notice, no prior demands and over a weekend where Frontier have an event planned is cynical, and is not endearing. While a lot of the community *will* be on-side with this action, it could have been done with more tact if the OP had been exactly the same, but instead of an immediate take-down, giving Frontier a week or so to respond. There is bound to be negativity to this action simply because of the way it was done.
 
+1 here - why cant we change HUD colour in game? Why cant we have trade prices available to systems we've traded in? I need these 3rd party apps to help me in game - I use them all the time.

So FDEV you can either help the 3rd party developers or put these things in game, because without them I fear for the future of this game which I love.
 
It's just this event on the 29th which has been in preparation for a year. I'm all for communication between the 3rd partys and Frontier but this is a protest to try and sabotage this weekend's event and my concern is that they will never do another event because of it.

I can see that if the Frontier bashing continues, they'll stop communicating all together (see NMS) and in the worst case, stop E : D after 2.4.

I really took offense to the threats of clamming up from FDev. I found it extremely small and childish. If they can't handle a gaming community, then please, by all means cut off all communication. Without their most active cheer section, I can't imagine sales would keep up the way they do.

And this isn't Frontier's event. And I don't see how the tools affect it.
 
I hope FD ignore them, these

a) Too lazy to learn how to play properly tools
b) I want to cheat tools
(take your pick)

Should die off anyway, imo the game was better before they existed.
 
Just a question to all those supporting this action. Where exactly would you like this to sit in the priority. You know all the complaining that's been done about the development of Elite recently, you now all suddenly want that to be put on the back burner so that resources can be diverted to talking to some 3rd party developers? I would be interested to hear from the said developers (especially the OP) to see how high a priority they think this should take, over the development of the game?




If you don't play the game, then why are you still here?

As I said previously I'm sad it's come to this, these sites are useful, however the developers should really be focussing on developing their game that is what we're here for right? To play the game... This community is crazy [where is it]
 
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I hope it does effect this weekend.

Drew was told by the community he should delay the event to get all the platforms fixed. He's going ahead anyway even though Xbox is still broken and wont be fixed till after the event.

FD is all of a sudden interested in fixing 3rd party relationships where they were not before.



Both FD and Drew brought this on themselves.

You keep beating this drum and no one cares. The event is not gonna get delayed over a few people that can't make it.
People took time off and planned around this.
IT IS NOT CHANGING.


Far as the third party stuff. I hardly use it, I understand the effort and time but the method you're using is less than ideal.

Don't be surprised if FDEV just makes their own.
 
While I respect your opinion, have you ever tried to get in touch with anyone in Frontier? It's a mess, they are either extremely understaffed or under order to keep silent.... all the time. Even the Marketing department is answering 1 of 4 email. So yeah stomping is good, Frontier needs us third party, you need us, and we need to have a forum discussion with frontier.

Other tham the fact nobody forced you to make the sites you decided to make them and they aren't really needed to play ED, you could even consider them to be the ultimate in exploits seeing the amount of people on here saying that they can't play the game without them. All this is doing is showing people that you are happy to throw your toys out of the pram like children at a time where FD has enough on their plate bug bashing.

Congratulations on such mature behavior
 
I just bought a Beluga and I can't for the life of me find a 7A fsd for it without these websites. Although it is a mild inconvenience for me right now I fully support the people who work on these sites because without them this game would be nearly unplayable.

Filter your map for high tech...adjust the population sliders so that high population system appear with a bigger dot. Keep jumping to those places and I guarntee you'll find one. The tools make the search easier though they are not necessary.
 
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