A Scream of help from an empty space (An Appeal to FDev)

Extremely slow pace of game development, the lack of something really big and worthwhile. Which could have appeared in two years of development. And also remember the promises. We ask them to add something more meaningful than a couple of models and an even bigger grind. If these patches were issued every 1-2 months, then we would not have any complaints.

Of course yes, faster would be great!! BUT .... I think a lot of forward design is happening too - things we don't know about at all yet - maybe altering what the game has already. It's Season 2, it's still pretty early.

Anyway wouldn't we prefer even a slow but steady tortoise .. to a quick-quick hare, who drops the ball and breaks the game's future? YES, because ED has ambitions. Take your time FD!
 
A link would be great. :)

DBOBE has previously expressed concern regarding some aspects of gameplay facilitated by large player groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJzizYUEF9c;t=19m40s) - so I doubt that any expansion of interactions with Player Factions would be a cookie-cutter copy of Guild features in other games.
I'm glad to find, but I do not remember which set of words I need to find that post on the forum. But I'm not going to lie, because it will hit my reputation.


Yes for God's sake, even if it's not a function like in other games, let the interaction with minor factions look different. The main thing is to have interaction with our own faction and with other players in the framework of this faction!
 
I would love more features in Elite, specifically ones that make the most amount of people irrationally angry because it reminds them of something that may or may not be from another game they never played but probably read something terrible about five or six years ago.
Also whatever punishes explorers the most. You guys have it too good.
 
So what? Cmdr Eagleboy speaks for me when he says he doesn't speak for me. Now good luck trying to figure that out!

Eh?

Friend, did your comment actually pertain to my post in any way/shape/form, or did you just want to complain about OP's assumption and were too lazy to use anything but a Quote button? ;)
 
Of course yes, faster would be great!! BUT

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Take your time FD!

Agreed. I think beige planets is the result of "faster development". If faster development means "Okay devs, stop playing solitaire all day and actually write some code!" then I'm all for that. If, however, it means, "Okay devs, we want this feature now, so throw quality control out the window!" then no thanks.
 
Hello, AiryKai. :)

I appreciate that there's a language barrier here. I shall try to be somewhat forgiving and not laugh at you too much, as I write.

I note that you've claimed that various "promises" were made. I don't recall any promises that point to some of the mechanics you seem to be asking for - indeed, FD has always been very vocal about never wanting some of the items on your wishlist. Clans are probably not going to happen, general mechanics that forcibly exclude single-player solutions are probably not going to happen. If you've been lead to believe otherwise, you may wish to check your sources and get citations to back up your claims.


[...] DEMAND [...]

Yeah, I wish you good luck with that one. Very, very good luck. :D


A BGS system [...]

Hmm, I'm not sure what you really want from this. If you're after a game where you get to be king of all the NPCs, then you might be waiting a long time. While I can see some logic in making local faction involvement more financially rewarding in places, the game doesn't really owe us anything more than we have, in this regard.

One of the great strengths of ED is that it presents us with an immense galaxy of stars - and our own sun is a tiny thing. We're also presented with a human civilisation in which the actual playerbase of Commanders is very much in the minority.

I think it's right for the NPCs to be clearly shown as being in charge of their own destinies, spending their money on whatever suits them, rather than existing solely to give we players immense power over their lives or shower us with all their riches.

We are the minority, the vanishingly tiny minority. The game should not shy away from saying so.


Unbalanced PvP [...]

Fair enough comment, so. From what I can see, FD is still trying to work out what to do about this. The 2.4 Beta update brings some changes in this regard. We shall see what impact these changes have. In the meantime, if you have specific suggestions, rather than vague DEMANDs, the Suggestions & Feedback sub-forum is a good place to post them.


Full absence of necessity to interact with other players. [...]

As far as I can see, ED is a PvE-focused game, first and foremost. I'd like to see more in the way of opportunities for players to benefit from multi-player interaction (in the normal course of play, rather than multi-crew), but it's not essential.


Absence of faction control mechanics. [...]

See my point about the BGS system. We're not in charge. We're not supposed to be in charge.


Complete absence of support for players, who want to play a role of a space explorer. [...]

I want to see more here, as well. I think "complete absence of support" is overstating the matter, though. Such hyperbole does nothing to help your cause. As it goes, I'm sure FD want to do more - they've put too much love for the astronomy into the game not to want to do more - but they have a roadmap and they have other priorities to address first, so we'll have to wait until they get there.


A game feature called Community Goals [...]

I honestly don't understand what point you're trying to make. Is the overall story not unfolding fast enough for you? Does it not cover something you were expecting, but didn't happen? What do you want?


Refrain from unnecessary criticism here and be reasonable.

No problem. I'll refrain from "unnecessary criticism", just as soon as you refrain from pompous, hyperbolic, self-aggrandising posts, punctuated with false claims of promises that were never made.


[...] DEMAND [...]

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :D :D :D :D :D :D

... sorry. Best of luck, AiryKai. :)
 
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I bought the Elite Dangerous - Mercenary Edition For € 40.00 At the start of the project (ver. 1.0 )
Then I thought that the game has a lot of potential. The game is very cool, the patches go quickly. Content is added !!

And then the developers decided to port the elite to the console ..... first on the Xbox, then ps4
Patches began to go out constantly with bugs, little content...

And then I saw horizons! I believed in revival and progress and bought
Elite Dangerous: Horizons - Pre-order for € 37.49.
At that time in Russia there was a strong financial crisis, and for the Russians this price was equal to the purchase of three AAA-level games.

And now the year 2017 is coming to an end. What did I get for this money?
Landings - Very cool. But sometimes boring
Engineers - Do not use
Fighters - Do not use
Multicrew - I do not use it, because it's useless

And for long periods of development and price changes received a black paint!

I fully support this topic. Elite is pushed into the arcade with Donat
 
I stopped reading after "We, a community of Elite Dangerous players..."

Hate it when someone has a gripe and they invoke the name of an entire community to put weight behind it.

You don't speak for me sunshine.
 
I stopped reading after "We, a community of Elite Dangerous players..."

Hate it when someone has a gripe and they invoke the name of an entire community to put weight behind it.

You don't speak for me sunshine.

OP could honestly have won an international troll-of-the-year award for following that statement up with "Right, now the prudes have stopped reading...".
 
There is an option that would quite suit us, and I think many will like it - to return the "developer diaries", that they are issued once a week, or two weeks or a month, but no more. So that we know what they are doing at the moment, and what they will do. And also give us some confidence that they are engaged in changes and additions. Well, new things.
 
We can try to figure it out. It's not our job, but we can.
You want?

Alex already did this earlier in the thread. Given the information he provided (which has not been contradicted), it would seem that you are speaking for 0.002% of the community (as a maximum). This can obviously increase if more players add support on this thread... But it isn't a great start.
 
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So...
Over the past few hours we received more than 500 responses from members of the community with the support of this text.
This means that we are really doing something important and necessary, because so many people think about this as we are.

To better understand how much support it can get in fact, we have recently created a small vote.
Everyone who agrees with this opinion, can support it on special page. Or not, if he does not agree.

So we can better estimate the volume of a particular part of the community.

You can support it here: https://www.change.org/p/frontier-d...he-emphasis-of-development-on-elite-dangerous
 
So...
Over the past few hours we received more than 500 responses from members of the community with the support of this text.
This means that we are really doing something important and necessary, because so many people think about this as we are.

I'm confused - where are you getting these numbers from?
 
Sorry, to be honest I lost interest in your post as soon as you mentioned the word "Clans". Pledging yourself to a minor Faction as was discussed in a recentish post by...Rootsrat (I think?) - yeah. UO/Eve style battles and corporation trade wars which shaft all the strictly independent players? No thanks.
 

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Sorry, to be honest I lost interest in your post as soon as you mentioned the word "Clans". Pledging yourself to a minor Faction as was discussed in a recentish post by...Rootsrat (I think?) - yeah. UO/Eve style battles and corporation trade wars which shaft all the strictly independent players? No thanks.

Nobody wants to try to make Elite-EVE, the major point of this article was that we(a part of the community) wold like to be more aware of the development process, as mentioned by Joe Hammond, if they wold be releasing a Dev Diaries(Even in a form of some sort development live-streams), it wold realy improve our confidence.
 
Nobody wants to try to make Elite-EVE, the major point of this article was that we(a part of the community) wold like to be more aware of the development process, as mentioned by Joe Hammond, if they wold be releasing a Dev Diaries(Even in a form of some sort development live-streams), it wold realy improve our confidence.

To be fair, yes I'd love to see the return of the Dev diaries. That's my main bugbear with FD, lack of comms regarding further development. Only trouble is as soon as they do that, certain people (no one this thread by the looks of it) start whining that it's not the way they want development to go. Can't win. :(
 
Agree with everything, actually those are the points why i stopped to play this game. But all the efforts for the petition will be in vain because of fanboys. Did sign up and wish you luck guys in this effort, because it is hell of a task to force them do something. I did noticed that they are wery active when it comes about merchandise...
 
A petition on change.org? Okay. Perhaps attempting to publicly embarrass FD like this will encourage them to bow to your demands. Or perhaps it won't. The petition currently stands at 126 signatures. We'll see how it goes, eh.

Off topic: there's also a petition on the same site, to have Big Ben renamed Massive Mohammed. It has 293 signatures, at the moment. It's completely irrelevant, but it made me laugh. :)
 
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