This needs to happen!

LJITimate

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you sound so exited but im on a computer with youtube blocked. im so sad

can anyone explain what needs to happen?
 
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Aashenfox

Aashenfox
For those who normally have corporate blocks (me too, but I'm working from home today!), it's a concept video showing how good galnet, the station and the mission interfaces could be if only they were showed some love, galaxy wide notifications in space while flying, etc. It's a nice vid, I think I've seen another like it before.
 
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Straga

Straga
That is a very good idea. My biggest problem with Elite's story is that it's not all that visible. This would help out with that immensely. FDev could probably use Ed Lewis as the voice on the news bulletin.
 

PhanttoM

PhanttoM
It's certainly a neat idea, but I can't help wonder about the short- and longterm repercussions.

If it's integrated as a fully immersive video like there - Does that mean I'll have to download a large video file every week? Or one giant file that covers 4 weeks? (Short term)
What about archived stories - later down the road, will the game file be bloated to 100 Gigs or will one simply miss out on older stuff. (Long term)

Realistically, if they are to include video in long term - they'd need the ability to embed external videos like from YouTube.

The thing that seems more like to actually happen, is a combination of images, text-based and text-to-voice.
 

Pumabear8

Pumabear8
Naskoni said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-EVbG1uDY

That is all.
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Oh yes please, especially Galnet appearing on the info panel(so long as your in range of a habitable system, basically anywhere in the bubble.)

There is a program that does overlays for Elite, it has radio and other cool stuff, unfortunately I've forgotten the name as it appears to slipped into obscurity.


I should add, Galnet can be gotten no matter where you are in the galaxy, but for that you have to tab out of the game and go to a browser.
 
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metatheurgist

metatheurgist
Funny thing is 84 Elite already did that sort of thing by giving you an "Incoming Message" when you docked at a station if you encountered one of it's few missions. The only thing it didn't have was video and voice.
 

[VR] Bac Ho

[VR] Bac Ho
DoctorDanny said:
Informative and immersive. Unlikely to happen :(
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Unfortunately I think you are probably right. [sad]

Once again Vindicator Jones has made a cracking video highlighting some great ideas that would improve the game to no end. Having Galnet feed in the cockpit would be a god send and should been in the game from day one. The way at the moment with going to left side panel the full screen does, dare I say it "breaks immersion". A news feed like the one VJ is suggesting in cockpit is something I and many explores would crave on a long supercruise.

So Frontier, take note. :D
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
PhanttoM said:
It's certainly a neat idea, but I can't help wonder about the short- and longterm repercussions.

If it's integrated as a fully immersive video like there - Does that mean I'll have to download a large video file every week? Or one giant file that covers 4 weeks? (Short term)
What about archived stories - later down the road, will the game file be bloated to 100 Gigs or will one simply miss out on older stuff. (Long term)

Realistically, if they are to include video in long term - they'd need the ability to embed external videos like from YouTube.

The thing that seems more like to actually happen, is a combination of images, text-based and text-to-voice.
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Store on server. Stream to clients on request. (Pay money for servers....)
 

Pumabear8

Pumabear8
PhanttoM said:
It's certainly a neat idea, but I can't help wonder about the short- and longterm repercussions.

If it's integrated as a fully immersive video like there - Does that mean I'll have to download a large video file every week? Or one giant file that covers 4 weeks? (Short term)
What about archived stories - later down the road, will the game file be bloated to 100 Gigs or will one simply miss out on older stuff. (Long term)

Realistically, if they are to include video in long term - they'd need the ability to embed external videos like from YouTube.

The thing that seems more like to actually happen, is a combination of images, text-based and text-to-voice.
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You do have a point as far as video is concerned, but if short segments, and ressed only to fit the small window, the file size can be quite small, and it does have to be super quality, so high compression can be used, but of course, there is still the issue of 1000s of commanders downloading the video clips, this is gonna put a hit on the servers.
 

maboleth

maboleth
Straga said:
That is a very good idea. My biggest problem with Elite's story is that it's not all that visible. This would help out with that immensely. FDev could probably use Ed Lewis as the voice on the news bulletin.
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As much as I love Elite Dangerous for oh so many reasons, I find your comments true. I *know* that so many new stuff has been built into the game, but I struggle to find them myself without using google or any kind of hints. I do read Galnet for lore, news, hints and details, but I'm mostly thinking about hidden planets, landings, objects and ships that are not in the current 'media attention' and therefore hard to find.
 
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