Like you didn't read what I said [where is it]
I did, I just think it was very contradicting
That is a misrepresentation of what I said. Please, read it again, and with good will.I did, I just think it was very contradicting
"Nobody expects to hear something about space legs, but they absolutely should announce space legs..."
You can in fact fly spaceships, but is very tricky. The comparison between SE and ED is always made in the context of a 1 man team, although this can be misleading, since there are some custom addons made by other people creating some stuff. I played with the ships from Interstellar that were not created by the creator of SE. In any case, is a engine created by voluntary work during spare time mainly by one man, and a handful of independent contributors. When this proportions are considered in comparison to Frontier, the question is almost inevitable. But the question emerges exactly because we don't know.
Well, I never claimed that nothing was expected from Spacelegs, and I didn't say that they should totally announce it. Those were not premises in what I wrote. As for the insult (I suppose you mean the "calm your teats" thing), is in response to the hypocrisy behind the type of reply that claims that "we always knew it was a long way off, you [whiners, idiots, babies, etc] should be more [patient, be an adult, go play SC, etc]". On the other hand, I certainly don't mean the word "apologist" in a pejorative way, and I clearly didn't attribute that hypocrisy to all of them, but only to some (the ones that wield that kind of response, even when they believed Atmo and Legs were coming last year or the current one). "Long way off" seems to have different meanings as time goes bySorry I did and really tried, but to me it's still the same message plus an insulting comment to the "apologists"...
In the context of a debate, an apology means a defense. On one side there are critics, and on the other apologists. And I don't mean this as a sharp separation of people (but primarily of opinions and arguments), since one's opinions can vary from one specific point to another.
Or maybe they don't have time to check the forum every day, simply to find a stranded post from a single developer in the middle of a multiple pages thread. But your first guess is that people want to be willingly disappointed because they are idiots, which of course, is an even weirder interpretation of things. Idiots are common, but voluntary disappointment is not.
OK: let's look at what would be necessary for atmospheric planets:
- model sky
- model water: rivers, lakes, sea.
- model atmospheric entry
- model weather: wind, clouds, rain, lightning
- model flight dynamics therein
- model vegetation: grass, plants, trees. These need to be diverse and respond to wind and player interaction.
- model wildlife: an ecosystem of insect-like life right up to big animals, which need to move, behave, interact, make noises etc.
Basically look at No Man's Sky, and the difficulties it has had to come up with a different but interesting ecosystem on every planet.
Now, space legs:
- Model character movements (walking, crouching, bending, gesturing etc.)
- model ship environments. These need to be interactive.
- model station and outpost environments: basically entire cities. Every building, every corridor, every room.
- fill those environments with their own ecosystem: people (with logical behaviour patterns and interactive dialogue), props.
Again look at No Man's Sky, which has interaction with life forms that the player comes across.
All this has to connect to the game in some meaningful way.
Easy, no? Can be done in a few months.
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