Distant Worlds II - Early Announcement
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I'm certainly interested, although I will note that I'm currently working my way (Extremely slowly) towards Beagle Point in my Imp Cutter right now. I think it took me three months or so to get to Colonia from Earth...
I'm in
DISTANT WORLDS II
With the announcements from Frontier at Expo 17 of new exploration content, discoverable anomalies, new ships, and a revamp of planetary lighting, textures, and new geological surface features, Dr Kaii and Erimus are excited to announce that very early work on a Distant Worlds 2 expedition has begun.
As some of the exploration community remember, Distant Worlds 3302 snowballed from humble beginnings into a massive fleet event, 1,300 pilots strong, that took around 6 months to plan, implement, and execute.
The purpose of this thread is to simply confirm that the expedition will be taking place, and roughly when, due to popular demand. This thread may also become the main Distant Worlds 2 thread closer to the time.
Distant Worlds 2 is pencilled in for Q4 2018/Q1 2019. Yes thats a year away, but we want to build upon DWE1 and out-do that event in both scale and ambition, as well as have all the content FD announced at EXPO in place before we launch. Lastly, we don't want it to clash with any other expeditions so the earlier we announce it the better.
Updates on DWE2's planning and build up will also appear on Twitter here : https://twitter.com/drkaii
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EXPO 17 seems to have gotten the exploration community buzzing again as Mengy's post shows, and attending EXPO in person and speaking to explorers there who were asking when will there be another DWE, we feel now is the time to put out some early feelers - as this will be a huge undertaking for the event organisers if it approaches the numbers DWE1 had participating.
- We want to create an event that challenges its participants, like DWE1 did.
- We want to create interesting basecamp meetups and events, that include all what DWE1 had, and more - specifically utilising whatever new discovery mechanics the new content requires.
- We would like to reach the same scale as last time or beat it, and then take advantage of our large contingent in the hopes we might discover some of the new and mysterious things FD have hinted at!
- We have plans to bring back the Distant Worlds weekly newsletter that proved so popular last time around, and eventually have it again bound into a book as a memento.
- Naturally DWE2 plan to work in conjunction with the Galactic Mapping Project to discover, catalogue, and name new POIs, spacial anomalies, and geological features.
- The expedition will encourage and facilitate all the emergent gameplay that explorers are renowned for into joining and helping organise and oversee certain aspects of this mammoth endeavour; Fuel Rats, Rock Rats, The Repair & Tour Group, Surveyors, Galactic Mappers, Scouts, and even squadrons that will hopefully be able to utilise the new fleet carriers.
- We will put together an experienced organisation team to help create a memorable event.
According to the EXPO announcements, there will be space anomalies, new planetary features, enhanced geology, improved tools to utilise, and also fleet carriers. Imagine being able to use these new ships as exploration base ships, and have whole exploration factions bring their very own cap ships along with the fleet - this one is obviously speculation at the moment, but one of the other purposes of this thread is to give food for thought to Frontier that - with a year until Q4 2018 - there is hopefully time to give explorers and exploration factions the tools to make mass expeditions work even better than before. Bookmarking surface features would also be nice, FD (hint hint)
Sandro speaking about fleet Carriers:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/180421342?t=01h35m44s
A return to varied lighting, and a commitment to implementing interesting geological terrain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=uCKUhmbyGdMhttps://i.imgur.com/qSLYkYg.jpg
If you're interested in another DWE event, please leave a comment on this thread so we can gauge what scale of event to commit time to organising. Even a simple "I'm in" post will do.
Specific destinations, itineraries, event schedules, and the overall goal that DWE2 will strive for is something that we can't discuss at this time, so please do not make any suggestions on those.
Finally, bare in mind that Frontier may not be able to keep to the schedule they have outlined and this may lead to delaying the expedition.
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So Erimus, Kaii,
Will there be a Fleetcom Carrier ship as well?
I suppose individual groups could just bring their own carriers, and grant other people in Fleetcom permission to dock. Would be pretty cool to have a fleet of Carrier ships and bunch of smaller ships in the fleet. Kind of like BSG "exodus" style gameplay, especially if the bubble has been decimated by Alien invasion. We could literally be looking for new places to create a human bubble, out of necessity.
Will there be a Fleetcom Carrier ship as well?
I suppose individual groups could just bring their own carriers, and grant other people in Fleetcom permission to dock. Would be pretty cool to have a fleet of Carrier ships and bunch of smaller ships in the fleet. Kind of like BSG "exodus" style gameplay, especially if the bubble has been decimated by Alien invasion. We could literally be looking for new places to create a human bubble, out of necessity.
So Erimus, Kaii,
Will there be a Fleetcom Carrier ship as well?
I suppose individual groups could just bring their own carriers, and grant other people in Fleetcom permission to dock. Would be pretty cool to have a fleet of Carrier ships and bunch of smaller ships in the fleet. Kind of like BSG "exodus" style gameplay, especially if the bubble has been decimated by Alien invasion. We could literally be looking for new places to create a human bubble, out of necessity.
You just want to bring along your FdL for some... "emergent" gameplay. I see how it is.
So Erimus, Kaii,
Will there be a Fleetcom Carrier ship as well?
I suppose individual groups could just bring their own carriers, and grant other people in Fleetcom permission to dock. Would be pretty cool to have a fleet of Carrier ships and bunch of smaller ships in the fleet. Kind of like BSG "exodus" style gameplay, especially if the bubble has been decimated by Alien invasion. We could literally be looking for new places to create a human bubble, out of necessity.
Second Foundation style, you mean?
You just want to bring along your FdL for some... "emergent" gameplay. I see how it is.
You raise a good point actually. If the fleet is ever under attack from Klaxons while fleeing the bubble, it would be nice to have some combat ships near by. So perhaps the Carrier ship could literally carry ships with it as it makes largish 1KLY jumps?
I probably wouldn't bring an FDL on such a trip (not enough internal compartments). Maybe a Corvette or one of the newer ships (if any of them have decent jump range).
I reserve the use of Foundation references!
You are too late, my in-game character is called "Chetter Hummin" since premium beta
Well... it's a year from today, who knows what could happen in a year. For example last year i was still playing the game and now i'm not BUT all those new announcements and a NEW Distant worlds? I can't say NO. I'm in, i should start cleaning the dust from my conda... that's gonna be a very long job... anyone willing to help?
...pokes head in....
Nods appovingly...
Wanders off whistling....
Nods appovingly...
Wanders off whistling....
Will there be a Fleetcom Carrier ship as well?
Would only make sense if they rethink the planned 500 ly / jump / week cap for the Carriers. Otherwise it would take the Carrier more than two years to reach BP
As long as any new QOL "improvements" added don`t dumb down the game too much more then I am in .
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Would only make sense if they rethink the planned 500 ly / jump / week cap for the Carriers. Otherwise it would take the Carrier more than two years to reach BP
I see much potential though. A weekly excursion to M67?
As for the run, I think I might take my DBX on this one this time. It needs an adventure of its own.
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Would definitly be in.
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