FD in general ...have some q's and some observations :)

[macedk]

1. Question: Educational wise, have FD done anything ...me thinking of a school version of the explore side of it. Have i missed it ?. Looking in the nights sky and say:"u see that star up there, thats where i parked my ship "
Would love a school version of the game...some of the human race respond better to visual than text .

2. Observation: This has the potential to a awesome multiplayer game, but if the network side is not done right then you have no chance...I have said this before...I will bet that 90% of people's bug posts are related to network issue's
10% of this is out of your hands or finacial capability, But from FD's perspective it is a vital area. Just an idea ...instead of your hardworking it guys trying to fix broken and "make due". Scrap it and do something else. If this means the user needs to be better, there are plenty of exsamples of groups demanding a certain level of knowlegde and people will get smarter and you are to blame ...hmm win win ......many games forced me to be better...

3. Observation: even with nr.2 in mind...you try and have made one hell of a game and you should get way more credit for it. You (in my book) still have the best beta Experience for a new game nailed.

4. Observation: people's way around the bugs to complete stuff in game: The fuelrats...comes to mind...alot to be said..this is "just a game" but people made it so much more ...please feed of that good energy and you are but not enough It is tough sure but you have way more leeway than other games guys...we will stay longer than you think and one group have shown you whta you might have missed ...and they found a workaround...great and they are not alone, many groups have done many things, The fuelrats is just the most unselfish in my book

5. Observation: people are ungreatfull bastrads Yes that is also apart of FD's work. If we all had the insigght or just compared to what work we ourselfves do....then we would have a greater leeway and understandig.
To me that is just a nice challenge..."you suck..I talk...You happy again.....You and me win"

That's it ..for now

Peace

 

[V'larr]

1. Question: Educational wise, have FD done anything ...me thinking of a school version of the explore side of it. Have i missed it ?. Looking in the nights sky and say:"u see that star up there, thats where i parked my ship "
Would love a school version of the game...some of the human race respond better to visual than text .

The new tutorials are like this, and there are some voice-acted elements around nowadays.

Other than that, though, you may want to look up HCS Voicepacks, and particularly look at Obsidian Ant's package (no innuendo intended). It includes a couple voice-guided tours of the galaxy, so to speak.

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I really doubt "just scrap it" is a good idea for anyone. There are a lot of network-related bugs, yes. But the vast majority of balance-related issues when it comes to PvP right now are not caused by networking issues, it's more that the playing field is horribly uneven and Engineers makes everything exponentially worse (directly in proportion to how much they allow players to tweak their ships to unbelievably higher limits).

3. Observation: even with nr.2 in mind...you try and have made one hell of a game and you should get way more credit for it. You (in my book) still have the best beta Experience for a new game nailed.

It's not in beta anymore and hasn't been for a while...there's just plenty more content in the future to come.

4. Observation: people's way around the bugs to complete stuff in game: The fuelrats...comes to mind...alot to be said..this is "just a game" but people made it so much more ...please feed of that good energy and you are but not enough It is tough sure but you have way more leeway than other games guys...we will stay longer than you think and one group have shown you whta you might have missed ...and they found a workaround...great and they are not alone, many groups have done many things, The fuelrats is just the most unselfish in my book

What are you getting at here, exactly? There's nothing preventing other player groups from doing stuff like the Fuel Rats. Adle's Armada and the Iridium Wing come to mind.

5. Observation: people are ungreatfull bastrads Yes that is also apart of FD's work. If we all had the insigght or just compared to what work we ourselfves do....then we would have a greater leeway and understandig.
To me that is just a nice challenge..."you suck..I talk...You happy again.....You and me win"
That's it ..for now
Peace

Pardon my asking but have you been on the Onionhead, by any chance....?