Stresses are all in the opposite direction. Construction that is meant to be stressed in vacuum may very well not be able to withstand "outside" pressure. As far as we know the ships cannot even withstand normal (Earth) atmospheric pressures much less underwater pressures . . . o7
Must have downloaded the wrong beta...this ones called 4.0
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LOL. If this was added, people would complain about more grinding.
EVE has a character levelling system. Not sure it would work with Elite. Different beasts. Personally, I don't think it would add to the game play, it would be an inhibitor.
Pretty sure the planet generation guys are different to the gameplay designers. But if we would have had it already, probably not. As these new mechanics a pretty involved and would have taken time it would have made little difference. They made a mistake when releasing horizons, they pretty much tied their own hands with it and were forced to develop stuff. Pretty sure they would have loved to have deferred multicrew till later on for when we can get out of our seats.
How do you know the ships are not built for both. Remember we are talking about ships with technologies that far exceed our own.
I was hoping to find a nice spot for a picnic.
No thanks. That sounds pretty bad. I prefer the reputation system we have.
A few folk have already mentioned that they could see the link between Planet Coaster assets, and atmospheric planets for ED.
I suspect it's not the cities and stuff that is the bit that is needing a truckload of work, but the atmospheric behaviour of planets, clouds, weather, the interaction of different atmosphere types, and procedurally generating it all, not to mention procedural generation of cities and life. I think we're already seeing bits of this in JPE, too.
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I suspect it's not the cities and stuff that is the bit that is needing a truckload of work, but the atmospheric behaviour of planets, clouds, weather, the interaction of different atmosphere types, and procedurally generating it all, not to mention procedural generation of cities and life. I think we're already seeing bits of this in JPE, too.
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Just increase the pressure on the inside of the ship problem solved. Trust me, I'm an armchair engineer!
my armchair developer opinion is that atmospheric flight isn't a solution to your various complaints about the game.
It's not going to make combat more exciting
It's not going to make trade more fun.
It's not going to make traveling to destination to destination fun
It's not going to make mining fun.
It's not going to make engineering (crafting) fun
It's not going to allow players to contribute real in-game content
It's not going to make Fdev's internal consistency with their narratives and the gameplay good.
It's not going to give you roles for you to role play in a way beyond just inside your own head.
It will be interesting for players and explorers for a few days and then due to everything above, it'll be expensive eye candy.
So my professional armchair opinion is to work on the foundation and make the game more fun and engaging first, then think of adding more places to have that fun than the near infinite places we already have available.
It's not going to make combat more exciting
It's not going to make trade more fun.
It's not going to make traveling to destination to destination fun
It's not going to make mining fun.
It's not going to make engineering (crafting) fun
It's not going to allow players to contribute real in-game content
It's not going to make Fdev's internal consistency with their narratives and the gameplay good.
It's not going to give you roles for you to role play in a way beyond just inside your own head.
It will be interesting for players and explorers for a few days and then due to everything above, it'll be expensive eye candy.
So my professional armchair opinion is to work on the foundation and make the game more fun and engaging first, then think of adding more places to have that fun than the near infinite places we already have available.
Shouldn't that be a Chief #Beeftain in the OP pic?
Totally agree. Whenever you ask people what would make it so much better if we had atmospheric landings they always rattle off a list of new and complicated features. Often not undoable on a basic level but we've seen that happens with games that rush this stuff
I'd quite like us to get lifeless atmospherics fairly soon though just for the sheer screenshot-joy of it all. Easy to explain keeping us away from life. Cloudtech and gas giant scooping are definitely interesting too and both seem like important stepping stones.
Totally agree. Whenever you ask people what would make it so much better if we had atmospheric landings they always rattle off a list of new and complicated features. Often not undoable on a basic level but we've seen that happens with games that rush this stuff
I'd quite like us to get lifeless atmospherics fairly soon though just for the sheer screenshot-joy of it all. Easy to explain keeping us away from life. Cloudtech and gas giant scooping are definitely interesting too and both seem like important stepping stones.
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Dude, I can't wait to shoot missiles at those...
Atmospheric flight model. There, done. Considering the core point of ED is flying spaceships, flying them under different circumstances is the gameplay.
I hope those buildings have very good shields.
Amazing pictures!
Amazing pictures!
Take my money now!
