Armchair software development is a piece of cake.
I think I've realised what the problem with ED is.. Braben has lost interest and moved on?
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Oh dammit!!! Have I just forgotten the BEST GAME EVER MADE??? Shame on me.
shame on you sir!
Oh...THAT title...that perfectly developed *cough* not yet *cough* released game since 5 years. The Game where you can finally get a proper login after ONLY 4 tries and get mindblowing 6 FPS (if you are lucky). That game where MILLIONS of dollars were sunk and still is in alpha? Okay...
To the "sow"-topic: I assume, that they never won't be satisfied even if they get all THEY want and NOW. Then thewre will be, again, complaints about what's next to come. And then again the cat's hunting it's own tail again.
Nah...Q-bert is too complex nowadays.
I'll better stick to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man
or:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong
This would probably be a good time to point out that on extremely rare occasions I can sometimes be ever-so-slightly facetious.
Now who's projecting?
Like you, I suppose?
Better yet, sell it to EA, or Ubisoft.
Or maybe, just maybe... skip posting wild speculations pulled out of your... place I can't say, based on nothing more than what someone obviously busy doing a lot more than anyone might realize - enough so that there isn't time to take an hour of their day to sit in front of a camera and stream to a bunch of entitled sots - and the rest of us who otherwise behave themselves. Or me.
I am quite excited for the Q4 exploration buff (and to some extent, mining too), but I'm trying to not set my hopes too high for Q4.
I have a bad feeling that Squadrons will be the headliner feature, will be a broken mess, will take several patches to get it working in any reasonable capacity, and the exploration and mining 'buffs' will be overshadowed by Squadrons and become victims of neglect.
Would love to be proven wrong though.
This would probably be a good time to point out that on extremely rare occasions I can sometimes be ever-so-slightly facetious.
Now who's projecting?
Never mind, please!
Only tried to narrow down all the salt about DBOBE, FD and ED in particular to one sentence. I admit there IS (plenty) of room for improvements. But sadly only a few constructual criticism in all those rant-threads.
And Yeah... no wonder, why DB don't want to stick around with us. Personally I would rather be golfing, than searching for those rare diamonds amongst the Mount Everst of broken glass.
To the original topic: I also don't think that DB has abandoned his interest. I'm sure he still cares about ED. But the more important thing is: His job is to keep a company running not to chitchat with some annoyed/unsatisfied players.
I just watned to state, that i like the game as it is right now with all the good and bad things. Sure I'll apreciate EVERY positive progress about ED, but i don't demand it "RIGHT NOW". I like it to stick to: "Better Late than Never"
I'm still positive, enjoy the ride in my VR and the only game i was addicted more to, than ED, is "KSP".
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That's the same line of reasoning that flat earthers use: "You believe everything that NASA tells you hurr durr."
If you listened to the interview, Braben's desk is on the dev floor, and he gets the yay/nay on everything going into his games. Elite, in particular, is his baby.
I've been plenty critical of FDev and many of the decisions made in the development of this game, but this kind of utter nonsense and sensationalist rumor mongering is probably the reason that Braben has disengaged from this cancerous community.
That's the way I'm beginning to feel as well... I'm especially frustrated with Frontier's glacial pace at fixing bugs, most of which were not in the game when I bought it but were introduced later on. Games should not get worse over time, they should get better.
He's selling ED to Disney so he can go back to making small experimental indie games like Star Citizen
Unfortunately there's no such natural law for software development. I would be happy if there would be one.
Avago Earo
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Here's to hope, eh?
Tiny_Rick
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Am I the only one completely OK with having a Pluto dog decal?
Astro or Muttley, please.
This is a business. It should be run like one. Yes, Elite needs a re-write. That's a massive job, needs funding and people, and probably will not occur until Frontier has a few more titles pulling in revenue. It's taken 5+ years to get this version here. A revised version will take at least as long. Until then, we will have to make do with this as our space game fix.
If mining does not have some stateful aspects to it, so you can find a lump of resources which you, or your wing, or your group can then mine down to nothing when it's then gone forever, I think mining improvement might all be for nothing. Indeed I've be harking on about stateful "hot spots" for years being an important addition to mining, and indeed how important that could prove to other areas too.
It's importance to exploration is obvious. eg: finding a hot spot of Palladium somewhere and then deciding or bookmark it for later to come back? But what it if it's already at 90% level so clearly someone else has found and mined a bit of it? And what if you instead give the location to the Rock Rats to mine and they give you some commission?
And then consider a CG where FD create some "hot spots" in a couple of systems? What if it's done only in OPEN?
Anyway, I've even mentioned how Fleet Carriers could even be incorporated too (if only to help store mined stuff, but potentially even to open up trading too) - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...eful-resource-hot-spots?p=6054187#post6054187
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