I think I've realised what the problem with ED is.. Braben has lost interest and moved on?

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That's easy enough: Star Citizen.



I haven't seen any demands for a perfect title, just players who care enough about Elite: Dangerous to speak up about what bothers them. Well, that and more than a little projection in the case of ascribing motives and behaviors to people they know little about.

Many players care so much about the game and so deeply fear it dying on the vine or being butchered into something they despise that their fears tend to be expressed strongly and perhaps not as rationally as they would if they were not so invested in its success.

It can be a bit much sometimes, but it's reassuring to know so many people care so much about this wonderful -- though far from perfect -- game.

As for a sow that can lay eggs, give milk and produce wool, I'm afraid such technology has yet to make its debut in English-speaking countries.

Of course, now that the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, I'm sure researchers are already hard at work to make it a reality.


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.
 
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...

This would probably be a good time to point out that on extremely rare occasions I can sometimes be ever-so-slightly facetious.

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.

Now who's projecting? ;)
 
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It's time to sell Elite: Dangerous to someone who can properly develop it.

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.
 
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I'm hoping Q4 of this year shows FD turning a new leaf with ED. I'm hoping to see really interesting deep mechanics. For example with mining we get some nice involved mechanics for mining itself, backed up with actual stateful resource hot spots (see "Improve Mining" in my sig) to give mining some worth and also integrate exploration gameplay, and even with Fleet Carriers involved in the mechanics potentially even to bind in trading.
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.
 
It's very easy to wax-lyrical about Braben's involvement and intent.

Personally, I'll return the next time there's some more meat on the plate and hope i can tuck in to it this time around...
 
It’s also being delevoped at a glacial pace - perhaps now that it’s a FD store cashcow.

No sense rushing to make the game when loads of players are already buying store items.

Got other games to concentrate on.

Seems like common-sense to me.
 
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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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I interviewed Ed and Sandro at PAX last year and they both say that David Braden not only has his hand on the tiller, but sits right next to Sandro. Those are the facts, the rest of this thread is speculation bordering on libel. Not developing the game they way you want or not interacting with the community directly does not equal ZOMG BRABEN QUIT. His company is now successful enough that he can pay people to interact with us and get on with the business of running a multi million dollar corporation.

Also, here’s the thing where I interviewed Ed Lewis last year. Topic in question begins at 3:45. Enough of OP’s nonsense.
https://soundcloud.com/cmdr-arbitration/pax-east-2017

And do you believe all other PR too?

Sits right next to him...

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.
 
I think I have realized what the problem with this forum is - threads started by ignored users are not automagically ignored, too. BrettC has lost interest and moved on?
 
It’s also being delevoped at a glacial pace - perhaps now that it’s a FD store cashcow.

No sense rushing to make the game when loads of players are already buying store items.

Got other games to concentrate on.

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.
 
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.

Unfortunately there's no such natural law for software development. I would be happy if there would be one.
 

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It's very easy to wax-lyrical about Braben's involvement and intent.

Personally, I'll return the next time there's some more meat on the plate and hope i can tuck in to it this time around...

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Here's to hope, eh?
 
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.
 
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.

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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