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Isint there supposed to be some sort of gamescom announcement today?

They should be marketing the crap out of this stuff. I cant find a date or time or any information on it besides its happening.
 
So you suggest that the chart was photoshoped to join different timeline scales?

Edit: The OP did nothing wrong, the website indeed has different frecuencies of data points.

Nontheless, if we see the chart of the whole existence of ED, we are currently at a historical minimun and in this chart the frecuency of data points is consistent.

https://steamcharts.com/app/359320#All
Yep: SteamCharts graphs are broken, with a mixture of data sets spread across their timelines. The chart you link isn't free of inconsistency either:

  • between 'Mar 2015' (Elite released on Steam mid-April) and 'Apr 2018' it plots "Peak Players (month)"
  • between 'May 21, 2018' and 'Aug 20, 2018' (today) it seemingly plots "Peak Players (week)"

According to the graph Elite is "currently at a historical minimum" yet the same page's table data doesn't correlate - neither 30 day average nor 30 day peak are lowest ever.

TL;DR: the graphs are broken, the table data appears sound, and misleading charts lead to false conclusions.
 
Isint there supposed to be some sort of gamescom announcement today?

They should be marketing the crap out of this stuff. I cant find a date or time or any information on it besides its happening.

As I understand it the FDev Community Crew are flying out on Wednesday & returning on Thursday. I don't know about any others, but if there is any news I'd guess it'll be on Wednesday afternoon. Conceivably there could be press releases ready to drop tomorrow but that's just a guess. I wasn't expecting anything today at least.
 
On today's stream Ed and Will said they are flying on Wednesday morning, in the evening there's elite meet, back on Thursday. Marketing team and PR team will stay for whole event I guess. Ed hinted that there might information that appears sooner than Elite Meet event, as media will get their drop sooner than that.

So any news tomorrow's evening at earliest.
 
As I understand it the FDev Community Crew are flying out on Wednesday & returning on Thursday. I don't know about any others, but if there is any news I'd guess it'll be on Wednesday afternoon. Conceivably there could be press releases ready to drop tomorrow but that's just a guess. I wasn't expecting anything today at least.

The Community Meet is Thursday evening, so they'll be flying back Friday at the earliest.
 
I have never owned a game and gotten so much out of it for a single purchase........

This ten times!

I've clocked more hours in ED then in any other game I've played since the late seventies.
So if Q4 doesn't make that change for me to continue playing then I truly had my money's worth.
Still I hope Q4 will make me play again, I've had lots of fun in ED and I wouldn't mind adding some more.
We'll just have to wait and see I guess.
 
This ten times!

I've clocked more hours in ED then in any other game I've played since the late seventies.
So if Q4 doesn't make that change for me to continue playing then I truly had my money's worth.
Still I hope Q4 will make me play again, I've had lots of fun in ED and I wouldn't mind adding some more.
We'll just have to wait and see I guess.

you have clocked many hours, sure: in % how much is staring at the screen?
 
you have clocked many hours, sure: in % how much is staring at the screen?

Staring at the screen whilst moving my hands over the controls
Staring at the screen whilst in Cruise (I'm quite active in SC as I tend to curve in towards the front of the station these days... Fat backside and all...)
Staring at the screen whilst not moving my hands
Staring at the screen after being interdicted by the facilitation server
Staring at the screen whilst listening to relaxing piano music
Staring at the screen whilst using my feet to guide my SRV...

Which % you looking for.
 
Clearly there wasn't enough sarcasm in my post, of course it's on Wednesday.

Let's take this as an example of why references are important - with the best of intentions sometimes we all make mistakes. So it is with the word 'promises' too.

Ironically providing references is something StuartGT is normally very good at.
 
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you have clocked many hours, sure: in % how much is staring at the screen?

100%
Bit hard playing a game without looking at it no?

I know what you mean though.
As long as I have fun playing a game I will play it, when I was having fun I didn't mind jumping 10 or 100 times, I was having fun.
After so many hours though there just isn't anything to do that I hadn't done ten times before so ED became a chore, not fun, result, I quit.
Get to much of the same and eventually it becomes boring eventhough it was so much fun when you started.

Fdev realy needs to add more sensible things to do for me to pick it up again, and I don't mean cool stuff locked behind another grindwall.
New ships like in the last two updates are cool but if there's only the same things to do as you did with your old ships then I don't see the point in adding even more ships.
New toys isn't new gameplay, new things to do with your old toys and subsequently new ones is imho.

I so hope that Fdev won't introduce new grinds or rng heavily depended mechanics though, having to rinse and repeat to many times doesn't add to a game's greatness, it eventually makes it a boring chore, no matter how good it looks visually.
 
no thanks, i come to forums once per 6 months or so, i prefer to spend my time better ways i dont want to be any poster
i just came here to tell frontier to step the crap up, negativity is not going up for no reason

Woah,was that a triple negative?
Good news,crap will be with us shortly.
 
This game has been dying fast since 2013, let the irony wash over you.

I've been gone 2 years, I pop back for nostalgia reasons and its the same threads as when I left. Same threads, different posters.
 
Elite is completly in a maintenance mode: just a cash cow for those who wanna throws away their money to Ed.

It has completly failed it's vision, which at this time remains… well… a vision and nothing more.

During the year the grind is increased (most probably to justify to shareholder the players are tied to the game) and the expansion are dramatically stopped-

Beyond which should be the way to fix the lack to gameplay and the mistake or the lack of features in 1.0 is turned to be a giant farse: nothing but less revisited feature, mostly of the time making the game worst (engeneer, and Crime which is now a pile of trash).

There is a reason people are getting tired of Elite which is, at least to me, a pile of trash: letteraly: garbage.

And it's truly a shame because in my opinion Elite could be the best game ever.

Anyway I am happy Fd is hyped by the next expansion and how they handle the game: at least someone hyped on Ed, at the end of the game, there is.

But yes: game is letteraly going down

You are letteraly a nincompoop
 
Challenging

This is the best space sim I’ve played. For those of you who find this boring, try challenging yourselves. Turn off the flight assist and rotational correction and try to imagine yourself in real space in a real ship. The usual routine of landing picking missions and flying and landing again will not be the same, it will be more thrilling.
Completing a mission or even the simple task of leaving the station itself will be so satisfying.
 
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