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That's good for you to let us all know what your idea's are going to be in future updates.

As a dedicated ED player for the last 4 years, I'm looking forward to the next 4. I may criticise FD in my posts ocassionly, but you're still my 'goto' game without question.

Keep up the good work......please!!
 
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I personally am only interested in whether the Powerplay proposal will be implemented. By now you must have made up your mind?

From what I gather they have neither made up their mind, nor started any implementation. I wouldn't hope too much for it being included with Q4, as disappointing as that would be.
 
Thanks for the update Zac, and hopefully the FFF for exploration can be opened now so we have a chance to give ideas and input before Q4 release is too long gone in development?
 
Ah well - it's a shame the ice planet graphical overhaul is not going to make the Q4 update, but at least the exploration improvements will be there.

I really appreciate Frontier's transparency on this. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what they have in store for us next year!
 
I've also heard in the Powerplay update that the alliance will be split in two to spice things up in spreadsheet land.
 

Zac Antonaci

Head of Communications
Frontier
Zac, you've successfully managed to both confuse and alienate by effectively being unable to clarify anything whilst simultaneously saying quite a lot.

It's just confusing. Folks have wanted some clarity for a while and yet I now understand less than I did before I read this thread.

It would help just a tad by being a little more specific and a little less reliant on the "trust us" trope because that's kinda asking a lot.

Thanks for the update. I think? I feel like someone has just taken my cat away from me (despite not actually having one) and it's all a bit confusing.

Heya buddy. Sorry you feel that way. It's certainly not the intention. *Hands back cat*

I'll try and summarize for you here, let me know if that helps.

- Some elements of the Chapter Four update have had to be prioritized and this means they won't be making it into the Chapter Four update.
- This means that other parts of the Chapter Four update have been able to get more time on them improving other elements of the update.
- In addition, we have now gone into early stages of development on the next era of content coming after the "Beyond" season. It's still very early so we aren't able to share those details with you right now.
- The Chapter Four update is still the largest update in the Beyond season and we'll be showing the content to everyone soon.
- We had said that there would be additional premium (paid for) content coming in 2018, but we have decided to not put that paid for content out this year and instead focus on the long term vision for the game and that future development.
- I am sticking around to answer questions like this to try and avoid any jumping to conclusions.

I appreciate that some of this can be somewhat vague. But that's explained in the post above. This is a very open and transparent update on the game and we're looking forward to showing you the Chapter Four content.

I hope that makes it simpler.
 
Yes, Zac, please let us know if Exploration FF is still happening? Or it might be done during beta? Thanks!
If it's during beta, we won't get any of the bigger changes. Only small tweaks at best. FF needs to start as soon as possible that good ideas can be sorted out before development has gone to deep.
 
It's still early in development. We'd love to give more details but it's always best to wait until it has had more time to grow and take shape before making big announcements. As you can see from this post, it's always better to wait for the content to be as ready as it can be before sharing the details, just in case it changes.
I disagree with you here (pretty sure we've hashed this one out in person too!) -- I think that your community would react well to regular updates about what you do/don't plan to be in a future update, even if those updates are to say that a feature has been cut or been lowered in priority. Part of the problem with long development times is that you still have to keep the community engaged, and talking to us about things is really the best way to do that.

As you stated, you've had to do it here -- tell us that certain features have been deferred (at least one of which I was really looking forward to) but because you've done it, and because you're engaging with the community to explain it, I think you'll find that the majority will be accepting of it. I know we're going to continue to agree to disagree on this one, but I honestly think that laying out a roadmap and keeping it updated would be a net positive. :)
 
so to summarize (filler removed):

the confirmation:

q4 in just a number of weeks (Some time in Q4).This will be the final update of 2018 and the Beyond season.
it will have:
- the improved exploring (focused feedback seems obviously definitively canceled)
- the improved mining
- the codex

the news:

it will not have:
- fleet carriers
- new ice planets

these are postponed to:
A while ago, our development went from pre-production into full production on our next major milestone of Elite development.
scheduled to release a considerable time after the final update in the Beyond series.

and there will not be paid content in 2018

so this confirms the gut feeling i had: they have nothing besides q4, and that not even complete.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ditional-info-required!?p=6959915#post6959915

just plans for the future.
well, good to know, that's better than nothing and better late than never, stay focused guys!

now i need some popcorn to watch the lep owners parade! [haha]
 

verminstar

Banned
Heya buddy. Sorry you feel that way. It's certainly not the intention. *Hands back cat*

I'll try and summarize for you here, let me know if that helps.

- Some elements of the Chapter Four update have had to be prioritized and this means they won't be making it into the Chapter Four update.
- This means that other parts of the Chapter Four update have been able to get more time on them improving other elements of the update.
- In addition, we have now gone into early stages of development on the next era of content coming after the "Beyond" season. It's still very early so we aren't able to share those details with you right now.
- The Chapter Four update is still the largest update in the Beyond season and we'll be showing the content to everyone soon.
- We had said that there would be additional premium (paid for) content coming in 2018, but we have decided to not put that paid for content out this year and instead focus on the long term vision for the game and that future development.
- I am sticking around to answer questions like this to try and avoid any jumping to conclusions.

I appreciate that some of this can be somewhat vague. But that's explained in the post above. This is a very open and transparent update on the game and we're looking forward to showing you the Chapter Four content.

I hope that makes it simpler.

What about the bug fixing?
 

Zac Antonaci

Head of Communications
Frontier
Thanks for the update Zac, and hopefully the FFF for exploration can be opened now so we have a chance to give ideas and input before Q4 release is too long gone in development?

Sorry for the delay on the FFF. As you can see there's been a lot happening internally. I'll have a chat with the dev team and see what we can do. I know the dev team are always very grateful for the feedback they get on those threads so I'll follow up on that.
 
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