Tumbling end-over-end through the docking slit? I want to see that! Does anyone have video of that happening?
Please end Alcoholic Piloting
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Tumbling end-over-end through the docking slit? I want to see that! Does anyone have video of that happening?
Maybe FD could implement some new billboard signs for the stations and hangers that say something like "THINK! Don't drink and fly."
As well as maybe "Don't fly tired" (we've all done that, don't deny it) and "Don't text and fly".
Personally, I'd love to see little details like this! Have the advertising billboards around the station and in the hanger cycle, put up PSAs like the PA announcements. It's one reason I love GTA so much, their worlds are ridiculously detailed. Maybe even run news programs a bit like the ones you see in the captain's quarters in Eve? Stock tickers per-station? Maybe a mug-shot of the NPC captain that the station *just* blew out of the sky in an impressively reckless display of force?
Personally, I am glad they have their priorities on the core gameplay mechanics at the moment. I just keep looking at Star Citizen and getting more and more sad--they are putting so much energy on the fringe details and side-tasks but not seeming to make a lot of headway in the core game development. While I would love to have both gameplay AND immersion detail, I'd gladly sacrifice a bit of the latter in favor of the former if made to choose.
HA! I like the idea that instead of hiring AI programmers FD are simply hiring scores of cheap Chinese click-farm employees to pretend to be NPC's ...
On long-haul trading runs, I like to fly like a loony just to break the monotony, break some personal record, redecorate the side of my Type 9 with Sidewinder paint etc :v
If there's players in the way I tend to fly a lot more sanely, though. Can't be having grudges forming for the hippopotamus ballet that is flying the Type 9 or Annie with FA Off.
If there's players in the way I tend to fly a lot more sanely, though. Can't be having grudges forming for the hippopotamus ballet that is flying the Type 9 or Annie with FA Off.
HA! I like the idea that instead of hiring AI programmers FD are simply hiring scores of cheap Chinese click-farm employees to pretend to be NPC's ...
Oh I so LOL'd at that
Once we're up and wandering around first person style, I expect (nay, demand) bars and other watering holes in stations. And I also hope that the better regulated/stricter (lousy feds) stations to do sobriety tests before you're allowed in your beaten up cobra.
"Ok, Commander.Before I can let you get in your ship, could you just walk along the straight line on the docking bay floor for me?"
"Eh? Wha' line? Sssssnot your ship! My ship!"
"Er, ok. Commander, if you'll just come with us..."
"You're my bessssst mate, you... God I'm lonely...." <sobs>
Not in the docking slit. It was in front of my docking bay. And it was really more of a cartwheel I suppose.
/tries to set 'autopilot.'
"Good enough for me, sir. You're coming with me to cool off."
Yeah I think that would be great. However I also agree that the Dev's seem to have their priorities properly placed at this time. I do wish they would just turn off collisions with NPC pilots just so I am not playing frogger so much.
Not so much in the entrance itself, they like to dither about just inside the entrance. If you see a Space Cow shovelling those NPC's out of the way, it may well be me.
Not so much in the entrance itself, they like to dither about just inside the entrance. If you see a Space Cow shovelling those NPC's out of the way, it may well be me.
Yeah, coming to a crawl just inside or just outside the slot is super annoying. I can only imagine how much harder it is in something bigger than my Cobra. At least I can slip above or below them with a bit of ventral or dorsal thrust.
Once you've got something bigger, you just nudge them out of the way. They either move or go boom, either way they aren't in your way any more
Once you've got something bigger, you just nudge them out of the way. They either move or go boom, either way they aren't in your way any more
Had an NPC Hauler try to 'nudge' me out of his way in this manner yesterday. The mass and shield-strength difference between the Hauler and the Cobra clearly escaped him