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OA and Dj truthsayer discuss update news
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Your missus is a keeper. Peggle is brilliant!
Time for every one to do the wave.
Maybe there's an element of intelligence in knowing how to have fun.
Mrs Stigbob has more qualifications than we have wall space in the study. Yet she loves watching the bindiving Hipsters do up old furniture program one of the most brainless things ever made for TV.
We've already got limited instancing so I can't see that being a thing. I think the plan is more mobile resupply than a capital ship you take into CZ's and launch from in waves.
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Heh!
That's my missus' favourite TV show too.
"If it can stand upright we'll turn it into a lamp, otherwise we'll turn it into a table"
I, literally, have an old fake-crystal table-lamp sat on the desk in front of me, which she fished out of a skip and wants me to repair so she can "renovate" it and then, presumably, sell it for £350.
Just like those guys on the telly do.
The thing that amazes me is they actually sell the stuff. Old table ?, paint one leg green and nail a random item to it reducing functionality somehow makes it worth more than just a straight up renovation.
I'm all for making do and mending but they just ruin stuff. Grrr youngsters nowadays.
Mrs Stinja does quantum physics and is technically a rocket scientist, she watches those diety(s)-awful DIY programs with Nick Knowles etc [where is it] I have to play forum-wars or my brain starts leaking out my nose...
As for topic: I accidently stumbled upon the livestream, and listened while cooking dinner. It didn't really offer anything new than the various threads on here, but I guess others would find it useful.
As for Frontier pushing Elite's game-as-a-service, and how they keep saying they want to engage with the community, then they should look at how Digital Extremes does their engagement: https://www.youtube.com/user/PlayWarframe/videos?disable_polymer=1
- regular devstreams, with reveals
- discussion of their forum hot topics
- activity on forums
- explanation of mechanics
- detailed patchnotes
- etc etc
It's at least something to try, if they mean what they say, and if it doesn't work go back to the silent treatment.
Don't know about the reasons, just want to point out that it wasn't one month before release. The announcement was made 4 months before release, internal decision was probably a few weeks earlier. It's already hard enough to tell truth from nonsense, so please don't create alternative facts.
On the speculative part: Maybe it was technical difficulties, if you consider how many last minute changes they make that wouldn't be surprising 4-5 months before release.
It's also possible that they ran out of time.
The most likely scenario is that they want to release it as part of the updates between now and 2020 because they knew they would need to give us some new features in order to keep us happy, the same could be true for ice planets.
It's probably a combination of all three.
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I'd agree with this. I dont think Frontier has a problem with Elite, but I do think it should take another look at the way it engages with players given the 18 months delay. Player expectations often get out of control because of an absence of information, not because there's too much of it. As soon as Frontier is able they should in my opinion start talking about 4.0 in broad brush strokes and then once a month take a little look at some of its features. This doesn't have to be a deep dive, it doesn't have to over promise but it can be some early artwork mock-ups, it can be a chat about the technical challenges involved or the actual process in coming up with an (any) idea and working it through to it's conclusion.
I realise this takes lots of time and effort and doesn't just happen by magic, but something once a month for up to an hour would probably keep players engaged and interested. Frontier do after all see Elite not just as a game but as a service.....
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Yup. Possibly networking/instancing might have thrown up more challenges than expected as well.
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Oh and Hi to OA & DJ next time we meet beers are on you two.
That is swell. I ll make sure to show up next time you guys meet.
Btw, at what time in the OP video starts the discussion between OA and DJ?
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Listen to her. She does organise the local governments finances after all
She does that well.
When she's eyeing-up manky old wooden crates with a view to me turning them into some kind of "shabby chic" wardrobe, not so much.
There was this one time when she got the notion that I could create a "deck" out of some old pallets.
It made our back garden look like an Amazon depot.
Fortunately (for me, if not the dog), the dog got a giant splinter in his paw (which may or may not have come from one of the pallets) and that was enough to convince her it was a bad idea.
But that's probably enough off-topic "upcycling" chat.
She does that well.
When she's eyeing-up manky old wooden crates with a view to me turning them into some kind of "shabby chic" wardrobe, not so much.
There was this one time when she got the notion that I could create a "deck" out of some old pallets.
It made our back garden look like an Amazon depot.
Fortunately (for me, if not the dog), the dog got a giant splinter in his paw (which may or may not have come from one of the pallets) and that was enough to convince her it was a bad idea.
But that's probably enough off-topic "upcycling" chat.
Lol, I got forced to make planters out of pallets by Mrs Stigbob. They worked out very nicely two level affairs maximizing sun+space against the walls great for salad linseed oil as a preservative gives it a nice color chemical free. And a big one with blueberry bushes in it, that's a bit of a failure though as the sheep can reach it.
Still the sheep are happy.
I'm confused. What's Mrs Stigbobs relation to OA and DJ Truthsayer?
On topic: I remember a video (or stream) of OA a few month ago where he said that if somebody would have told him in 2015 (when Horizons was released) that we wouldn't have some sort of atmospheric landings in 2019 he would have been shocked, not believed them. That's a nice representation how development slowed down after Horizons.
On topic: I remember a video (or stream) of OA a few month ago where he said that if somebody would have told him in 2015 (when Horizons was released) that we wouldn't have some sort of atmospheric landings in 2019 he would have been shocked, not believed them. That's a nice representation how development slowed down after Horizons.
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That's a logical fallacy. You are assuming that the features they did implement between Horizons and now would've taken way less effort than implementing atmospheric landings, which is something you can't know. That said, I also expected to have atmopsheric landings by 2019, I didn't expect the game to improve so much in other areas though.
I suspect spaghetti code that needs serious cleaning up.
See, that's where we disagree. I have a hard time to see actual improvement and call most of that stuff filler, half-baked and minimum effort.
Ships: Only good ships released were Chieftain and Kraits. Then, I always expected them to release ships in periodic updates.
Mutlicrew: Never expected it because I have no desire to use it, but i would call it buggy and half-baked, and what I actually expected to have by now, NPC crew, is missing.
Engineers: Never expected FDEV to waste that much time on it. Why in theory it's a good idea to keep the players engaged and give them something to do, they went way overboard with the engineers, breaking the balancing, when an "Engineers light" would have sufficed completely and would probably have taken way less time to implement.
Thargoids and Guardian story line: Started up really hype, but then somewhere on the way it crashed and burned, and feels abandoned now.
Exploration and Mining: Nice and small improvements to some underdeveloped areas of the game, I give them that. Very lightweight, but effective.
and so on.
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