Half-Baked

[Kenneth McGrew]

Nothing in that one that suggests its a design decision.


Nothing in that that says its a design decision either.


There is nothing to ignore. I doubt it will change if its a technical limitation, not matter what feedback is given.

Lol 4 minutes to read 120 posts with various links to other parts of the 3.0 beta feedback forum with another 100 odd threads on the topic, and respond OK - whatever!

just filter your map to black markets that will tell you all you need to know.

Toodle pip

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

Lol 4 minutes to read 120 posts with various links to other parts of the 3.0 beta feedback forum with another 100 odd threads on the topic, and respond OK - whatever!

I looked at the links you provided and looked at FDev replies to the questions asked, this is very easy to do. As I said, there was nothing there.

If you provide a link that does support what you are claiming then I am happy to change my mind. Until then, I won't. The reason is logic, there is no logical gameplay reason to limit it to 40ly, there is no logical reason to design it like that unless there is some kind of technical limitation.

You can laugh all you like, but to think I need to read 120 posts that are just a bunch of people like us voicing our opinions who also have no idea why is just ridiculous.

 

[60mm]

Speaking of half-baked, I accompanied a friend to help him unlock the Guardian FSD Booster. Rode along in his ship thinking I could fly the SLF while he SRVs. Get there and 'lol no'! Can I use the other SRV? Lol no! What is my multi-crew option? Sit in my chair and watch from the cockpit.

 

[krylite]

Yes, I know the ADS doesn't work in unexplored systems. See EVERY post I've made in the forums since last November

I was under the impression that it's still possible to detect bodies via parallax in unexplored systems. I assumed that this means that they will show up on your Nav Panel if you get close enough to them.
Either way, bodies are autoresolved if you approach within 20 Ls of them, without the need to play the blue blob minigame.

I guess I'll have to test it out tonight.

Parallax searching is still doable. For unexplored systems, gas giants & secondary stars > 2k Ls out to some extent populate the system map on a honk. You can also use the FSS backdrop like a rough "system map" to point to say a gas giant signal blob then fly there to autoresolve and parallax search without having to use the FSS zoom-in resolve since the FSS backdrop can be compared to the modeled backdrop.

 

[zimms]

Speaking of half-baked, I accompanied a friend to help him unlock the Guardian FSD Booster. Rode along in his ship thinking I could fly the SLF while he SRVs. Get there and 'lol no'! Can I use the other SRV? Lol no! What is my multi-crew option? Sit in my chair and watch from the cockpit.

Multicrew isn't half-baked. It's so raw the chicken hasn't even laid the egg yet.

 

[Camisade]

Multicrew isn't half-baked. It's so raw the chicken hasn't even laid the egg yet.

Or a level of cooking that reminds me of what I once heard a Texan friend say when ordering a steak: "Just shave that steer's butt and walk it by the fire." That sums up the level of "baking" (broiling?) inherent in so many of these conceptually-awesome features.

 

[Old Duck]

... I once heard a Texan friend say when ordering a steak: "Just shave that steer's butt and walk it by the fire."

This Texan friend, he doesn't happen to write PS4 graphics shaders for Frontier by any chance?

 

[Maro-Val]

Multicrew and fss. Please God.. at least no more of these great designs.

 

[Old Duck]

Multicrew and fss. Please God.. at least no more of these great designs.

I love the FSS!

 

[Maro-Val]

I love the FSS!

I know.. but i dont. I bet it is a design coming from a console user or targeting console users (no offence) and it doesnt have a place in the way we control our space ships (taking our view from the ship is lame imo). It would be fine i guess for it to be a role for a crew member to assist the captain. I imagine it something like sitting on the back position of the cutter, a terminal like that.
And it makes very difficult for me to use it or even try to find it ok-ish, the fact that we cannot AT LEAST charge the fsd while we are in the fss, or AT LEAST enter it without the need to throttle to zero (both of these would save me some time and annoying extra clicks, on specific occasions).
Or at least the possibility to use the old lame ads if i want, by occupying an internal slot and taking away the ability to use the fss.

 

[Camisade]

I love the FSS!

Yes! We especially love the part where you have to manually zoom into and back out of 10 or 15 or 20 (or even more, if you're lucky!) indistinguishably rubbish, waste-of-time USS's in the hopes that your minutes of mindless and unengaging zooming will result in that occasional single HGE! That the HGE is so rarely the material you're looking for isn't the fault of the wonderful FSS!

 

[Maro-Val]

I know.. but i dont. I bet it is a design coming from a console user or targeting console users (no offence) and it doesnt have a place in the way we control our space ships (taking our view from the ship is lame imo). It would be fine i guess for it to be a role for a crew member to assist the captain. I imagine it something like sitting on the back position of the cutter, a terminal like that.
And it makes very difficult for me to use it or even try to find it ok-ish, the fact that we cannot AT LEAST charge the fsd while we are in the fss, or AT LEAST enter it without the need to throttle to zero (both of these would save me some time and annoying extra clicks, on specific occasions).
Or at least the possibility to use the old lame ads if i want, by occupying an internal slot and taking away the ability to use the fss.

EDIT: It is fine ofc in using it inside the bubble for uss's and it is nice i guess to tag planets without travelling to them (allthough i do it to see the planets with my eyes). I also think the fss creates tourists and not explorers in my opinion ofc.
And the endless zoom in/out that Camisade above reminded me. O M G. Simply soul crashing.

 

[Old Duck]

Yes! We especially love the part where you have to manually zoom into and back out of 10 or 15 or 20 (or even more, if you're lucky!) indistinguishably rubbish, waste-of-time USS's in the hopes that your minutes of mindless and unengaging zooming will result in that occasional single HGE! That the HGE is so rarely the material you're looking for isn't the fault of the wonderful FSS!

Oh, that...... Yeah, I kinda forgot about that. Most of my "I love the FSS" poetry was written as an explorer out in deep space. Having come back to the Bubble to run missions and the like, well it's exposed me to the "darker side" of the FSS. It's one thing when I'm scanning a new solar system with 47 planets. It is quite another when I'm scanning an occupied system that has 47 transient signals...

In other words, I agree with you.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Oh, that...... Yeah, I kinda forgot about that. Most of my "I love the FSS" poetry was written as an explorer out in deep space. Having come back to the Bubble to run missions and the like, well it's exposed me to the "darker side" of the FSS. It's one thing when I'm scanning a new solar system with 47 planets. It is quite another when I'm scanning an occupied system that has 47 transient signals...

In other words, I agree with you.

You can, however, continue to use the old method to find and resolve USSs. Seems like everyone got the option to 'blaze their own trail' except explorers.

Weird, that.

 

[Old Duck]

You can, however, continue to use the old method to find and resolve USSs..

I don't know if this is old or new, but I'm glad that scanning nav beacons resolves USS when there are 40+ of them.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

I don't know if this is old or new, but I'm glad that scanning nav beacons resolves USS when there are 40+ of them.

God honk

 

[Old Duck]

God honk

Having Google Maps inside a populated system actually makes sense. In fact, the "honk" should download data directly from the Nav Beacon without having to scan it directly. However, to make things interesting, compromised Nav Beacons should have to be scanned directly (and there thus should be more compromised Nav Beacons).

I'm telling you, if Frontier would just put me in charge, I'd have this game fixed in a jiffy!

 

[Tikanderoga]

How else are MMOs going to have constant updates? Every MMO has there own problems. Its up to the owners how they fix them.

WoW seems to be doing fine. New content and updates on a regular basis, new raids and dungeons, new mechanics to learn. Sure, they have their own bugs and glitches, but I've seen a lot less salt over there than here.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Speaking of half-baked, I accompanied a friend to help him unlock the Guardian FSD Booster. Rode along in his ship thinking I could fly the SLF while he SRVs. Get there and 'lol no'! Can I use the other SRV? Lol no! What is my multi-crew option? Sit in my chair and watch from the cockpit.

Have some virtual rep my friend.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Things like that is what I use my bookmarks for. I don't mind having to find them first, the same goes for black markets, black markets should not be advertised in the station services at all. You should need to find them first.

As to the 40ly range, I suspect that is more to do with bandwidth and server loads more then game design.

That'd be ok (no not good, ok) if we had an unlimited or at least decent amount of bookmarks available not to mention that they all look the same and basically make the filter itself obsolete.