You are assuming Fdev havent already done that.
Seems to have as many issues as other games with a similar scope.
Except they have said from the word go that the game has bee designed to add things such as space legs and planetary landings from the word go. So they either lied or you are wrong.
Is it cumbersome though. The current situation is most likely to do with having such a small team working on things while the majority are working on the big update. Sure there have been bugs in other updates but nothing to the scale of the last one. If the next 6 months are being used to squash bugs, then code will be rewritten and possibly getting rid of some of the speghettified code.
Code is always being rewritten when updates, patches expansions are created.
Elite is ready designed around first person. We can already dock with our ships and SRVs. Writing a whole new core to incorporate everything that has been added would entail having to write it all again from scratch. Do you think they can do that in two years and add base building and/or space legs or atmospherics and associated gameplay in that time. That's crazy talk. That is probably 6-7 years of work right there for a 100 person team (and its not even a 100).
That wouldn't be possible as it would have all been written with the current code in mind. It would have to be drastically changed/altered.
Can't see that happening either. Cosmetics will not fund any expansions. LOTRO has cosmetics but you still need to pay for major expansions or have to wait 6-7 months so you can buy it with points.
I expect there to be a long beta for the update that will hopefully fix most of the game breaking bugs which they have done before. I really do not know why they stopped with the betas as they are obviously needed. Most online games do them for any significant code changes in the game, Fdev should really do the same.
show 
Yup. So what.
Why. It would be just another vehicle. That's makes no sense.
How would that work. You can't just rip bits of code and slot them in to something else. Doesn't work like that.
No they really haven't. NMS is utterly simplistic compared to ED. The game even with the improvements is utter pants. Not a good example.
If you looked at the report and accounts you would know that they are still selling copies of the game as well as horizons. They are not relying on cosmetics. They do not make enough money.
Which wouldn't make sense if they want to produce space legs at the same graphical style that the rest of the game is based. It just wouldn't be possible. Remember they want people to buy the expansion. Nobody will buy it if all it does is give us the same stuff but slightly more stable. There is no logic to what you are saying.
What evidence. You have shown none so far, if anything, the evidence is completely against what your gut feeling is saying.
) in case there are further delays to New Era, or some stuff has to be left out entirely from New Era. Perhaps they consider that in 6-8 months time the code for 'New Era' will be sufficiently complete to release FC's on the new code base? Conjecture, I admit - but it would make more sense than having a 'complete' (which FC's would have had to be at the time of the delay being announced) add-on shelved at the 11th hour as it must have been in the 'integration' phase at the time of the announcement, surely?
Sorry, but I see no evidence of 'limitations". All I see is stuff that hasn't been developed yet and there is nothing to suggest the current code can't do it.I don't read any of that into what Mengy is saying. He's giving his opinion based on what he sees, and feels, as we all do. But on the SRV he correctly points out differences between the SLF and SRV:
"It's why we can dismiss the ship while in the SRV but NOT while in the SLF, the two vehicles are handled completely differently. It's also why multicrew can't work with the SRV either.
In short, Elite's vehicular code is fragmented and disjointed, and I suspect it would make any first person mode for the game nigh impossible to implement. My hunch is FD discovered this and decided to rewrite the core now in order to not only put space legs in but make all other vehicles handled consistently too. '
Whether or not it's fragmented doesn't really matter to the point he is making. The SRV was never claimed to put us into this awful excuse of teleprescence. We are in the SRV and the ship stays put, unmanned, or is dismissed to safe orbit. Teleprescence, unlike for everything else it seems, has not applied to the SRV except, incongruously, when we enter the turret mode.
But for the next Big Thing, if we can get out of the SRV, or even the ship, on a planet or in a station, there has to be a compatibility with the existing code. Mengy is suggesting that may not work at present, and a way has to be found to marry the two together.
Then there's the issue of our relationship with NPCs. At the moment we don't see any. If we walk around our ships, we will have to be able to see our crew members. So the limitations of what they appear unable to do at present will have to be overcome next time around.
And you say "What's the point in spending half year to iron out the bugs to just remove all of that work afterwards. A monumental waste of time and money." Which is a clue to what is going on. It won't be entirely a new Cobra engine that takes over next time, but all the new features will be bolted onto the existing programming that we have now.
I should imagine Legs/Atmos/Bases are being developed just fine in their isolation on Dev computers, but it's how the final result interacts with the existing base game when the two are married together is what is causing FD so much concern. They have to understand how the ARX fiasco caused so much disruption and dare not introduce the carriers (which must be close to completion if the trailer was any sign of this) into the existing 'back end.'
They've estimated 6 to 8 months work to get the existing game ready for marrying to the New Era . Then, they say, they will introduce the FCs. Fleet Carriers might become the test of whether they can match the existing features to the new game without major disruption.
But being cynical, I can see further delays to hold carriers as a carrot (Fleet Carrots?
Meanwhile, we will remain in 'maintenance mode' with IIs to keep the masses 'happy' until the end of next year.
That line of conjecture makes sense to me.
'cry' as 'scream', or 'cry' as 'weep'?
It would be interesting to go back four years and look at previous theory-crafting and comparing it to the reality of subsequent years. Interesting and depressing.
I will just go by what they said. An expansion to the current game.
Isn't the latest II an answer to Eurotruck simulator?
