Mac video hardware was already excluded by Horizons. Maybe the 2020 update is waiting on consoles?
ANNOUNCEMENT January Update - Beta Announcement
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no, I said that the delay also happens to me, and I do not see it as a problem, since it is assumed that if you are exploring, everything is quieter / slower. If you want to find a tree or a crystal, you simply look at it in the codex and travel. For ship wrecks, bases and others, there are quite a few external tools. And I repeat, experiencing the same as everyone else, I don't consider it a problem. I see it a logical time ,considering that you go to scan is not a supermarket product, it is a planet with thousands of kilometers of land millions of kilometers away. Seems you ignored this point.
Like everyone else, I have my own interests in elite, but I don't doubt that I like to see and try everything.
Edited: I was also before 3.3, when you had to fly over the planets. Now you have the DSS, it's there for something.
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@Stephen Benedetti If we earn ARX from activities in the beta, will they be wiped like everything else?
If we can't keep them I'm going to need a few days to collect my 400 while NOT doing any beta testing.
If we can't keep them I'm going to need a few days to collect my 400 while NOT doing any beta testing.
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Pardon my giggles. It's a Birmingham thing...
The (free) old-age bus pass gives half-price travel, but only outside peak times. Peak times end at 9am, and little old ladies tend to get up at dawn to do their shopping.
These ladies are known by the bus drivers as "twirlies" because they gather around the bus stops at around 8:30 and when the bus opens its doors they ask plaintively "Am I tw'early?"
Yeah, exactly.
Couldn't find the comment, but did double check against the Generating a Galaxy stream and Geological/Tectonic Activity is there as it's own line in the list of things done as part of the general procedural generation process. (Posted it here for reference). I think ultimately it's a fairly simple principle - simulating a planet which is active is always going to be more complex than one's that inactive.Yeah, indeed.
Slightly OT, but this kind of stuff can be expected to be a major factor effecting the development of atmos landings. The procedural generation has to spin up the same thing at the same point at the same time for everyone, with the flow of time simulated within that. The complexity of that will go up in orders of magnitude as what needs to be taken into account gets more complicated. There's a fairly predictable sequence for the order of those complexity increases for lifeless worlds. Once life gets involved though things are going to get a major jump in complexity.
Back on topic, removing the dependency on full planet generation for POI indication might actually be something that is going to be much more necessary for the future. On one side of it there's the increases in time needed for full planet generation for things like the Geo POIs (where we can expect the numbers of sites per body to remain similar to what we already see), but on another much more practical side, there's the question of what will constitute a POI on atmos bodies? Rivers, lakes, herds of animals, and so on and so forth? And if so, how many hundreds or thousands would there be on a body? All told, taking an indicative approach for 'natural' POIs might actually be a better longer term approach.
If they snapshotted my main CMDR a few days ago he was still outside the bubble. I want to take him out to an area that I explored with an alt CMDR a while back, where I documented what bodies have bio+geo locations (though not geo alone, unfortunately). That should make it relatively easy to test the proposed system.
But five days really isn't enough time to do a thorough job, especially with the BGS changes where changes appear only on the daily tick.
I have to admit that I am quite disappointed by this news.
Where Frontier is taking its time to address pretty much exclusively current shortcomings leaving us waiting for any substantial new features & content for (yet another) year, this would have been the time to address such request. While I understand that Pimax users are still a niche within the niche of VR (though that will have grown to form a rather formidable 'niche' within the ED user base in the meantime), I think show-casing ED in a Pimax is as good as the game can be experienced, and canted displays will become the norm for future headsets offering a wider field of view.
It would have been great if ED, after all a pioneer & pinnacle of games with VR support, would have shown some avantgarde spirit and taken the game to new heights.
I am currently hanging out on the other side of the galaxy, planning to claw my way back to the bubble until substantial new content releases, which gives me roughly another year to do so. Seeing a chance to do so with a high supersampling ratio in my Pimax headset would have provided some extra motivation during an extended stretch of 'nothing to see here' in terms of pushing the game to the next level, or at least noticeably advancing the experience.
I guess I will be extending my time-out then and have another look come spring or summer 2020.
It seems that Frontier is focussing on other brands, perhaps understandably because this is a game sold to me years ago, and any current efforts on the game may be considered wasted money and the fact that they will charge us for the next season perhaps doesn't justify any greater expenses on an old game.
I just had hoped that Frontier would keep treating ED like an ongoing project while it seems that that approach is slowly dwindling, they are just trying to be polite while reducing the scale of their efforts year over year. After next year's new season we may never see another new season again. I just hope some other game will pick it up if Frontier let it go, I love the concept and idea. Not sure that Star Citizen will ever make a jump to VR though as it seems a slightly out-of-control project with too many layers of complexity already, so let's hope some other surprise game is already wokring its way to the surface to bring us to the next level and adopt the lost souls of ED commanders... inlcuding full VR support for all high-end VR headsets, as one of many points...
January Update - Beta
Seriously? This is the list of "major fixes"? I think you've got your priorities wrong. How about being able to store my cargo from a ship at a station? Is that too much to ask? Or not a serious enough issue?
Sorry but that sounds more like a change, in place of a bug fix, which they have stated what this would be.
The inability to use cargo storage other than on your ship is a design decision not a bug, it gets raised and moaned about over in Dangerous Discussions every month or so whenever they get bored with all the other perpetual arguments.
Boooo, bad Fdevs. The new Pimax HMD (8k+ and 8kx) are likely to be very very good you should look into supporting them.
I've never seen a volcanic landable planet w/o geo features. If you find one, please post here it's location. Not saying you're wronfr, I've just never seen one.
Terminators....That's robotism! Robots have feelings and rights too! What do they have against us robots?
Sure. Will keep my eyes open.