Don't you go tarring all us Brits with Frontier's appalling communication skills.
No more patch updates before Fleet Carriers?
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I appreciate the input/update.
Can we narrow this down? Maybe translate it into numbers? Like perhaps a two week period in which the announcement will take place?
Literally anything would be sweet, thanks!
I already told you we would get news tomorrow in a thread I started a few days ago. The mods closed it because they can't handle the truth...
Quick question, Stephen. Will there be a livestream explaining fleet carriers to us in advance of their deployment as promised, or will they just appear one day?
It doesn't make sense for Frontier to announce anything including a date for an announcement until they are certain of the date. By not announcing anything until they are certain it gives Frontier some flexibility in the timeline to resolve any last minute issues that appear.
I'm sure Frontier are just as eager to talk about Fleet Carriers as we are to hear about them.
I'm sure Frontier are just as eager to talk about Fleet Carriers as we are to hear about them.
It takes a long time to get from one point to another in space, and as such my expectations from ED are 'meh' - they'll get here when they get here. No point in getting upset or excited about them now. Don't expect them to be on time or work properly, then if they DO arrive on time and DO work properly then we can be pleasantly surprised
In the meantime, go find your own things to do, set your own challenges or have a long-running project to fall back on
"See? No bugs reported"
Hello Stephen!
Would be open Beta before the Fleet Carriers update?
If yes
Will Beta include Fleet Carriers in it?
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Thanks for replying Stephen. Release management is totally a thing, so combining the two together (fleet carrier's with bug-fixes) makes sense.
What we are experiencing now is the fact our community is very restless because there has been a very long gap in Elite's development with basically no new substantial content (especially for experienced players). The impatience is boiling over for many and it is making even smaller things seem like much bigger problems.
Frontier obviously made a calculated decision to refocus the vast majority of their resources into Elite's 'New Era'. Maybe that is a good decision, we will see. However, the way that decision was implemented was very harmful to the community in the short term. To your fans it just seems like the game is being pared back more and more (GALnet, CG's, II's). We want to play the game in the meantime while we wait.
Consistency has definitely been a problem as well, as past statements haven't lined up with the current plan. That is why people are confused about bug-fixes vs. fleet carriers. From the perspective of outsiders, it really does seem like folks at Frontier are making things up as they go along. That's what it looks like.
Time to look forward. It seems like that we will all be starting to climb out of this gloomy valley very soon. At some point when this drier period of Elite's history comes to an end I think the community would like the development team to communicate with us (even very broadly) acknowledging that there were some lessons learned and that they have a plan to avoid such a lengthy dearth of new content in the future. I think such an acknowledgement would go a long way to restoring trust with the community.
Here's hoping that 2020 turns out to be the start of Elite Dangerous' second golden age!
What we are experiencing now is the fact our community is very restless because there has been a very long gap in Elite's development with basically no new substantial content (especially for experienced players). The impatience is boiling over for many and it is making even smaller things seem like much bigger problems.
Frontier obviously made a calculated decision to refocus the vast majority of their resources into Elite's 'New Era'. Maybe that is a good decision, we will see. However, the way that decision was implemented was very harmful to the community in the short term. To your fans it just seems like the game is being pared back more and more (GALnet, CG's, II's). We want to play the game in the meantime while we wait.
Consistency has definitely been a problem as well, as past statements haven't lined up with the current plan. That is why people are confused about bug-fixes vs. fleet carriers. From the perspective of outsiders, it really does seem like folks at Frontier are making things up as they go along. That's what it looks like.
Time to look forward. It seems like that we will all be starting to climb out of this gloomy valley very soon. At some point when this drier period of Elite's history comes to an end I think the community would like the development team to communicate with us (even very broadly) acknowledging that there were some lessons learned and that they have a plan to avoid such a lengthy dearth of new content in the future. I think such an acknowledgement would go a long way to restoring trust with the community.
Here's hoping that 2020 turns out to be the start of Elite Dangerous' second golden age!
NOBODY urgently suggested the delay of FCs in favor of bug fixing. This is pure fake news.
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