You clearly don't do combat much! when in the middle of clearing a conflict zone tackling a NPC wing single handed you lose shields and they pop your canopy, and you have 5 mins+ of oxygen to reach a station, once you arrive, you dock, repair, rearm, fly out, get back in the fight asap. No need to enter the services menu,
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You clearly don't do combat much! when in the middle of clearing a conflict zone tackling a NPC wing single handed you lose shields and they pop your canopy, and you have 5 mins+ of oxygen to reach a station, once you arrive, you dock, repair, rearm, fly out, get back in the fight asap. No need to enter the services menu,
somehow i bought carrier in yesterday lags, but money didnt spent and carrier is in decomission state.
I want to add my voice to this one - I really don't like the new station services menu redesign at all. Several reasons ...
1) On behalf of a small but (imho) signifcant group of players (The Buckyball Racing Club) can I just say that our races rely 100% on being able to see a clock on the screen somewhere (submissions for our time trial races take the form of a set of screenshots, with the visible clock being used to verify people's times). Primarily we rely on the station services clock as the official race start and finish time. By removing that you have seriously affected our ability to judge our races. Now, while it is still possible to use the cockpit HUD clock for this purpose, the problem with that is that frequently it's very difficult if not impossible to read due to it being obscured by glare from cockpit or external lights, or because of VR or headlook movement. Over the past 5 years and 70+ races I could probably lay my hands on hundreds of screenshots to prove this. I'm very aware that we're a small number of players in the grand scheme of things but I would like to think that we've made our mark on the Elite: Dangerous galaxy and deserve to be heard.
2) Whether or not some people might grow to like the new UI and find it handy to be able to avoid one extra click when refuelling, by changing this you've basically affected the muscle memory of an activity which every single player does probably 100's of times a week. I would speculate that, in the short term at least, this will actually make those quick access "toolbar" functions harder to perform because people now have to stop and think about them.
3) This one's subtle but important. By changing the UI you actually stop people going into Station services. It's a bit like having a lovely shopping center full of enticing things to see and do and then selling socks and sweets outside the front door. You prevent people from going in for those things and then being enticed (or reminded) to get a few other things while they're there (maybe picking up a mission or two, perhaps claiming some bounties or doing a spot of remote engineering).
4) More of a basic grumble than an actual reason - why on earth did you feel the need to change this at all Frontier? It just didn't need changing. Golden rule - if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Please reconsider this change?
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New Bug here. It appears that for whatever reason, my route plotting acts as if I've enabled jet cone boosts even though I've got them disabled. The game also thinks that my Mamba has a 100ly jump range when I attempt to change the filters or swap to realistic Gal-Map. I'm also getting duplicate messages about my recent promotion (day before the patch) to triple elite filling my inbox and spamming the message received sound.
Mission boards haven't been working for me at all since the update, can't get a single one to update, tried going to about 6 or 7 different systems and all mission givers have 0/0 missions.
I'm getting the usual CZ battle cries from the NPC's... But someone has stolen the CZ's!
Sure it'll be fixed later today.
Sure it'll be fixed later today.
Frontier's QA is terrible.. I'm not saying the team is terrible - who knows, maybe they do their jobs and the developers just blow them off. But whoever is to blame, quality is never assured when it comes to Elite Dangerous. Once you realize this is an immutable fact, you go into these updates well aware and prepared for the inevitable failures to follow, and that makes the pill easier to swallow. At least that's been my experience.
BTW, I doubt a skeleton crew could have fixed all the problems in this update. I'll be surprised if everything is fully up in running proper before next week.
I was able to buy a FC this morning finally
Don't see any advantage to the new options that make it worth messing things up for one of the most enthusiastic and innovative groups of players. So you can have a +1 from me.
Thanks dude ... really appreciate that!
I agree this (and most other updates) is a half-baked cake full of bugs. The sad thing is that they already pushed this update back SIX months (remember this was scheduled for December 2019), so time does not equate to quality at Frontier.
Which brings me back to my initial stance - what good could a bunch of sleep-deprived developers actually have been in the wee hours of the morning? If anything they might have made things worse in that state. People think all of this can be fixed in a few hours - ha ha ha, I laugh at such naivety! It will likely be DAYS (if not weeks) before everything is fully and properly fixed. With this in mind, let the poor humans get some sleep and a bite to eat - except David Braben, who has been asleep at the wheel for years now and needs to be shaken awake to deal with this mess of his.
The same was said for the Arx implementation. Are you going to trot that line out for Space Legs when that inevitably breaks? Just let them fix it.
Anyone else having an issue where their NPC crewmember visually changed appearance?