This makes me sad I really love role playing as a first responder
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Its just my guess, so don't take it as set in stone
We know from leaks that Thargoids will be seen on foot, you never know what might happen in the end.
rootsrat
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Also, there is zilch about Brewer in the Codex. Nothing about any of the corporations previously involved in Interstellar Initiatives either. The lore is dead.
I know thanks commander I just hope there will still be a role of this type to playIts just my guess, so don't take it as set in stone
We know from leaks that Thargoids will be seen on foot, you never know what might happen in the end.
Plenty of roll play to be had in the game ahead ...
thats a good one is there any jam by the way
Thinking about it for the very first time (because I don't really see the contradiction) : the nano-thingy article was on the same day as the carriers release, 9th, ie part of the carriers release? So there's no contradiction there, just someone at fdev working from home for whatever reason decided nano-thingys were the story not the sudden lore-destroying-impossible-to-explain-bubble-wide-appearance-of-giant-carriers themselves. Sounds to me like fdev did use galnet for the carrier release, just not the words you expected to read.
Could someone write some fluff now about expensive carriers everywhere, mining hotspots, carrier highways? Sure, why not.
Has the game actually changed between yesterday and today? Or between the galnet article on 9th and today? Probably not.
I hoped this wouldn't happen, but feared it would. Very sad to hear.
Steve was the guy I worked most closely with in the latter stages of the Formidine Rift and Salomé stuff - He's a great guy and I hope he does well. Big loss to ED though. With MB not involved since 2017... I have no idea if there is anyone left in the ED team who either knows or cares about Galnet, CGs or the deeper lore of the game franchise. They've churned quite a lot of staff in the last few years.
If I could, I would too. But we can't.
I suppose we'll truly know its dead when it disappears from the UI in the cockpit. There's very little point in in taking up 'real estate' on the screen when it doesn't do anything anymore. Same goes for the Codex really.
Cheers,
Drew.
rootsrat
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If I could, I would too. But we can't.
We maintain a Polish version of Galnet for our community and we occasionally (used to more often than now) post articles related to our faction, activities and events and the local lore. We have a team of writers, basically. It's all in Polish though.
I do wonder if part of the thinking behind the removal of Galnet for now at least is that it creates a lot of translation engineering debt, this may represent a significant ongoing cost that Frontier feel could be better used elsewhere.
One of the noticeable changes to the UI in recent times has been the incorporation of Ideograms/pictograms to represent things in the game, rather than words. Ideograms/pictograms apart from being better for the mind. We actually compute their meaning faster than words, also reduce the need for written language within the game.
One of the noticeable changes to the UI in recent times has been the incorporation of Ideograms/pictograms to represent things in the game, rather than words. Ideograms/pictograms apart from being better for the mind. We actually compute their meaning faster than words, also reduce the need for written language within the game.
The closest really would be INARA with its BBS adverts, and other features- ironically aping the games before ED.
I mean, we can do it like this, all it takes is for FD to do some allow / deny like squadrons:
Galnet is dead. Let us fill the void using reverse newspaper subscriptions using squadron like opt in
For some time now Galnet (and the general storytelling/ scene setting) has stopped. Galnet lies empty, and Galnet Audio collateral damage. Hopefully the New Era will restart this, but if not ED has a bit of an ongoing problem thats never been really sorted. We have the official ED story thats...
Yep, try are gently killing it, one weasle worded statement at a time...
rootsrat
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The closest really would be INARA with its BBS adverts, and other features- ironically aping the games before ED.
I mean, we can do it like this, all it takes is for FD to do some allow / deny like squadrons:
Galnet is dead. Let us fill the void using reverse newspaper subscriptions using squadron like opt in
For some time now Galnet (and the general storytelling/ scene setting) has stopped. Galnet lies empty, and Galnet Audio collateral damage. Hopefully the New Era will restart this, but if not ED has a bit of an ongoing problem thats never been really sorted. We have the official ED story thats...forums.frontier.co.uk
I don't think it will ever happen. FDEV canned anything community created apart from the big events. I think a project like that would be just too much content moderation for them. Maybe?
Automate it? Dunno. Not my field really. But I think you could automate it to a bearable degree quite easily with the current AI tech. The AI could even write the articles instead of moderating them
Sorry bud, but what I specifically mean is that what Stephen said last night has already been stated many times already. He didn't say anything new.
I mean, he literally says "One question was 'what's happening with Galnet?'. We see this most weeks, but we know it's a really important thing, so I'm more than happy to explain it each time."
I think it's worth bearing in mind that it wasn't a pre-scripted statement, it was just a response to a question from the chat. It's not the first time that the question's come up and it's not the first time it's been answered, so I think Stephen's exact wording last night needs to be taken with that in mind.
Like I said in one of the previous posts, people asked FD to be more interactive and immediately responsive to questions in livestreams and they've done so, so I think we need to give them a bit of leeway - otherwise the message we're sending them is 'sack that off, don't respond to questions from the chat, just read a pre-scripted statement at the start of the chat'.
Got to disagree with the steps as well. There's only been two substantive changes.
- Stopping of the 'fluff' galnet articles and the splitting of those fluff resources onto Odyssey and the FD-lead in-game events. (Aug last year)
- The change to FD's pre-Odyssey approach (Oct last year), and the stopping of FD-lead in-game events that was part of that change.
Just seems to me that the general situation is:
- No FD-lead activities currently planned prior to Odyssey
- How things will work post Odyssey release is TBC
.(Having said all that, I do think there's probably something in all this about communication, and differing levels of messaging to different parts of the playerbase, which is something that FD could probably do with picking up on.)
That is a bit of a distortion of things @zimms .
No, indeed, the players’ complaints about Galnet were not a demand that it be shut down. Galnet didn't stop as a direct result of that anyway though.
The current situation is the cumulation of multiple things. You're taking one aspect and saying that that in itself didn't result in the cumulative result. Is anyone actually claiming it did? I certainly didn't.
The accusations you're levelling against FD really don't make sense given that they're based on a distorted version of events.
And who's blaming the players for everything? I didn't. I said that both players and FD needed to up their game on specific things. And they do.
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Wondered why I was getting so many notifications about this thread.
Join me, Commanders, in the system called Acceptance. Been there for a while now. Once you enter the system, the anger fades away and is replaced by disappointment....and tea.
Join me, Commanders, in the system called Acceptance. Been there for a while now. Once you enter the system, the anger fades away and is replaced by disappointment....and tea.
I just wanted to pick up on this as I think it shows why the situation is more complex than it may seem.
Take Gan Romero. (Yeah, I know.)
- Did that storyline have in-game relevance? Yes, absolutely it did.
- Was that in-game relevance in the form that everyone wanted it to be? No it wasn't.
The form some wanted for it was totally contradictory to the form it had, and giving those people what they wanted would have destroyed key aspects of it for others.
Is there a simple way in which FD could have reconciled that situation? (And when I say simple, I mean both simple and in a way that wouldn't just mean making one group happy at the expense of another group.)
I'll be there in 8 months if Powerplay gets nothing again. Until that time, I'm dispensing G5 dark humour while snacking on Kumo Burgers.
Simple: you have rumors, why not have a message pop up saying the story generated one?
Plenty of jam tomorrow.