Standard powerplay/carrier upkeep day. Doubtful hotspots were fixed, likely won't be for weeks.
ANNOUNCEMENT Fleet Carriers Update - Patch 3
Standard powerplay/carrier upkeep day. Doubtful hotspots were fixed, likely won't be for weeks.
The servers are offline because the weekly programed downtime, as every week. Although I would like them to solve the problem they have introduced ...
How can I contact the support people directly? I've never had to do that before?
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I understand all of that, I hear you loud and clear but the idea that "FD hates its players', is just rubbish.
I wouldn't say they hate their player base.
I think they either:
1. don't understand us because they don't play their own game (and when they do on streams it's with a modified account that has billions of credits/mats/whatever) or
2. they just simply ignore us because they don't really care or
3. their code is now in such a mess that they don't even know what they are doing anymore.
All three options are equally sad.
In my real job I work closely with a team of software developers. We never let them make decisions because whilst they are fantastic at coding they are absolutely awful at real life. This situation smacks of coders deciding what to do and not management.
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Do you honestly think they will answer, they dont listen to us so how will they answer. Sorry since the patch yesterday for the first time playing this game for years i just dont get Frontiers direction anymore
I really believe that they have a difficult job.
Take Fleet Carries, people had been asking for them forever. FD say ok. No one on here has agreed before, during or after release how they should work. Inevitably they have created people who love them and people who hate them. In any implementation of them, the same outcome would have happened.
People have been saying mining should be nerfed for months. Even with the radical nerfing we saw yesterday. some hate it but crucially, some are applauding it.
There isn't a single aspect of this game where everyone agrees. This leads to wave after wave of people complaining bitterly about the lack of or the implementation of some feature of the game.
I'm not saying FD couldn't improve their talking and listening skills, but trying to make everyone happy seems like an impossible chance on the most simplest of issues.
I only seem to get this when the vpn freaks out or queues an update.
You cannot introduce something like Fleet carriers and then remove the ability to buy/support it.
Get Elite G19s for background radio chatter.
Of the 3 points I wrote I think the first one is the crucial one.
FDev don't play their own game and therefore they don't know what the game actually needs. If you combine it with them not testing their patches more thoroughly you end up with assumptions that they don't know what they are doing.
Mining nerf was inevitable but IF they tested their patch before releasing it they would realize that they also screwed up tritium mining. Which is a HUUUGE part of FC gameplay.
The same goes for the infamous Clipper ship kit, missing discovery tags and other mix-ups in the past.
Not understanding their own game and very little (if any) testing is where this got us.
And I am not surprised that the community is fed up (again).
Yes, that sounds about right.
How long do you think the game is dead to people like me before they fix the **** up?
I agree. You need skilled analysts who know the product deeply to interact with the developers and dictate the design changes to the dev teams. The changes applied to mining smack of someone who doesn't understand the nature of the change and its impact at a basic level.
I love the game, and I wont stop playing but.... My goodness Frontier, I honestly think you're getting things wrong on purpose now.