Notice GalNet changes

Ralph Vargr · Jul 21, 2020

JesusRocks1988 said:
One thing Frontier could have done (well, there's a lot of things Frontier could have done, of course, but just stay with me here...) is leave one person in charge of Galnet to make some articles to "lore-ify" the suspension of Galnet itself and create a small story out of that to explain its disappearance from the galaxy. A relatively low-input storyline covering the period until Galnet returns, rather than just let it all dry up without any in game indication.

Traditionally, the captain is the last man left on the ship....

Factabulous · Jul 23, 2020

And then there was one ....

Now if we can just get them to remove Powerplay

Alec Turner · Jul 23, 2020

Well, it's not like there's been any "significant narrative developments" recently.

I mean, it's not as if every single damn station the Thargoids ever attacked has been repaired or anything.

K-nours · Jul 23, 2020

hum... why not make a narrative on Galnet which explain why Galnet is shutting down... or maybe the Galnetsception if off camera

Rubbernuke · Jul 23, 2020

Factabulous said:
And then there was one ....

Now if we can just get them to remove Powerplay

Watch it.

Like the perennial survivor Powerplay is the last one standing against the dark of night.

CMDR Woland92 · Jul 23, 2020

Rubbernuke said:
Watch it.

Like the perennial survivor Powerplay is the last one standing against the dark of night.

This is such a bummer.

Miko · Jul 23, 2020

Why has it become so devoid of anything? I mean, they could have at least kept the automatically generated stuff in there. It's really strange why they can't just allow for basic community goals, like bounty hunting, either. I mean, were they even hard work to implement?

Hanerib · Jul 23, 2020

It's crazy considering how easy this game is to experience as a high fantasy science mystery fiction. Just read a few thousand pages of the craziest stuff written here and you know what I mean. A few lines here and there, some symbols, a few noises and a black ship appearing somewhere, and people were jumping around like mad.

K-nours · Jul 24, 2020

The sad truth about Galnet that nobody seems to see is that is just get sick two years ago and now his just in terminal phases...
here is his health diagram

It's time to deal with the death acceptance process:
choc, deny, hanger, fear, sadness and finaly the acceptance... I think we are still stuck beetween deny and hanger

I just hope it's not spreading to the all game...

PS : I did my math from https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/ just ask me if you want the original spreadsheet

sgurr · Jul 24, 2020

Miko said:
Why has it become so devoid of anything? I mean, they could have at least kept the automatically generated stuff in there. It's really strange why they can't just allow for basic community goals, like bounty hunting, either. I mean, were they even hard work to implement?

There was never any automatically generated community goals, they were hand crafted, with a Galnet Story, every week.
It's a resource cost they clearly don't feel is worth it now, hopefully that's just because they need the resource for Odyssey and CGs/IIs will come back later (and Galnet in general)

K-nours · Jul 24, 2020

[VR] sgurr said:
It's a resource cost they clearly don't feel is worth it now, hopefully that's just because they need the resource for Odyssey and CGs/IIs will come back later (and Galnet in general)

Odyssey feel like a whole game by it self. It brings new kind of game play, needs new AI for on feet oponent, a complete rework of the physical engine, a large ammount of new 3D assets and of course tons of background story and dialogs for the suposed NPC that we will meet. I won't be surprise that it take three or for years to dev. But like any gaming project the more you progress onit, the more it costs until the release and I think they are approaching the famous CUNCH period before the final realase that all the devs are fearing, thats why they are slowly redirected all their ressources on it.

Miko · Jul 25, 2020

AR

[VR] sgurr said:
There was never any automatically generated community goals, they were hand crafted, with a Galnet Story, every week.
It's a resource cost they clearly don't feel is worth it now, hopefully that's just because they need the resource for Odyssey and CGs/IIs will come back later (and Galnet in general)

Are you telling me they couldn't automatically generate the community goals? Generic combat zone and bounty killing ones, or random materials required, much like the missions board?

sgurr · Jul 25, 2020

Miko said:
AR

Are you telling me they couldn't automatically generate the community goals? Generic combat zone and bounty killing ones, or random materials required, much like the missions board?

I was going to give you a long answer explaining why creating community goals is a v.hard thing to do without causing in game problems, never mind translating/proofing the galnet text for 6? languages.

Suffice to say Frontier have a lot of skill with automated systems and if they could have done it with community goals they would have.

Old Duck · Jul 26, 2020

Miko said:
Are you telling me they couldn't automatically generate the community goals? Generic combat zone and bounty killing ones, or random materials required, much like the missions board?

They could if they wanted to. Give me access to the CG API and I'll do it for them!

* English-only.

Rubbernuke · Jul 26, 2020

The thing is, done right you don't need CGs if the BGS is tooled up (its almost to that point now really. With IIs I'd love an in depth dev directed campaign though.

Qualityoflife · Jul 28, 2020

What about those who bought voice packs?

rootsrat · Jul 28, 2020

What is even more disappointing is that on one hand they've very recently said (not a direct quote, but the meaning is retained): "Nothing changes - we still intend to use Galnet for in-game stuff like new ship releases etc." - and on the other hand we've had 2 IN GAME things happened recently - FC release by Brewer Corporation and the AXI Community Goal, which FDEV are officially endorsing and providing a decal for attending.

And yet there is nothing in Galnet on that. There is also no info in the Codex for Brewer.

Why say things and then just do the opposite?

Old Duck · Jul 28, 2020

rootsrat said:
Why say things and then just do the opposite?

A typical developer's meeting at Frontier:

rOmiLaYu · Jul 28, 2020

rootsrat said:
What is even more disappointing is that on one hand they've very recently said (not a direct quote, but the meaning is retained): "Nothing changes - we still intend to use Galnet for in-game stuff like new ship releases etc." - and on the other hand we've had 2 IN GAME things happened recently - FC release by Brewer Corporation and the AXI Community Goal, which FDEV are officially endorsing and providing a decal for attending.

And yet there is nothing in Galnet on that. There is also no info in the Codex for Brewer.

Why say things and then just do the opposite?

Not to mention that they have removed the Vitadyne nano meds story. It was in the game, now it's gone.

Everin Grace · Jul 28, 2020

rOmiLaYu said:
Not to mention that they have removed the Vitadyne nano meds story. It was in the game, now it's gone.

Thats not surprising.

They're being called out for leaving a lot of stuff half-finished and being inconsistent on how they removed these game features.

I'm speculating but I think its pretty clear that the design philosophy now is better to have no function than a half-a$*ed function, and Galnet right now is sadly half-a$*ed.

Actions speak louder than words. And since FDev don't communicate at all its fair to say that this is the clearest message we're going to get.