AMA III - Revenge of the Glyph

[Rubbernuke]

Q: Its a known fact the Dropship, Assault Ship and Gunship are the most industrial looking and magnificent ships of the game. Why is it they have not been given paints that suit them? Paints like the Eagles Camo, or the Crossfire paint would be perfect. Can you right this injustice, and get versions of these paints for the Federal ships?

I outline my case m'lud here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/federal-dropship-variants-demand-paint-justice.560073/

 

[Grasher21]

How many minutes will the trailer of tomorrow's game play have?

 

[Zannry]

The module rewards for CGs have been great. Can we bump up the module storage cap if this type of reward will continue to be provided?

 

[Alien]

Would it be possible to have the style filter on the paintjobs on the store, let you select paintjobs such as Predator or Stygian or Midnight Black etc? so it shows all the ships and vehicles with that paintjob.

 

[CMDR John Riddler]

Are there any plans to add an option for multiple concurrent filters in the Galaxy Map? Currently for example you can select either filtering by Star Class or by Visited Systems but not both. Being able to select both of these concurrently would be of massive help in targetted exploration efforts. I guess an easier option would be to just have a toggle for Show/Don't show visited systems for each filter mode so it would be lovely to have this idea forwarded to the dev team.

 

[stringtheery]

Q: Could we get a separate option to toggle exclusion zone lines (separate from orbit lines). We often want to turn off the orbit lines but leave the exclusion zone lines on.

 

[Paul_Crowther]

Q: Could we get a keybind for 'request docking'?

Thanks for the suggestion! The best way to share your ideas for gameplay improvements or additions is to share them in our Suggestions forum.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Q: How does Odyssey deal with ship kits? Currently they are ghosts that have no collision hull. Since we can (I assume) jump onto our ships, or use them as cover will ship kits be solid? Its going to be annoying if someone hides behind a ship kit piece only to have a railgun pop them like a water balloon.

 

[Rodrigo G]

Greetings!

Is logging out (closing it) and back into the game in order for things to re-appear allowed?
Example of things to re-spawn:
-Materials (Dav's Hope; Jameson's crash site)
-NPCs (pirates with bounties and such)
-Guardian structures reset (to re-do the puzzle and get more blueprints, get more materials, etc.)

I personally don't see a reason why it wouldn't be allowed, but I just want to be 100% sure.

Thanks for doing this AMA!

 

[Hammersmith]

Q: "What's something you wanted to show off in the Odyssey trailer, but couldn't, that you can also talk to us about and promote before it actually drops?"

 

[PerchyPanther]

Crossplay?

Never or Maybe?

 

[Grimscrub]

Regarding the 'Eagle Eye' AEGIS installations...
A small group of us (across AXI, Canonn, and other groups) have been consistently checking the Eagle Eye broadcasts every week, and back during thargoid incursions multiple times per week. Since the Enclave initiative, barring Jan/February it has focused on the exact same six systems consistently.

Should we infer anything from this, or consider it effectively on standby for now and relax until further developments?
As the systems have been checked - and even used for one player-driven community goal in the case of Sterope II - and not offered anything unusual for their respective nebulae/locations.

 

[Namsel]

Will we be able to fly other CMDRs' ships in Odyssey? Wether if it's by multicrew or stealing?

 

[Rubbernuke]

Q: After a hard day out in space, we all love comfort food. Given Odyssey has stations and kiosks, will we see Kumo Burger or KFC (not todays KFC but the Kumo equivalent) for sale?

 

[Stone Smith]

Regarding some comments that AMA is not giving enough information, how about giving some tips each launch on the area you would have some information to share that time? or giving out some information at the start at minimum amount permitted?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

With the Marlinist refugees' citizenship in the news lately, could you give us a lore summary (no spoilers, just things a reasonably well-informed person of the 3300s would already know) of how superpower citizenship works, please?

 

[Paul_Crowther]

Will we be able to hire npc in places normally reserved for multi-crew ?
Will we be able to win back an admiral and hire a small fleet of ships that can be sent to different missions (approximately as it is done in star trek online or no man's sky)?

We're aiming to do a forum post answering questions on Odyssey in the future and we will get this added to the list

 

[Arthur Tolmie]

Major concern regarding Odyssey and what will happen after it's launch. I understand the focus is Odyssey right now and probably everyone is fully committed on it, but I find it quite incomprehensible on how long it takes Frontier to solve MAJOR bugs that have been reported for months and still no patch has been applied. I know as CMs you say "it's being solved and when the fix is available, we will roll it out".

So my question is: after Odyssey is launched, will we see activity from the Devs team to be around for bug fixing within few days or will Elite Dangerous fall in the "low priority project" once again? In fact, are there plans to keep updating Elite Dangerous after Odyssey?

The game has soooo much potential and unlimited possible content such as knowing more about Thargoids, possibility of having new type of aliens, continue the amazing lore, and the list goes on with soooo much you can add into the game. My main concern is that Elite Dangerous falls in the "forgotten" drawer as it happened after Horizons, I really am afraid of that

I understand your concerns and where they come from. I can assure you that the team and I will not be ignoring any issues current or historic. We will continue to push these under the nose of those that need to see them.

Whilst we aim to always release an issue free update / expansion with a game of this size and scope it is ineveitble that some will arrise. I am currently working with the dev team to look at what practical timelines we can set for updates post launch, with the current world situation in place.

-Arf

 

[CMDR The Riz]

Q: What level of customization will players have over their FPS weapons in Odyssey? Will we be able to change/add sights, scopes, attachments, skins, etc.?

 

[CMDR AL-CELESTYEL]

Q: Will we have the possibility to have our CMDR Names marked on planets in the style of : "First landed on by CMDR X" ? like it is now for newly discovered and mapped planets ?

Thank you