State of the Game

[WhiteShadow]

Behold, a spicy cat meme...

Careful, she bites if approached!

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Did my own screenshot get modded out there?

 

[Valorin]

Actually I did, but then I forgot... At my age thats pretty normal

I keep refreshing my memory every few years.

 

[Darth Ender]

Did my own screenshot get modded out there?

It was reported for being political.

 

[AngryAntz]

one can imagine a game where you have the distance between bodies take time... and wait ..now this is where it gets crazy complicated.

You do things during that journey that fall within the general idea of gameplay.

This goes on for much of the time spent getting to the next body so that the entire journey is less about "taking time" and basically just the game you are playing.


Now i can understand if that concept is above your ability to comprehend. It's obviously above Fdev's. But i assure you, it's not magic.

I wasn't look to have my point proven... but thanx

 

[Amy Pendergast]

Did my own screenshot get modded out there?

Na, that's just the strange upload function. It does this sometimes if you send your post too fast.

 

[WhiteShadow]

Behold, a spicy cat meme...

Careful, she bites if approached!

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(Edited to put back my own darn screenshot)

Fixed it...

 

[AngryAntz]

Na, that's just the strange upload function. It does this sometimes if you send your post too fast.

I just thought it was some weird WhiteShadow joke.

Figured their brain was still mush from reading this entire thread

 

[Boomtrooper]

Fixed it...

It would be an... unusual... algorithm that found that overly saucy and offensive...

 

[AngryAntz]

Fixed it...

I looked... you really should have worried about it

 

[AngryAntz]

It would be an... unusual... algorithm that found that overly saucy and offensive...

Censors working Over...time

 

[Darth Ender]

I wasn't look to have my point proven... but thanx

people want immersion, they also want a game. the two aren't mutually exclusive in a sci fi space game. You dont need to simulate the boring actual reality of space travel any more than you need to simulate the mundane tedious tasks of life in a first person shooter to have a decently realistic and fun one.

you dont need to abandon the 1:1 galaxy to get players on board with it taking a long time to get to some destination if they're busy with fun gameplay during the journey. Rather than just what we have now.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

one can imagine a game where you have the distance between bodies take time... and wait ..now this is where it gets crazy complicated.

You do things during that journey that fall within the general idea of gameplay.

This goes on for much of the time spent getting to the next body so that the entire journey is less about "taking time" and basically just the game you are playing.


Now i can understand if that concept is above your ability to comprehend. It's obviously above Fdev's. But i assure you, it's not magic.

Players request stuff to do in supercruise
Players stack missions
Players complain about being constantly interrupted in supercruise

There is no winning here.

 

[WhiteShadow]

I just thought it was some weird WhiteShadow joke.

Figured their brain was still mush from reading this entire thread

Oh, it definitely is mushed... just not only from this thread though... A day spent dealing with idio.... customers does that to you...

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Censors working Over...time

You've misquoted that song.
It's 'Centaurs'

 

[WhiteShadow]

It would be an... unusual... algorithm that found that overly saucy and offensive...

That's what I was thinking... It's not as if she's even showing her ankles...

 

[Darth Ender]

Players request stuff to do in supercruise
Players stack missions
Players complain about being constantly interrupted in supercruise

There is no winning here.

because interdictions are just interruptions. They offer nothing to the player in terms of gameplay. You either skip away from them or instantly kill them. The net effect is just a waste of time.

that's not added gameplay content. That's just a time sink.

 

[Lone_star]

I want faster immersion, dammit!

I mean it is a magic space drive.... it could just go faster

 

[AngryAntz]

Oh, it definitely is mushed... just not only from this thread though... A day spent dealing with idio.... customers does that to you...

Tell me about it... I too have to put up with those arxh... umm valued contributors to the business

 

[Boomtrooper]

people want immersion, they also want a game. the two aren't mutually exclusive in a sci fi space game. You dont need to simulate the boring actual reality of space travel any more than you need to simulate the mundane tedious tasks of life in a first person shooter to have a decently realistic and fun one.

you dont need to abandon the 1:1 galaxy to get players on board with it taking a long time to get to some destination if they're busy with fun gameplay during the journey. Rather than just what we have now.

Waaahhhhhhhh! Back to cat memes.....

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

because interdictions are just interruptions. They offer nothing to the player in terms of gameplay. You either skip away from them or instantly kill them. The net effect is just a waste of time.

that's not added gameplay content. That's just a time sink.

One man's gameplay content is another man's timesink.
It was ever thus.