In theory if you were in the process of developing ship interiors, adding more ships to the game would greatly increase your already large workload.
I feel like that isn’t a good enough answer to why a space game that literally starts you out in a space ship alone and unafraid doesn’t regularly pump out new space ships. The concept just blows my mind.
You really believe that?
I believe you are most likely never going to get the answer you seek, and in the unlikely event that you do, you will not like it once you have it. But that's just me.
No not at all, I’ve been here since GPP and I’ve seen and felt all the development blunders along the way. But this one perplexes me even more than adding an FPS that no significant majority asked for. Paid DLC and not a single new ship, who sat in that conference room and said, yeah sounds good let’s roll with it.
Well I mean I'm not psychic. I have no idea what's going on behind the curtain. I used to play world of tanks and it seems like every other month they are/were pumping out new tanks. If FD added a new ship every month and they actually were hypothetically making ship interiors then they would have 36 additional spaces to both create and try to make unique looking. That amount of work would become overwhelming quickly and wed end up with cookie cutter interiors.
Variety. Plain and simple. New ships keep the game fresh, it’s almost as good as- if not better than, new content. And in some cases it IS new content when they typically put it behind a grind wall. Balance I see as a non issue honestly for the exact reason you mentioned with engineers. Just make a few minor tweaks in one specific area to a template FDev no doubtedly already has and viola. Just make something aesthetically pleasing that a min-maxer can tool with. I still just can’t see any valid excuse as to why this wouldn’t be a thing
I did watch the video and it just struck a cord, because I have brought this topic up on this forum countless times at this point. 3 years and 1 paid DLC later it just blows my mind.Someone watched Ant's latest video.
One possible reason for no new ships is FD just made a huge mess of their latest paid DLC and they're still scrabbling around trying to fix that. It's quite possible new ships were planned as part of that DLC but they're currently on hold because huge mess.
Another is just that the ships we already have have lost a lot of their original speciality due to the amount of customisation, engineering, new modules,etc now available. For example, pretty much any ship can be made into a perfectly usable explorer now. So, you could almost say what would be the point of even more ships?
Don't get me wrong, I'd like some new ships. I'd also like a version of Odyssey I can play.
Yeah, I watched it too. Getting ED content from Ant feels like a rare treat lately.
You’re correct, but obviously not in the way you‘re intending. People who take the time to register an account on a company run public forum are the minority of players. Those who choose to comment with any frequency after making that account are even fewer. Public forums have always given an outsized voice to the complainers. People don’t make accounts to comment on public forums to say “well done, keep up the good work.” They make accounts to complain. Please don’t let the echo chamber these forums, and the comment sections below a YouTube video make actually convince you that you speak for the majority of the player base. That’s happening way to frequently in our society today as it is. The vocal minority is just that, nothing more.
Cognitive dissonance.
To make even better explorers?
