Oh wow you're so cool I wish I was as cool as you are.
Out in the Maya system, on the ground in the SRV, frame rates vary between 60 down to 45 FPS. Once in a settlement, drops to between 40-35 FPS. Went to one of the fleet carriers in the area, landed, going down into the hanger, FPS drops to 35, then back up to 40. Walking from ship to lift isn't bad, still between 35-40 FPS.
BUT, once into the inner decks, it becomes a slide show in certain areas. In the lounge, where you can SIT and watch the show out the window, dropped to around 15 FPS at times. This was with settings on ULTRA and a few adjustments on the graphic settings (that FX thingy). Otherwise, I'm getting around 60 FPS under normal conditions (normal being "out in space").
Looks nice but need to work on that "culling" thing that I hear so much about.
BUT, once into the inner decks, it becomes a slide show in certain areas. In the lounge, where you can SIT and watch the show out the window, dropped to around 15 FPS at times. This was with settings on ULTRA and a few adjustments on the graphic settings (that FX thingy). Otherwise, I'm getting around 60 FPS under normal conditions (normal being "out in space").
Looks nice but need to work on that "culling" thing that I hear so much about.
Couple of bugs .. similar to others I guess; can't access ship livery when docked carrier, had to relog to disembark again, can't chat when sitting down .. no doubt stability bugs. Overall nice though and the (3) free internal colour schemes a nice touch. Cheers for those!
Oh and being able to access carrier admin (esp. navigation) from the captain's char would be good too, if poss, even if only via the context wheel.
Oh and being able to access carrier admin (esp. navigation) from the captain's char would be good too, if poss, even if only via the context wheel.
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It's a quantum button. If you look at it, or think about it, it will become unusable. If you don't, it's there.So what's that - and when? After a complete reload, still no dice...
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You never fail to undercut my already extremely low expectations. Congratulations!
What's really, REALLY needed for visitors to take note of: What movies are you showing on the lower decks. Did "ROCKY 5,000" come out yet? How about "STAR TREK 3,780 - The Search for The Son of Spock's Love Child"? Or one that I'm sure we've all been waiting for "The Adventures of the Great Great Great Grandson of Colombo - Just One More Thing".
So, further thoughts:
- I was hoping to be able to watch the flight deck. Apparently that's not actually an option, at least on a Nautilus-class, which is a pity.
- There is no on-foot access to the shipyard facilities for the owner, unless you installed the shipyard. Which I haven't because I've never seen the point of having a shipyard on one.
- The various optional services have remarkably large initial and ongoing costs. If you're going to install a business on your carrier/station that costs you 1.5m credits a week, you'd hope it was capable of making you quite a bit more money than that. It seems unlikely.
- There is no Apex facility. This is a major omission and one of the things I was looking for that would really make a carrier more usable.
- The staff I hire on the services screens are not the NPCs that actually appear on the command deck or concourse. Extra points if you manage to make SLF pilots show up in the bar.
- The bartender system works the same way as the commodity market, which is to say badly. You have to select whether to buy or sell an individual good, one at a time. There have got to be better ways of working this to make carriers actually viable as trading systems.
- Sat through a jump. Pretty damn good.
- Why do my bartender etc. show up as belonging to the Federation faction on the Contacts screen, even in Imperial (Velnambe) or Independent (Napia) space? I don't want no stinkin' Feds crewing my ship.
- There do not appear to be any NPC ships landing on my carrier any more (yes, I'm still in an inhabited system with docking allowed).
This is all pretty cool! Good work there!
But I just gonna have to ask this: any news on the engineering balancing?
Some console players: PC PLAYERS NEED TO SUPPORT US AND WE WANT ODYSSEY
Also some console players: HAHAHA SCREW PC PLAYERS AND ODYSSEY IS AWFUL
Console players' relationship status with ED: It's complicated.
@Bruce G -
The main thing myself, and my squadron, fail to understand is how our ships can carry 1000 goods, 1000 assets, and 1000 data - but our FC can only carry a combined 100? I get that you want people to have to work for the engineers... but does it really matter who does the work? We try to help out our squadron members that have less time to play than some of us and this was supposed to be a golden opportunity for that.
If my FC can carry 40 ships, then why can't it carry 40K goods/assets/data?
The main thing myself, and my squadron, fail to understand is how our ships can carry 1000 goods, 1000 assets, and 1000 data - but our FC can only carry a combined 100? I get that you want people to have to work for the engineers... but does it really matter who does the work? We try to help out our squadron members that have less time to play than some of us and this was supposed to be a golden opportunity for that.
If my FC can carry 40 ships, then why can't it carry 40K goods/assets/data?
I kinda expected that right hand panel to be the carrier management menu, so I could plan stuff there.
Sry for the ping, but are you sure the 100 unit limit of the mats trader is on spec?
maaaan, I just got on and all my carrier crew's faces have been scrombled
the good: the redemption office guy, JED JUSTICE, who I picked solely for his outstanding name, no longer looks like a badly peeled potato
the bad: my tritium depot lass no longer has cool wrap-around visor shades
the good: the redemption office guy, JED JUSTICE, who I picked solely for his outstanding name, no longer looks like a badly peeled potato
the bad: my tritium depot lass no longer has cool wrap-around visor shades
You can see the name of your carrier and the game-time on that tablet.
Nothing more.
You cannot even whip the two grunts below to make then hurry the jump
Those gunts won't answer with a "sir!" even if you do beat them.
regarding the 100 limit at the bar...
materials, and thus engineering's goal is to just get players doing things in the game. That's it's only goal and purpose. Increase game play time.
anything that decreases player game time by cutting out the game mechanics created to increase game player time to acquire said materials is running counter to the purpose of engineers and materials.
There isn't a whole lot of game justifying all that engineers and materials has done to push player game time up. Simple features such as material trading between players could collapse it significantly with nothing really planned to supplement the now circumvented game loops. Putting those players back in the state the game was in prior to engineers. And if you think "end game" is a problem now, ...you dont remember what it was prior to engineers.
materials, and thus engineering's goal is to just get players doing things in the game. That's it's only goal and purpose. Increase game play time.
anything that decreases player game time by cutting out the game mechanics created to increase game player time to acquire said materials is running counter to the purpose of engineers and materials.
There isn't a whole lot of game justifying all that engineers and materials has done to push player game time up. Simple features such as material trading between players could collapse it significantly with nothing really planned to supplement the now circumvented game loops. Putting those players back in the state the game was in prior to engineers. And if you think "end game" is a problem now, ...you dont remember what it was prior to engineers.
Yeah, well, then why even introduce a mats trader when transferring from the backpack works at the same pace?
What an utter waste of development resources.