What's the procedure?
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Read my first post carefully. Are you in FDev team?
Please, if you don't like this idea don't leave any comments.
Something like this, I guess
Describe the request, provide link to the forum thread, kindly ask for any feedback.
Offline looks like a no-go unless you're looking at going back to 'The Pill' and forget the explorers out there.
Best I could see happening is if some of the whales stump up for a privately run server.
All of this based on the premise that EDH is dead, citation needed I think.
Best I could see happening is if some of the whales stump up for a privately run server.
All of this based on the premise that EDH is dead, citation needed I think.
Sorry, internet forums don't work like that. You're basing a whole new project for them off '"I am sure"?
Well good luck, you will need it in spades.
Calling it now - if they get a reply it will be "We have no plans to add an offline option for Horizons right now".
This looks like as an easiest solution now since that does not involve "rewriting everything".
Nobody asked for offline ED client.
We need an "offline solution".
If that will require to run additional local servers that's OK.
Why do you do this? If you don't like an idea why you post such messages? Just pass by. Please.
You posted on a public forum.
You cannot shut down players expressing opinions on this forum, not unless you buy it.
The only thing you can do, if you dont want others people opinions, is to ask a mod to lock the thread.
I don't mind if offline mode will be available for EDO also. % )
It is. And I am ASKING you not to do that. Also I am asking why you do this. What's the point for you to tell that offline version is a bad thing while you have online? Anyone trying to force you to play offline? Why do you do that?
The answer for Odyssey will also be "We have no plans to add an offline option for Odyssey right now". It's an easy one to predict
True, but the whales would still need FD to make the server_side publicly available for players.
Which will not happen, not unless FD decides they will never use that technology again - as it happened with the Original Elite.
So again, it's FDev's call - either to make the servers available *() or rewrite everything so it's all really offline and not tied to any internet connection to someone else's server.
(which still doesnt make Elite offline, you'd be playing on someone elses computer, someone else that might shutdown at anytime or might mess with your data - i would never play an online mmo/career game on a private server, at the whims of some random dude)
There is a suggestions forum, or you can look up Frontier Developments address and contact them that way.
The best way to help them would be to produce the numbers that show that they could get enough sales for your proposed offline game at a high enough price per copy that they would recover their investment in time and money quickly enough to satisfy their investors. That would be based on a reasonable analysis not just counting people on the forum or in email who said they liked the idea.
Remember you are trying to interest a company in producing a new product not a group of fans and hobyists.
The request appeared to be one that asked for the current base game to be dropped offline - which would, as you mentioned, end up being a new product in terms of development.
But what would happen to the players who do not have the EDO expansion? Are they then forced to play offline? (I only mention this as the OP appears to consider that EDO is a game in its own right, rather than an expansion - even if currently client V4 incorporates horizons and is on a seperate launcher until such time as Frontier decide to make it standard)
Thank you for suggestion. That's exactly why I started my topic.
Let them play as usual. We are talking about NEW offline product.
ps but if they don't play PvP I bet no one even noticed that game is running locally.
Indeed, my error, carry on.
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