Michael Brookes
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At the moment it's whenever you need to conduct a server moderated transaction like trading.
Michael
No Single Player offline Mode then?
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At the moment it's whenever you need to conduct a server moderated transaction like trading.
Michael
Michael Brookes
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Try to get a refund. You've bought a game you can't play.
I made my decision on exactly the same basis.
Michael, so what would it take hardware wise to run a "personal" server that you could connect to via LAN? I have a spare PC sitting around doing nothing or are we talking about needing terabytes of RAM and a dozen Xeon cores?
more constructive than writing in game forums about cancelled features? what possibly could that be?
The offline mode would totally make sense if it didnt have the stats transfer to on-line mode. Gathering the wealth off-line and unleashing the wrath on-line is not the optimal game scenario and will damage the game in the long run.
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They know, as they raised this post after posting in other thread.
I gives OP another chance to be critical of this game. Surprised really as all there previous posts
have always been so upbeat and favourable towards the game, always very supportive.
I gives OP another chance to be critical of this game. Surprised really as all there previous posts
have always been so upbeat and favourable towards the game, always very supportive.
Why not include a server module so that people can connect their client to their own server locally and inject and create their own events in their own server and play in their own world full offline...hell maybe even friends could connect to their server when online..... or is that just a silly idea ?
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If you paid in Euros you are in the EU and you absolutely can get a refund, as long as you purchased through the store.
Ignore anyone who tells you otherwise.
I managed this very same thing for a £1000+ software packaged that was mis-described this year. This is very clear cut: All constraints around maintenance of a product MUST be made known at the time of purchase.
From Kickstarter:
- Projects can run out of time and money:
If time and money constraints are the reason for the removal, fine. If they promised to reinsert it later, once their financial or time constraints were overcome I would have no problem with it. As it is, no such promise is given, quite on the contrary.
- people can leave
I don't think anybody believes that this was the reason.
- assumptions that were made at the start may prove to be mistaken
Okay, obviously they were making their promise based on an assumption. But in this is not the case here. Because it was proven, again and again, often by David Braben himself, that solo games can be made!
- the results may simply not be as good as expected
No problem here at all. It is not the quality I am questioning though there are plenty of people who seem to. Quality is relative. A clearly promised feature deliberately removed is not.
So let's dissect this a little:
- Projects can run out of time and money:
If time and money constraints are the reason for the removal, fine. If they promised to reinsert it later, once their financial or time constraints were overcome I would have no problem with it. As it is, no such promise is given, quite on the contrary.
- people can leave
I don't think anybody believes that this was the reason.
- assumptions that were made at the start may prove to be mistaken
Okay, obviously they were making their promise based on an assumption. But in this is not the case here. Because it was proven, again and again, often by David Braben himself, that solo games can be made!
- the results may simply not be as good as expected
No problem here at all. It is not the quality I am questioning though there are plenty of people who seem to. Quality is relative. A clearly promised feature deliberately removed is not.
I'm glad to see that I'm not alone at all about wanting..., and needing an offline Elite Dangerous.
The first thing that pulled me to this game was that it is an Elite game.
The second was that it was going to be a game that I didn't have to go online with. A very rare think to have.
After I heard that offline playing was not going to be as 'moving' as the online I just shrugged my shoulders, and it didn't bother me.
Please, FD...reconsider about taking away offline playing from many of your backers looking forward to what we backed...playing Elite offline.
This is very important...Thank you.
The first thing that pulled me to this game was that it is an Elite game.
The second was that it was going to be a game that I didn't have to go online with. A very rare think to have.
After I heard that offline playing was not going to be as 'moving' as the online I just shrugged my shoulders, and it didn't bother me.
Please, FD...reconsider about taking away offline playing from many of your backers looking forward to what we backed...playing Elite offline.
This is very important...Thank you.
So its basically what I stated on the first page then:
Actually that really worries me for a totally different reason now. If Frontier fails as a company (or if Elite fails as a product) and goes away, so does our ability to play the game - utterly. Michael, what are your thoughts on releasing the server software if Frontier needs to shut the game down? Is that simply not feasible and will we be SOL without a functioning product in the event that Elite: Dangerous fails? What about releasing a standalone server for private groups or people that want to play offline, and can run the server on a local machine or a LAN connected device?
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