News 2.3 Dev Update
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Has this been said? First I've heard of it.
Not been confirmed as we don't know when 3.x will be coming out.
Sorry, his preference isn't my priority. Dave is faster.
I'll worry about the OBE when we go back to being an empirical colony.
Your assessment of CQC is laudably humorous. I couldn't be more inaccurate if I tried. It suffered the same fate as every other feature. It was dumped out in the cold with no connection to the main game or significant ties to other features and left half-finished to waste away when people got bored of it after 10 hours of the same repetitive play. It hasn't seen any significant improvements since release. People who were interested have played it to death and want new experiences. The end. People who don't play it want it to be relevant to the rest of the game. The end.
Oh, but if you look you'll realize that CQC was split off of the main game specifically for the purpose of appeasing board members by placing a product in a different price tier from the typical $60 bracket.
When an issue is discovered and reported a few minutes after a major update or even before the update goes live while everyone is testing on the Beta servers, and then goes unfixed for months or years, it's not the players' fault. Only the devs are responsible for major issues with the game going unfixed for extended periods of time.
Respect the players' time. Respect their efforts to help improve the game. They'll respect you in turn.
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Just on this point, the reason I and many others don't play CQC is simply that we can never get a game. Now some of the reasons for that might be as you describe, resulting in fewer players, but you've overgeneralised a bit here. The reason many of us don't play is simply because no-one else is, not because of wanting a new experience or wanting it to be relevant to the game. Which is why Frontier should have included bots as many of us suggested from the start. Other than that, I think it's fine as an approach, being disconnected from the main game (apart from credits earned and stupid rank that carry over of course) - it was only meant to appease PvPers given that PvP is not the principal focus of the main game. PvPers wanted better, more accessible PvP, Frontier gave them a nice, balanced arena to play in (similar to other online arena-based shooters in concept) but that wasn't good enough.....for a variety of reasons such as not being able to use one's own ships but also in part because there's a significant proportion of players who aren't in the least interested in fair, balanced fights. Plus the impact of matchmaking across a P2P approach. The reasons for CQC's lacklustre participation rate are more complex than you suggest, in my opinion. But I do agree that it's also largely been ignored apart from being used in livestream events......if they just added bots and did nothing else it would get a lot more use I believe (at least from casuals). If they also added some canned scenarios like one side attacking a capital ship or base defended by the other side and the like, then it would also have more variety.
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Yep. While it could use some QOL improvements I really like CQC. Haven't gone near it for a long time because I can rarely find a match.
Population problems start when there is no population. It's not like the expansion of the universe. It's not a matter of the same number of players being there but not being able to reach each other because they've somehow grown more distant. The other players left, that's why you can't find them anymore. They don't exist. They're no longer players.
It's the last mohicans that get the "can't find a match" syndrome which leads them to abandon the game. Everyone else left long ago.
Not exactly. Nowadays the players I know who still partake in CQC do it in groups. They set a time and go in together. It isn't optimal but it is also not as you describe.
And yet, you're still here, terrorising the remaining population into SOLO or out of the game completely. Have you watched the recent live streams and wondered why the devs aren't having any fun either? If you really hate this game that much have you considered finding one you do like, or maybe you should seek some professional help?
Everyone out of the water, let the shark starve and maybe it will go away.
Glad to see my reputation precedes me. Keep perpetuating this wonderful mythos, I don't need the PvP players finding out I haven't done anything but faff about with random solo activities since early 2016 because my crappy ISP's just cause anyone I play with to experience random disconnections/extreme rubberbanding.
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What you're describing and what I'm describing are identical, I'm just being more practical about presenting my description instead of dressing it up in false hope for a future that doesn't exist.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/328697-Elite-Dangerous-Arena-Removal-From-Sale
They should have made it an entertainment area in the ED universe. A star system geared up for ship and SRV based entertainment. Are we thinking that in a real universe there wouldn't be whole systems just for entertainment be it touristic, entertainments or getting a suntan.
They could have had a proper CQC setup, bring your own ship, borrow one, buy one just designed for CQC, team events, Teams vs bot armardas. Capital ship attacks , capture the flag King of the hill , all the usual online game types.
SRV race tracks stunt tracks like giant skate parks, treasure hunts, so much more could be achieved.
PVP and PVE alike shoulder to shoulder instead of at loggerheads.
They could have had a proper CQC setup, bring your own ship, borrow one, buy one just designed for CQC, team events, Teams vs bot armardas. Capital ship attacks , capture the flag King of the hill , all the usual online game types.
SRV race tracks stunt tracks like giant skate parks, treasure hunts, so much more could be achieved.
PVP and PVE alike shoulder to shoulder instead of at loggerheads.
Takes pride in the misery of others huh, Nice. And your boss thinks it's a good idea to sit behind your workstation, trolling the forums while they're paying you to do something else?
Isn't it around lunch time in the colonies? Take a well earned break.
Repped, some good ideas I hadn't thought of. I was mainly focused on opposing team members needing to be escorted through hostile systems to compete in their own ships, or borrow / rent / pre-ship one to a custom built station containing the join lobby, score boards and areas for spectators to watch direct or on floating screens.
Capital ship attacks with MC gunners on a single turret or SLF each would rock!
Edit: Which reminds me, is it possible to add sending a ship ahead as well as calling them?
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Helps to make your own schedule. Today I'm the boss, and as a figure of self-appointed authority I'm going to advise you to at least inform yourself of how time zones work before you attempt to apply smarm over the internet. You're making your monocle-bearing brethren look bad.
I only criticize games I like. Without constructive criticism they just stagnate and repeat the same mistakes until they fail. Keep up the bootlicking though, I'm sure that feedback is going to prove very useful.
Which of these two words did you fail to look up in the dictionary before using it?
Both. I'm quite capable of speaking english and don't require being reminded of grade-school definitions daily.
So let's review pandering since you seem to be fond of the act, while conveniently forgetting why you wouldn't want to engage in it.
By pandering, you perpetuate a person or entity's self-destructive behavior and encourage them to behave badly.
Meanwhile, when criticizing....
Doing so constructively simply means providing relevant feedback such as suggestions for improvement, it does not mean coddling the poor victim into complacency with praise. It does not mean speaking positively during your criticism and indeed speaking approvingly while offering criticism that is in poor favor is counter-productive, because you're sending mixed messages when you're intending to communicate a clear disapproval.
Constructive criticism is not positive criticism. Pandering is not constructive. However, keep rolling on. Your Egotism is something else entirely that's very entertaining.
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Oh you silly sausage!
If you were ignored would you really go away, or throw another tantrum for attention?
Your fighting is more entertaining than CQC..
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