Watched it just now, and liked what I saw, a great deal.
One thing I remembered when the lads were discussing "discovery" stuff feeding into the general playerbase information pool...
The first day the full ED galaxy went live, a mate and I joined up, and flew around doing stuff. One of the first things I did was to try out
- Flying off to a nearby system
- Scanning everything
- Flying back and selling it
- Asking my friend to "buy" the data for that system, and see what I'd found.
And... it didn't work. Exploration data sold by a player had zero bearing on exploration data subsequently bought by another player.
I remember being quite disappointed at that, because in my mind
Universal Cartographics was a central storehouse of knowledge, being added to by us... but it was entirely a one-way affair, and therefore reduced down to nothing more than "here are some credits, thanks for playing".
So... new stuff seems to tick off something I thought should have been working like that in late 2014, lol.
Better late than never!
