A polite request to Frontier for 1.3.5

Titus Balls

Titus Balls
Dear Frontier,

We love you - we really do. A lot of us give you a hard time about things you do because from an outside perspective doing things like Friday deploys, or releasing code into production that isn't fully tested seems silly. But we still love you.

Some other people also look at the game you put out and see a lot of bugs, or things that just don't make sense. Some even notice small typos and things that just show a lack of attention to detail.

But we still love you.

I myself, and I think I can speak for at least a small portion of the community (but I'd never claim to speak for all), would implore you to instead focusing on 1.4 and the next great feature to really take some time do to a real review of what issues are outstanding - bugs, balancing and just whacky gameplay choices - and focus on a big 1.3 release that tries to address a lot of these issues.

Review Powerplay - what's working and what isn't. Can you come up with a more innovative solution than having what is perceived by many as a grind fest? What can you do for the smaller guy?

Of course, please also continue to patch the game with smaller fixes that you can push out - but I think a lot of us really want you to fix the existing game before adding more feature, and more bugs.

Thanks for listening.

Love,
Titus Balls
 
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FuzzySpider

FuzzySpider
I approve of this message.

As critical as I've been over the last few weeks I love Elite and I love Frontier. Please don't get disheartened by it all, the squeaky wheel gets the oil after all.

But, yes, a couple of improvements, decide what powerplay is really for, and you'll have a great game instead of a merely very good one.
 

medwyn

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For me this sort of honest feedback is one of the most valuable thing one can give. I hope there are decision making members in FD who thinks the same way AND have the power to play it.
 

Bazorlag

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No need to be so apologetic. Don´t flame and just tell what you think, it comes off much better. You just wasted half of you post for setup.

Specifics needed too, it´s very vague post when you finally manage to read it through.
 
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Darkmatter

Darkmatter
I approve of this post. FD, take a step back and improve what you already have. And when you are adding new features, don't make them overcomplicated. Thank you.
 

andyraptor

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JeffRyan said:
I defend 1.3 because I do love Power Play, flawed as it is.

But I don't disagree with Titus. This time.
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Sit on that fence Ryan !!!

with E3 almost upon us... no big review of 1.3 will take place ... just minor patching.... Another game title is being released by this studio and a further announcement on E D

PS

As much as we love your streaming and vids you only speak for yourself Titus :)
 

CMDR Jenna Nord

CMDR Jenna Nord
They don't even care what their customers want. Just dig up some of those 50+ pages threads from feb and the past months.. many good ideas in those threads but they never listened and stay true to their secret patch release shedule. Like every patch before and even for release they put it out to live with countless bugs still remaining. I, for now, am done. Goodbye ED, maybe I will take a look later this year but my fear is they just continue to push out content that is bugged, unwanted and full of grind.
 

DangerousLarry

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The Friday patch days need to change... Release them on a Monday or a Tuesday like everyone else. Works the best for everyone. Less stress or dreading for FD on what bugs they'll have to tackle on Monday and less backlash or weekend long exploits as has been glaringly obvious with this patch. Less chance of having to rollback rep, Credits or otherwise that people took advantage of over a weekend seeing as they could fix these problems or disable them in-office instead of waiting three days.
 

Armour

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DangerousLarry said:
Friday patch days
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What? "days", plural? I don't think they've ever done a main trunk update on Friday before this one. Perhaps some beta updates, but I can't recall ever having an update on a Friday. That's why people were posting dire predictions before it hit. Referring to "Friday patch days" like it is some long-standing tradition of FDEV...well, that just seems needlessly misleading, really.
 

Rankaze

Rankaze
Titus Balls said:
Dear Frontier,

We love you - we really do. A lot of us give you a hard time about things you do because from an outside perspective doing things like Friday deploys, or releasing code into production that isn't fully tested seems silly. But we still love you.

Some other people also look at the game you put out and see a lot of bugs, or things that just don't make sense. Some even notice small typos and things that just show a lack of attention to detail.

But we still love you.

I myself, and I think I can speak for at least a small portion of the community (but I'd never claim to speak for all), would implore you to instead focusing on 1.4 and the next great feature to really take some time do to a real review of what issues are outstanding - bugs, balancing and just whacky gameplay choices - and focus on a big 1.3 release that tries to address a lot of these issues.

Review Powerplay - what's working and what isn't. Can you come up with a more innovative solution than having what is perceived by many as a grind fest? What can you do for the smaller guy?

Of course, please also continue to patch the game with smaller fixes that you can push out - but I think a lot of us really want you to fix the existing game before adding more feature, and more bugs.

Thanks for listening.

Love,
Titus Balls
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I agree.

I love the game. If I didn't I wouldn't spend so much time playing it. I appreciate all the hard work FD puts into it. But it has a lot of bugs and minor flaws that keep it from being quite what it could be.

A comprehensive fix-and-balance patch would fix a great deal of what ails ED.
 

mossfoot

mossfoot
What's interesting to me is how the lack of dev comment on what is/isn't will/won't be added gets interpreted so wildly as a statement of intent (often negative). It reminds me of the Kuleshov Effect in film

[video=youtube;QQNpHELKjn0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQNpHELKjn0[/video]

[video=youtube;grCPqoFwp5k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grCPqoFwp5k[/video]

Basically the same things applies here - we have an effect (game feature/perceived bug) and a blank reaction (devs not commenting to their satisfaction) resulting in a conclusion - a conclusion that has no actual basis in fact because at the end of the day you are still dealing with a lack of reaction, not a reaction.

It's like when people assume that saying "I can neither confirm nor deny" is the same as an admission in some ways ;)


Oh, and Titus, I agree with the general thrust of your message, though I do hope 1.4 is going to give some love to explorers, I see 1.3 as the real foundation for their long term plans. Best that they get this rock solid before moving too far forward.

The above was just a general thought based on some negativity from others earlier.
 
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Straylight0

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Yup, how about fixing/changing a few things at a time where possible on the weekly weekday update, rather than piling them all in the next big update which will generate more problems of its own please? A little more info for players would help with attitudes as well--an honest and current server status page, and revision docs for each patch.
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And we do love you, but it drives us mad sometimes!
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
The next major update will be perhaps paying ? The suggestions of the OP are relevant before this major update
 
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Cmdr Kurnek

Cmdr Kurnek
Agreed Titus.

And if the next update is paid, I suspect there will be an uproar. I for one, would outright refuse to pay for content from an unfinished game. Lets face it, elite is still in beta in many aspects.
 
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