A potential solution to the "realism" issues some are having with multi-crew implementation.
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Oh, but that is basically the same thing.
It's all about putting the brain to good use. [yesnod]
"Temporary" barracks built for WW 2 were used for us at one of my training bases. We had to clean, polish, use toothbrushes on everything, etc. The structures had been in use for nearly forty years, and were held together by floor wax.
At the nearly end of my training time at that base,the fire department began doing practice burns for training on these structures.
A two-story barracks went from a complete structure, to ashes and plumbing, in about three minutes.
Three. Minutes.
No fire detectors in place, either.
Temporary Is Permanent, and Permanent Is Temporary.
You should read Bomba Luigis first quote in this thread more carefully. People may not be able to fully articulate what they're worried about, but Bomba nailed it. They sense that instant is wrong and may use the word "immersion" but really what they're worried about is the future of space legs. If you read the detail of what they're saying it's obvious and quite clear.
You may want to console yourself with it being a "temporary" or "stop gap" measure, but the reality is that once you go with instant hopping around, then any change that slows this down will be considered a "downgrade". So Frontier are painting themselves into a corner for what will be possible to implement with SpaceLegs. That's more of a design choice and a marketing reality than a technical limitation. They are effectively giving Star Citizen a gift as the sole king of the immersive 1st person experience. So people that prefer that method of playing are going to leave for SC in droves when it comes out. Maybe they always where? Idk, but I'd hoped that Elite with it's scientific accuracy would have been the immersion king. Ah well. Frontier doesn't seem to want that role. They seem to think that appealing to casuals and arcade shooter types is the way to go. Which means they don't think too highly of their target audience.
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+1 rep to the voice of reason throughout this whole debacle
Brown sauce in the lead? What are you all, northerners or something?
What I wonder is, why would anyone be in a ship at all? Why should a CMDR actually ever really be on the ship if it can simply be controlled instantly from anywhere? Space is dangerous, no need to put your life at risk like that. And if that's the case, why then do our fighter pilots die when the ship blows up if they could just as easily be sitting in some station or on some planet somewhere, controlling the ship via this instantaneous thingamajig. It's not taking the science side of a sci-fi universe seriously, holes all over the place. With this one bit of magic, they destroy the whole concept. If there's no reason for anyone to actually be on a ship, why have life support? Why have cabins? Why do you even need to make the ship airtight, you don't, you don't even need these holographic people, you could just control the ship through an interface, no need for a cabin with chairs, just cameras and sensors. This would drastically change ship design, no ship would make sense anymore. I have really tried to support FD up until now, but with this update, it just seems like they're not taking it seriously. They don't have their lore down, they can't decide how their universe works and are cutting holes in it to explain game mechanics.
Ok, I think I might kick up a storm here, but, People replace the butter on your bread of choice (For a bacon sandwich of course) with Mayo and thank me later.
I'm worried for this game.
I mean, first red sauce is last in the poll, and now we have a Mayo suggestion.
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I mean, first red sauce is last in the poll, and now we have a Mayo suggestion.
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It only gets worse .. why not try some Tamarind sauce as well ... (if you haven't, you should) ...
back on topic: Red sauce is for sausages and burgers .. that's all!
I agree. No explanation was needed. All they had to say was, it's instant at the moment, it may change further down the line depending on development of features.
That would be fine.
And they have Drew Wagar writing his novel... why should I invest in it at all? The universe is a swiss cheese of inconsistency, there are a million better thought out works of sci-fi to read. But hey, who cares about being immersed in a book right? Who reads books anyway?
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I was thinking the method from the movie Surrogates might be better than holograms. That or empty standard robot/cyborg bodies that you can ghost into like in ghost in the shell. Physical interaction with holograms is a bit to high tech for a game universe without gravity generators or tractor beams.
Ozram suggested something very similar.
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If it's done that way I forsee "Fruntier have ruined my game with these changes, I'm time-poor with five kidz to feed and this change to the way we do things now discriminates against me and wasn't what I bought Horizons for! I demand a refund plox!" type threads by the bucket load.
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