ANNOUNCEMENT April Update - Coming 23 April 2019

[Dutchman141]

I realy realy hope they do something in this update about the long time it takes to scan for locations on planets.

 

[araczynski]

finally i can play!

 

[JeffWillis]

Great to see a new update, obviously very focused on the new player, which can mean good things, but why link the system danger to combat rank? That immediately means it is a completely useless warning. Nobody is going round in a brand new unengineered Sidewinder thinking "Threat 10? No problem, I'm an EL33T PIL0T!" Similarly, nobody is going round in their fully engineered turret Cutter with 15K shields thinking, "Oh no, a threat 4 pirate area. I'm only Mostly Harmless. Ruuuuun!"

 

[aRJay]

New update, more proof the game is alive/dead.*



*Delete as appropriate.

 

[aRJay]

Thanks for the update Will. I like the sound of virtually all of that, really looking forward to seeing it.

However... We have an issue...

It is not the loop of shame!!! Even if you approach a planet at full speed and loop around it, it is faster than approaching in the blue zone!

That aside, sounding great

Only if you can do it right. But it is useful to throw off pursuers even if it takes longer.

 

[Chrismasterski]

Why make entirely new systems when you could just restrict new players to a special instance in the current systems?

 

[avow555]

Interesting update.

Is there a Beta?

 

[Space Mage]

I think that was a reductio ad absurdum argument because I can tell you, it's possible to become a master in chess without throwing away your life, in fact, Emmanuel Lasker was the longest reigning world chess champion yet he had a doctoral degree in mathematics, that doesn't fit "the basement-dwelling teens and manchilds with little or no real world responsibilities." criteria and let me tell you, becoming a world chess champion demands far more time investment than most (or maybe all players) have invested in ED.

Im aware, thats why my comment has quotes. I was criticizing the person that comment was replying to.

 

[aRJay]

It's time to get one myself I guess

If you enjoy the game why bother?

If you don't enjoy the game why bother?

 

[Hvalreki]

Oh my..very nice indeed. Now all we need is the original In system Jump from the original games, removing the need for hour or two hour long supercruises.

Wait...you could in system jump in 1984

 

[Avi0013]

Ah yes, I, too, have tried to repair my FSD while in SC...

And thrusters

 

[aRJay]

Thanks for the update Will, that's more than I expected!

But please consider making the new modules standard ship functionality that we can enable / disable in the right hand panel.

Then they would take away those wonderful extra slots we are going to get.

 

[GraphicEqualizer]

I'm interested to know where these "beginner" systems are and if they're in any way accessible by pilots like me that have reached elite.

I guess the only way would be to have a second account and start from scratch. I wonder if the systems for the rest of us will be visible but permit locked?

 

[Ozric]

Only if you can do it right. But it is useful to throw off pursuers even if it takes longer.

Nope. Literally if you fly at top speed and let the gravity of the planet slow you down as you pass close by to it and loop around it, it is still quicker

 

[Phisto Sobanii]

To all the pilots flying into Shinrarta with supercruise assist...

...don't be the ball!

 

[Scytale]

Told you this game was going to arcade...

 

[CMDR M. Lehman]

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[Deleted member 110222]

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Who says anything about needing one?

I just want one.

 

[Grennen]

Super excited for the new updates!! Thanks for the extra module slot! however one question: what about Hutton orbital & the super Cruise module? Will that not be a thing anymore?

 

[Stealthie]

....but you will no longer have to worry about doing a loop of shame!

Just to pick up on this....

There's no such thing as the "loop of shame".
There is only the "loop of evasion".