It wasn't pitch black in the game, either. It just looked like night time. They were using "pitch black" as shorthand for "very dark". Now the shadow side of a planet won't be dark. That's bad.
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It wasn't pitch black in the game, either. It just looked like night time. They were using "pitch black" as shorthand for "very dark". Now the shadow side of a planet won't be dark. That's bad.
Quick test of the Chieftain (6A thrusters non-engineered)...still plenty of drift but now easier to counter with vert/lat thrusters. Lat thrusters still a little weak, vert thrusters fine. Not sure it's going to replace my FAS in a hurry.
First this seems too quick? A day of non-stop CMDR seal clubbing can be undone within 24hrs? ie: Surely if you've destroyed a dozen CMDRs for the lolz, you shouldn't be clean again in half a day? It should be week(s)? For example, 1 notoriety decay per day?
As for game time? Makes no difference, so suggest real time instead. ie: Just leave yourself docked in a station over night and voila?
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I think the essence of the change is that time is a more impactful punishment than money.
What we really need is surface radar as seen in sci-fi movies. I actually spoke about this with Chris Gregory during FX2017, he pointed out that actual issue is that while pitch black looks awesome, most people just won't know where to go. Then he threw out that he actually like this kind of idea in style of original Elite - showing white lines for curves, gradients and stuff when flying in darkness.
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I don't want to have to wait until Q4 to be able to drive my SRV around in the dark again!
The dark side of planets are supposed to be dark! If you fly around to the dark side of the planet, why is it suddenly as bright as the side that is facing the star? Now there's a chance that pitch black could be 100% dark and the patch note means it's now 90% dark. That would be fine, but I bet it means 40%.
Instead they just have to sit in a station and leave the game running while they go have their dinner for an hour or so or watch film or something.
That's not how development works though
But I feel pain of loss of darkness. Let's hope it comes back in Q4.
Before that they had just to log out and do same thing.
Ozric
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That's not how development works though
But I feel pain of loss of darkness. Let's hope it comes back in Q4.
You don't make a change from how the game currently is, just so you can fix that change in ~8 months time!
Oh I see ... interesting ... bold even. This is a response to the argument that a financial penalty for griefing is no penalty at all (because "they" have infinite money) presumably.
nods head repeatedly veerrry interesting.
Errr, beigification? They have prior!
As long as it only ticks down while you are actually logged into the game, I think it's reasonable. If it ticks down regardless, then yeah needs to be longer.
Yeah. And if they're at notariety 10, they can just eat 10 dinners or watch 5 films. NBD.
Perfect!
With the addition of a heat reduction to Railguns, this is turning out to be a really fantastic balance patch for Engineers. It makes it possible to reproduce others' builds with a reasonable amount of effort, and removes the luck factor that divided the community into lucky "haves" and unlucky "have nots." I firmly believe this will increase diversity of builds -- people can try wacky new things with less of an up-front time investment, and with a knowledge they will be able to actually achieve their planned build.
Really great and I'm really looking forward to this going live.
Also my HOTAS is packed away for an upcoming house move, so I can't say myself, but people were commenting that the Chieftan's laterals were a bit crummy. This buff may also make that ship properly viable, again increasing diversity of build choices, which is a very good thing. Thank you to everyone at FD for your hard work on this patch and for listening to the community.
With the addition of a heat reduction to Railguns, this is turning out to be a really fantastic balance patch for Engineers. It makes it possible to reproduce others' builds with a reasonable amount of effort, and removes the luck factor that divided the community into lucky "haves" and unlucky "have nots." I firmly believe this will increase diversity of builds -- people can try wacky new things with less of an up-front time investment, and with a knowledge they will be able to actually achieve their planned build.
Really great and I'm really looking forward to this going live.
Also my HOTAS is packed away for an upcoming house move, so I can't say myself, but people were commenting that the Chieftan's laterals were a bit crummy. This buff may also make that ship properly viable, again increasing diversity of build choices, which is a very good thing. Thank you to everyone at FD for your hard work on this patch and for listening to the community.
Nice one! As others mentioned, having the beta run over the weekend would allow for more testing, if possible...
You do a change because while partially desired effect has appeared it does not work for everybody. And people already blast FD about not caring about 'all types of players'.
And glitching out planetary surface lighting up is not really desired, it looked broken every time I approached starports in beta.
Well I mean they will still be Wanted after all that time and will need to pay off their bounty. The timer just ensures that there is No Way they can clear their wanted status until X hours of good behavior have passed first.
This is nice but, why not also for Plasma Accelerators? I am a fan of Plasma Slug Accelerators (this is now a word
) and absolutely would love a 40% heat reduction on the experimental, too! - Status