BREAKING NEWS: GNOSIS STRANDED, GALNET NEWS!
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Well, I went out and investigated the non-human signal sources, scooped some thargoid bits I was unable to sell at Gnosis, went out again and scanned bodies in several systems to find places to search for geological activity and do some mining, landed a few times and picked up some rare elements, took some neat photos on said landings, spent an hour searching for geysers on a good candidate planet with awesome landscapes and and vistas, and rescued 8 Occupied Escape Pods. I made two round trips from Gnosis in Open and experienced no difficulties regarding either hostilities or getting a pad to land on.
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I might buy the SRV camo' pack today, in celebration of Canonn not getting their own way.
Of wholly untested scenarios? I hope not.
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So what would you have actually done? I mean, FD till the end tried to convince Cannon not to jump. But Cannon stuck to the plan and the schedule. That means that just delaying the content was no option here. They had to deliver something, no matter how quickly developed and how badly tested it was.
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So based on the combination of such a fixed timeline and the fact that the software is "not critical"* releasing it would be the way to go. But what can I say, I'm just small ISTQB certified test analyst.
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* Not critical means that no harm, be it physical or financial, will come from bugs. It's still a game, where the balance between quality and schedule often is in favour of the second. And while I also regularily find that FD favours the second too much and should put more emphasis on quality, in the given case rolling out badly tested content was the only reasonable option they had.
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Now we're getting somewhere.
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Haha, I can't be helped, but feel a bit sorry for FDev, as they have really tried to do this with best intentions, providing something unexpected for the community. It seems they really need someone with experience how to handle such events.
Good news everybody. Wish it launched without these issues but hey that was quick fix.
But this isn’t a tiny thing. Not anymore. Anyone looking at the forums regularly could’ve seen the huge buildup this event has caused over the last weeks. Hundreds, thousands of CMDRs suddenly voicing interest in a thing at a time where the CG contributions are at an all time low. People coming back to the game because they’re hopeful something worthwhile might happen, maybe this time it will, oh please. Frontier could’ve seen this and put resources aside to make it a special occasion, something to remember, to show people they still care after months of postponed promises. But all they manage to deliver is a badly executed script they recycled from the bin that obviously wasn’t even tested properly. That’s the sad thing about this. The disappointment that even after this golden player-driven opportunity has been placed in their lap, FDev didn’t manage to jump over their own shadow.
Edit: At least that’s how it looks as of now. I’m still open to be positively surprised though, please prove me wrong Frontier!
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Things are getting messy.
First of all, there will be no jump to the cone sector next week, the next jump for the gnosis will be back to its normal schedule, there was never going to be a jump to the cone sector, fdev just confused it all and didn't deal with it.
Second, if none of the build up had happened, no talk of cone sectors, and instead there was an unexpected attack on it by thargoids wherever it happened to be sitting, then this might have been a decent (though kind of overdone) event.
The big problem here is lack of foresight. Surely fdev know how excited people would be at the chance to visit a permit locked area? They are at fault for giving the impression it was possible.
To then fall back to the old "oh it didn't make it, but look, yet more thargoids, and another station to repair" routine, was just cheap and boring. They didn't even bother with a damage model.
It just sucks, so often we get excited about something that might happen in game due to a galnet article or other clue, yet so often they drop the ball.
It really didn't need a lot to make this into an awesome event, just exploring the unknown would have been enough, something different, a few little hand placed things to find, everyone would have been happy.
As it is, you have a massively unhappy canonn group, disappointed explorers and casual players, and if your lucky, a few combat guys enjoying the hydra fights, but the whole thing was just allowed to collapse in a pile of excrement.
I'm sorely disappointed, especially after last week's non announcement. And I'm a previous white knight type, faith has ran out guys, sorry.
First of all, there will be no jump to the cone sector next week, the next jump for the gnosis will be back to its normal schedule, there was never going to be a jump to the cone sector, fdev just confused it all and didn't deal with it.
Second, if none of the build up had happened, no talk of cone sectors, and instead there was an unexpected attack on it by thargoids wherever it happened to be sitting, then this might have been a decent (though kind of overdone) event.
The big problem here is lack of foresight. Surely fdev know how excited people would be at the chance to visit a permit locked area? They are at fault for giving the impression it was possible.
To then fall back to the old "oh it didn't make it, but look, yet more thargoids, and another station to repair" routine, was just cheap and boring. They didn't even bother with a damage model.
It just sucks, so often we get excited about something that might happen in game due to a galnet article or other clue, yet so often they drop the ball.
It really didn't need a lot to make this into an awesome event, just exploring the unknown would have been enough, something different, a few little hand placed things to find, everyone would have been happy.
As it is, you have a massively unhappy canonn group, disappointed explorers and casual players, and if your lucky, a few combat guys enjoying the hydra fights, but the whole thing was just allowed to collapse in a pile of excrement.
I'm sorely disappointed, especially after last week's non announcement. And I'm a previous white knight type, faith has ran out guys, sorry.
You gotta be joking. I hope you are joking. Do you think that Canonn would have prefered to have their megaship destroyed and all the commander on the ship. You think that would be better then what happened.
My god, I have read it all today.
Won’t somebody please think of the LEP’s!
The iniative isn't destroyed yet.
There was a high risk for that scenario... There were omens all over.
Same here , all very normal .......
Quite the contrary. If I wouldn't care I would just put the galnet article that the far cult has snuck onto the gnosis and sabotaged the FSD megadrive. Problem solved, no work needed. Or even more bleak solution - let the gnosis jump into that sector, where there is NOTHING there (I would lock anything worthwhile of a secret under permit-lock only devs can overcome), get them to tag some pristine planets and get bored to death in a month. Instead they did this. I love it
It required a change of plans probably, and was cobbled together using the resources available, after it went through management path, probably... These things take time.What people (perhaps not familiar with IT) are not taking from this is that it was perhaps a live test. It might as well be that it was a live test that required a large number of players in an instance, and not all things can be simulated in a testing environment. Even if we shackle the rest of the 100 person team to the game and have them play for 8h in a row. But the QA could be skipped on this, or perhaps QA account have crimes off for convenience or something. It was an error. Those things happen. Get over it
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