He raises some good points but if you only read one comment read the one by chris5281, nails it for me.
Sir, prepare thy sock!
Colossal announcement at Gamescom in two weeks' time
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He raises some good points but if you only read one comment read the one by chris5281, nails it for me.
Sir, prepare thy sock!
They are going to whack the Emperor next week, so it might be new Imperial I-Ships. 
They are going to whack the Emperor next week, so it might be new Imperial I-Ships.
Ah, yes, more neon striped ships.
The iAsp Imperial Explorer
Or the:
iAdder
iAnaconda
iPhython
iViper
colossal
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This had better be good.
They are going to whack the Emperor next week, so it might be new Imperial I-Ships.
The Empire will be revealed to be based on Apple, Steve Jobs has been modeled as an AI (this is what SJA was moved to) and will run both the Empire and the background sim. Players will spend the rest of their days feeling like smug valued customers while serving the corporate hegemony, both in game and out. Free hipster beard decals for Mac players (time limited, exclusive offer).
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I am beginning to think it may be PLs but I HOPE it is improvements to the core game, such as AI crew to give us some micro management and stuff like that. We already know about the better mission generators so that is fab.
Just to be different, I am gonna say getting out of our seat and walking about our ship.
Just to be different, I am gonna say getting out of our seat and walking about our ship.
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"Our management is going to watch every episode of 'Extra Credits', and they will make a point-by-point commentary on what they did in Elite with regard to every episode"
Probably not going to be walking around as the Dev QA said they had nothing to announce now or at Gamescom regarding that
For the umpteenth time: Much as many of us would love it to be those sorts of things, you don't announce those at a major show. You want to announce something big (perhaps even colossal), preferably shiny and full of bling. You are trying to sell something big for the mags to report about and to attract new players. Saying: "You know the background sim we said we had, well, we have done a pile of work and now it does what we have been saying it does since release" just doesn't work.
They have ruled out going walkies. They have said it is PC/Mac, which rules out PS4 (though I still expect that for Christmas). Based on what they have said, it seems likely to either be something from out of left field (as powerplay and CQC were), or the announcement of the first phase of the first expansion: almost certainly planetary landings. Given that I already know they are working on the expansions, I would prefer it to be something else that I do not know about. Well, as long as it is something I want, and they are 0/4 on that thus far if I include CQC.
But I fully expect it to be phase 1 of planetary landings.
"We are going to break Solo and Open Modes apart, and put Power Play into Open-Only".
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Pfft, like that would IMPROVE powerplay.
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"We will rework powerplay from the ground up to make each faction unique and playstyle different while having them follow their ethos and not be murderous fanatics."
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Hey, I can dream.
As I said with recent things i have read I ALSO think it will be PLs now.... I am just trying to come up with something different.
As I said with recent things i have read I ALSO think it will be PLs now.... I am just trying to come up with something different.
That's the root of the hype train. We aren't aware of a single other feature element that can be described as "colossal" requiring "most of the team" to be working on it for "some time".
Unless...maybe it's passenger missions served up in a similar form to Tokyo Bus Guide on the Dreamcast. How awesome would that be? Landing your Orca, people get on and you see their scary procedurally generated faces staring back at you through lifeless eyes. Then they speak, talking of their irritating lives and feelings.
Single to Lave station please.
Just give me the money and go sit down!
...but you can still hear them chatting behind you. Their thoughts fed directly from the Frontier forums...
I'm concerned about lack of content in this universe
Shut up I'm trying to fly.
I've put 700 hours into this game and now I'm bored. Help me.
Shut up shut up!
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I though 'Tokyo bus guide' was a joke, I had to google it to realize it was real. I'll never complain about lack of content in Elite again! (Well maybe)
No, we don't. But then we were not aware of powerplay either.
That 'most of the team' quote is the one thing that can be used to argue against it being planetary landings. Of course, FD ambiguous speak can be very hard to second guess. But we do know that there is a separate team for expansions (because, essentially, they expect them to eventually be pretty much 'whole game' sized). So if I was to assume the statement was not ambiguous - they we could read it at face value - then that would appear to rule out it being planetary landings, too. Of course, they might have shifted resources from 'core' E: D dev to expansion dev. If that is the case then there will be an eruption of anger from the big, loud, group of players that want them to finish what they have already started but left incomplete before adding new stuf.
LOL, I hope it's not a (redacted) sock! O. o
All I can say is, Gentlemen prepare your socks!
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Those idiots can keep screaming. I don't get why people think they are mutually exclusive. Expansions usually come with huge updates to the main game, and are typically worked on as a whole package.
"Colossal" may be the refrence to "Very big ships with special functionality". I don't think that it'll be PL. I think "space first", EVE has this lesson with "Encarna" exspansion.
It's certainly not mutual exclusive, but it is hard to imagine how resources spent on one thing wouldn't detract from resources spent on another. FD have limited staff time and it needs to be spread across everything they're doing.
I'd personally prefer they focus more on the core game rather than these bolted on additions, of course if they can do both affectively at the same time then I’m happy with that.
It remains to be seen what exactly they have been working on, I’m excited without getting my hopes up too much.
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