Excellent recap ! Thanks Will
Was that only the "trade trending data"? It wasn't fully clear to me on the normal trade data from the places you have visited.
Nooooo. I want to see these myself on the beta.
Ed promised to squeeze in a quick SRV jaunt in the next Livestream!
Hi there,
I think Ed said they're going to try to do some landings on tuesday's stream (Whcih features Engineering, so will need them to land anyway).
Thanks,
Dom
Ed didn't promise anything. Dominic said they'd try to do some landings next Tuesday. Most likely though this will just be as they approach an engineer base to show us the engineering improvements.
At this point it's almost moot now, in a week the community will do it for us. It's just sad that Frontier didn't think the new planet colors were important enough to warrant more than 3 minutes in a livestream, nor actually go down and land on one or two. Heck they could have simply showed a few surfaces close up in that 20 second video they had, but nope no one even thought to do THAT. It's that level of disconnect which saddens me. This is the star of the update for an awful lot of players, it really should have gotten more than a casual glance for a few minutes.
I was really looking forward to that second livestream finally showing us a lot about the planet colors, I've waited a very long time to see more. I'm just disappointed, and I need to get over it and move on.
We hear ya. We’ll squeeze in a planetary landing on Tuesday
Ed didn't promise anything. Dominic said they'd try to do some landings next Tuesday. Most likely though this will just be as they approach an engineer base to show us the engineering improvements.
At this point it's almost moot now, in a week the community will do it for us. It's just sad that Frontier didn't think the new planet colors were important enough to warrant more than 3 minutes in a livestream, nor actually go down and land on one or two. Heck they could have simply showed a few surfaces close up in that 20 second video they had, but nope no one even thought to do THAT. It's that level of disconnect which saddens me. This is the star of the update for an awful lot of players, it really should have gotten more than a casual glance for a few minutes.
I was really looking forward to that second livestream finally showing us a lot about the planet colors, I've waited a very long time to see more. I'm just disappointed, and I need to get over it and move on.
I need to move on to but for some reason i just can't. I usually don't care about things like this but we explorers have put up with a lot and then we finally get an update that looks to be doing something really cool and which isn't just an upgarde for explorers but everybody who plays the game will get to see these things and a lot of people wanted this update so only 3 minutes for what we've been waiting for for a over a year just seemed....silly. Yes, we can see it for ourselves, but getting a sneak peak, a longer one, wouldn't not have ruined it for us. I mean, come one, we wasted time going to a starport to look at the loadout for the cheiften when that could have been spent going to a surface and talking about the loadout, we didn't need to see it for ourselves.....but....moving on.
I’m gonna say something very unpopular: the new trading system looks really amazing, a much enriched gameplay mechanics that makes trading deeper and more fun. I deeply appreciate the work that has gone into it. But now you need to make it more profitable. And since the prices of commodities or the cargo capacity of ships cannot be changed, this means nerf those unreasonably lucrative passenger missions!! — or find some other magic way to balance payouts.
I know that they are everyone's favourite cash fountain, but they are actually ruining pretty much every other money-making activity in the game. It’s a fact. People might be hostile to this because they want easy money, but it’s indisputable that the cash per hour of passenger missions is far, far, far higher than any other activity, including trading. I would really like to enjoy using the new trading tools, and I would like all this work not go to waste. But if the best trade route still pays a fraction of one Beluga-full of passengers taken one system over I, like many others, might still be tempted to save a LOT of time and just do one more passenger trip.
Please consider this. The game mechanic is now intrinsically enjoyable, but you also need to give some “endgame” incentive, or it will not be as successful as it deserves to be.
I’m guessing anywhere from 2 GB to 10? Basically, the stuff they showed us shouldn’t be that much in terms of data size BUT it’s possible that they a) touched a lot of areas of code and that thus the size will be large and b) that they added stuff which is not mentioned in the patch notes (like more guardian and thargoid stuff). So really: We don’t know.Here's a question nobody's asked yet, I'm sure:
Given the fairly big scope of changes, how big of a download is this update going to be?
If Ed didn't fly so ineptly or engage with the game mechanics so inefficiently they could have easily shown a landing while discussing the chieftain.
I can only imagine the flak they would get if Ed would be driving aimlessly on the surface of the planet that is just different colour than before whilst trying to describe us what slots we get in the Chieftain And yes they could pick up some sweet spot on the planet only to read for months that "the game looks nothing like you showed us"
The notion that no one at Frontier thought that might be a good idea still mystifies me greatly...:S
Mind you: No Ed, no hype.
I know you are the most excited of all, so I do not blame you, but it is only 5 days and we get to see this ourselves! I would be more interested to discuss where to fly on Thursday evening then complain about what they did show or not.
So any recommendations?