DB live chat questions
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David Braben: There is plenty in there for players of Elite (or Frontier or First Encounters) to get their teeth into. Docking and Fuel Scoops are already in, and are an acquired skill.
Fuel scoops already in! Acquirable skill? What am I missing here?
David Braben: Human space is around 100,000 systems - with a larger halo of relatively uninhabited frontier systems around them - and many of the systems in human space without anything particularly remarkable there. The 400 billion number is for the immense galaxy.
In other words 400 billion number is just a fluff, like I said
. I thought that even unremarkable systems will be procedurally generated and have something worth going there for. So from 100.000 systems of human space we will get to explore what? It sounds like they have no idea how many systems they will give us access to, they are opening single systems one by one which doesn't sound to be like procedural generation at all. PB1 - 5, PB2 - 8, Beta - probably 20 if they push themselves hard enough and Gamma then - I don't see more than 100 explorable systems at release and that's pushing.
We will still have 400 billion stars in the night sky majority of those stars we actually won't even see unless you zoom out in star map. Well, 100 pr even 50 systems is not that bad after all, it's more feasible than even 10.000 systems which will never happen most likely. Like I mentioned before I debated so hard on forums - there is no point PRing about millions or even billions. Those numbers from the game perspective are impossible to comprehend. Stick to the normal numbers and you won't have to explain yourselves after release.
David Braben: Interesting. No. I did hear of a cockpit study NASA did, where the controls were activated by looking at them (VR style). Apparently it was very stressful as pilots tried very hard not to look at controls that might have nasty consequences - like the ejector seat!
LOL, that's funny. I can imagine... "Ok, sir, please do NOT look at that red button... what did I just say?..... Oh... sh...." They could just keep the Red buttons to manual controls I think.
Great live chat overall. Some new vague information hehe.
http://goo.gl/cMseZO
David Braben: There is plenty in there for players of Elite (or Frontier or First Encounters) to get their teeth into. Docking and Fuel Scoops are already in, and are an acquired skill.
Fuel scoops already in! Acquirable skill? What am I missing here?
David Braben: Human space is around 100,000 systems - with a larger halo of relatively uninhabited frontier systems around them - and many of the systems in human space without anything particularly remarkable there. The 400 billion number is for the immense galaxy.
In other words 400 billion number is just a fluff, like I said
. I thought that even unremarkable systems will be procedurally generated and have something worth going there for. So from 100.000 systems of human space we will get to explore what? It sounds like they have no idea how many systems they will give us access to, they are opening single systems one by one which doesn't sound to be like procedural generation at all. PB1 - 5, PB2 - 8, Beta - probably 20 if they push themselves hard enough and Gamma then - I don't see more than 100 explorable systems at release and that's pushing. We will still have 400 billion stars in the night sky majority of those stars we actually won't even see unless you zoom out in star map. Well, 100 pr even 50 systems is not that bad after all, it's more feasible than even 10.000 systems which will never happen most likely. Like I mentioned before I debated so hard on forums - there is no point PRing about millions or even billions. Those numbers from the game perspective are impossible to comprehend. Stick to the normal numbers and you won't have to explain yourselves after release
.David Braben: Interesting. No. I did hear of a cockpit study NASA did, where the controls were activated by looking at them (VR style). Apparently it was very stressful as pilots tried very hard not to look at controls that might have nasty consequences - like the ejector seat!
LOL, that's funny. I can imagine... "Ok, sir, please do NOT look at that red button... what did I just say?..... Oh... sh...." They could just keep the Red buttons to manual controls I think.
Great live chat overall. Some new vague information hehe.
