Deep Space Surveys - Watch and see why exploration needs to be worked on next!

[drkaii]

There's a growing contingent of people who think that it's time for FD to focus on exploration next. The argument is that the galaxy is the main innovation, treasure and wonder of the game. All else is great at what it does, and has been tweaked and improved and worked on since launch exclusively, so it seems time to focus on exploration. See the Exploration Community Request List to see how many things can be improved!

Anyone who has no idea why exploration could possibly be anything but dull, I wish to share with you my Deep Space Survey series - akin to Isinona's videos but about the galaxy. It's been around for a while, was in a newsletter (shameless me), and despite me being biased and very proud, it IS awesome

Give an episode a watch, and see if I can tempt you to seeing what the galaxy's potential really is, and hopefully we can grow the voice of "1.5 needs to have some MAJOR galaxy/exploration love!"

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmZswJzvjc8eGygYrJNJfyFiOj58WjkwH

They are long, but the music, the factoids, the awe and beauty of the galaxy itself will get you hooked. If time is a commodity, then you can watch any bit of any video in any order and should get some entertainment

Also, check out this recent thread: Must be a 1st! - Mass Locked in Orbit at Epsilon Indi. - see what Elite is really all about
And this thread shows that there are so many cool things produced by the Stellar Forge - you'll never "see it all": Post your weird systems!

That's my shameless plug, but I hope you enjoy and we can motivate FD to realise that we want the galaxy worked on really really badly!

[video=youtube;hSxDM4g-QTU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSxDM4g-QTU&list=PLmZswJzvjc8eGygYrJNJfyFiOj58WjkwH&index=1[/video]

 

[Senex VII]

The thing that struck me most, when watching this video, was at around 9:00 when you were a lone explorer swinging high over a lonely Earth-like planet. I wondered if a similar traveler had ever swung high over our own real-life planet Earth, and looked down at it similarly. Perhaps I was standing there on the surface when they did, looking back at them unknowingly, and misinterpreting their departure as a meteor streak.

 

[Kolato]

I agree, exploration needs some love.
Talked about this before (see sig) but frontier has yet to ever even remotley respond.

Hopefully they will soon.

 

[AnnuverScotinExile]

FD are perfectly aware that exploring needs love. At Lavecon, Michael said that it will not get any love until planetary landing. Which is very disappointing (even though I suspect planetary landings is the Gamescom announcement, and it will be with us for Christmas), since the whole basis of exploration is so minimalist. It barely reaches the dizzy heights of placeholder.

 

[drkaii]

FD are perfectly aware that exploring needs love. At Lavecon, Michael said that it will not get any love until planetary landing. Which is very disappointing (even though I suspect planetary landings is the Gamescom announcement, and it will be with us for Christmas), since the whole basis of exploration is so minimalist. It barely reaches the dizzy heights of placeholder.

Tell me more about Michael's statement it won't receive love till planetary landings?

 

[AnnuverScotinExile]

Tell me more about Michael's statement it won't receive love till planetary landings?

I looked, but could not find it. Though I am sure I read it, my memory does let me down from time to time, so if you want certainty, you are better off ignoring me.

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Edit: Well it was no wonder that I didn't find it, until I tried much harder.

It wasn't on the Lavecon thread, but on a recent Dev Update. Except it wasn't. Tinman, bless his cotton socks, quoted a post of Michaels, but it was quite an old one, which I didn't spot at the time. And since it was so old, it didn't quite mean what I assumed it did wrt work on exploration. Michael's post was this one, in fact:

The original post doesn't really compare like for like - exploration is currently in a generally solid state where the other roles have required some priority fixes and tweaks. Naturally there will be more features and content as we continue and I can see the planetary landings in particular expanding the exploration role.

Michael

I was typically blunt in my reply:

Thank for making me even more depressed than I already was - quite an achievement. Exploration is generally in a soldi state because there is so little there that there is nothing that can go wrong with it. If polishing what we have is what Michael thinks is enough to satisfy, then I might as well give up now.

 

[drkaii]

I looked, but could not find it. Though I am sure I read it, my memory does let me down from time to time, so if you want certainty, you are better off ignoring me.

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Edit: Well it was no wonder that I didn't find it, until I tried much harder.

It wasn't on the Lavecon thread, but on a recent Dev Update. Except it wasn't. Tinman, bless his cotton socks, quoted a post of Michaels, but it was quite an old one, which I didn't spot at the time. And since it was so old, it didn't quite mean what I assumed it did wrt work on exploration. Michael's post was this one, in fact:



I was typically blunt in my reply:

Oh I see, well that was ages ago, and we are starting to raise our voices again, so maybe now that all the "priority fixes" have been made, we can show that the exploration isn't quite as solid as it was in december

 

[drkaii]

Come on guys, exploration ftw

 

[drkaii]

I can't wait to start a new Deep Space Survey Series with PL