News Design Decision Archive now publically viewable

Ashley Barley · Mar 25, 2013

Hi everyone!

Just a quick update about the Design Decision Archive. This should now be viewable to all registered forum users, so you can see the decisions that have been made within the DDF and discuss the design choices that have been made. Hopefully this will provide a little more clarity to more of the community, in regards to the development process of Elite: Dangerous so far.

please note: to streamline the conversation in the DDA, only the most recent thread on each subject has been left open. This should allow all conversation on each topic to remain in one place. A format and rules thread for the DDA will be forth-coming!

Thank you again for supporting Elite and participating in the forums! If you have any questions or concerns then please feel free to private message me.

Mobius · Mar 25, 2013

should make for an intresting read for those who are intrested in how we came to our decisions.

JeffRyan · Mar 25, 2013

Excellent!

Caribou · Mar 25, 2013

v good idea.

Bruce Turnbull · Mar 25, 2013

Thank you. looks good, another 200 pages to read.

Barns · Mar 25, 2013

There's definitely interesting stuff in there, worth reading if you have the time. You may not agree with all the views, but you can't fault the DDF members' enthusiasm to make a great game!

Slawkenbergius · Mar 25, 2013

To anybody who takes the time to slog through the discussion, I'd like to apologise in advance for half of my posts.

Bruce Turnbull · Mar 25, 2013

Slawkenbergius said:
To anybody who takes the time to slog through the discussion, I'd like to apologise in advance for half of my posts.

It's all good, it's fascinating to see how these things evolve. It'll be great when the game comes out to see where it came from, or ever to say "that was my idea".

Dr Wookie · Mar 25, 2013

Don't worry guys, the later discussions have been a lot less chaotic than the first ones, so maybe a bit easier to follow (if you want to)

AnnuverScotinExile · Mar 25, 2013

Mobius said:
should make for an intresting read for those who are intrested in how we came to our decisions.

I don't recall us coming to any decisions. All we did was talk (and talk, and talk) and then FD made some decisions.

Gimi · Mar 25, 2013

AnnuverScotinExile said:
I don't recall us coming to any decisions. All we did was talk (and talk, and talk) and then FD made some decisions.

True, but Frontier has posted the decisions in the DDF as well, and they are subsequently moved to the archive. So some genius might be able to find the red thread and understand how the decisions came about. (If he/she does, I'll be hoping for an explanation).

metatheurgist · Mar 26, 2013

AnnuverScotinExile said:
I don't recall us coming to any decisions. All we did was talk (and talk, and talk) and then FD made some decisions.

That's good to hear. I was hoping it would turn out that way.

Patrick_68000 · Mar 26, 2013

Very positive that everyone is access to important information.
We can not leave people in the ignorance

JeffRyan · Mar 26, 2013

Patrick_68000 said:
Very positive that everyone is access to important information.
We can not leave people in the ignorance

That's what I thought...

Ashley Barley · Mar 27, 2013

Can someone that doesn't have access to the PBF or DDF confirm that they can reply to the threads in the discussion archive? Thanks!

Cody · Mar 27, 2013

I just replied to the Death Penalty thread - it requires a Mod's approval, apparently.

Ashley Barley · Mar 27, 2013

Cody said:
I just replied to the Death Penalty thread - it requires a Mod's approval, apparently.

Ok thanks, I'll fix this.

Cody · Mar 27, 2013

Feel free to delete my test post, Ashley.

Cody · Mar 27, 2013

I see no option to delete one's post (if it's still the latest post in a thread) - am I missing something? Oh... where I mostly reside, if I need to test any permissions, I create a test-user, approve its first post, then use it for whatever is needed.