News Development Update - 15th Jan
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Thanks for the update on your development process also! This should stop some of the moaning when the point releases drop. I'm glad your being cautious and don't want to risk breaking any currently working functionality.
Great news Michael, although no surprises for anyone that has been following the development of the game and the forums periodically. Will be a good place to catch regular consolidated update plans and spend less time trolling the forums.
Is it possible for you to comment even more generally about other things that will be in the "tweaks, fixes and updates" as your Dev Updates continue?
For example, two really common discussion points/requests on the forums are:
- what known issues/bugs are FD working
- and random Dev comments answer a few of these, but are not consolidated into an update thread
- like the recent posts from Sarah Jane Avory about AI improvements to docking and some tweaks to dampen down auto-bounty for a minor mistaken bit of friendly fire.
- will FD continue hammering away at the DDA or have those core design documents gone the way of the wind?
- for instance, I made a couple of posts about newsfeeds, which are actually covered quite nicely in the DDA, but currently are nowhere near the DDA goals
Cheers!
DMG
Is it possible for you to comment even more generally about other things that will be in the "tweaks, fixes and updates" as your Dev Updates continue?
For example, two really common discussion points/requests on the forums are:
- what known issues/bugs are FD working
- and random Dev comments answer a few of these, but are not consolidated into an update thread
- like the recent posts from Sarah Jane Avory about AI improvements to docking and some tweaks to dampen down auto-bounty for a minor mistaken bit of friendly fire.
- will FD continue hammering away at the DDA or have those core design documents gone the way of the wind?
- for instance, I made a couple of posts about newsfeeds, which are actually covered quite nicely in the DDA, but currently are nowhere near the DDA goals
Cheers!
DMG
Ozric
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I would not have thought so, certainly not at first. It's not too hard to have a look on the Galaxy Map at the star types within a system and see if you have time to make a couple of more jumps
I will be happy if the route planner worked properly up to 150ys, with me, anything over 50 lys rarely works.
Does anyone know if clan tags in game are planned?
Does anyone know if clan tags in game are planned?
I doubt the team will be completely separate. Resources do multiple things and expertise overlaps. Tasks get completed and new ones assigned.
However, Michael has stated they are hiring so that they can work on both free expansions, bug fixes and tweaks like Wings, as well as the two known paid expansions which for now are only Planetary Landings and EVA/Walking About on foot mode.
Ozric
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It's not Friendly Fire though is it
Nice! That will allow me to plan a route to the Witch Head Nebula in one go... though I would also like to see planned routes persisting between sessions, so you can pick up your journey after a good night's sleep or that occasional crash/disconnect.
Any chance of that being included Michael?
Michael Brookes
Game Director
I assume there's some work being done on optimising the route finding too - otherwise we'll be waiting hours for it to plot a 1000 ly jump route. All that it needs to do is direct the route finding towards the selected destination, instead of spreading out in all directions at the same time. Looking forward to this, and the other new features !
Keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work.
Later tday
Michael Brookes
Game Director
Not at the moment, but expect more information on the ships in future newsletters.
Michael
It would be cool to see tags for each major and minor faction in the game engine - but as there are thousands it would be a lot of work. Then the Faction Identification Poster would have to be made...
From the distant past, Devs were open to implementing more traditional mmo player type interaction methods like Clans, Guilds. But iirc it was going to be further down the line.
Will be interesting to see how the updates go through March however, since I think FD has recognized the many community comments that Multi-player is a big draw and needs a lot of TLC at the moment. But I wouldn't count on the Private Group function being renamed a Clan and player created tags put in-game if that is what you are asking.
Yes. This will happen in parallel. That is the reason for why the dev team recently got expanded.
Taken from last weeks development update:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=94899
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