Discovery Scanner - 20/09/2022

[aRJay]

Questions for Derin;
What is the question that you most want to be asked?

What is the question that you are most fed up with being asked?

Questions from bosses and colleagues are excluded.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Let's just hope the VR crowd don't find this or it could get completely derailed

you rang?????

I would be interested to know if going forward new settlement layouts are likely to be added to increase the variation, or are FD happy with where they are at now? I remember for instance new space station interiors were added as the game progressed as well as asteroid bases etc.

 

[St0rmFury]

 

[Ozric]

So good to see Derin out with the sass at the forums for not asking about Raxxla

 

[Rat Catcher]

So good to see Derin out with the sass at the forums for not asking about Raxxla

Made me smile!

 

[Rubbernuke]

Another question:

So good to see Derin out with the sass at the forums for not asking about Raxxla

Raxxla is old news. We have several glowy things moving towards us, and like kids at Christmas we have dropped the old thing for the new thing

 

[Rat Catcher]

Another question:

Raxxla is old news. We have several glowy things moving towards us, and like kids at Christmas we have dropped the old thing for the new thing

They are 22,000 Ly from me.... Santa is probably closer!

 

[aRJay]

They are 22,000 Ly from me.... Santa is probably closer!

That depends on where Raxxla actually is.

 

[Ozric]

They are 22,000 Ly from me.... Santa is probably closer!

Maybe, but is Santa a being that can travel between the fabric of space itself....

Has anyone seen Santa and the Thargoids in the same place at the same time...

 

[Alec Turner]

@Derin Halil don't know if you're on the forums much to answer this but in the livestream yesterday you spoke about the rules in the algorithm used to place settlements on planet surfaces.

Source: https://youtu.be/HRGIQjfdjaY?t=6193


I had a couple of questions:

1) Does what you describe apply to planetary ports and outposts as well or was that just for Odyssey settlements?

2) You used the phrase "more likely" - does that mean that even tho' there are rules about how close two settlements can be to each other, there might still be outliers which perhaps bend these rules? (People love the outliers, that's where a lot of fun often lies - for example one of the best point-to-point surface SRV races in Horizons was between Elwood Camp and Ferguson Prospect on Wasat A2E which are a mere 50km apart - is it possible we might find similar in Odyssey?).

 

[Derin Halil]

1) Does what you describe apply to planetary ports and outposts as well or was that just for Odyssey settlements?

Just Odyssey Settlements

2) You used the phrase "more likely" - does that mean they even tho' there are rules about how close two settlements can be to each other, there might still be outliers which perhaps bend these rules? (People love the outliers, that's where a lot of fun often lies - for example one of the best point-to-point surface SRV races in Horizons was between Elwood Camp and Ferguson Prospect on Wasat A2E which are a mere 50km apart - is it possible we might find similar in Odyssey?).

That was in reference to matching topography to settlement type. The Odyssey settlements are placed with an entirely different ruleset to Planet Ports and Horizons settlements.

 

[Alec Turner]

Just Odyssey Settlements


That was in reference to matching topography to settlement type. The Odyssey settlements are placed with an entirely different ruleset to Planet Ports and Horizons settlements.

Awesome - thanks Derin. The search for the "new Wasat" continues in Odyssey then!