Discovery Scanner [Weekly Update] - 25/04/2022

[Crystal Monopole]

while it may not justify a monthly subscription, i'm pretty sure their infrastructure cost it's not exactly insignificant

Turn on the network meter while in Solo mode and fly around. That's their entire per-client network load. Scale it up to 20,000 concurrent connections (3-5x the current load) and you'll see that wouldn't even stress reasonable consumer fiber.

If you want to see what the networking would look like in a proper client-server configuration start a PG, invite a wing mate, fly missions together and watch the network stats. Jumps from a dozen or so bytes/s to thousands. Now we get into tiered bandwidth pricing and you need additional servers to mediate who's doing what and handling NPC actions.

Elite Dangerous' operational costs are minimal.

 

[Old Duck]

The only difference between the Initiatives year and the Colonia Bridge/NMLA/Azimuth/Salvation story arcs this past year is that there aren't months-long periods of silence in between events.

I disagree. The activities surrounding the IIs were way more enjoyable that those of late. Of course if you're a trucker, you'll likely think differently than I am, but as a combat pilot, I have found the CGs to be woefully lacking of late.

And if all I was interested in was a good story, I'd just read a book.

 

[Maolagin]

I disagree. The activities surrounding the IIs were way more enjoyable that those of late. Of course if you're a trucker, you'll likely think differently than I am, but as a combat pilot, I have found the CGs to be woefully lacking of late.

Oh, well sure, that I'll grant. I don't know why they stopped pairing cargo CGs with parallel bounty hunting goals, but at least in weeks without a competing event it would be nice to see them come back.

 

[doomeri]

When new content?

 

[CMDR KCalo]

When new content?

I fully expect a surprise announcement on Thursday full of ship interiors, on-foot thargoid combat, base building, a surprise fix to planet tiling (even though they told us they weren't, those crafty devils), and a complete overhaul of powerplay! Could there be a new ship coming?.....maybe!

 

[Gleitfrosch]

I fully expect a surprise announcement on Thursday full of ship interiors, on-foot thargoid combat, base building, a surprise fix to planet tiling (even though they told us they weren't, those crafty devils), and a complete overhaul of powerplay! Could there be a new ship coming?.....maybe!

And then you woke up and realized it was just a wet dream, or was it a nightmare?

 

[doomeri]

I fully expect a surprise announcement on Thursday full of ship interiors, on-foot thargoid combat, base building, a surprise fix to planet tiling (even though they told us they weren't, those crafty devils), and a complete overhaul of powerplay! Could there be a new ship coming?.....maybe!

Yeah, me too.

 

[CMDR KCalo]

And then you woke up and realized it was just a wet dream, or was it a nightmare?

Then everything was 10fps and they said it was optimized aggghh!

 

[Northpin]

Turn on the network meter while in Solo mode and fly around. That's their entire per-client network load. Scale it up to 20,000 concurrent connections (3-5x the current load) and you'll see that wouldn't even stress reasonable consumer fiber.

If you want to see what the networking would look like in a proper client-server configuration start a PG, invite a wing mate, fly missions together and watch the network stats. Jumps from a dozen or so bytes/s to thousands. Now we get into tiered bandwidth pricing and you need additional servers to mediate who's doing what and handling NPC actions.

Elite Dangerous' operational costs are minimal.

It's not about bandwidth, but about having server farms running 24/7 supporting the load. And people supporting those servers
However the bandwidth do matter in multiplayer when people won't allow port forwarding or upnp and instead rely on using FDev's turn servers.
(the game is p2p so, if people do use port forwarding or upnp, the vast majority of traffic will be direct peer to peer traffic)

Check this, but keep in mind it was 2015 and in the mean time the infrastructure was probably expanded as the game evolved

 

[AAABattery]

Hey where are the 3a, 4a, and 6a double engineered fsd's? The 5a fsd was given as a reward in a cg in Nov. 2020 and was available at a tech broker about 3 months later. The last cg event to give out the new Fsd's was more than 3 months ago so are they coming soon?

 

[Cmdr. Numa]

Hey where are the 3a, 4a, and 6a double engineered fsd's? The 5a fsd was given as a reward in a cg in Nov. 2020 and was available at a tech broker about 3 months later. The last cg event to give out the new Fsd's was more than 3 months ago so are they coming soon?

They are still in limbo regarding the official fix for applying experimental effects on them. But seeing how the latest rewards moved away from double engineered modules, it may well be they'll never hit the tech brokers.

 

[CMDRUmbrellaCorp]

Most MMOs have updates. But not this game. This game has downdates, which is where they tell you all about the content that they are either unable or unwilling to create. And they end it by requesting that you purchase more arx. Why? To support development of a dinosaur game? Hard pass.

 

[Frop]

To support development of a dinosaur game?

Still the current dinosaur game. Dinosaur Citizen is pretty, but buggy as hell and your progress gets wiped every few updates anyway.

 

[St0rmFury]

Heh

 

[Zac Cocken]

Hello everyone, as there's a bank holiday next week in the UK, there may not be a Discovery Scanner post. Definitely not on Monday.

 

[Northpin]

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Heh

Guess that dude should better head to quest driven games instead of trying to make his own career in a sandbox game with NO handholding.

 

[Frop]

Hello everyone, as there's a bank holiday next week in the UK, there may not be a Discovery Scanner post. Definitely not on Monday.

Thank you for the early notification, enjoy your Brian May day (never knew he had his own day, pretty cool)!

 

[Lyamecron]

Hello everyone, as there's a bank holiday next week in the UK, there may not be a Discovery Scanner post. Definitely not on Monday.

thanks for letting us know. Also, hope you have a nice day off.

 

[yianniv]

Hello everyone, as there's a bank holiday next week in the UK, there may not be a Discovery Scanner post. Definitely not on Monday.

Thanks for the prompt notification, Zac, I appreciate it.

 

[Flimley]

Does that mean update 12 isn't being released on Monday either.
Hooray for everything. \o/

Flimley