No.
Let someone who loves the game take the wheel, because it feels like whoever is running this ship hates the crew.
Let someone who loves the game take the wheel, because it feels like whoever is running this ship hates the crew.
Don't we WANT to support the devs RIGHT NOW?
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It actually speaks volumes, doesn't it? That the 2.2 release features are really not that significant to many. They are making mainly changes to existing stuff and not much more. The ship transfer will have a fairly a significant impact on the gameplay (good or bad) while the other changes in 2.2 will have little to no impact at all. Sad really that the core game is still essentially the same as it was two years ago in final beta.
This has always been the problem by whoever it is that makes decisions at FD.
They have no respect or regard for the hours you invest based on your knowledge and experience.
The only rule they never break:
The rules are only there to be changed.
I have just learned to accept it and do whatever I have to to adapt and stay ahead of the curve.
They have no credibility with me, They destroyed that long ago.
Believe nothing you read or hear. maybe after it's been in release for a few weeks you can start to have some confidence that things have stabilized for a month or two, and then it's time for the next beta, where they might listen to half of the feedback they get and then fix a few things and release a version with surprises that no one expects. A few weeks of rants, a few patches, and it's time to rinse and repeat.
It is what it is.
A thousand times I ask,
Ahh - passengers
What? My CMDR can't book passage to fly back to a station where he has a ship parked?
They could have easily improved the mechanics, eliminated the need for hauler taxis and aligned with the newest feature that would fit and make sense in terms of realism and immersion.
No way - let's stir the pot and kick the hornets nest.
Great move
I'm of the opinion that FD should temporarily step back from ship transfer as the answer to fixing the issues people assume it will solve.
I'm not sure how that would be done but I think ship transfers aren't going to make things all that better, instant or not.
You'll still need to schlept out to Jaques you'll just get there slightly faster and then get your cargo ship delivered instantly so you can get to work. Then you still need to leg it home and then pay again to bring your cargo ship back.
Maybe what's missing is activities in more areas of the bubble. IRL, if you were a pilot like in ED you'd have a home base and an area of operation. With in that area of operation you should be able to find all the activities you might want.
Not saying that's the solution but I think ship transfers might just be a temporary fix to lack of enough local content to keep players happy.
In that case 1h in Sothis gives you more than 100 "free" transfers. That should do it for a while.
Btw the plan is to make it really, really cheap, so CMDRs can use it as often as possible.
I think you have that the wrong way round. There are going to be lots of things happening in 2.2 that will impact gameplay. Ship transfer is just a small part if that.
Just wait and see
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Michael has already said they are looking at capping the distance for ship transfer. They could also limit how often you can move a ship around as well if needed.
Absolutely. I am extremely critical about this game BECAUSE I've soent 10 actual weeks of my life playing it.... who gives a flying frig about Candy Crush or Pokemon Go (probably some players of the latter here, but I can still call you poke-zombies) when you can get utterly addicted to ED.
I'm a shareholder too, never nix feelings with investments, it's like sex and love
is none going to question the conflict of interest of shareholders on the forum ?
How is it a conflict of interest exactly? I am a gamer first and foremost who plays ED and just happens to be a very small shareholder as well.
If you think that I am white knighting FD or tow the party line you are quite welcome to check my post history, and you will see that I'm not.
It's not like I have any real influence over FD either here or at the boardroom level.
Something is amiss here, you are constantly bashing FD and the game (its seems) and yet you have played well over 1600 hours of said game.
FD must be doing something right, as thats an insane amount of time to spend on ONE video game.
Support does not mean undergo
Undergo what, Patrick?
Actually having worked in the industry myself, the engineers stinks to high heaven of a hired third party consultant. As you spin the wheel of drudgery you can practically hear it (the consultant) droning on about intermittent reinforcement.
If an actual salaried employee of FD came up with it, they need to have their paychecks determined by a random roll each week with the possibility of numbers going negative and no re rolls. And to have their paycheck delivered to a random location in the office each week so they have to spend their weekends looking for it.
The incredible PG Galaxy, flying the ship and all the sounds, that's what's keeping me playing.
But the gameplay and the consistency of the Elite's univers... IMO the later is going worse which each new update, and the gameplay... well every new addition is telling me "go away, now that we have your money, this will never be the game you backed"
Hehe don't check how long I have played dota for! I'm not sure what adjective comes after insane.
But seriously, that is a long time. I've been playing since release and I'm closer to 400 hours. 1600 hours isn't just doing something right - that's doing most things right. I have very few games I can say I have played for thousands of hours.
The Majority of Shareholders want what David Braben wants...
Kind of a funny question really, that misses the mark for me.
I never think of current game direction/development in terms of supporting or criticizing the Devs.
I look at what is going on in terms of what FD leadership has laid out as IT"S vision for the game and whether or not current developments are congruous with what they have presented as what they claim they want the game to be.
Current major kerfuffle is really just this: Trying to reconcile insta-transport proposed with both historic development and stated game vision.
It seems a bit illogical using jump range for 2 years as a balance factor and then negating it in one update with insta-transfer. Additionally, Braben's oft stated vision statements regarding realism/immersion/science seem at odds with the proposed changes.
It's not any criticism of a person on the dev team, it's just an observation that begs for some rational explanation that so far has not been forthcoming.
It seems like injecting this into the game is once again going to be a radical paradigm shift rife with unintended consequences and exploits that will take months to tweak and re-balance.
AS I frequently point out, moving the CMDR to the ship he wants to fly would have been the better choice as it would have eliminated the Hauler/Taxi collection and improved convenience, been in line logically with introduction of passengers, and been a gradual evolution that would not have generated so many unknowns and negated jump range as a balance factor.
I don't see any of what I'm expressing as a personal attack on anyone at FD. Regardless of what they do, I will adapt and still be here after 2.2
I never think of current game direction/development in terms of supporting or criticizing the Devs.
I look at what is going on in terms of what FD leadership has laid out as IT"S vision for the game and whether or not current developments are congruous with what they have presented as what they claim they want the game to be.
Current major kerfuffle is really just this: Trying to reconcile insta-transport proposed with both historic development and stated game vision.
It seems a bit illogical using jump range for 2 years as a balance factor and then negating it in one update with insta-transfer. Additionally, Braben's oft stated vision statements regarding realism/immersion/science seem at odds with the proposed changes.
It's not any criticism of a person on the dev team, it's just an observation that begs for some rational explanation that so far has not been forthcoming.
It seems like injecting this into the game is once again going to be a radical paradigm shift rife with unintended consequences and exploits that will take months to tweak and re-balance.
AS I frequently point out, moving the CMDR to the ship he wants to fly would have been the better choice as it would have eliminated the Hauler/Taxi collection and improved convenience, been in line logically with introduction of passengers, and been a gradual evolution that would not have generated so many unknowns and negated jump range as a balance factor.
I don't see any of what I'm expressing as a personal attack on anyone at FD. Regardless of what they do, I will adapt and still be here after 2.2
well if you are a shareholder you get a bottom line from frontier ,elite being successful is the objective