Elite Dangerous | Ascendancy Update 1 - Thursday 21st November

Markov Chaney

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I had some difficulty getting in. In the end I set the network to IPv6 only AND I changed it to one of the specific ports. That let me in.

My Weekly Assignments show that my "Scan Ships" is completed already (that's correct for last week.) Do these normally carry over like this or have we missed a tick?
 

Knuttin Atoll

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Darkfyre99 said:
I'm replying to this:




None of those game developers have "release(d) perfect problems and updates every time..."

Like every other game development company, they update, patch, patch again, and patch again.

Now, all three of those companies do a much better job at that that cycle than Frontier. Especially Mojang, which has a robust player-based testing environment. But they're not perfect. No company can hope to replicate every single combination of software, hardware, and drivers that exist out in the wild. But a robust player-based testing environment can catch the worst ones before they get into the wild.

Frontier treats such an environment as a marketing opportunity or something to be monetized.
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What I like about Egosoft's approach is they use public betas, listen and act upon feedback, and while they advise you to make copies of your save files, you can basically play them like the live version and once the live update drops, you switch to that with your progress intact. It's beautifully seamless and so far never had any issues. Because many bugs (not all) will have been fixed at some point during the beta.

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Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell
Paul_Crowther said:
  • Archon Delain Powerplay systems now correctly open Black Markets if they are not already present. OK...here crime might pay.
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It's Delaine not Delain.

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Wily Rites

Wily Rites
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Oh this is superb, loads more merits for doing my system patrol, I just got 388 merits for killing a pesky viper who was armed with a rail gun, in a really fun fight. Didn't get the chance to get on the anaconda that was with him but system security took care of that, not a problem and far more realistic, with decent reward for doing my job; Thank you frontier this is way better balanced!

Cargo hatch malfunction, the inevitable result of thermal conduit causing over excitability! If it's not the dang hatch breaker limpets, then its my own love for the red glow of hot plasma!
 
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Knuttin Atoll

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Helmut Grokenberger said:
That's for Frontier to know and for the players to find out. Watch the usual channels - this forum, reddit, the streamers - to see the reports how merit earning changed.
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It would be nice if Frontier posted a summary of the balance changes, if simply for the player to gauge whether PP2.0 progression is worthwhile persisting with now (that's where I'm at currently - was about to unpledge but maybe not now).

Not a fan personally of obfuscating things, but realise Frontier clearly are.
 

Markov Chaney

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Nowski said:
I mean if you're talking about their infrastructure creaking and breaking under the stampede of logins on a game update, "unreasonable" maybe not, "unrealistic" definitely given the number of times you've seen this.

(My guess would be the underlying issue is a variety of Thundering Herd and probably indicates a bottleneck in their dataflow rather than a lack of AWS instances.)
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I would also add that standing up additional infrastructure (and/or patterns) to cope with peaks after an outage specifically is a massive attention thief, in addition to resource and platform engineer effort cost. So much so that some companies who make real-world money by the minute from people using their platform STILL don't bother because it's just not worth it. So you can see why game studios who make a very small amount of money from second-order things like ARX are not going to get too excited about it.
 

Asmara

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No merits for rare goods or anything really. Acquisition Systems now need you to find other CMDR's in order to make ANY MERITS.
No TRADING no NOTHING...... it's a dog's dinner.....
 

Bestg86

Bestg86
Wow! Thanks FDEV :)

Much more satisfying now, to do various tasks that I enjoy with relatively decent progress. Been doing some bounty hunting, and getting over 350 merits for the more tricky ships with large bounties. Going to test a load of other activities today.

This gives me more incentive to try a load of the other power play related actions (like I was doing the first week before the grind and imbalance became apparent).

With these kinds of rebalancing, like the engineering, I think credit is due! Thanks again.

o7
 
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