Yeah that really annoyed me. I would have thought at least they would have said yes it's in the game. Just that. Just ignore the can we get to it question all together.
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The second question answered had new info, I think (or at least, I'd not seen this mentioned elsewhere before, and it has huge implications!): https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...bruce-stephen-paul.559345/page-2#post-8814663
A rare confirmation here that a post-Odyssey feature is on the list: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...bruce-stephen-paul.559345/page-4#post-8814720
(oddly, other questions in this area got a "no current plans, focus is on Odyssey", which may make clearer what "no current plans" means)
Helmets in Odyssey have a HUD: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...bruce-stephen-paul.559345/page-6#post-8814793
Confirmation that they aren't happy with material balance: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...bruce-stephen-paul.559345/page-8#post-8814857 and https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...ruce-stephen-paul.559345/page-11#post-8814950
Plus a few clarifications on lore issues, where it wouldn't give away future content. Whether that strictly counts as "new info" I don't know, but they certainly were useful answers.
Possibly after a few of them we'll get better at asking questions they're allowed to give a useful answer to - I can certainly see some areas worth asking about next time, based on what they could talk about this time.
I had a question answered ... sort of ...
Now, "that's a great question!" can be taken two ways:
1. It's a great question
2. "Crikey! We hadn't thought of that! "
But, we kind of got an answer that there will be "customisation" for Odyssey, even if we don't know the details So I took that as a satisfactory answer within the limitations of no Odyssey reveals allowed.
Now, "that's a great question!" can be taken two ways:
1. It's a great question
2. "Crikey! We hadn't thought of that! "
But, we kind of got an answer that there will be "customisation" for Odyssey, even if we don't know the details
So I took that as a satisfactory answer within the limitations of no Odyssey reveals allowed.There is comfort in knowing that your comment or idea is getting passed on for consideration, rather than shunted by mods into the empty void of the Suggestions thread
There is comfort in knowing that your comment or idea is getting passed on for consideration, rather than shunted by mods into the empty void of the Suggestions thread
The problem being, if you assume the suggestion subforum is an empty void, that the devs don't pay any attention, why would you feel any sort of assurance the devs would pay any attention to the suggestions the CMs say they will pass on to the devs.
You don't need an AMA to gather suggestions, people post in the suggestion sub-forum often enough to gather all the suggestions you could possibly need.
Why? Do you think the answers will magically change if i look at them again?
If you have an answer that conflicts with my point of view, by all means, quote it.
Over on reddit Stuart noted that FD had given some new info in that this week had set a new record for player numbers. Ok, but its only official confirmation of something i think we all could have guessed anyway. Making games free tends to do that sort of thing.
I will not enter into discussion because English is not my native language,
there are many responses that do not respect your described pattern,
those responses that do not respect the pattern, even if they do not answer, are answered indirectly.
I give you an example
Compare it with RAXXLA's response and obtain your conclusions (I imagine what they are:
).but the result seems to me to be positive and I encourage them to continue, for sure they will get more response next time.
I will not enter into discussion because English is not my native language,
there are many responses that do not respect your described pattern,
those responses that do not respect the pattern, even if they do not answer, are answered indirectly.
I give you an example
Compare it with RAXXLA's response and obtain your conclusions (I imagine what they are:
but the result seems to me to be positive and I encourage them to continue, for sure they will get more response next time.
That was basically a non-answer.
Could the new regular AMAs be another element in the 'we're lovely people, please buy Odyssey' thrust? The test will be whether all this flurry of activity lasts beyond 2021, past experience suggests that Frontier will return to a community engagement lockdown.
Maybe, but for them to have a positive impact FD's management really have to throw us a bone, give the CMs a little more permission to give real answers to questions. Sure, i accept they can't answer everything. A lot of stuff will have to be kept under wraps, but i'm fairly sure they could have at least answered a few of those with actual new information without breaking any obligations they have to shareholders and whatnot.
Would it really have hurt to have said "Yes, Raxxla is in game and reachable".
It makes me wonder whether the actual answer to that question is "No".
To be honest, the sanest default is 'no'. Realistically the CMs have some authority and leverage regards superficial balancing and act as an interface but beyond that its dev territory.
Well, one of the positive outcomes of a no answer is knowing when its a waste of time pushing further on a topic.
For example, their answer to your question about powerplay basically should indicate you might as well give up making proposals for a good while. Yes, they said they are interested in improving things, but the overall answer basically said, forget about anything happening with powerplay for the forseeable future.
At least, that's my take on the answer.
My take reading between the lines is that Powerplay is either too complex to fix, and is not a priority. It (along with CQC) is vestigial and the BGS is 'the thing'. Yes PP is in EDO (you can see it on one of the dev video 2 screens) but I expect nothing new now.
Its why I put the jab in about Sandro, because I have never heard another dev even say Powerplay once in years- at all. Its why I also asked about Powerplay bobbleheads and 3D Tier 1 avatars to match faction heads, at one time FD were pushing PP hard and suddenly dropped everything. So expect to look at 5 year old assets rather than the new emotive avatars.
Its a sad situation, because it exemplified FDs biggest weakness of making a feature and expecting it to be good 'because'. Powerplay could have (and still could be) good if only FD updated it more often rather than monolithically dropping it in the game and leaving updates for a future time.
Hi, when does the server will come on?
I thought I'd give them an easy one to answer, I asked "What can you tell us about Dev Diary 3? Any date yet?"
And Bruce replied "It's coming this December!"
I mean, I could not have given them an easier question to answer, and they didn't even give us anything on that. We know it's coming in December, they had a chance there to throw us something to keep us hyped while waiting, and Bruce went with "it's coming in December"
I don't see how I could have asked it any better, it's not like I asked something knowing full well they couldn't answer it. I even worded it in a way that gave them freedom to give us something.
My birthday is 25th december if anyone want to send me pc parts XD
I feel as though if we had asked "Is water wet" the anwser would have been "Its a great question, and we will pass it on to the devs to look into"
Again, i don't want to dump on the CMs themselves, i understand they are trying to increase community engagement, but i feel like their hands are too tied to make this work.
The CMs always say that they tell us what they can - so if you have been paying attention to what they say then all you will hear is the same again. Which is what happened.
The AMAs will maybe be more useful when there is news to query, rather than people screaming questions about VR into the void for weeks to get a simple clarification.
Then what is the point of doing an AMA if they can't say anything?
Very good question, but unfortunately have no answer for that at the moment.
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