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Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 4
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@sallymorganmoore
First of all, big thank you to you and the whole CM team for your responsiveness! It's much appreciated.
I wanted to point out a long-standing issue that predates Odyssey. I've watched this one languish on the issue tracker since version 3.3.
Currently, smuggling and black markets are broken. There are seemingly two flags that are looked at when selling commodities on a black market. The first is whether the good was stolen or not. If it was, the black market will slap a -25% price reduction on it. The logic being that stolen goods are more dangerous to sell.
However, this same price reduction is also being applied to goods that aren't stolen. The result of which is drastically reduced profits when trying to smuggle, and in many cases, you'll actually lose credits.
Combine this with the fact that smuggling was not rebalanced when all the other professions were and it's quite clear that smuggling is dead right now. It's only use is for BGS manipulation currently.
One previous report on the issue tracker has expired and another is marked "Fixed". Unfortunately, it isn't fixed. Here's a link to the current issue on the tracker: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/12357
I know this isn't a super high priority with everything going on, but it would be nice to see some acknowledgment of the problem.
Thanks!
First of all, big thank you to you and the whole CM team for your responsiveness! It's much appreciated.
I wanted to point out a long-standing issue that predates Odyssey. I've watched this one languish on the issue tracker since version 3.3.
Currently, smuggling and black markets are broken. There are seemingly two flags that are looked at when selling commodities on a black market. The first is whether the good was stolen or not. If it was, the black market will slap a -25% price reduction on it. The logic being that stolen goods are more dangerous to sell.
However, this same price reduction is also being applied to goods that aren't stolen. The result of which is drastically reduced profits when trying to smuggle, and in many cases, you'll actually lose credits.
Combine this with the fact that smuggling was not rebalanced when all the other professions were and it's quite clear that smuggling is dead right now. It's only use is for BGS manipulation currently.
One previous report on the issue tracker has expired and another is marked "Fixed". Unfortunately, it isn't fixed. Here's a link to the current issue on the tracker: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/12357
I know this isn't a super high priority with everything going on, but it would be nice to see some acknowledgment of the problem.
Thanks!
Ozric
Volunteer Moderator
Read 8 posts up from the one you just quoted!
1,000 times this please
sallymorganmoore
Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
I am so sorry to keep spamming this same message over and over but there are lots of you in here - WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO SQUASHING THOSE ORANGE SIDIES, EVERYONE! Hang in there Thanks for your patience.
thankees!
Was getting Orange Sidewinders... then was unable to login (servers getting reset maybe?)...
... and now we're right back to more Orange Sidewinders.
Whatever hotfix was tried did not work.
... and now we're right back to more Orange Sidewinders.
Whatever hotfix was tried did not work.
I have been doing this for weeks with very little changes from Low to High, or a variation of those. However even using Medium & Low settings I get an awful migraine after a while, So I still have to be around the High preset (usually 16x Anistropic and SMAA, but that has very little bearing on the overall performance).
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tis the codpiece
Thank you for the update. It is nice to see such hard work is put in this!
Can I please advice 2 changes in how you communicate these changes though? You asked communication improvements
1/ Separate the important improvements from lesser details
I feel the patch notes "blow up" very small changes, causing the list to be 5x as big and as a consequence 5x as hard to read and understand and it results in an icky feeling of "PRintention".
Some examples of meaningless small details blowing up the list:
As opposed to these (potentially) which stand out as much more important:
2/ Explain the important patch notes
In line with the 1st advice, it would be very useful to select the most important patch notes and explain them a bit, show examples, go more in-depth what they actually mean.
For example:
"Optimisations to terrain rendering have been made"
Really hope this changes, because right now, it's impossible for me to understand them properly and know if it's a big/important update or just appears big.
Can I please advice 2 changes in how you communicate these changes though? You asked communication improvements
1/ Separate the important improvements from lesser details
I feel the patch notes "blow up" very small changes, causing the list to be 5x as big and as a consequence 5x as hard to read and understand and it results in an icky feeling of "PRintention".
Some examples of meaningless small details blowing up the list:
- MissionUI - Updated Community-Goal related icons to use a higher fidelity icon.
- Localised 'battery at 20%' notification.
- A fix has been implemented for z-fighting that could be seen on a Chemical prop.
- ...
As opposed to these (potentially) which stand out as much more important:
- Optimisations to terrain rendering have been made
- Reduced occasional frame spikes caused by AI
- ...
2/ Explain the important patch notes
In line with the 1st advice, it would be very useful to select the most important patch notes and explain them a bit, show examples, go more in-depth what they actually mean.
For example:
"Optimisations to terrain rendering have been made"
- What optimisation?
- How would a user notice?
- Can you show it?
- etc.
Really hope this changes, because right now, it's impossible for me to understand them properly and know if it's a big/important update or just appears big.
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I had 11 completed and one half completed wing expansion mission before the update. Logged out 5min before servers went down.
All missions are gone now.
Trying to use the Issue Tracker, but seems a little stuck.
Took a while but got there in the end
All missions are gone now.
Trying to use the Issue Tracker, but seems a little stuck.
Took a while but got there in the end
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Great stuff 
With every one of these progressive patches, I’m getting ever closer to purchasing Odyssey for my PC Commander, but not quite yet.
o7
With every one of these progressive patches, I’m getting ever closer to purchasing Odyssey for my PC Commander, but not quite yet.
o7
Thanks so much for the updates.
Is there any word about the damaged stations moving in orbit (as in the player ship not syncing with the station's instance). I didn't see it on the list... I went to do rescues pre-update this week and they were all like that. It's very hard to dock with a station travelling at 200 m/s... or do I just need to work on my extreme docking skills?
Happy Thursday
Is there any word about the damaged stations moving in orbit (as in the player ship not syncing with the station's instance). I didn't see it on the list... I went to do rescues pre-update this week and they were all like that. It's very hard to dock with a station travelling at 200 m/s... or do I just need to work on my extreme docking skills?
Happy Thursday
Good work! Slowly but surely. Just keep up the great work