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Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
Xenia_K said:
me neither - on the go implementations were always my most succssesful ones!
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And you tell the customer up front "if anything bad happens, anything at all, for an indefinite period of time... don't worry. Your facility is in development mode until we say its not."

I wish I had your customers! :ROFLMAO: It must depend on industry. Because it worked for Star Citizen.
 

Spaceman-FXL5

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Taledo said:
The ultimate "heck it, we'll do it in prod".

Can't say I've never done that.
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Double negative - so you have done it in prod (live)!.
We all have at some time, due to time/resource/urgency constraints, just hoped you had backup in case you needed to roll-back the update in Prod if it didn't work!
 

Dave G

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It will be "fix forward" unless disaster strikes, then a roll back, but I hope the roll back is targetted, so other activity in the game is not affected
 

S0rkvild

S0rkvild
Shenron said:
3pm GMT

still have to wait another 106 minutes from NOW
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hold your horses and add more time for

  • wait for update process
  • being lucky to... log in and join the game

Remembering Beyond or Fleet Carrier updates... hours of hours of not being able to launch the game, ugh
 

Taledo

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Spaceman-FXL5 said:
Double negative - so you have done it in prod (live)!.
We all have at some time, due to time/resource/urgency constraints, just hoped you had backup in case you needed to roll-back the update in Prod if it didn't work!
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Indeed, I have.
And l'll do it again. The wonders of small companies with limited resources.

I have backups, but I'd rather not rely too much on them, as our backup infrastructure is mainly made of cardboard and ewaste.
 

varonica

varonica
Starting to look like we won't get the patch notes until the update is ready to be downloaded to our PC's, so when they say "released alongside the update" maybe that means alongside the time the update is released to download. Pity, I would liked to have spent a bit of time reading and studying them before that.

Just finished backing up my journals, star cache and bindings, suggest you all do the same, you never know with such a big update!
 
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D7

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Kira Goto said:
Or incorrectly assuming. I'm very much aware that we don't have all the specifics of what colonizing entails and/or requires yet but repeating mini hauling CGs to build more stations to do more hauling to build more stations, only you get your name tagged somewhere and control placements/port types to a degree (as it's been presented) to expand the Bubble... meh. I am not particularly a hauler, only do it for CGs that I find narratively meaningful (whether that is in overarching story or roleplay wise), and I can't really excite myself based on the things we've seen. My imagination also does not present me with any possibilities which would make me excited or interested [except for things which would only be peripherally related or just have nothing to do with the actual feature] - meaning, I don't see anything arise out of this as a result of new systems being colonized that has any meaningful impact on/opportunities for my gameplay, or that advances the story.

It just looks like British Empire Simulator (but it's in spaaaaace), and my feelings on colonizing for the sake of colonizing (especially from a lore/narrative standpoint) are fairly accurately summed up in this paragraph of a text collectible from Subnautica :


Especially if there isn't any relevant narrative events surrounding colonization, it might as well not exist for me. Sure, there will be players who like it because they enjoy moving cargo around, and all the better for them. But this is all just going to be player controlled stuff to add more BGS and Powerplay systems, that I don't see actually adding anything to the story. Sure, Frontier are somewhat making it part of the lore but the way the last section of the Titan war with the proper counterattacks was treated (primarily just a fancy gameplay event where the actual narrative that led to it was seemingly treated as secondary if not entirely disposable, or only used as poor excuses for gameplay stuff)... that has made me rather disillusioned about it. And the lack of proper story articles rather than merely commenting on and responding to player actions without much foresight - namely AXI's HIP 22460 shenanigans resulting in shutting off of the anti Guardian field in that system and removal of the Thargoids that didn't look like it made much sense - wasn't any help.

But to look back at the gameplay side of it, what's going to be different if I went after pirates in a system being colonized instead of one of the many existing ones? Very little. They'd still not be particularly challenging unless I hampered myself (this I am not often interested in) or if those "better" pirates were present... it'd just be a simple inflation of numbers, not an enemy that behaves differently as the Thargoids do, or flies that much better than your regular NPC of Master to Elite rank. (Also when bounties are capped at around 1 million without a kill warrant scanner barely anybody uses, makes those bullet sponge pirates rather uninteresting targets as well... besides, there's credits getting flung around like candy anyway past the early-mid game.)

Obligatory mention of the currently non-existent Thargoid war gameplay loops. Doesn't need much elaboration. I hope they're just absent because Frontier are looking at how to best pick that story back up with their available means and/or are giving some players a break from it, but when it is what I'm most interested in both in the gameplay and lore/story...

I think I made the point, anyway. Not all features are for everybody and it's fine to not be interested in one ahead of time. Adding glorified hauling isn't going to make one like hauling when they've already fairly solidly determined on their own it's not for them. Simply putting fuel back on the carrier was already painful enough for me.
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Yup- I cant imagine spending all that time to bother with putting a station somewhere. For heavens sake we have too many stations as it is. Fdev should have deployed their resources on advancing atmospheric planets and on player built cities and homes. It would be cool to see a player(s) build a real planet based society and civilization on a terraforming
planet 50,000 LY from Sol - that others could go see. Huge mirror glass sky scrappers, land-based ship stations, homes depots/stores, trees, ponds, flowers, meadows, lakes, etc.. Fdev either doesn't understand listening to the voice of the customer or, if they do, they don't don't know how to do it.
 
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Alphonso

Alphonso
varonica said:
Starting to look like we won't get the patch notes until the update is ready to be downloaded to our PC's, so when they say "released alongside the update" maybe that means alongside the time the update is released to download. Pity, I would liked to have spent a bit of time reading and studying them before that.
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Yeah! I thought they usually released the notes when the servers went down. No?
 
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