Folks,
I find myself in a bit of a quandary tonight, thus I am seeking your thoughts.
As I hope you know, an event to allow players to take part in the closing aspects of the upcoming official Elite Dangerous novel, Premonition, has been planned for Saturday April 29th. I was about to publish an FAQ all about it. Today we have become aware that some quite significant bugs will not be resolved prior to that date. The following issues are particularly problematic given what we have planned.
These bugs have the potential to be, at least disruptive and at worse, the dominating factor in what occurs.
The options are as follows:
1. We reschedule and wait for the appropriate patches.
2. We stick with the current date and proceed despite the known issues.
The first option will delay both the story and the book. I am aware that very large numbers of people have arranged holidays, child-care, work shifts and other such commitments around this date (which is one of the reasons we announced it so early on.) A decision to move it will be quite disruptive and unpopular as a result. It may not be possible to reschedule with the original individuals involved in a reasonable time-scale - our planning may unravel as a result. It is unlikely to be rescheduled for a month at best.
The second option avoids this, but brings a different set of problems. Some people may not be able to access the event at all if stability issues prevent it. The bugs may be exploited, adversely affecting the unfolding event. We are not convinced we can rely on the entire open community to 'honour the rules of fair conduct'. There is a risk that the event collapses in confusion as we try to work around the problems. (We have been looking at whether we can consider re-spawns for 'Iron-Man' characters in the case of exploits being used. It appears that the frame rate drops being experienced can be fixed by removing friends on your list who are at significant distances away). We can probably, with community co-operation, work around the known issues.
I will need to make a call on this tomorrow, but I wanted the community to be aware of the issue and let me know their thoughts. The decision will be mine, but I'm keen to open the floor to everyone's opinion on the matter. There's no ideal choice here unfortunately.
Many thanks,
Drew.
I find myself in a bit of a quandary tonight, thus I am seeking your thoughts.
As I hope you know, an event to allow players to take part in the closing aspects of the upcoming official Elite Dangerous novel, Premonition, has been planned for Saturday April 29th. I was about to publish an FAQ all about it. Today we have become aware that some quite significant bugs will not be resolved prior to that date. The following issues are particularly problematic given what we have planned.
- Packhound missiles having infinite ammo and no heat penalty in some configurations
- FPS issues in open mode dependant on friend lists
- Some stability problems
- A potential exploit allowing the disruption of wings by use of multicrew
These bugs have the potential to be, at least disruptive and at worse, the dominating factor in what occurs.
The options are as follows:
1. We reschedule and wait for the appropriate patches.
2. We stick with the current date and proceed despite the known issues.
The first option will delay both the story and the book. I am aware that very large numbers of people have arranged holidays, child-care, work shifts and other such commitments around this date (which is one of the reasons we announced it so early on.) A decision to move it will be quite disruptive and unpopular as a result. It may not be possible to reschedule with the original individuals involved in a reasonable time-scale - our planning may unravel as a result. It is unlikely to be rescheduled for a month at best.
The second option avoids this, but brings a different set of problems. Some people may not be able to access the event at all if stability issues prevent it. The bugs may be exploited, adversely affecting the unfolding event. We are not convinced we can rely on the entire open community to 'honour the rules of fair conduct'. There is a risk that the event collapses in confusion as we try to work around the problems. (We have been looking at whether we can consider re-spawns for 'Iron-Man' characters in the case of exploits being used. It appears that the frame rate drops being experienced can be fixed by removing friends on your list who are at significant distances away). We can probably, with community co-operation, work around the known issues.
I will need to make a call on this tomorrow, but I wanted the community to be aware of the issue and let me know their thoughts. The decision will be mine, but I'm keen to open the floor to everyone's opinion on the matter. There's no ideal choice here unfortunately.
Many thanks,
Drew.
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