Exploration And Discovery!

Von Adder

Von Adder
Seems pretty pointless atm, systems i know to be discovered and player named on the pc are showing up as completely undiscovered and un-named!

I thought the Xbox version was sharing galactic info with the pc version?

It would be a complete waste of time discovering and exploring all ready explored systems, if the info that is now either hidden or broken is going to mysteriously pop up later!
 
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Von Adder

Von Adder
Several devs have stated we share real time info with the pc version, including powerplay etc!

Can i get a confirmation on here the same goes for Discovery and exploration? If we do share this info, why is not showing up on the Xbox version?
 
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MDH PYRO

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I would have thought that being on a different platform it would be separate...that would take the enjoyment of exploration if we shared the exploration and discovery with pc players as they have had game a lot longer than x1 players
 

Von Adder

Von Adder
MDH PYRO said:
I would have thought that being on a different platform it would be separate...that would take the enjoyment of exploration if we shared the exploration and discovery with pc players as they have had game a lot longer than x1 players
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I play on the pc, there are over 400 billion systems out there! There are still systems to be discovered in human controlled space, even now! Out in the badlands you can be discovering systems for the rest of your life!
 
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MDH PYRO

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Von Adder said:
I play on the pc, there are over 400 billion systems out there! There are still systems to be discovered in human controlled space, even now! Out in the badlands you can be discovering systems for the rest of your life!
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Well you could be right...however im pretty sure that all systems withing 100 lys of starting area would have been discovered..however just about every one I come across is undiscovered.....im makin a fortune mapping lol
 

Von Adder

Von Adder
MDH PYRO said:
Well you could be right...however im pretty sure that all systems withing 100 lys of starting area would have been discovered..however just about every one I come across is undiscovered.....im makin a fortune mapping lol
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Not could be right! I am right! I discovered an unexplored system only this morning on pc in federation space, in my ASP!

The question here is wether or not this info is shared, otherwise exploration and discovery on the Xbox as it stands is pointless!
 

TriumphANT

TriumphANT
We're in the beta galaxy. PowerPlay's status is different on both platforms, and I'm First Discovered on a bunch of stuff around Leesti and especially 39 Tauri/Witchhaul. A shame I lose that all when we move to the full galaxy model!!

They couldn't have a beta running in the main galaxy. One little glitch (e.g. the one where you can sell discovery data multiple times if it crashes on the Xbox) could cause serious misbalances. One rift in The Force and we're Star Destroyer bait. Honest.
 

Raudoc2k1

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TriumphANT said:
We're in the beta galaxy. PowerPlay's status is different on both platforms, and I'm First Discovered on a bunch of stuff around Leesti and especially 39 Tauri/Witchhaul. A shame I lose that all when we move to the full galaxy model!!

They couldn't have a beta running in the main galaxy. One little glitch (e.g. the one where you can sell discovery data multiple times if it crashes on the Xbox) could cause serious misbalances. One rift in The Force and we're Star Destroyer bait. Honest.
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I would have to agree with this guy. While we are in this "bata" phase I wouldn't expect the different platforms to be actively communicating yet. Once the majority of the bugs get squished and full game functionality is up and running we should be put onto the same server as the PC guys and start seeing the affects of what they are doing.
 

Von Adder

Von Adder
TriumphANT said:
We're in the beta galaxy. PowerPlay's status is different on both platforms, and I'm First Discovered on a bunch of stuff around Leesti and especially 39 Tauri/Witchhaul. A shame I lose that all when we move to the full galaxy model!!

They couldn't have a beta running in the main galaxy. One little glitch (e.g. the one where you can sell discovery data multiple times if it crashes on the Xbox) could cause serious misbalances. One rift in The Force and we're Star Destroyer bait. Honest.
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This is what i expected tbh, pointless exploring then, will only do it on the pc version. Looks like the Xbox atm is only good for combat training!
 

Alimorae

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From my understanding given the various threads that have come up regarding this, the two games will shared the same background simulation not galaxy. I take this to mean that we will share commodity pricing, community goals, powerplay status, system influences etc. What we won't share are things like discovery status, actual ships in a system, mineral stats in an asteroid etc.
 

Von Adder

Von Adder
Alimorae said:
From my understanding given the various threads that have come up regarding this, the two games will shared the same background simulation not galaxy. I take this to mean that we will share commodity pricing, community goals, powerplay status, system influences etc. What we won't share are things like discovery status, actual ships in a system, mineral stats in an asteroid etc.
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Would be nice to know 100% if the discovery/exploration effects will merge with the pc, otherwise as i stated exploration for now would be pointless. Can we get a dev/mod reply to this?
 

Von Adder

Von Adder
Would still like a dev/mod answer to this thread, is it worth exploring on the XO at the moment, will the PC/XO galaxies be merged eventually?
 

Rauminen

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Von Adder said:
Would still like a dev/mod answer to this thread, is it worth exploring on the XO at the moment, will the PC/XO galaxies be merged eventually?
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It's a BETA galaxy mate, there's no merging.

What they did is copied over some state from the live server to the Xbox server, xbox guys run with that for now.

Whatever you do there will be WIPED COMPLETELY when the beta period is over and they copy over the current state of live servers (PC/Mac) to the xbox ones. (in effect making the current xbox servers just one of the long list of live servers)
 

TriumphANT

TriumphANT
My understanding from previous beta is that EVERYTHING we are doing is "pointless" in terms of what happens with the final release game. Even our Commander names will be different, so you cannot "merge" anything. There will be name clashes otherwise (e.g. if someone is currently called CMDR Kevin in the PC game, and an Xbox One player's GamerTag is Kevin). When the full game comes out, everything goes onto the main server, so the only possibility is that somewhere down the line we'll get to play a Release Candidate version connected to the main galaxy in advance of the game going "gold"

This is 100% to be expected, and thus 100% not to be disgruntled about when beta testing.
 

Von Adder

Von Adder
TriumphANT said:
My understanding from previous beta is that EVERYTHING we are doing is "pointless" in terms of what happens with the final release game. Even our Commander names will be different, so you cannot "merge" anything. There will be name clashes otherwise (e.g. if someone is currently called CMDR Kevin in the PC game, and an Xbox One player's GamerTag is Kevin). When the full game comes out, everything goes onto the main server, so the only possibility is that somewhere down the line we'll get to play a Release Candidate version connected to the main galaxy in advance of the game going "gold"

This is 100% to be expected, and thus 100% not to be disgruntled about when beta testing.
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Rauminen said:
It's a BETA galaxy mate, there's no merging.

What they did is copied over some state from the live server to the Xbox server, xbox guys run with that for now.

Whatever you do there will be WIPED COMPLETELY when the beta period is over and they copy over the current state of live servers (PC/Mac) to the xbox ones. (in effect making the current xbox servers just one of the long list of live servers)
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Poor choice of word on my part, merge! Would still like a dev answer on what exactly is going to be wiped and what if anything is going to remain? As it stands a lot of people who are new to this kind of thing are playing and talking like nothing will change at all and are going out there exploring and whooping it up over great discoveries, these people are going to be massively disappointed come the restart, and it could kill the console population dead! Frontier need to make it a lot clearer what is going to actually happen game wise!

Unless of course the PC and console game will remain two different entities (let's hope not 'eh)
 
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