Enough already with not understanding hotspots. A "Hotspot" is where a particular resource is "hotter than it would be otherwise" - it gets a buff over its base percentage chance. It does NOT mean that it's the only -or even the predominant - thing in them. A very rare resource will still be rare in a hotspot for it, just not quite AS rare as it would be anywhere else. That's why people go for the overlaps, to stack these buffs. If a ring system has base levels of 33% dross, 33% junk, 33% crap and 1% shiny, a hotspot might buff that to 4% shiny but the rocks in that area will still be 32% dross, 32% junk and 32% crap.
Patch Notes Fleet Carriers Update Patch 2 - Downtime and Patch Notes
Pretty sad that they didn't fix the start screen for the game.
Yes. I think they do separated second roll for tritium. Otherwise how else it would be everywhere? From the game point all is ok, but from the player point - chances shifted. It is lowered greatly for anything except tritium. So if they do 2nd roll, you logic does not apply.
That is fastest fix. Another proposition is here
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/tritium-as-fuel.549760/
Lightning problem :
After quitting to desktop and relaunching the game, everything is back to normal :
Note: I use a vanilla version of ED (no graphic/effects tweaks).
After quitting to desktop and relaunching the game, everything is back to normal :
Note: I use a vanilla version of ED (no graphic/effects tweaks).
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No it's not, that's you suggesting an auto-play thing.
Colorblindness is a real thing, you expired coupon. Hell, only in the past few hundred years has Humanity Evolved into the point of seeing Blue; most other animals still cannot, and blue-green colorblindness is the most common type. Making the rocks glow this bright yellow lets them stick out the most from the rest of the field that may be nothing but red-brown or grey, like seeing black ink on yellow paper; it's all about the contrast.
The Egyptians had a word for blue thousands of years ago. Ancient humans (within historical times) were biologically the same as us, and were capable of detecting the same light as us. The "people couldn't see blue in the olden days" thing is just that most other cultures didn't have standard words for it, as far as we know, and the lack of a fixed word seemed to shape how it was described and conceptualised (usually by comparison to other blue things, or by description of the objects' other characteristics). The names we give to sections of the visible light spectrum are learned and arbitrary, same with where we place boundaries between the named sections. There are tribes in Africa who break green into several colours within their language, for example. We don't have a word for those colours, because they're all named as shades of one colour in our language. We might struggle to differentiate them because we're not practised in naming and categorising them, but we have the same rods and cones as they do.
I'm colour blind, so I know where you're coming from, but humans have almost certainly not biologically "evolved" to see new colours within historical times (super-seers aside, and they've probably been with us for all that time too). It's a language and cultural shift. We developed more systematic language for describing colour, probably as knowledge of dyes and inks improved, and this gave us better specificity and helped fill out gaps in terminology and conceptualising colours. Egyptians had a rare, expensive and prestigious blue dye in lapus lazuli, so they had an incentive to have a colour concept of "blue", whereas other cultures didn't.
(can't say I've ever had problems with UI elements in Elite, but I know colour deficits vary, would wholeheartedly support them adding a variety of different colourblind modes)
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There is also pretty strong evidence that the "colour blindness" and the "super seers" are both driven by evolution.
Being "colour blind" makes you less susceptible to being confused by camouflage, a great benefit to a hunter, while being able to distinguish between different hues of the same colour were needed by gatherers to keep from colecting and eating poisonous things that were very similar colour to edible things.
Absolutely, I don't doubt that.
What I'm saying is, the idea that the human visual system has physically evolved to be able to detect light in the blue area of the spectrum, in just the last few hundred years, is probably not the explanation for the lack of words for blue in many historical cultures.
Picking out more detailed variety in the bluer end of the spectrum's largely more use to stuff like arthropods, which is why flowers evolved so many patterns that only UV-sensitive eyes can see, and so the average human can't normally distinguish under most circumstances. Basically the mammalian eye blocks a whole bunch of this end of the spectrum, likely an evolutionary result of surviving better if your eyes stay healthy longer and are not as damaged by sunlight. We had fewer names for blue for so long because until we began manufacturing a broader spectrum of blue pigments, we didn't really observe as many blues in nature as we did other colours. We still see fewer blues than other colours, but it's all relative, when we have more than 4 billion individual identifiable shades and hues of all of these our graphics technology can produce, most of which we cannot individually distinguish from their neighbours with our eyes.
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Well, for me the game is officially broke. I play in a Wing in a Squadron in a Private Group and Private Group no longer works.
Submitted a ticket
Submitted a ticket
Status Agile sprint process, it is good so they only more the fixes that it fixed and tested, this two develop cycle is a good approac, Fdev are doing a good job, thanks
because they are fixing the issue not talking about the fix until it is fixed, small team cannot and should not do both. If you want half the fixed done, they can shop fix and talk to you!!!
OK, one last time for the people in the back. The COMMUNITY managers are NOT the DEVELOPERS. They are NOT fixing the issues, they are responsible for the community presence of Frontier. The developers are the people who do the actual coding and fixing of things and, as a developer myself so I understand this, should absolutely be shielded from the users so they can focus on the work infront of them.
Anyway, patch is live. radio silence has been resumed. All is back to normal.
the community managers although dont manage the community or shield the dev´s if the would do the would talk, post or do something more than 1 lousy no saying noob stream per week. sorry but thats what it is.
I don´t know what the do at frontier but seems to me they do press and media work only. Seems hard to them to set up a proper live stream with working mic´s since 3 years
I don´t know what the do at frontier but seems to me they do press and media work only. Seems hard to them to set up a proper live stream with working mic´s since 3 years
Well,, on the advice of direct message I tried logging my accounts in one at a time.
That let me get the first one into the PG in 2 tries.
Then it took 12 logins to get the second account into PG..
It appears to be somehow related to the SERVER ERRORS.
If I can log in and don't get the ERROR about IP ADDRESS changing in mid session, I can get into PG.
OK,, During the last PG session I dropped into a system to check out a Guardian Site and there were 17 FC's in the system.
drive.google.com
Some of the names are a hoot.
17 FC and funny names.bmp
drive.google.com
Some of the names are a hoot.
just want to add something I did not know but is amazingly stupid.
the thread PSA: It's actually possible to find if someone is blocking you, shows just how pathetic certain choices in programming are.
its closed so I couldn't thank them in there for the info.
The jist is the blocking.
we already had numerous instancing issues but the blocking option if this is true is actually making it worse. How sad.
not even going to guess how many cmdrs have blocked players and if this is true its just making the blue tunnels and all the colored ship ganks(error codes) that much more prevalent. nice job fdev.
the thread PSA: It's actually possible to find if someone is blocking you, shows just how pathetic certain choices in programming are.
its closed so I couldn't thank them in there for the info.
The jist is the blocking.
we already had numerous instancing issues but the blocking option if this is true is actually making it worse. How sad.
not even going to guess how many cmdrs have blocked players and if this is true its just making the blue tunnels and all the colored ship ganks(error codes) that much more prevalent. nice job fdev.
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FWIW, the game is rapidly becoming a waste of time, between the crash to desktop and bringing up the send report window and the orange sidewinder and numerous other ones continually throughout the day averaging for me a minimum of 10 a day, many more on some days. going into supercruise or jumping into a system has become a fear object due to the very high likelihood of being stuck in the blue tunnel for minutes waiting for the orange sidewinder or whatever.
FDEV, do us a favor and don't bother with a bug fix patch notes, the lies are just making the garbage 'fix' claims intolerable and turning you into pure liars.
be normal, if you can be bothered try to fix it and tell us the truth about it, but just stop with the lies it just makes it worse.
25% of my game time is restarting the game then coming in here to tell you about it.
and no, no bug tracker. if you can't read the ones my game is sending to you as well as taking forever to read from the tracker, why should I waste even more of my time.
pacman forever......
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FDEV here is a suggestion for you. Remake all LTD hot spots to Tritium Hot spots. I cannot find LTD in LTD hot spots and I am 14,000 LY away. Useless mining for LTD is out this way. And I am in a Double LTD Hot Spot. Useless as I said.
I see more glowing yellow rocks that contain water or some other rubbish. Other bright yellow that glow red then green contain Brommelite, or Grandidierite or some other crap. Hardly ever see LTD in these rocks. Fix it please.
I saw one Commander suggest using other colours for rocks containing subsurface deposits, or make these other useless materials a different colour and let only LTD glow yellow, red then green.
You swung the anti LTD nerf bat too frikken hard this time guys.
This Founder Member may just find something else to play after 6 years of this crap. I mean it you people are so out of touch with the community it's hard to believe.
I see more glowing yellow rocks that contain water or some other rubbish. Other bright yellow that glow red then green contain Brommelite, or Grandidierite or some other crap. Hardly ever see LTD in these rocks. Fix it please.
I saw one Commander suggest using other colours for rocks containing subsurface deposits, or make these other useless materials a different colour and let only LTD glow yellow, red then green.
You swung the anti LTD nerf bat too frikken hard this time guys.
This Founder Member may just find something else to play after 6 years of this crap. I mean it you people are so out of touch with the community it's hard to believe.
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