ANNOUNCEMENT Fleet Carriers Update - Patch 3
I have a bug that could do with fixing, where do I post it? Game crashes to blue screen whenever I get to where my FC is going before it (to watch it come in) on ps4
Bring back ltd in piracy pls fdev
To be honest here.... I have visited several of these FC-infested systems and never had an Orange Sidewinder crash in them.... I even mined in two of them. I couldn't count the number of FCs there... I mean... I had to park mine in a next door starsystem, which wasn't as full...
Irony though.... the only Orange Sidewinder I actually managed to get in the weekend was when I was doing CZs. I couldn't leave my carrier in super cruise, I couldn't leave using a jump to another starport.... Orange Sidewinder several times.... and this is a system with 5 starports and 3-4 Fleet Carriers....
Solution: exit game, exit lancher, star launcher, start game... and things worked like there never really was an issue.... Just seems like even Solo instances can become corrupted, no matter what is in the system you are in.
Anyways... back to some BGS War-work.
I usually agree with you, but this time I'm not so sure. Much of the feature set of FCs seem to revolve around them being "unique" assets. If I and three other CMDRs are buying LTDs in triple hotspot system and then selling them in a system of high demand, then we are offering a useful service and making credits. Three HUNDRED players doing this, on the other hand, and everything breaks down. Same goes with just about every publicly-offered service - it's like having 20 convenience stores opening in a small, rural town - those stores won't make a profit but they will make a mess out of the road system.
Then there's the question why an aircraft carrier is first and foremost a Walmart by design....
But the real issue of course is how the excess of fleet carriers is crashing people's game, introducing insufferable lag, making a terrible mess of the system map and and navigation panel, etc. How can you say this isn't a problem about numbers? I just don't understand your thinking in this regard...
The bug issue tracker...has a bug
"Proven" just how exactly? They ran an open beta and players populated it, which is as close to a real-world test as they could get but still nowhere near the volume and scope of the live galaxy and all the players. The best scale for an experiement is always 100cm to the metre, but that doesnt happen anywhere until after release and it's what we are dealing with now - problems that could not have been exposed at any smaller scale.
So, if you have any insights on how they could have managed a full-scale test with a complete galaxy and player population short of actually - you know - releasing the code I'm sure there are software development teams all over the world, not just at FDev, who would be glad to hear about it. Get a consultancy business off the ground applying that insight, you'll be seriously rich if it works...
... or not, if - as is more likely - it's all hot air about what "should" be done that bears no relation to what could be done. But hey, I could be wrong and you're the greatest innovator in software development methodology of our age. If you are I will happily apologise and apply for a position at your new company to learn about it.
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I used to be able to say the same thing. Occasionally I'd get a bit of extra time in the blue tunnel which, though annoying, is hardly a big deal as long as you're able to continue afterwards, all while more and more other players (predominantly console players, which is irrelevant since they spent the same kind of money buying it as the rest of us), and then it happened to me too.
Not that it made it more of an issue, I've found it disgusting that this issue with being flat out unable to play the game, no matter who you are or what platform you're using has remained unaddressed for so long. But hey, meanwhile we have, after weeks of waiting, had numerous adjustments to mining hotspots, fixing of obvious bugs on the new Space Locusts and a fix for mismatching hair colors. Big, honking whoop.
Dear FDev: Being utterly unable to use the product that we bought from you, no matter how important those other bugs are, and they are important, should be your first, red alert, number one, all hands on deck, get it bloody done priority.
Think about your cars, FDev. If you have an issue with the A/C making noise and your engine not starting at all, which one would YOU insist that your mechanic prioritize above all else? Think about it. Take your time. It's not a hard question, but I'm beginning to get the impression that maybe it's causing you no small amount of confusion, based on your utter indifference unless saying "someday in the future, as soon as we can, oh why don't you go pre-purchase Odyssey while you wait" counts and caring at all in your books.
Used to be "don't play on patch day". Now it's more like "don't play in a patch year".
Not that you care. You don't even bother engaging in your own forums anymore except for the occasional pushing a new community manager lamb out to the slaughter as a sacrifice to cover up your own bleeding incompetence.
/rant.
Bug burial tool? I like that!
Might as well put in on Twitter with "if this post gets 2,000 retweets, maybe FDev will give a tinker's".
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
"Post your bugs here because we care. Of course we only care if enough people encounter the exact same bug. Otherwise we'll just call it "unconfirmed" and pretend that we cared"
Which is really brilliant when you consider, given the size of the galaxy, how massively unlikely it is that enough people would run into the exact same missing feature to warrant a "confirmed" and some actual effort.
"Bug burial tool" covers it perfectly.
Use a combination of automated testing and load / stress testing to get an idea of how a system performs under pressure?
Lol. No.
Fdev already said they look at all the bugs - but if a bug does get confirmed they'll probably look at it more. And if it gets lots of votes than it's more likely to get addressed. It's called prioritisation.
(Though I can understand them ignoring unconfirmed bugs - let's pick the most recent as an example https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/18102 - "Earned bounties disappeared after rebuy". Yes, yes they do - because that's the game design, as you would know if you knew how google, or even the pilots handbook, worked
)How about instead of focusing on nerfing mining, which has already busted the economy somewhat, you work on improving the other aspects of the game.
Like combat/bounties and various other types of missions.
Even exploration is somewhat lackluster.
Every patch is " mining this, carrier that , nerf this and that "
What happened, Elite? You used to be cool...
Like combat/bounties and various other types of missions.
Even exploration is somewhat lackluster.
Every patch is " mining this, carrier that , nerf this and that "
What happened, Elite? You used to be cool...
And yet, everyone will eventually own one, thanks to ridiculous income rates from mining, tritium trading and the various other hot credit hamster treadmills. The only people who won't are the ones who would rather play an interesting game, instead of headbutting themselves with these stupid grinds.
For me, there is literally no barrier to owning an FC if I really wanted to, even at 10-20b, except my refusal to devolve the core game activities to this mundane, boring trash. The lynchpin that Elite pitches is it's procedural generation... so how is that reflected in a game rewarding you most for sticking in the one spot doing the same thing over and over and over again?
EDIT: Also.. lol, 10-20b. You've got a funny sense of value for money there...
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I have a feeling this isnt the place to ask about reporting bugs, even though that's what the threads for? We could do with a forum where things don't get lost in pointless posts, really...
Its absolutely acceptable, for a company like FDev is having priority to put in the most highest number of fleet carriers (12500+ registered now in a third party dbase) - as the outfittings costs ARX, and ARX cost money thats an income for the developers (the more bought outfittings = the more income realised). But now getting a fleet carrier is easier compared to getting a Cutter or a Corvette. So something is bad with the balance.
Stephen Benedetti
Community Manager
Hey Commanders,
We have updated the OP with another fix! We will update you if there are any more changes.
Don't suppose you can fix the tracker site, can ya?
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