News Frontier Xtra - Question of the Month - March

Brian of Ardagh

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Shadowdancer said:
I personally think those are far better platforms for live streaming what's a bit of a community event. They mostly focus the running stream and have decent chat functionality. On Youtube I always feel like it's a random offline video with a borderline unusable afterthought chat and all the usual distractions on the side.
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I always thought Twitch and Mixer were for watching other gamers play, not a couch chat. ESO and Forza seem to have no issues with livestreaming on YouTube but what do they know? If FD can't go to the "trouble" of taking a livestream and uploading it to YouTube, well that says a lot about FD, doesn't it?

Hardly matters to me I guess, I took apart my cockpit and deleted the game from my PC. I've put the game aside and won't bother with it until I see what FD's future commitment looks like, hence why I'm keen to hear from them. But I firmly believe a recording of the livestream should be on the FD YouTube channel, a channel that appears all but dead to anyone that subscribes to it. A single video 1:21 in length for the anniversary and then everything else is a year old or more, great marketing.
 

Brian of Ardagh

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Chante Goodman said:
It is absolutely not because some parts of the community are worth talking to and others are not. Elite has a well established streaming schedule, Monday lunchtimes and Thursday evenings, which has been ongoing for years. All streams are announced on social media, because people can get immediate notifications for when we are about to go live, whereas they cannot on the forums. We post our FrX streams to Twitch and Mixer as we currently find this to be the best method for people to watch our daytime streams. You can watch replays of the stream after it is posted and, as they are highlighted, they won't disappear. Things like where our livestreams are posted is decided through feedback we have gotten and absolutely not because the members of the community team actively pick and choose who they think are worth talking to.
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Yeah, I can watch the Twitch replay on Twitch but I won't be notified because I am not subscribed, and I won't subscribe just for one stream. I know it's possible to export a Twitch recording to YouTube, you have accounts on both platforms, how hard is it to put the replay on YouTube so that YouTube subscribers can get notified that there's a new video? Getting more eyes on your content and livesteams is the logical thing to do.
 

-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
I also think that all streams should be advertised on the forums.

I am not a part of Twitter. I am not a big fan of social media in general and avoid it as much as possible. Having news about certain streams only going through Twitter I think is a bad idea. Surely you want as many people as possibly to watch your streams, so the more outlets (and the forums are just one of them) you use the better.
 
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Stinja

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Do we need to submit questions which were submitted last Xtra thread, but didn't get asked yet?

ie: they "on the list", or the list is new each month.
 

BDelacroix

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mojonaut said:
I have no problem with you posting to 'third' party social media sites, but this forum is your home, your base and where announcements should be posted first.

Not everyone is on or friendface, you folk just never seem to 'get it' do you?
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I, too, am not on friendbook or tweester.
 

Factabulous

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BDelacroix said:
I, too, am not on friendbook or tweester.
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Just get out your filofax, write on the last Friday of each month 'check ye twitch verily for ye frontier xtra videocast forsooth'. You can use a modern fountain pen, or a quill if you're more comfortable with that.

Next you'll be asking fdev to tape the recording and send it out so you can watch it your betamax - pensioners eh? :D
 
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Taimaru

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Question(s): How often (generally) do Frontier socialise as a company or as smaller teams either in the local pub/restaurant or in office parties at work? Is Frontier a good place to work for socialising with other work colleagues?

Bonus Question: How many cats do all of the people at Frontier own in total? :)
 

znôrt

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Max Factor said:
I don't think the community managers fix the bugs. ;)
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i know. but they can ask the devs, or talk about their own experiences, or crack some jokes on the trivia of a bug's life in frontier.

maybe the question could be formulated better but it's an interesting and popular topic! :)
 

Omnislash.inc

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Omnislash.inc
frontier:
* What are your arguments for players not going elsewhere? short / medium / long term
* what are your arguments against a star citizen? short / medium / long term
* what do you think of your relationship between player - FDEV?
* Will you take out the panther clipper or will you continue to take us for idiots?
* what do you think of elite dangerous? honnestly
* directx 12? vulkan? ... or windows 3.1?
* what is the end-game in elite dangerous?
* when is a real scenery content?
* Why is there still instancing in 2019?
* why do you avoid open-only topics, despite the fact that this could solve a lot of problems if you take the time to think 5 minutes about it?
* in fact, why do you avoid ALL the subjects that are about a major evolution in the game? is it finished maybe according to you?
* new content decent? and not just a reason to make some jumps and photos for the end, nothing
* tell us about squadron and its future developments plz
* talk about space legs and related content plz
* tell us about housing, contruction and associated content plz
* Tell us about scripted campaign and related content plz
* talk to us about powerplay campaign with finally animated leaders
* tell us about a real content about the thargoids guardians etc and not only a copy pasted, it does not advance
* What do you have to say about your reputation as minimalist and stone age developers regarding quality processes?
 
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StefanOS

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StefanOS
Do the DEVS see any chance to resolve the problems the PEER to PEER network has - or is a change to SERVER BASED network needed to get more stable multiplay elements (bigger wings, more stable multicrew, instancing limitations) in ED?
 
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Riverside

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Three and a half years after buying a lifetime pass instead of just pre-ordering Horizons I'm super pumped up to find out whether FDev intend to produce enough premium updates to make the purchase worthwhile. My motivation and 'passion' steadily increases and it's becoming increasingly difficult to contain my excitement about just how good I will feel about this purchase and the value for money it will turn out to have represented when the servers are finally switched off.

I like this game, I've played various Elite-style games on & off for over a third of a century, I find it cathartic to escape to a different life. I'll still be playing in a couple of years, I'll probably be among those wanting an off-line version when that time comes but from my perspective the relationship has soured significantly, there is a loss of trust. For a customer that bought only the base game & Horizons expansion I see little cause for frustration apart from bug fixes and some poor or rushed design & implementation. Overall it is a very good game.

There is no easy path to get from how some customers feel now to a better place. For me it would be easy, I no longer trust FDev is able to deliver good value for what I bought, they can just refund the value not redeemed on my 2015 Lifetime Pass and most of my issues will be gone, leaving only the needless removal of existing features and the ongoing issue of cheating in a shared environment to be addressed.

I would be interested to know how FDev plans to regain some of that lost trust, why customers should stick around & continue to buy skins from the Frontier shop instead of buying skins from some other game company while waiting for the next big thing from Frontier. Does Frontier recognise this issue? Maybe it isn't an issue at all? I'd be interested to know what they think.
 
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Garand1987

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Paige Harvey said:
Hello Commanders,


As this month's Frontier Xtra livestream draws closer, we're looking for our Question of the Month!


What do you want to know about the games industry, Frontier itself, or the Community Managers/Developers? This is your chance to get some insight into the games industry as a whole, and learn all about what it's like, how to get into it or anything else you may be wondering. We dedicate this section of the stream to answering one of your questions, so providing it's relevant to the games industry, please put your questions in this thread and we'll pick this month's favourite to discuss.


If you're struggling for ideas on what to ask, previous questions have asked for information on different ways to get into the industry, what kind of preparation goes into a livestream, and what's a day in the life of a Community Manager at Frontier.


The next Frontier Xtra is 22 March at 15:00 UTC, we can't wait to see you there!
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To get perhaps a foothold in some of the remaining known mysteries of the game. Why is Tarlak missing from CD-73 253 even tho it’s descrived as having it in game, and is the system named Soontill in the game the actual Soontill. Because it sure doesn’t seem to match the cannon.
 

VR CMDR Novindus

VR CMDR Novindus
My question: What is the technical feasibility of Frontier licensing use of the engine and assets developed for Elite Dangerous to other development teams who want to create space games?
Never mind Frontier's company policy, willingness, or legalities surrounding this question for the moment, I'm just interested in knowing whether it's something that, if Frontier wanted to go down that path, would be usable and feasible on a technical level.

Thanks.
 
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