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Full offline mode for when I have no internet access.
- Thread starter Origalactic
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So without getting in to how realistic this suggestion is (it's been discussed to death, and the tl;dr is "not feasible with the current architecture"), I'm always a bit curious to ask, given an offline mode what activities would you forsee pursuing?
I ask because the possible answers range all the way from just wanting to look around the generated galaxy, a la Space Engine with a flight model, through to essentially wanting a local copy of the BGS and transaction system running on your computer alongside the game client. What's your envisioned use case?
I ask because the possible answers range all the way from just wanting to look around the generated galaxy, a la Space Engine with a flight model, through to essentially wanting a local copy of the BGS and transaction system running on your computer alongside the game client. What's your envisioned use case?
A offline mode could be done easily if FDEV really wanted such a thing to be, and is a good way to keep ED alive once the severs eventually cease to exist.
Oh, pardon me! So nice to have a Frontier developer drop by today. Dav, is that you? Should I blame TJ for making you show up as some random new poster instead? And do you think that maybe this suggestion would get more traction at the next staff meeting than dropped in the (mostly ignored) player suggestion forum?
Or, looking at your posting history - all five of them - I see you're new here, and I'm really glad you're having fun in Elite! But when I say this has been discussed to death, I'm not remotely exaggerating, and you'd be much better off digging through the forum history to get a sense of how that discussion is likely to go. Or, you know, go spend that time playing the game, I guarantee that will be more fun.
Offline mode would have to be completely separate from the rest of the game. Everything that's now done server side, would need to be put into offline client. So not really easy thing to do I think.
Anyway, it really has been talked about at the beginning of Elite road a lot. Lots of people wanted offline mode. To calm people David Braben said at some point that in an event of Elite Dangerous servers going offline (in some distant future), last thing they will do will be releasing snapshot of "frozen" galaxy that will allow people to play, but all things that are now handled by Frontier servers, like BGS states f.ex, will be unchangeable. I'm not sure if that's something we can really still hold on to, but that's what he said. At least that's what I remember.
Anyway, it really has been talked about at the beginning of Elite road a lot. Lots of people wanted offline mode. To calm people David Braben said at some point that in an event of Elite Dangerous servers going offline (in some distant future), last thing they will do will be releasing snapshot of "frozen" galaxy that will allow people to play, but all things that are now handled by Frontier servers, like BGS states f.ex, will be unchangeable. I'm not sure if that's something we can really still hold on to, but that's what he said. At least that's what I remember.
Better yet - they could just deliver on their original intentions stated, to release ED into the public domain for hosting on privately owned servers.
In that I have a professional stack with 1TB ram an nearly a petabyte of storage and we are currently researching 10gb internal ethernet and fiber optic 4gb connection to our ISP, I'm looking forward to FD making good.
You'll still need a decent connection to the internet, but unless you live in the Arctic Circle that shouldn't be too much of a problem considering cellular connections and satellite links Should probably be sufficient by then...