Here's to the FD Network folks!

[Patrick_68000]

It does have it's moments. But when it works you can see we have great things in store for us.

It is like a good wine, it must reach maturity

 

[Patrick_68000]

the core of the game works fantastically and the "feel" is amazing. When the whole networking part works, it's something that makes you giddy with glee, and not a lot of games do that for me in the past years.

So if the feel is already such a level, the experts of Frontier will make something really extraordinary for the retail version

 

[Komemiute]

Aye! +1!

 

[CMDR Texas Stu]

I was thinking yesterday, with all the current network issues with Alpha 3, how much pressure the FD networking folks must be under. Their role is one that goes pretty much unnoticed (by players) when everything is working fine, but when all hell breaks loose, everyone is hanging on their every action, devouring every network related post.

Come release, when (hopefully) everything is hunky dory and we're cruising through space, meeting different players seamlessly, seeing vistas and battling among the stars, we'll all be sighing at the beautiful graphics, being stirred by the emotive music and amazed and amused by the sound effects. But the network code that these folks worked so hard on, will be quietly ticking away in the background, doing what it does best, rewarding players with a great multi player experience and few will pay it a second thought...

...Unless it breaks of course

So I thought I'd post here, Here's to you the FD network coders, you are all legends, at least to this games player!

I have to be among the many to quietly raise a glass and respectfully toast the network team! I hope y'all get an extra ration of rum!

 

[kilvenny]

Reading this thread made me think of the Lee Majors series The Fall Guy with its theme song the Unknown Stuntman. One line of which might be rendered as

"I am the unknown stuntman who made Braben such a star"

To the unknown stunt people of the network folks - thanks.

 

[Gen-Han-Solo]

Yes here here if we forget to say it we are sorry it would not be possible with out all your hard work so thank you .

 

[Slopey]

To sound a note of caution - for all those back slapping and high-fiving the network guys, there is a significant portion of the player base for whom the game doesn't work at all, or becomes unusable if there is any other human player in the same instance.

It's absolutely not all roses, and currently isn't robust.

Hopefully they'll address that in the next Alpha, because for now, for many people, it's useless.