How big do you think the Elite Dangerous development team currently is?

[Fizzatron]

More than one and less than ∞. What do I win?

 

[Darrack]

More than one and less than ∞. What do I win?

A speed boat as long as you live in a block of flats in central Birmingham.

O7

 

[metatheurgist]

A speed boat as long as you live in a block of flats in central Birmingham.

O7

Laugh now but when the glaciers melt he'll have an escape route.

 

[Old Duck]

More than one and less than ∞. What do I win?

A plate of cookies baked by a Thargoid grandma.

 

[Thandco]

5 Hamsters and 2 wheels and 1 nerortic Gerbil overseeing everything

 

[jojon]

Hmm, am I misremembering, or wasn't one of the books that came out on a Kickstarter backer tier licence a wild thargoid chase whose macGuffin turned out to be a cookie recipe. :7

 

[CMDR 1936]

you would still have the salty members of these forums who believe that because they paid £20 eight years ago, they are still entitled to whinge and moan that they deserve better

Sadly, that's exactly the mentality lots of players have. They complain about developpment and the lack of new features, but would be the first to complain if Frontier were to issue a season pass or even a paying DLC.

 

[zimms]

Source?

 

[Rat Catcher]

Forum...

 

[zimms]

So about as valid as "me and my friends" then.

 

[amigacooke {macOS}]

A speed boat as long as you live in a block of flats in central Birmingham.

O7

Let's have a look at what Frontier might have developed

 

[Darrack]

Let's have a look at what Frontier might have developed

Is that the same as 'Look what you could have won' ?

O7

 

[Rat Catcher]

So about as valid as "me and my friends" then.

About as valid as any of the speculation, snarkiness and generally ill-concealed contempt, yes.

 

[zimms]

About as valid as any of the speculation, snarkiness and generally ill-concealed contempt, yes.

You're talking about Fluffy's and 1936's post I assume.

 

[Old Duck]

Source?

His butt.

 

[AlSki]

A speed boat as long as you live in a block of flats in central Birmingham.

O7

You do know that there are canals in Birmingham centre, right?

Gas Street Basin (Birmingham) - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go

www.tripadvisor.com

So, it's not an entirely useless idea... admittedly a bit unusual but hey, the boat was free!

 

[lysan]

Between 60 and 70 maybe?

Oh wait sorry, were you looking for serious answers or salty confirmation of your own opinion?

That includes the cleaning lady, gardener, driver and the parrot.

 

[Alec Turner]

That includes the cleaning lady, gardener, driver and the parrot.

Now now, don't be silly ... everyone knows the parrot moved to F1 Manager.

 

[Old Duck]

Now now, don't be silly ... everyone knows the parrot moved to F1 Manager.

I don't know about any parrot, but there once was a Space Loach, along with a guy named Sandro in a cool hat!

I wonder where they ended up..

 

[Markov Chaney]

I don't think there is a team - I think even the core steering and cadence team is a virtual team made up of people dividing their time across multiple Frontier concerns.

At the moment I expect there are some full-fraction FTE resources who are dedicated to The Next Release Coming Soon (tm) but I suspect even they might then pick up another gig that uses the Cobra transferable skills in six months' time. Or they might have been "borrowed" back again for some releases on other Frontier games, which I notice tend to have exactly the same patterns of issues when they get Updates and DLC drops...

inb4: I said "resources" because I am fully aware that cutting code is a single-figure percentage of what needs to be done in total for something like a Thargoid War update.

Absolutely nothing wrong with this model if you have the right delivery model and the right stakeholders and the right market comms plan and the right knowledge management model.