I'm wondering about the almost absence of Robot/Androides in the game

[rrobes]

We do have AI and GPS-like auto-pilot for planetary landings/take-offs.

Every time you dismiss your ship, it goes away on auto-pilot, unless you have a crew member. Further, on recall, it can come back and navigate to your current location all by itself. Of course, it may be homing on a radio signal but it still can reach a pin-point on a planet. Further, planetary coordinates are readily available in the ship nav system.

It's just one of those "BECAUSE GAME" that those capabilities are limited.

I always wonder if my ship is coming back when I dismiss it. It's not as if auto-pilot doesn't have a cousin, DC, with a bad rep for trying to kill you.

 

[Jack Schitt]

I consider the DDF a total Ponzi scheme, a con job designed to make backers pony up more money so that they can feel engaged and part of the developmental process while FDev in reality had and still have seemingly no intent on implementing most of it, as going by current evidence - or glaring lack thereof, and basically used the DDF backers as a focus group for the ideas FDev were already considering because they couldn't afford the staff to do it internally.

With hindsight it does seem that way. There were one or two victories, but in general the DDF was just there to yay or nay the various proposals. And that was when we thought all of the proposals were blueprints, not the pie-in-the-sky wishlists many turned out to be.

I've always said that because I got my DDF access as a "freebie" as part of a higher pledge tier, any disappointment with where it all went is tempered to a degree. And I did enjoy the process at its peak, before I knew it wasn't going anywhere. But if I'd pledged at that specific tier, especially for the "god like powers", I'd be absolutely livid with the way it all withered away.

How many of the ideas suggested exclusively by DDF backers have made it into the game? I've not found one yet.

Supercruise is about the closest. Not really a suggestion, more of a backlash against a terrible FD proposal that resulted in a much better and more univerally accepted proposal. One or two kernels of ideas from regular forum discussions did make it into some game mechanics, but they might arguably have done that without the existence of a specific DDF forum.

I don't think it was a deliberate bait-and-switch; FD (and especially David Braben) seemed genuinely enthusiastic about the whole endeavour at the start. IMO it all fell apart when they launched a bare-bones game far too early, and were left with no resources or inclination to interact with the community as they rushed to play catch-up with the missing features. Thanks to the efforts of the Community Team FD now has a much better relationship with the larger ED community, but the DDF is dead and forgotten.

Anyway, back on topic, I'd still like those mechanical crew. I quite fancy having an android co-pilot, even a dumb one that only knows how to operate a few ship functions. Anything to save me having to stare at those empty seats.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Sorry - I thought all the NPCs were androids - are you saying they're meant to be human?

hy would Androids have names?
W

 

[Lowievisser]

We are the AI , humans long gone , now the thargiods are trying to stop us. Lot of hints in the elite universe point out this silly theory.

 

[BDelacroix]

Are you trying to bring on the Reaper apocalypse?

 

[=71st=RuSh]

Don't worry, the Cylons will come in the 3.5 season!

 

[Ralph Vargr]

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