"Is the game dead?" returning players keep posting here and on reddit, due to blank Galnet

Stigbob · Mar 11, 2020

House0fDerp said:
At the very least the reaction seemed particularly strong.

Just the usual, it'll be the same next time.

[PS4] Filthymick420 · Mar 11, 2020

flightsim? Never heard of it. Dont really care tho. I agree with LeoBartlet85 on this.

Im looking forward to Oolite: Dangerous

Ambrosius Dalfinger · Mar 12, 2020

Yeah, given that fleet carriers are definitely a substantial update, I can't understand all the pessimism, distrust and negativity. GalNet and community goals are probably seen as redundant within the scope of the coming updates and therefore don't have any priority for fdev.

Deareim · Mar 12, 2020

Ambrosius Dalfinger said:
Yeah, given that fleet carriers are definitely a substantial update, I can't understand all the pessimism, distrust and negativity. GalNet and community goals are probably seen as redundant within the scope of the coming updates and therefore don't have any priority for fdev.

Because FD and past 4-5 years. Fleet carriers will be useless beside maybe miners.
The real usage of it has been stripped and stopped by FD due to crying babies....

[VR] wi03016 · Mar 12, 2020

I predict no new era this year and FC are just static mega ships with few added functions.

Kekkonshiki · Mar 12, 2020

Filthymick420 said:
For all we know those beta testing the fleet carriers are already doing so under an nda

FC beta test invitations were only issued to players who are triple elite, King, Admiral and have over 30B liquid assets.

Brrokk · Mar 12, 2020

Deareim said:
Because FD and past 4-5 years. Fleet carriers will be useless beside maybe miners.
The real usage of it has been stripped and stopped by FD due to crying babies....

I didn't know that. What previously announced features do you think FD have chosen to remove because of crying babies?

House0fDerp · Mar 13, 2020

Ambrosius Dalfinger said:
Yeah, given that fleet carriers are definitely a substantial update, I can't understand all the pessimism, distrust and negativity. GalNet and community goals are probably seen as redundant within the scope of the coming updates and therefore don't have any priority for fdev.

Delays maybe? FCs were originally advertised for December 2018. Also could be some expectation management considering how lackluster some people consider squadrons and multicrew.

Ezren · Mar 13, 2020

Brrokk said:
I didn't know that. What previously announced features do you think FD have chosen to remove because of crying babies?

I wouldn't call it a feature, but I know crying babies kept the shield booster nerf from coming through.

Brrokk · Mar 13, 2020

Ezren said:
I wouldn't call it a feature, but I know crying babies kept the shield booster nerf from coming through.

Well, crumbs. You wanted a booster nerf, other people didn't. So you choose to characterise everyone who disagreed with you as "crying baby"? Don't you realise that you were disagreeing with them at the same time? Why shouldn't they imitate you and describe you as "crying" over the nerf you couldn't have?