It's time for an offline version.
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I seem to get that a lot because of the avatar, but Jenner has a Twilight Sparkle avvie which, despite the similar sunglasses, is a horse of a different color, so to speak.
And though Twilight's great, everypony knows that Rainbow Dash is Best Pony, and that's all anypony needs to know.
You just made Pinkie Pie cry, you monster!
They did say this, yes. Whether that's still true, intended or even possible today is unknown.
"If it were ever to happen, we would be able to release an archived version of the game, including the servers, but of course this would not evolve any further," Braben said.
David Braben responds to outcry over Elite: Dangerous' ditched offline mode
Frontier has responded to the outcry over its decision to ditch Elite: Dangerous' promised offline mode.
www.eurogamer.net
Cheers,
Drew.
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Nothing a few quickly-gobbled bags of sugar candy can't fix.
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I'd argue the reverse. Original Elite >>> FE2/FFE - and I speak from having spent the last few months playing all the way through them all.
Cheers,
Drew.
I suspected you thought that way, that was my pet peeve with your Oolite novels many years ago after discovering them on manybooks.net.
I'm more of a space tourist than anything I guess. The 1984 model feels too space-bound and claustrophobic to me. I love the scale of FE2/FFE, the orrery, the useless but fun slingshots, the time dilation, and the landing on every. single. bit. of. rock. I spent way too much time exploiting the I-can't-remember-how-many-LY jump to go out visiting unexplored systems at the edge of the FE2 galaxy.
Oh, and those assassinations by overtaking the foe in witchspace and analysing their future exit cloud. That was mind-blowing to late-teenage me.
Could you elaborate a bit why that is?
From my understanding each star system's layout is already pre-determined by a seed. The system just has to be rendered based on that information, on the client that is.(And according to Sandro, the actual asset loading time was/ is only a very few seconds on the client.) The DB on the servers "just" had to be expanded for this system. Do you think that takes a considerate amount of time?
Mostly because the lore of the original game was a bit more original. The Galactic Cooperative and the idea of a loose cohesion of populated worlds with multiple lifeforms appeals far more to me than the very derivative (and IMHO dull/stale) Federation, Empire and later Alliance model used in FE2/FFE with only humans in it.
I highly value consistency of lore and the retcon of Elite in FE2/FFE was something I never appreciated (same with ED too).
Flight model in Elite was far more fun than FE2/FFE, whilst I did appreciate the newtonian mechanics and what you could do with them.
Better graphics are always welcome of course, but I'd rate the aforementioned Oolite way higher than FE2 and FFE in terms of gameplay, modability and so on.
Cheers,
Drew.
The only propiertary stuff they'd need to give away is their cobra engine? And to be honest I don't think that actually quite up to scratch for todays tech, so it wouyldn't be a huge loss
Space Engine runs on my laptop offline AFAIK, and it models the entire UNIVERSE.
It's the BGS that requires so much server power. I've always thought the Bubble was way too big, so give me an modable offline version of Horizons with a small Bubble (say 20-50 systems), and I'd be happy with that.
That said, the BGS really depends on the entire player community, and it's so tightly integrated into ED gameplay now that I doubt Frontier could just turn it off or remove it without a serious investment of time.
I'm just playing X4 these days to scratch my "offline version" itch, with a side of Space Engine for when I'm in the mood to explore the galaxy.
I'm not interested in 'sharing' my galaxy with anyone. I want it all to myself (and the NPCs of course).Kinda hard to share a galaxy with off-line mode, that's why the "no" was the final answer way back when. Considering how much cheating and god-mode exploits would be added through modding, it's a silly idea anyway.