How do you figure that?
It's time for an offline version.
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You'll have to be more specific.
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Quiet, Jenner.
I suspect he means your assertion that Frontier are unwilling or unable to put the reasources in.
I'm confused on that point, I see a game connected to live servers getting active development. Your initial premise seems contradictory to the facts.
Only gave refunds to people who didn’t launch the beta. If you had the audacity to launch the beta access you PAID extra for you were not entitled to the refund. They pulled this stunt roughly 30 days before full release.
Asking for a moddable offline ED is asking too much, they'd simply never do it. As much as it would be a dream come true, that's not at all what we should be pushing for. They aren't going to cut CMDRs free of the Arx store.
Yeah, I understand what you're saying. It is still in active development, true - but I personally feel like it's pretty just minimum viable product (if even that). I don't believe their heart is in it anymore and I would honestly rather see a dedicated community develop on the game (like Skyrim or Sins of a Solar Empire, for example) than the half-hearted developments of Frontier. This is of course just my opinion. However, I truly hope Fdev can turn it around and prove me wrong.
I see the product as MVP ish, I think its rather a lot better than minimum, but I see signs of iterative development, ground work, then bells and whistles.
For me that's a sign of dev competence, not disinterest. Well that and finance folks pushing for stuff to go live asap.
Oh, it was. Then the big mistake called Player Made Factions got made and some factions were seeded poorly before someone at FD woke up. Damage was already done and PMFs did what PMFs do.
Just play in solo mode. Surely you don't need 400 billion stars and tens of thousands of stations just for yourself?
And how would an offline version fix the performance issues? Because that is what is keeping me from playing. The UI is gross but i can live with it. Other issues i can also live with. The scanner... ugh....
But why are people presuming an offline version would be moddable, at least easily. This isn't Unity where you'd be able to use UMM to inject your own DLLs easily. Someone would need to create a custom loader/injector for ED's engine and there would be very few people with the skills to actually do anything with it.
People need to get their heads out of fantasy land.
How do you figure that Fdev don't have the resources for a live game?
Solo mode requires FD to maintain a server for EDH alongside EDO's servers. While that would be ideal, it's not a realistic request. Asking for a solo EDH is the most realistic way we could keep what we have.
It's not about playing solo, it's about being able to play EDH at all. It's a compromise.
Sir Braben also promised an offline mode later, full quote = "We have no intention of taking the servers down, but I understand what you are getting at. We plan to archive the game from time to time (ie matching client and servers and game world state), and would release such an archive if the servers were to come down. That would also address the issue of how you preserve an online game for the future, from the whole 'retro' perspective."
Here's the original link, but not sure how to convert it, or if it's lost in the forum changes:
So if they've built the game with an (eventual) offline mode built in, it should be possible. But then ED was apparently built with ship interiors in mind too, so...
Who told you that I want to share it? And who told you that I need an "entire galaxy"?
The bubble and a couple of sectors are more than enough.. Then if I really want the full galaxy I connect online.
I don't care about BGS nor PowerPlay.
I want mods to make more ships and SRVs, ship interiors, more station types, more planet types, more handcrafted mission types, handcrafted weird moons/planets that do not respect the "known" physical laws but that have incredible features.
LEGS VR
Concerning the exploits...well since this is an offline version the exploits thing is only personal cheating so everyone should be able to decide what to do with their own game.
Because people have been reverse-engineering and developing mods for "not easily moddable games" for decades along with expansive performance improvement and bugfixes in "unofficial patches" for just as long and your precious Elite: Dangerous isn't magically the only game in existence that can't be drastically improved by community effort and collaboration.
They are procedural generated.. so they don't exist until you get there. And since you play an offline version you don't even need to recover from the server the other CMDR's information (discovered by....).
Offline doesn't mean that FDEV stops supporting it...
It means that we're not bound with FDEV low quality contents only, but they keep supporting the game... so bug fixes, performance issues and so on...
Remember that the game is not for free.. FDEV still gets paid
Could be either resources, competences or organization.
Choose one... the result on their final product is not very encouraging.
ED modded could be a great game... in its current state...meh...
Consider also that ED is for many (most?) players a sandbox... because "the 1 mile wide and 1" deep"... and a sandbox generally becomes great with the mods.
If you take a look at Flight Simulator history, the best quality contents came from independent developers (PMDG, Aerosoft, Orbx) and from the community passion.
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