Engineers I've come to the conclusion FDev has a sick sense of humor...

CMDR R SWIPE

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Flying around trying to find HGE USS for the last hour. Three spawned:

1st one: "Lost connection to server" when I got to within 2-3Mm of dropping from SC.
2nd: 2-3Mm from dropping, interdicted by someone that "was looking for me and all my tasty cargo", even though I don't even have cargo racks on the ship.
3rd: Interdicted by "this is a military operation" at the same 2-3Mm from dropping.

I chose to laugh, rather than launch my mouse against the wall.


After the 3 spawn, and military interdiction, I'm getting interdicted every 60-90 seconds. As well as the only USS that are spawning are "degraded". I swear the game knows what you're trying to find, and goes out of its way to inhibit that, to the point you shut the computer down and go buy a bottle of vodka (ask me how I know that).

Suppose I'll have to find another search system.
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
It's not all bad. Having just completed an easy base scan I was once again denied my precious Cracked Industrial Firmware. While I was cursing the RNG the transaction server disconnected. On reload the base was scannable again, another quick scan later, I got what I wanted. ;)
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
CMDR R SWIPE said:
Flying around trying to find HGE USS for the last hour. Three spawned:

1st one: "Lost connection to server" when I got to within 2-3Mm of dropping from SC.
2nd: 2-3Mm from dropping, interdicted by someone that "was looking for me and all my tasty cargo", even though I don't even have cargo racks on the ship.
3rd: Interdicted by "this is a military operation" at the same 2-3Mm from dropping.

I chose to laugh, rather than launch my mouse against the wall.


After the 3 spawn, and military interdiction, I'm getting interdicted every 60-90 seconds. As well as the only USS that are spawning are "degraded". I swear the game knows what you're trying to find, and goes out of its way to inhibit that, to the point you shut the computer down and go buy a bottle of vodka (ask me how I know that).

Suppose I'll have to find another search system.
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Yep, I have this feeling quite often, actually.
I usually succumb to to pressure and go do something else.

If the game doesn't want you to succeed in something, why push it? Now it's joking, you don't want to make it angry. :)
 

CMDR R SWIPE

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As it seems to always be, I was looking for Core Dyn Composites. As soon as I had the three experiences in the OP, and writing about it. I started the game back up and found 7 CDC in the next 5 minutes...


I wish this worked for lottery numbers.
 

Tryst

Tryst
metatheurgist said:
It's not all bad. Having just completed an easy base scan I was once again denied my precious Cracked Industrial Firmware. While I was cursing the RNG the transaction server disconnected. On reload the base was scannable again, another quick scan later, I got what I wanted. ;)
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And people wonder why players like me wanted an offline game. :rolleyes:
 

GJ51

GJ51
metatheurgist said:
It's not all bad. Having just completed an easy base scan I was once again denied my precious Cracked Industrial Firmware. While I was cursing the RNG the transaction server disconnected. On reload the base was scannable again, another quick scan later, I got what I wanted. ;)
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I started seeing them again as a Mission Reward last night.
 

Tryst

Tryst
Ezren said:
It's just that people with common sense disagree with it.
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Ask those who are sick of the lag and transaction server errors that dump you back to the menu, both originating from the game being online only.

You wouldn't get them if was a single player offline game. I play several single player offline games and have yet to get lag in any of them, never had a transaction server error that dumps me back into the main menu either, I wonder why?
 

clivewil

clivewil
Ezren said:
It's just that people with common sense disagree with it.
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if you give me both of their names, i'll explain the flaws in their logic - if they truly have common sense, they will nod sagely and say "oh, i'd never thought of that." - unless of course the 'common sense' you speak of is actually a disguised version of "my internet connection is always great, so screw everybody else whose isn't"


Yes, finally, some Conductive Ceramics! scoop open, approach carefully... 100m... 50m... MATCHMAKING ERROR. oh look, a front menu. great.

the thing that gets me is that e.g. if i'm stuck in an SC drop-out loop, the game is happily running fine in the background. the enemy i was trying to avoid slips smoothly into place behind me, i can see him clearly on the scanner - no jerking or rubberbanding, and as soon as he's ready the loop stops and the interdiction begins - hey FD, how about updating my position before you update his? who spends more money in your store, me or the NPC?
 
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CMDR R SWIPE

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Ezren said:
People understand why people like you think such things.

It's just that people with common sense disagree with it.
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I would love an offline/single player only version. As it is, I'm in solo all the time anyway.

Speaking of single player only (rather, along those lines), this is the first Elite game I've played, has FDev ever had a single play only, or, one that they offer/allow end-user mods?

I've modded almost every game I've ever played in the last 20 years, I find it more fun than the game itself, most of the time. Figuring out how things work, etc. I wish there was something like that for ED. There are so many things I think could use a little tweak here and there.
 

Ezren

Ezren
clivewil said:
if you give me both of their names, i'll explain the flaws in their logic - if they truly have common sense, they will nod sagely and say "oh, i'd never thought of that." - unless of course the 'common sense' you speak of is actually a disguised version of "my internet connection is always great, so screw everybody else whose isn't"


Yes, finally, some Conductive Ceramics! scoop open, approach carefully... 100m... 50m... MATCHMAKING ERROR. oh look, a front menu. great.

the thing that gets me is that e.g. if i'm stuck in an SC drop-out loop, the game is happily running fine in the background. the enemy i was trying to avoid slips smoothly into place behind me, i can see him clearly on the scanner - no jerking or rubberbanding, and as soon as he's ready the loop stops and the interdiction begins - hey FD, how about updating my position before you update his? who spends more money in your store, me or the NPC?
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Sounds like you need a better internet connection and properly optimized settings.

But I do love the way you try to blame the game for that. Did you wake up late today! Thanks a lot FDev! Spelled your coffee? Thanks a lot FDev!
 

Tryst

Tryst
CMDR R SWIPE said:
I would love an offline/single player only version. As it is, I'm in solo all the time anyway.

Speaking of single player only (rather, along those lines), this is the first Elite game I've played, has FDev ever had a single play only, or, one that they offer/allow end-user mods?

I've modded almost every game I've ever played in the last 20 years, I find it more fun than the game itself, most of the time. Figuring out how things work, etc. I wish there was something like that for ED. There are so many things I think could use a little tweak here and there.
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Elite, Elite Frontier and Elite First Encounter were all single player offline games in the 80's and early 90's, long before Fdev was started up, the original titles were published by GameTek. Sadly, in the late 90's RB promised an Elite 4 but then took down the web page advertising it with links to the previous (now "abandonware") games despite a lot of hype that had got a lot of Elite fans very worked up. It was a completely stupid thing to do as it lost a lot of fans who now say they wouldn't buy ED on principle. Had he released a single player Elite 4 as promised, those same fans would have been queueing at the door for ED on launch day.

The original Elite games were not moddable although many hacks were found to allow infinite jump range, massive cargo capacity and such. Elite 4 COULD have been the first truly moddable single player version of Elite and would also have paved the way for ED to be far better than it is, (having some idea of what the players actually wanted from looking at the most popular mods in the single player game). My personal favourites would have been player owned space stations, more variety in ships and longer jump ranges, but I'm just one person, no doubt other players would have had different favourites.

If RB had kept his promise of an offline single player version of ED, we could well have had a huge modding community with untold great mods, since modding a single player game does not impact anybody else, unlike online gaming. The saddest part of it is that, if FD goes under for some reason or other, (which is quite possible given today's volatile economy), our online game goes with it and there's no single player offline version to fall back on.
 
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