Just a few questions

[DarkMere]

Sorry if these have been asked and answered in another thread.

1/ Can you fuel scoop off a star in this current version, if not will this be implemented?

2/ Do Thargoids still occasionally intercept you mid way on a hyper jump, if not will this be implemented?

3/ The other day when I was just about to jump from one system to another, my internet connection went off. Of course when I managed to get back, (four hours later after an engineer repair) I was of course docked back at my last station. This made me think about cheating. It would be so easy to go up against another human player and if things did not work out and you were close to death, you could just disconnect the internet for a few seconds. This would put other players at a disadvantage. Any thoughts on this?

 

[RoadRunner]

Sorry if these have been asked and answered in another thread.

1/ Can you fuel scoop off a star in this current version, if not will this be implemented?

2/ Do Thargoids still occasionally intercept you mid way on a hyper jump, if not will this be implemented?

3/ The other day when I was just about to jump from one system to another, my internet connection went off. Of course when I managed to get back, (four hours later after an engineer repair) I was of course docked back at my last station. This made me think about cheating. It would be so easy to go up against another human player and if things did not work out and you were close to death, you could just disconnect the internet for a few seconds. This would put other players at a disadvantage. Any thoughts on this?

1. Yes, this will be implemented in the release version, possibly before that. You will also be able to scoop from gas giants, just like in Frontier. It's in the DDF and has been mentioned by Dave many times in his update diaries as well as by the developers on here.

2. Thargoids will be in the game somewhere, however we have no information on when or how they will turn up as yet.

3. Using purposeful disconnects in combat to save your ship has been an ongoing issue for a while now, although I'm pretty sure FD have plans in mind to remedy this.

 

[Commander Edison]

1. Not in the current build, but planned for the finished game.

2. Thargoids will be in the game at some point, but we don't know exactly where or when yet. DBOBE keeps dropping hints about them being "out there" in the final game, but what that means, I dunno.

3. Combat logging and disconnects are a problem, I believe there are plans afoot to leave your ship in place for a period of time to prevent such exploits, but I don't have a link to hand. (posting on my phone.)

Ninga'd all over the shop.

 

[Ian Phillips]

1/ Not implemented at the moment. You will be able to scoop fuel, but given the current state of the heat mechanic, you wouldn't be able to get close enough to a star without blowing up from overheating!
So, it looks like just from gas giants currently.

2/ No they don't (or no-one has survived to tell the story ). Unknown if this will be implemented.

3) This has been addressed as it was an exploit during the Alpha testing. If you lose internet connection - for whatever reason, your ship stays in game for a short while.

<edit> double ninja'd

 

[DarkMere]

That's good to know regarding the disconnecting.

I forgot to comment in the first post, and I am not being sexist here, but I think the voice that gives you permission to land is real sexy, or maybe I am just a sad individual

I will probably find out that the voice is the voice of one of the developers grandmother who take offense at the comment, then programs in a function into the code that goes something like. If player = DarkMere, then weapon sights accuracy = 10%