I dunno, maybe they had one of those endearing "I shouldn't be saying this" moments that people interpreted as a full fledged admission that the work on Update 12 is at full swing.
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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The dev working on U12 is probably making a little effort, true...
No news?! There's a Buckyball race about to start! 
Is that from the Community Events Calendar that didn't have entries yet past this month? They already mentioned that last week.No news?! There's a Buckyball race about to start!
It is what the stream was about too.
Well, perhaps a good time to harken back to June 4th, 2021.
ANNOUNCEMENT - Elite Dangerous | Odyssey: Roadmap
Greetings Commanders, As mentioned in David’s forum post on 25th May, we would like to share our immediate roadmap for Odyssey and talk a little more about performance and improvements as we move towards the console release later this year. We’d like to take a moment to thank everyone for...
I love that last paragraph. They'll not only provide as clear a future as possible, but they'll go even further! New plans! New initiatives! We'll be even more in touch with development!Well, perhaps a good time to harken back to June 4th, 2021.
ANNOUNCEMENT - Elite Dangerous | Odyssey: Roadmap
Greetings Commanders, As mentioned in David’s forum post on 25th May, we would like to share our immediate roadmap for Odyssey and talk a little more about performance and improvements as we move towards the console release later this year. We’d like to take a moment to thank everyone for...forums.frontier.co.uk
Literal 100% silence for months.
Lol.
Goodbye again, cya again soon o7
Well, perhaps a good time to harken back to June 4th, 2021.
ANNOUNCEMENT - Elite Dangerous | Odyssey: Roadmap
Greetings Commanders, As mentioned in David’s forum post on 25th May, we would like to share our immediate roadmap for Odyssey and talk a little more about performance and improvements as we move towards the console release later this year. We’d like to take a moment to thank everyone for...
As frustrating as it is, FDev did communicate development better like they said they would... for six months
Thanks Zac and welcome back
We're now in the second week of April, with little idea of how the game is being developed in 2022 (past Update 11 and a cheeky nod towards Update 12). Please can you tell us why the Monthly Dev Update reports and Top 20 Issues reports haven't resumed (after they stopped late last year), and when you expect them to resume again?
With the devteam working on the live service game, isn't there interesting information to share about their progress on improvements, resolving issues, and bug fixes?
Cheers for the weekly posts and livestreams too
It wasn't as much the comment about communication, as that's beating the grave of a dead horse with FDev. However, both "Planetary geometry (...) update you over the coming weeks as those investigations progress" and "(...) to focus our development efforts after Update 5 on performance and the console release (...)" just have a different ring to them now as they did go completely silent on those topics until recently and ended up doing neither.As frustrating as it is, FDev did communicate development better like they said they would... for six months
True, it's unfortunate when investigations and development efforts result in having to say no to things.
Would more communication during the interim been better? Definitely.
Would that more communication have alleviated the frustrations felt when the result was "no"? Unlikely.
Same thing has been said by forumites for the last couple of years - so no change then?
Again?
Is this the third or fourth time it's been "in maintenance mode" now? What happens when details of Update 12 arrive, will the maintenance mode have ended again?
Stop getting my hopes up!
Hm. I don't quit on games since they are games and not a relationship. Makes no sense for me. I can always just play later.
As far as games go, I really love Elite though. So, this is a disappointment because those patterns are more of an issue for me than anything else with Odyssey.
I notice though, that I don't really care. I don't play much these days, mostly because of real life stuff, but I keep a close look on the forum and any information regarding Elite.
The last few months they changed they communication model like, three times? Two months of silence inbetween.
There's no consistency and there seems to be no clear direction. None that has been communicated with us. And communication with players is part of a clear direction, because if you have one, you communicate it, wouldn't you? Especially when things were left in the dark for so long.
So, I don't know what to think. I don't even have an oppinion because I don't have enough information to form one. Elite sits somewhere on the side and if something pops up, something pops up. If not, well, no changes here. I once what enthusiastic about the game and I kinda hope I will be again, but at the moment, most things that excited me about it have been hit pretty hard, even planetary tech, which was my absolute highlight concerning Odyssey. Never needed space legs at all.
As far as games go, I really love Elite though. So, this is a disappointment because those patterns are more of an issue for me than anything else with Odyssey.
I notice though, that I don't really care. I don't play much these days, mostly because of real life stuff, but I keep a close look on the forum and any information regarding Elite.
The last few months they changed they communication model like, three times? Two months of silence inbetween.
There's no consistency and there seems to be no clear direction. None that has been communicated with us. And communication with players is part of a clear direction, because if you have one, you communicate it, wouldn't you? Especially when things were left in the dark for so long.
So, I don't know what to think. I don't even have an oppinion because I don't have enough information to form one. Elite sits somewhere on the side and if something pops up, something pops up. If not, well, no changes here. I once what enthusiastic about the game and I kinda hope I will be again, but at the moment, most things that excited me about it have been hit pretty hard, even planetary tech, which was my absolute highlight concerning Odyssey. Never needed space legs at all.
So no promises that exceed the resources they put into the game. That's progress. I guess.
I suspect they're lending a hand to the Warhammer launch at the moment. I hope it sells reasonably well, Frontier don't need another lacklustre product on the books.