Players can get together and do this if someone raises the rabble enough. Considering that people went to the effort of spamming personal twitter accounts of FDev employees, I'd say it's a possibility.
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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It doesn't matter WHO the investors are. The point is, investors, CEOs, and managers cause the problem, together, through the unreasonable pressures placed on everyone else to meet the wealth generation schedules set forth by investors. Profit is the primary purpose of your company, not art.
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while this is all grossly OT, you clearly are not a holder of any sort of investment instruments. i've got news for you: investors do not "set forth" "wealth generation schedules" (whatever that's even supposed to be).
Not sure what I'm seeing. Or what I'm not seeing.
The gift that just keeps on giving.. ultra texture detail.
This is entirely on topic, friend, and explains the root of the problem we see here today, and in many other examples of failed product releases.
Actually, I was the holder of numerous 'financial instruments' at the turn of the century, and I cashed out of every one of those instruments and never looked back. I learned a few things, fortunately through research and observation instead of my own bankruptcies, and I understood the markets for what they are decades ago.
You sound like a fan of financial instruments, lol. You know, those mysterious, intangible yet tangible instruments that let you not work and still gain wealth?
steam's only problem with the current rating is that there are way too many positive reviews for odyssey.
suggesting people should pay full price for an early access level beta riddled with bugs, connection issues and performance problems that span every way to play the game is not being honest. and if you can't recommend others buy it, it shouldn't be marked positive.
IIRC the story at the time was that Gametek sent the wrong build to press. Given that the internet was not a valid distribution method back then, this meant actually getting the physical disks burned and duplicated. By the time the mistake was realised, it was far to late to do anything about it.
Just another new troll accpunt. I've used ignore quite a lot since last week.
Because you were burned by buying high and selling low? (Nearly anyone who cashed out at the start of the century was selling low or had been gambling with dotcom stocks and got burned).
Puh, this is really derailing here 
Maybe we open a seperate thread for discussing stocks and Frontiers history?
Maybe we open a seperate thread for discussing stocks and Frontiers history?
Because I could not have said it better I will post this as my thoughts on this thread enjoy and I hope the maker of this video dont get mad. enjoy
Source: https://youtu.be/FkpH3hS5Ido
Bien dit!
You are actually saying that there is only the possibility that you are "right" and we can´t disagree because you are "right" and there is no way around it?
Nice.
This again and again and again? It is no contention point as there is no repeating patterns in that SPECIFIC example which just so happens to be the one you posted.But even if there were, let me phrase it again for you. Copy & Paste: The issue is happening randomly across the board and has been reported.
You are not "imagining" things, it is called pareidolia. It is not rude but rather it is a very real condition.
"Others and myself" you say...you actually single yourself out like that?
You know, the others can very well continue their discussion without having you ramming your opinion down their throats?
But in the case you do want to have a "discussion" then here is a friendly non-rude advice: In a discussion, expect others to disagree and your view of things to not be the all-truth. Since you mentioned yourself: "It's not an opinion if repeating patterns exist on Wyrd 2B, so no we can't disagree on this point.".
Hey, careful with what you say...they might come for you now.
Ah, but this is excellent. That having an opposite view than others and "discussing" it on a "discussion forum" is to be dubbed "trolling".
But go for it, alas, I have seen it all so far. I will echo a fellow "troll":
I appreciate the quote though, here is one of my favourite for the exchange:
""If sheep do not have the constant care of a shepherd, they will go the wrong way, unaware of the dangers at hand. They have been known to nibble themselves right off the side of a mountain..... And so, because sheep are sheep, they need shepherds to care for them. The welfare of sheep depends solely upon the care they get from their shepherd. Therefore, the better the shepherd, the healthier the sheep." ~ Kay Arthur"
For what it's worth, (just hearsay as i have no proof to back this up with) i had a passing chat with a player who is a real exploration buff in ED for years now, and he tells me that although the copy-paste thing does happen on some planets it's by no means all, and that he's found some pretty funky and unique geographical features, including one giant mountain he hadn't seen anywhere else. Frankly, it gives me quite a bit of hope for future improvements, and you can look at my past posts, they are mostly alarmed and concerned with this issue so i'm certainly not 'white-knighting', as much as i dislike that term.
The issue is not to find stuff. It's how rare it is. Most planet, in my experience, are very similar to each other. In their own category ofc. Did you see the OP's video ? It's more than just the repetitive pattern.
You either have the flat desert with a few big rock/mountain. The tiny valley, or the weird canyon that are everywhere (like a dessicated ground patch, but planet sized).
As for the ground, it's a lot of that very bland "fine dust/snow" looking texture. Sure, color changes, white, beige, grey, but it all feel the same. The ground also have a bad case of "military camo" look in many places I've been to. It's just not natural.
In horizon, landscape is more varied. Ground texture feels better to.
Don't worry, nobody says you are "white knighting" here
I think a lot of people here said, that it does not affect every planet, by far. It's just that it's really easy to find planets that have these tilings.
Center of the screenshot, the seam going through the planet.
I was laughing when I wrote my post, and also when I have just read your own! Excellent!
The best person to ridicule is oneself, no-one can take umbrage at it
Incidentally: I used to have 5 pet sheep - they lived long and healthy lives as mobile grass cutters (and fertiliser spreaders) - they can recognise different humans, and would all vacate to their 'shed' whenever the vet came calling, or the shearer...
I'm really starting to think it is the old Horizons planets that are hit most. The few patterns I saw today were all on airless worlds. But ofc it is all conjecture and we have to wait and see if it changes. At least on the networking side things improved except a few interesting hiccups, but we managed to visit 5 POIs as a team with only one desync.
The planets look a lot more natural than
I'd also say there is NOTHING WRONG with using premade elements if they're more natural-looking than procedural generation. Procedural generation isn't some magic tool that suits all situations. Not all phenomena are best replicated with mathematical noise.
Use copy-and-pasting by all means. The important thing is that we shouldn't notice the game doing it!
I'd say the actual planet generation is wildly better than it used to be, but it has oddities and weirdness that can be fixed.
I'd also say there is NOTHING WRONG with using premade elements if they're more natural-looking than procedural generation. Procedural generation isn't some magic tool that suits all situations. Not all phenomena are best replicated with mathematical noise.
Use copy-and-pasting by all means. The important thing is that we shouldn't notice the game doing it!