Not magical at all...

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
So in an article in PCGames they quoted the Devs saying this... “That goes across all things, like writing technology levels and making sure that the technology in the game is not magical. There is a degree of credibility and science there behind it, where we can. So yeah, absolutely, and all those things we discuss quite a lot,” he concludes.

Yes, because it makes so much sense to be able to teleport to a cockpit across the galaxy instantly but you can't transmit your exploration data...

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UPDATE: From a post I made below... "Oddly, most people think I'm complaining about telepresence when actually I'm poking a bit of fun at the devs and asking you for what makes you giggle or shake your head..." But then, if you have to explain the joke... :rolleyes:
 
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Pville_Piper said:
So in an article in PCGames they quoted the Devs saying this... “That goes across all things, like writing technology levels and making sure that the technology in the game is not magical. There is a degree of credibility and science there behind it, where we can. So yeah, absolutely, and all those things we discuss quite a lot,” he concludes.

Yes, because it makes so much sense to be able to teleport to a cockpit across the galaxy instantly but you can't transmit your exploration data...

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yeah the tele-presence aspect doesn't make sense also in the dev diary they talk about the space suit and how it's protecting the player. but we all know the player is just hologram
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
Teleporting is fine. The simple economy, however, quite impairs the believability. These magic refills of suplly and demand just don't cut it - it's too obvious that it's just smoke and mirrors.
 

777Driver

777Driver
RKELLY said:
yeah the tele-presence aspect doesn't make sense also in the dev diary they talk about the space suit and how it's protecting the player. but we all know the player is just hologram
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The player is only a hologram when operating a SLF. They are simulating a cmdr onboard the ship & inside the SRV. But seriously guys, this a frikin game. It's like the FS2020 crowd complaining that they cant buy coffee and hit on the hostie.
 

VR SenseiMatty

VR SenseiMatty
Pville_Piper said:
So in an article in PCGames they quoted the Devs saying this... “That goes across all things, like writing technology levels and making sure that the technology in the game is not magical. There is a degree of credibility and science there behind it, where we can. So yeah, absolutely, and all those things we discuss quite a lot,” he concludes.

Yes, because it makes so much sense to be able to teleport to a cockpit across the galaxy instantly but you can't transmit your exploration data...

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Nothing strange... everytime I switch off my car there's a fade to black transition and I'm "magically" on my feet.
 

Ambroza

Ambroza
RKELLY said:
yeah the tele-presence aspect doesn't make sense also in the dev diary they talk about the space suit and how it's protecting the player. but we all know the player is just hologram
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People apparently find the holo me system very confusing, as I see people say this all the time. No, you are not a hologram when you are piloting your own ship or your SRV. You are a hologram when you are in an SLF or in somebody else's ship.
 

Winterwalker

Winterwalker
The visiting commander in the multicrew cockpit is hologram, so your (two) ship's holo-me's only need to relay information. That is happening faster than light but then again you can get to 2001c in supercruise and the longest hyperspace jumps (say 60Ly in ten seconds) are reaching speeds approaching 200 million x the speed of light.

As far as I know information and matter travelling way faster than light are more or less the only place where serious scientific liberties are taken though. Andf quite right too, several hours is a while but 22,000 years to Colonia really would be "a grindfest".
 
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Terekhov

Terekhov
Pville_Piper said:
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Yes, because it makes so much sense to be able to teleport to a cockpit across the galaxy instantly but you can't transmit your exploration data...
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When on both of my commanders, I completed the 5000LY trip that attracts the Prof's attention, I received the Prof's invitation instantly.
1) Somehow he is tracking me (in a previously undiscovered system)
2) That info gets back to him instantly.
3) He emails me his invitation (which again arrives instantly, in a previously undiscovered system)
Conclusion.... The entire galaxy (even undiscovered systems) is wired with really good Wi-FI !!!!!!!
 

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
777Driver said:
The player is only a hologram when operating a SLF. They are simulating a cmdr onboard the ship & inside the SRV. But seriously guys, this a frikin game. It's like the FS2020 crowd complaining that they cant buy coffee and hit on the hostie.
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I quite understand that actually, I'm just poking a bit of fun...
 

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if you happen to die on foot. do you think you'll get respawned at the ship or get a rebuy screen?
 

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
Oddly, most people think I'm complaining about telepresence when actually I'm poking a bit of fun at the devs and asking you for what makes you giggle or shake your head..
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
I don't use telepresence in the game. I also don't lose ships and SRVs.

But anyway, reliable encryption seems to not be a thing in 330X for some reason. Maybe inverse time dilated quantum computers or something make it impracticable. There are data deliver missions too, for example.

That being said, lore is subject to contrived game-play anyway.
 

Thatchinho

Thatchinho
Pville_Piper said:
So in an article in PCGames they quoted the Devs saying this... “That goes across all things, like writing technology levels and making sure that the technology in the game is not magical. There is a degree of credibility and science there behind it, where we can. So yeah, absolutely, and all those things we discuss quite a lot,” he concludes.

Yes, because it makes so much sense to be able to teleport to a cockpit across the galaxy instantly but you can't transmit your exploration data...

Post your own below.

UPDATE: From a post I made below... "Oddly, most people think I'm complaining about telepresence when actually I'm poking a bit of fun at the devs and asking you for what makes you giggle or shake your head..." But then, if you have to explain the joke... :rolleyes:
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Just a game innit. (Posting this after the update to the OP btw, 😜)

In seriousness though, it’s actually pretty trivial to come up with a coherent explanation for the telepresence vs explo data situation. Here’s one:

- FSD is new tech (in-game lore)

- Tele-presence is a new development, built on top of the FSD tech (not in-game lore, but completely viable as an explanation of Tele-presence being new tech.)

Now, to understand the difference when it comes to explo data, just consider a real life example:

- how long remote working and home working tech has been available for

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- how long it’s taking for lots of organisations to actually start adopting it and using it in force, particularly by old, behemothic and beaurocratic organisations. (Bearing in mind that even now some places have only done it because they’ve been forced to by a global pandemic!)

There’s not a single more magical claim in all of sci-fi then the claim that human nature will somehow magically be completely different in the future. 😉

Edit - didn’t make it clear in the main post, but the supposition is that it’s the near instant, high bandwidth, high reliability FTL data transmission needed for telepresence which is facilitated by the FSD tech, not the other parts of the telepresence tech. 😀
 
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