∞ probes?

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I agree with that 100%. I just pointing out the flaw of a youtube poll that talks about other space sims.

Its fine the doomsayers have reliably informed me that their conclusions are all based on less people playing ED than voted in that poll. So not only is ED undoomed but we've got a big old dataset to peep at.

But the topic with so many pages and almost 1,150 posts. Tells us a lot already. We are Divided.

11% want limited probes only, that's not divided its a landslide.
 
There's no way to make everyone happy. You gotta just make a design decision and go with it.

True, but what I do expect from the game is a certain degree of internal consistency.

While I do agree that synthesized probes wouldn't necessarily make their use 'better', it would be consistent with the other items that are most similar - namely - ammunition and/or limpets.
 
True, but what I do expect from the game is a certain degree of internal consistency.

While I do agree that synthesized probes wouldn't necessarily make their use 'better', it would be consistent with the other items that are most similar - namely - ammunition and/or limpets.

Its consistent with cargo loading speed.
 

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Poll all you like.

It'd likely be in the region of a 70/30 split for infinite probes. :p



We're always divided. :p
That sounds great doesn't it. But let say OA did a poll on Star Citizen and we know from the SC topic not many people like it. It takes one person to post on that topic going hay they have a poll for SC Let us vote.

That why we have to take OA Poll with a grain of salt.
 
Its fine the doomsayers have reliably informed me that their conclusions are all based on less people playing ED than voted in that poll. So not only is ED undoomed but we've got a big old dataset to peep at.

11% want limited probes only, that's not divided its a landslide.

Didn't you know? Polls are only accurate when you're in the majority. CLEARLY this is the work of people who don't even play Elite, all those Space Engine fans who watch Obsidian's videos and want more than anything for Elite to have infinite probes. And Brexiters too, for reasons.
 
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That sounds great doesn't it. But let say OA did a poll on Star Citizen and we know from the SC topic not many people like it. It takes one person to post on that topic going hay they have a poll for SC Let us vote.

That why we have to take OA Poll with a grain of salt.

Over 9000 people have voted now. And finite probes is down to 10%. Come on.
 
Didn't you know? Polls are only accurate when you're in the majority. CLEARLY this is the work of people who won't even play Elite, all those Space Engine fans who watch Obsidian's videos and want more than anything for Elite to have infinite probes. And Brexiters too, for reasons.

That poll was super accurate, me and the other Russian bots rigged it that way. Now we've completed operation comedy POTUS and broken up the EU we are bored.
 
11% want limited probes only, that's not divided its a landslide.

unfortunately OA polls is not sharp enough to make a clear distinction.
"Limited Only" is now at 10% and "Unlimited" at 27%.

Unlimited was of course the more popular I already expected so, but I wanted to see the real difference from players that prefer limited ones.
I want limited and I voted for option 2 that share both options. I'm curious to know how many people voted with my same idea and so they subtracted points from "Limited Only".

I would be curious to see a poll with only 2 choices... not to exclude one of the two from the gameplay but to see where the players base stands.
 
Cut to Frontier office.

Adam #1: "Hey Will, what are they talking about on the forums? Squadrons? Blowing up humongous asteroids!? Voice acted BGS-generated scenarios!?!?"

Adam #2: "Sexy sexy night vision, I'll bet!"

Will : "Um."
 
That poll was super accurate, me and the other Russian bots rigged it that way. Now we've completed operation comedy POTUS and broken up the EU we are bored.

Thought so. Now that Putin is done destroying Britain and America, he's after our video games! And to start he's going to break our immersion while exploring!!!

I'm curious to know how many people voted with my same idea and so they subtracted points from "Limited Only".

You should create a poll for that.
 

Lestat

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unfortunately OA polls is not sharp enough to make a clear distinction.
"Limited Only" is now at 10% and "Unlimited" at 27%.

Unlimited was of course the more popular I already expected so, but I wanted to see the real difference from players that prefer limited ones.
I want limited and I voted for option 2 that share both options. I'm curious to know how many people voted with my same idea and so they subtracted points from "Limited Only".

I would be curious to see a poll with only 2 choices... not to exclude one of the two from the gameplay but to see where the players base stands.
I think Frontier should do the poll Not OA. It should be people who own the game. Not access by the forums or youtube. I think there should be more detail Poll. Take some of the ideas listed on the forum and on Suggestion forums. Vote on some of those ideas.
 
I agree with that 100%. I just pointing out the flaw of a youtube poll that talks about other space sims.

I also agree with that. 6 More days.

But the topic with so many pages and almost 1,150 posts. Tells us a lot already. We are Divided.
Well, as I said earlier, I've now even been on both sides of the fence :)

Before I realised the FSS (seemingly) tells you exactly which planets have features requiring the use of probes, I thought infinite probes sounded more sensible.

But now you (seemingly) know exactly which planets to use probes on, surely significant use (eg: hundred(s)) would only be a concern to folks exploring en-mass for CRs, or people exploring for long periods/journeys? And I have no issue with those category of people needing to support those roles (ie: by crafting or doing something to get more probes).

So at the moment I'm leaning back over the fence to finite :)
 
Over 9000 people have voted now. And finite probes is down to 10%. Come on.

  1. The poll wasn't infinite probes vs finite probes, it was infinite vs craftable, which is different.
  2. Let's assume OA had put infinite vs finite. OA put in a "both" option which now makes it impossible to determine if, given a choice, people prefer inifinite over finite or vice versa.
  3. Some people won't have voted because it stupid to make a decision on something you haven't tried, these people are likely to bias towards the "better" option.
 
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I think Frontier should do the poll Not OA. It should be people who own the game. Not access by the forums or youtube. I think there should be more detail Poll. Take some of the ideas listed on the forum and on Suggestion forums. Vote on some of those ideas.
I think they should worry about half-way important things like furry dice to hang in the cockpit.
 
By the Gods above us, is this thread still going, I would hate to think what will happen if there is something really controversial in the next LiveStream ….
 
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