Procedural Cities - Maybe a day in Elite Dangerous too?

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Yesterday, while listening to some music, this video of SC popped up.
And i was seriously without words...
[video=youtube;mGcG0g7GsOI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcG0g7GsOI[/video]
 
They are showing stuff like this for years and nothing has materialized - smoke an mirrors, moving on. Not saying its impossible, and yes it would be nice to have this kind of generation in ED but I will never take anything that RSI/CRoberst shows seriously until I can experience it on y own PC. This project is a massive fraud at this point. [down][down][down]
 
Three years ago they had a similarly amazing video (2:23 for the city):
[video=youtube_share;7Gx-3iwXvoQ]https://youtu.be/7Gx-3iwXvoQ?t=150[/video]

None of it exists in-game after three years. Three years from now they'll have a new amazing video and you'll have forgotten this one. None of it will be in the 'game'. :)
 
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Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away
 
They are showing stuff like this for years and nothing has materialized - smoke an mirrors, moving on. Not saying its impossible, and yes it would be nice to have this kind of generation in ED but I will never take anything that RSI/CRoberst shows seriously until I can experience it on y own PC. This project is a massive fraud at this point. [down][down][down]

What rubbish. Can't wait for 3.0 to be released so all you nay sayers can eat your hats !
 
I have yet to see procedural cities done well. There was a Minecraft mod a while back that added them, worked okay, some of the cities were embedded into things, like mountains, oceans, other cities...
I HIGHLY doubt that video had procedural cities, all of their videos to date have been hand made and scripted, like a movie. SC is know for hand crafting things... and sucking a procedural generation. They do make good looking movies though.

Holy .... It is gonna be so awesome when it is released in 2035... :O
You transposed some numbers, the actual release date is 3025.
 
What rubbish. Can't wait for 3.0 to be released so all you nay sayers can eat your hats !

You do know that none of what they showed will be in 3.0, right? Or in any 3.x? Meaning it wont come before 2019 if they keep their dates, which they have never done? People will eat their hats when there is a game with actual gameplay loops, where you can go to different systems, or when there is at least a single complete system. None of that is on the cards for 3.0 mate. Not even according to CIG themselves.

Is this the same 3.0 that is going to be released "imminently" for the last 9 months?

Over a year, unfortunately. And no, not the same 3.0. Most gameplay loops have been dropped, the major netcode rework is dropped, and you wont get the complete stanton system. Or even the majority of it. The '40-50 stations and a dozen planets' has been reduced to one station and three planets, with only 'the first steps of trading' included. Basically most of what made 3.0 the Jesus Patch is dropped, which is many in the SC reddit are already talking about how 4.0 will prove all the 'haters' wrong. Its inane how people accept this.
 
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Yes, it is doable. Yes, to make it actual game it takes just incredible amount of work.

I believe if someone will get to playable setting here, it is FD. Because they know how to do it.
 
Yesterday, while listening to some music, this video of SC popped up.
And i was seriously without words...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcG0g7GsOI

It was epic tbh, many of us didn't even think that they were on that level, the fact that they show this means they have made a lot of progress despite what people keep repeating that it will be released in 2020, 2030 or whatever, compare that to Elite Dangerous and you know that sadly FD hasn't been making the same progress in ED. we haven't seen anything about walking on stations/planets, building outposts, owning lands and not even a sniff of atmospheric planets. SC is already there and working on the details in fact you can go back and watch each demo and you will see the constant improvements to performance.

I wish both game to be great because only then we get great space games, i bought ED because i thought that by the time SC comes out, ED will alreday have everything SC has and more BUT i don't think that is the case anymore, the progress in both story and game development has been slow and the fact that we don't even get to walk out of our ships in the next year is frankly disappointing.
 
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