Seeing an "Elite" pilot at all should be an awe-inspiring moment. And if you do see a high-ranked pilot, they won't be chugging along in a Sidewinder or flying an authority vessel. We should expect them to be able to dictate the terms of the engagement nine and a half times out of ten - these characters have survived thousands of combats and encounters to get to where they are, and will have a plan for every eventuality.
I assume that the NPC generator has a normal distribution for pilot rankings, which needs tweaking to make high ranks much more rare than they currently are, and it's not even fair to talk about the AI for high ranking NPCs yet - they should have many creative behaviours to stay alive, besides being combat aces and having top of the line ships.
Why would they give us a roadmap?
The outcry of the community would just make them change their minds like other things here.
It is regrettable
I loved the combat in B1.06. Even after weeks I was still learning tricks to things. Then B2 came along and seemed to simplify it.
Doesn't this show the need that only one shield cell generator should be permitted? I assume the Viper in the video had numerous?
Do NPCs ever use them? Or they there just to allow CMDRs to have an easier life against NPCs?
All - this may interest https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=94899
To make this happen we’re expanding the team working on the game so that we can maintain a regular schedule of updates as well as working on paid expansions.
We’ll also be having beta test periods for these major updates and access to these will be open to players who already have beta access for the game. More details on this will be revealed in the coming weeks.
The FA-off infinite boost speed bug definitely has to stay away. That was a terrible thing, now luckily fixed.
Agreed on that issue. Beta 1.06 was by no means perfect, but I still find it preferable to a lot of the other issues that we have now.
Unfortunately a published roadmap would be seen as nothing less than a contractural obligation by the more vocal here - as such, publishing it would be an act of insanity by Frontier.
Since i'm tired of the constant debates as to what Frontier Devs have and haven't promised can we just cut the B.S and get a Dev map?
Would be nice if frontier announced their long-term plan for E. They're committed to expansions and wings is coming but beyond that we're sort of left ignorant here. Would be nice to here a clear and explicit plan on whats going to be added in and how they're going to attempt to do it.