News Ship naming and Name Plates – how it will work
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Yeah sorry, I've given them enough money already.
Excellent news Ed!
For those users that don't wish to see ship names will there also be the option to turn them off?
Yes and no.
Yes because you have a game and your right is to play it, and no, because this is an online game, and everyone know a maintenance and development are costs and game is without monthly fee, and thankfully to God and David, there is no pay2win.
If we want play, then we just need to buy something, even if we do not really need it. That's how it work.
More money = better game.
Our vote is our wallet. Thankfully to ED sales model all money we put in game is optional. Its is very fair in my opinion.
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It's nice to know when the community threatens you with their wallets that you hastily respond, Frontier (not directed at Ed).
This "clarification" is the right decision... as it turns out, my wallet will now feel more liberal in your store in the near future.
Let this be a lesson to your marketing team - don't treat us like cows.
I could argue that more money from cosmetics= more focus on cosmetics and less focus on gameplay. But yeah whatever.
Great news- not that I was expecting anything less. A bunch of people must/should feel pretty silly now.
I have no fear for them, they'll find plenty of fingers to hide behind.
That's a really quick - and welcome - 180 there, especially since it was only just in last night's live stream that you stated that to see the ship's name on scan, we'd need to buy the name plate first.
Thanks for the change of heart and for the clarification. 3 designs for £2 to be used across all ships is reasonable. And it makes complete sense to divorce the scan data from the livery.
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Boy do I have a great idea for you for those name plates!
See, every time you kill NPC it could drop very rare item: ship name letter! Just like they drop now rare materials.
Next we introduce into the game new engineer. This engineer would create name plate by combining the letters you've gathered in random order (number of letters used is also random), creating the random name plate!
If you are dissatisfied with the end result - gather more letters and try again!
All in true spirit of engineering in Elite!
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Addition by Nazgutek
New Engineer can only do eight letter plates when you meet him, and require ranking up to do nine, ten, eleven and finally twelve letter names.
Also, the position on the ship should also random. And the colour of the letters.
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Addition by fennster
Some letters should only be found on planet surfaces!
See, every time you kill NPC it could drop very rare item: ship name letter! Just like they drop now rare materials.
Next we introduce into the game new engineer. This engineer would create name plate by combining the letters you've gathered in random order (number of letters used is also random), creating the random name plate!
If you are dissatisfied with the end result - gather more letters and try again!
All in true spirit of engineering in Elite!
Edit 1:
Addition by Nazgutek
New Engineer can only do eight letter plates when you meet him, and require ranking up to do nine, ten, eleven and finally twelve letter names.
Also, the position on the ship should also random. And the colour of the letters.
Edit 2:
Addition by fennster
Some letters should only be found on planet surfaces!
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Great news- not that I was expecting anything less. A bunch of people must/should feel pretty silly now.
I have no fear for them, they'll find plenty of fingers to hide behind.
A bunch of people made a load of noise and Frontier provided an answer that everyone is happy with. While there's no direct causal chain, I don't think any of them feel silly now.
Good to finally have some clarity on the matter. £2 It is then... At least now I don't have to sell one of my kidneys if any of the name plates look worth purchasing!
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Thank you very much for that Ed!
Marketing team? You really don't pay attention.
I am amazed at how quickly this community have been jumping on things recently. Throughout the entire process it has always been said that others could see your ship name (unless it was deemed obscene), then last night during answering over 120 questions Sandro said something that conflicted with previous information.
So what happens? Do people wait for things to be discussed the next working day? No, they fly off the handle as though the sky was falling in and the world was about to explode. All the people in this thread saying that this "change" was the right decision have completely missed the point it wasn't a change. They weren't caving to the community, it was a slip on a livestream by a developer who had taken his own time to engage with us.
You all seriously need to take a long hard look at yourselves, because the attitude over the last few months is getting ridiculous!
Marketing team? You really don't pay attention.
I am amazed at how quickly this community have been jumping on things recently. Throughout the entire process it has always been said that others could see your ship name (unless it was deemed obscene), then last night during answering over 120 questions Sandro said something that conflicted with previous information.
So what happens? Do people wait for things to be discussed the next working day? No, they fly off the handle as though the sky was falling in and the world was about to explode. All the people in this thread saying that this "change" was the right decision have completely missed the point it wasn't a change. They weren't caving to the community, it was a slip on a livestream by a developer who had taken his own time to engage with us.
You all seriously need to take a long hard look at yourselves, because the attitude over the last few months is getting ridiculous!