Split the game worlds permanently

[Ettanin]

Considering the current issues and the rather mid-term deadline, I suggest splitting EDH and EDO into different games rather than forcibly merging both games together, because the apparent issues (Performance, Planetary Generation, BGS balance) are unlikely to all be fixed before fall this year. This game is damaged beyond any repair and before history repeats itself (as what happened when Horizons was introduced) it's better to keep it separate forever.

Elite Dangerous: Horizons should become Elite Dangerous: Classic (or Old School Elite Dangerous or Elite: 3307)
It should no longer receive any feature updates, only balance updates and bugfixes.

Separate game world states
Everything, including Background Simulation, Community Goals, Planetary Generation, Fleet Carriers, Markets, Factions, Powerplay should be kept separately from Odyssey.

Current commanders should become cloned to both game worlds.
Once the game worlds are split, they will be cloned between both games and kept separately.
New commanders only exist in one of the two game worlds. Players who own Odyssey after the split however can create a new commander in the other game world.

 

[LKx]

This won't happen (i mean besides the early access).
It'd be development and servers management hell.

 

[Para Handy]

No ... def no ... absolutely no ... BUT:

Don't merge the Oddy graphics etc into Horizons when the console release comes - please make sure performance won't stop any current Horizons players from playing without buying a new rare as rocking-horse-poo graphics card.

 

[LKx]

No ... def no ... absolutely no ... BUT:

Don't merge the Oddy graphics etc into Horizons when the console release comes - please make sure performance won't stop any current Horizons players from playing without buying a new rare as rocking-horse-poo graphics card.

That's not possible, they'll have to "merge" eventually, because the new planet tech change the morfology of planets, so to keep them separate they should keep separate also the servers like now.
In addition there won't be any actual merge/update of the horizons client, it will just be an odyssey client with horizons limitations

 

[Ettanin]

This won't happen (i mean besides the early access).
It'd be development and servers management hell.

Jagex does this, ActivisionBlizzard does this. It's perfectly possible.

 

[Para Handy]

....... keep separate also the servers like now.
.........

My point being that they should maintain it like that until they can guarantee the game will work on the min spec that they sold Horizons on. Otherwise it will be like the Mac debacle where a whole set of the playerbase was ejected.