Well good thing your not developing the game.....
As I welcome the new the new mode to try things out and progress the game.
No, for a very simple reason:
You do see the pattern "joints" at some specific coordinates though. But not everything is procgen and most human made assets are manually placed... Which takes an infinite amout of time obviously, and fills up both their famous pipelines and our computer RAM...
Don't agree with you on the testing process since it's not dissimilar from the playtest process used by other developers, FDev being one of them...but then again, you're not involved with the project at any level and merely surmising in order to reinforce your own entirely negative viewpoint. You state the common misconception that the PTU process, including evocati is associated with the dollar level of backing. It's not...since you can be invited into evocati as a base level $50 backer.
...But still not as pretty as the sun coming up outside my house just before 0900 this morning...days are getting longer once again, it won't get dark until at least 1500
OT: My humble pic is not well focused and resolution sucks but I too had to stop and capture this evening view of the north of Madrid skies
We have TVWS broadband up here in the frozen north since we don't have a subsea cable. TV White Space tech was developed with Microsoft to utilise the high bandwidth, low latency analogue frequencies used by the old TV system...now unused since TV services switched over to digital. It's not superfast broadband by any means at an average of 16Mbps down and 8Mbps up...but it costs the same as a standard landline average bandwidth broadband service... compared to satellite broadband which is hugely expensive at consumer level and dogged by high latency.
I think Unst has a subsea cable with fibre optic...quite a few of the western isles have. Unfortunately for us up here...we only have a population of around 300 on this island so it's not really commercially viable for BT or even the electricity board to lay a cable...we have our own generating sub station on the island too.
Speaking of common misconceptions.
Kinda crap...although they've never been good to start with. A full game crash, thankfully rare these days, just dumps a crash reporting tool on your desktop to fill in and send off. The problem at the moment is server stability...constant drops every couple of hours or so. Not as bad as it was when they chucked 3.8 out of the door way too early, but still irritating. The IC is already full of reports so pointless adding to the backlog accumulated over the holidays. The amount of serious bugs in 3.8 is ridiculous...it should never have been released from PTU until the fighting season had finished and Ci¬G got back to work...but, release schedules seem to be more important than working builds or actual content these daysSpeaking of common misconceptions.
You'll note that I didn't actually equate Evocati with backer level (although I'll admit that the wording is perhaps less clear there), only that Evocati isn't really set up in a way that benefits testing in any way, but rather as a way to placate the backers.
Speaking of which… what are SC's integrated crash reporting tools like these days?
Very nice post and makes me want to install SC again (am trying to to until it's closer to finished,)Aye...may be just that...but to put a bit of perspective on it, all those SC fans don't have to rely on a fan made imaginary atmospheric world demo using the Unreal engine to fly around in since the demo they're currently playing already has them...they can even land, mine rocks in ships or on foot, drive about, do missions, deliver and pick up cargo, walk around a bit to stretch their legs whilst standing next to hot geysers or fumeroles, visit caves and cities, do a bit of shopping on them and pick some weird alien fruit off the bushes too...hell, on one of the planets in the demo they can even park their ships, climb out, wander over to sit under the trees and look up at the orbital station in the sky they just flew down from in real time whilst talking to the turtle they rescued from one of the cities on a whole other planet.
As awesome as the Unreal engine demo appears, and props to the fan that made it...the current tech demo of SC, besides all it's somewhat dodgy physics, bugs and foibles, is still a tad more substantial than shoving a non working rendered cockpit graphic onto a free fly to make it look like you're flying a ship...just sayin'
I'd love for atmospheric worlds to be in Elite...always been a dream....but until that happens, I'll just have to suffer through Star Citizen...
But you can test weapons and vehicles balance there, and it wont have less player since player cap is 50 already. It perfectly simulates battle scale though, a ground battle would probably take place in a certain areas radius. So would you feel better about the testing if CIG said that you just all spawn in the same place but you the whole galaxy is out there and you arent confined so you can get along with the ground battle.
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