SC uses mass relay / eve online style jump gates i go from system to system...so can always add more
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SC uses mass relay / eve online style jump gates i go from system to system...so can always add more
There's this cool thing called playing the game. There are larger ships that can make that journey, HULL Cargo haulers for example but might require help from others with a Starfarer for example. SC doesn't do Elite style singular person can pilot huge navy vessel and do anything kinda game design. I don't think you entirely know what you're talking about.
Should a small fighter be able to traverse the cosmos without any help? The Liberator, a carrier, is specifically built for this case.
Well yeah, but then they'll have to hitch a ride on someone with a dedicated exploration vessel. If they want to travel far, that is.
I don't get this comparison. Yeah they can, SC can too. If either will is another question. In Elite we've seen that in the 6 years after Horizons came out they managed to plop a sky shader onto planets, and some static plant models.
People who wanted a "space sim" (as sold initially) loved it, barring the usual CiG-style bugs. YOU didnt love it because you cant pilot. The beauty of it is, SC has multi role ships for that purpose exactly: you could go around the whole game not seating in a pilot seat ever. Go have fun with your FPS and such, while pilots do what they know.
It's not. There's zero skill. Atmo re-entry is also a bore fest compared to what it should be.
In the 7 years I've been here, I've never once felt the urge to shove anyone on the ignore list...as much as there's been a few likely candidates, none of them have had my finger hovering over that mouse button quite as often. Sleut has perhaps come the closest... in the earlier years... but as ever, he always redeemed himself a couple of posts later making me hit that like button and feel guilty for thinking of it
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In the 7 years I've been here, I've never once felt the urge to shove someone on the ignore list...as much as there's been a few likely candidates, none of them have had my finger hovering over that mouse button quite as often
Have an aversion to logic?
Manually creating 100 systems to the level you assume would take as long as it would to actually explore the systems in a real spaceship. It won't happen. Really. It will never ever happen.
You can't really think it will ever happen? When you think about it?
So real star catalogue names and classification based names are "stupid"?
Crazy! What do your reindeer think of this?
Rudolf's nose ain't so red.
Better, cool. Bespoke... not necessarily cool. That leads to walled gardens.
I'd still much rather own my hardware. I started my career when mainframes were still a thing. I don't want to go back to that sort of tech.
And yes, i'd rather have the full laptop please, rather than a cheap device that connects to some hardware god knows where and is useless when there are connection issues.
I think he has an aversion to alternate realities
In our current universe, CiG have produced exactly one (1) star system in 10 years, and the second one while being advertised for about 5 years is still nowhere to see. That's because they are hand crafting every planet and moon down to blades of grass.A strange aversion to off topic idiocy mainly...but I digress
Genuine question, do you not think it would be better to be able to manually pilot the ship around the system? This isn't a gotcha from a hater, I just wonder if it wouldn't be better if SC included the ability (if not necessity) to manually pilot, loop around planets, see the orbit lines etc as in supercruise in Elite. I think it's one of the things I never really tire of doing, the freedom to pilot around the star and planets.
Is that planned, or is it to stay as jump from point to point?
I suspect something like it was planned initially...since the QT jumping mechanic was very different in the earlier years of the PU, it was more of a point and shoot system where you could create and jump to any free point in local space you wished to. The fixed QT and OM points around planets and stations were added fairly late on...as much as I can't recall what patch it was, certainly after 3.1 or 3.2. The old QT mechanic was almost akin to lo-waking in ED...kinda
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You seem to forget about the biggest factor slowing the project down. Chris "Fidelity" Roberts.
Maybe it is quick to get stuff done normally. But CIG have not been quick delivering. So, if your statement is correct, why does it take so long for them to make locations? Were they not working on Orison for over a year? I think one of the devs said something like that. One planet with one station... over a year?
Chris is always there, telling people about his vision, and sending stuff back for rework. We've seen this said both through official channels and unofficial ones.
So, based on your example, it might be 2 weeks to get that polish, then meeting with Chris, and then sent back for a complete rework, then present it again, then get told they still don't have it right, and around and around it goes, and something that should take a couple of weeks might take months.
I don't think supercruise is "better", it's just different. Yes, would be cool to be able to zip around planets in SC and take pretty screenshots from all angles, but the core of SC gameplay is built around these "lanes". For example, piracy, interdiction, all of these utilize this lane system. ED's supercruise is better for freedom, but imo SC's quantum travel allows for better coordinated gameplay, for example, knowing some trade convoy is going to jump from this planet to a jump gate, and being able to pull them out midway.
You dont need to follow them endlessly in lightspeed, just clever positioning and timing is needed. Beside, Blind jumps into nothingness were in the game at some point, i'm not sure if they'll re add this. But the progress tracker does show a task for "Quantum Travel Experience" which might change some things.
Fundamentally, SC is going to stay jump from point to point. Due to the downscaling of planets and the sublight speeds Ships travel at, you can manually zip around planets aswell. This is one thing I dont like about ED. The whole supercruise thing going multiples of the speed of light kind of kills the sense of scale. Planets are huge, but zipping around them like it's nothing makes them seem like marbles.
It doesn't use anything. Jumps to other systems don't exist yet.
It works!
Probably you have not flown around planet in ED at supercruise. (Hint, ship does not go anywhere near speed of light in deep gravity well...)
Just a reminder, the last time he had a credit on a game was in 1996.
EDIT: Also at 10 seconds, an engineer who starts to buckle under the pressure when he has more than 3 or 4 engineers working for him. LOL, seems appropriate.
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