At this point I d rather believe that CIG has a "hater database" running on their servers so people like you autimatically get the rough end of the shaft while true believers never have a problem
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At this point I d rather believe that CIG has a "hater database" running on their servers so people like you autimatically get the rough end of the shaft while true believers never have a problem
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Hey, is that green guy Ford Prefect?
Ha, even I've tried out mining to check out the new UI, visit the langrange clouds and used the refinery.
The new mining UI is much better than the old one.
Just like it was before when you wanted to sell mining stuff.
You go the refinery screen and choose a ship from a drop down that has mined materials on it. The stuff just magically moves from the ship to the refinery.
Same after it is refined. You pick a ship from a drop down that has cargo space that you put the refined materials into.
Thanks for answering. I have to say that's a little... disappointing to say the least.
Were you expecting to purchase a shovel?
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It's a masterpiece in failed game design. I often blasted FD for punishing gameplay but that is more nikckel and diming.
Arresting players and holding player assets hostage is way worse. What's the point playing such nonsense? That's maybe good for a live enactment once or twice - not for gameplay that lives from easy accessibilty and repetable loops.
Incredible. And the Zyl0 is again full of it.
It's a masterpiece in failed game design. I often blasted FD for punishing gameplay but that is more nikckel and diming.
Arresting players and holding player assets hostage is way worse. What's the point playing such nonsense? That's maybe good for a live enactment once or twice - not for gameplay that lives from easy accessibilty and repetable loops.
Incredible. And the Zyl0 is again full of it.
It's worse than that: it would be a horribly stupid idea for a live game, but at least there it could be tied into some turgid mobile-game style monetisation and actually serve some semblance of purpose (for CI¬G, and for absolutely no-one else). But this is a pre-alpha. It is already idiotic that a testing environment does not leave everything open to… you know… testing without limitations, or alternatively with very specific limitations as to exactly what asset or mechanic needs to be tested during this cycle (with clear schedules of what stuff will be available when). But to do what they're doing here — implementing features to actively limit and suppress gameplay — is so damaging to, and so counter to the whole point of, having a testing environment that the whole thing is just crippled beyond the brink of complete pointlessness.
The whole thing is rendered completely useless for any and all of development purposes by CI¬G's greed, and they haven't even gotten to the part where they bilk their customers for everything they're worth yet!
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Just remember CIG are very good at wait times... the new Squadron 42 roadmap springs to mind, along with about a thousand other things.
I don't think the waiting time is inherently a bad idea. If anything, it could be a net positive for immersion and the whole "consequences" thing. However, that depends on two things:
1) Accepting that you are actively denying your players to focus on a single thing (ex: planetside 2 with the nanites required to get a tank/aircraft, and if you lose it quickly, well, you may not have enough for another immediately, so off to infantry you go). You really want to think that one over because it's fairly negative.
2) Having enough alternative gameplay loops taking over during that waiting time, and well, they're pretty short here right now.
I sort of agree with the person who posted that it made no sense to implement now and should only be added later, but am not sure it's quite as simple. The alpha/pre-alpha/whatever-you-call-it is the game, and will be the game for the long foreseeable future. The longer it lasts, the more comfortable the playerbase grows, and the more hostile it will be whenever you try to introduce such a change down the line. So in a way, taking the pain/unrest now is not a bad decision, provided that they thought it through. To go back to planetside, the limit ensures battles can not degenerate into all tanks all the time, and ensures a constant high supply of infantry players which is critical to what the game aims for. I'm not quite sure what the point is here to tell the player that he'll wait 3h for his Carrack. The player clearly doesn't benefit from it, so it has to be the greater game benefiting from it, but how?
1) Accepting that you are actively denying your players to focus on a single thing (ex: planetside 2 with the nanites required to get a tank/aircraft, and if you lose it quickly, well, you may not have enough for another immediately, so off to infantry you go). You really want to think that one over because it's fairly negative.
2) Having enough alternative gameplay loops taking over during that waiting time, and well, they're pretty short here right now.
I sort of agree with the person who posted that it made no sense to implement now and should only be added later, but am not sure it's quite as simple. The alpha/pre-alpha/whatever-you-call-it is the game, and will be the game for the long foreseeable future. The longer it lasts, the more comfortable the playerbase grows, and the more hostile it will be whenever you try to introduce such a change down the line. So in a way, taking the pain/unrest now is not a bad decision, provided that they thought it through. To go back to planetside, the limit ensures battles can not degenerate into all tanks all the time, and ensures a constant high supply of infantry players which is critical to what the game aims for. I'm not quite sure what the point is here to tell the player that he'll wait 3h for his Carrack. The player clearly doesn't benefit from it, so it has to be the greater game benefiting from it, but how?
Ahah, you forgot Sataball....or hostile Vanduul alien NPCs dancing the Tango with you since CitizenCon 2014?
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZi66uoQAI
And HTH did the aliens let that human NPC chick just waltz right in there and take their ship? Where are the aliens?
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6hXjxQ0_lk
And the universe. Seriously. What happened to that vast universe they showed off at CitizenCon 2015 at 54:55?
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IehITxsK4Fs
No alien Fauna? Or those terrifyingly fugly, endogenous space milk secreting space cows?
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYgrQmZLgs0
or Xenolinguistics? Is anyone on this Xenophillic panel still working on this job at CI?
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAM5GE3QGPY
Have they released the Battlefield mode that was in alpha last year?
It was more like 'in concept' last year, due early 2020.
It had a much-maligned run in evocati, middle of 2020, then disappeared again.
It is yet to reach pre-alpha status...
They did fix an issue where fire extinguishers were killing people though. That was something.
Gave me a giggle
So, the by the time of the heat death of the univerise i reckon is arbitrary enough.
Complete entropy is statistically uniform, which makes it the exact opposite of arbitrary.