State of the Game

Oztig · Jun 30, 2021

Morning - I've got the day of today. Looking forward to the dev post / diary / update / thingy.

I've got my flouncing trousers on, so I can flounce off and sulk when it isn't exactly what I've imagined it should be - Ive set my expectations on Full atmospheric planets, ship interiors and being able to run it on my 486 DX250. I thought these were reasonable expectations to set.

Anything less than this, and I may then quit this thread for at least 5 minutes, before coming back to moan about stuff.

All I can say is if they get this wrong, then they are a bunch of dizzards and ninnyhammers, and would leave me totally bamboozled as to what they are up to!

Rubbernuke · Jun 30, 2021

Oztig said:
Morning - I've got the day of today. Looking forward to the dev post / diary / update / thingy.

I've got my flouncing trousers on, so I can flounce off and sulk when it isn't exactly what I've imagined it should be - Ive set my expectations on Full atmospheric planets, ship interiors and being able to run it on my 486 DX250. I thought these were reasonable expectations to set.

Anything less than this, and I may then quit this thread for at least 5 minutes, before coming back to moan about stuff.

All I can say is if they get this wrong, then they are a bunch of dizzards and ninnyhammers, and would leave me totally bamboozled as to what they are up to!

Halloween Harry has better jetpack than Odyssey

Winterwalker · Jun 30, 2021

TODAY IS MAKE OR BREAK

this thread will either reach 1000 posts today, or it won't but if it doesn't .. it's objectively bad game design!

ULITE · Jun 30, 2021

Oztig said:
486 DX250.

Did you mean 486DX2-50?

ULITE · Jun 30, 2021

Winterwalker said:
TODAY IS MAKE OR BREAK

this thread will either reach 1000 posts today, or it won't but if it doesn't .. it's objectively bad game design!

Everything will be fine

Jmanis · Jun 30, 2021

Winterwalker said:
TODAY IS MAKE OR BREAK

this thread will either reach 1000 posts today, or it won't but if it doesn't .. it's objectively bad game design!

1000 posts or pages?

Winterwalker · Jun 30, 2021

Jmanis said:
1000 posts or pages?

Yes

WhiteShadow · Jun 30, 2021

DerHug said:
"..it is still Frontiers biggest game and has been the last year's. just look at the forums... there is threads a few weeks old with 1000 pages... No one in his right mind would cancel an active game like this."

Hur Hur... I think we got a mention there!!!

Valorin · Jun 30, 2021

Rubbernuke said:
I made a pact with my wife that I'd deal with poo, sick and wee while she deals with the emotions and teen phases.

I got a good deal there.

Yeah... had a similar pact as well with my son's mother, but not about the emotional and teen stuff. That part I can do fine.
It was more about the things that require a lot of patience.

Rubbernuke · Jun 30, 2021

Valorin said:
Yeah... had a similar pact as well with my son's mother, but not about the emotional and teen stuff. That part I can do fine.
It was more about the things that require a lot of patience.

Girl teen stuff and I'm going to retreat to the toilet, lock the door and read a paper.

Girl issues are scary

Rubbernuke · Jun 30, 2021

ULITE said:
Did you mean 486DX2-50?

Highest I ever saw was a DX4 100, which was on par with a Pentium 60.

Winterwalker · Jun 30, 2021

WhiteShadow said:
Hur Hur... I think we got a mention there!!!

Obviously the cream always floats to the top in the end.

<insert pic of cat lapping cream contentedly>

ULITE · Jun 30, 2021

Valorin said:
That part I can do fine.

Famous last words. There's no easy way to deal with a teenager, sometimes I want to eat my kids ... like lions do when their kids get on their nerves. My son laughed at me once when I mentioned it, until I poured ketchup on his arm

Oztig · Jun 30, 2021

Rubbernuke said:
Highest I ever saw was a DX4 100, which was on par with a Pentium 60.

Ah - but did it have a turbo button.
You could make things crash twice as quick with that turned on.

VR Lucian Arkright · Jun 30, 2021

Rubbernuke said:
Highest I ever saw was a DX4 100, which was on par with a Pentium 60.

My second PC that I built was a 486 DX2 66, and I still rated it better than the DX4 100 I upgraded to at some point.

The Cyrix 6x86 166 (or whatever clockspeed it was I built after the 486) was awful. "Performance is the equivalent of a Pentium..." my Arx...

Rubbernuke · Jun 30, 2021

VR Lucian Arkright said:
My second PC that I built was a 486 DX2 66, and I still rated it better than the DX4 100 I upgraded to at some point.

The Cyrix 6x86 166 (or whatever clockspeed it was I built after the 486) was awful. "Performance is the equivalent of a Pentium..." my Arx...

I had a Cyrix

They were quite slow in comparison to Pentiums.

VR Lucian Arkright · Jun 30, 2021

Oztig said:
Ah - but did it have a turbo button.
You could make things crash twice as quick with that turned on.

Fun Fact - IIRC, The Turbo Button was intended to slow down the processor for older programmes that developed their timings based on the processor clock speed rather than the RTC, so would run too fast on a higher speed processor.

Fishy · Jun 30, 2021

Oztig said:
Morning - I've got the day of today. Looking forward to the dev post / diary / update / thingy.

I've got my flouncing trousers on, so I can flounce off and sulk when it isn't exactly what I've imagined it should be - Ive set my expectations on Full atmospheric planets, ship interiors and being able to run it on my 486 DX250. I thought these were reasonable expectations to set.

Anything less than this, and I may then quit this thread for at least 5 minutes, before coming back to moan about stuff.

All I can say is if they get this wrong, then they are a bunch of dizzards and ninnyhammers, and would leave me totally bamboozled as to what they are up to!

Right, ok on that feature list, but it better also add fully moddable offline mode. It's not like there's much effort involved either. They just add Elite Dangerous: Dedicated Server as a separate download in Steam, together with their admin tools, and I can do the rest.

The Nephilim · Jun 30, 2021

Rubbernuke said:
I had a Cyrix They were quite slow in comparison to Pentiums.

It was pretty much Quake that killed off Cyrix from a home perspective. One of my mates had one, whilst I had a 133mhz desktop. His processor was meant to be faster but mine slaughtered his.

VR Lucian Arkright · Jun 30, 2021

Rubbernuke said:
I had a Cyrix They were quite slow in comparison to Pentiums.

The Nephilim said:
It was pretty much Quake that killed off Cyrix from a home perspective. One of my mates had one, whilst I had a 133mhz desktop. His processor was meant to be faster but mine slaughtered his.

Yep, awful chips! I was quite fond of the Athlon K6/K6-2s, and stuck with AMD for the Athlon 1400+