So you're saying that the atmosphere will be miles wide and an inch deep?
"Tenuous atmospheres." Poor choice of words?
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Yeah, maybe.
But commercial decisions are also necessary sometimes. I don't have a problem with Frontier earning money with Elite, I mean, they are a company and didn't charge us for 5 years straight apart from optional cosmetics. Frontier earning means Frontier continues developing. I'm okay with that!
Very nice examples. Not at all defined by a dictionary as a synonym, but y'know what any of those suggestions would have been better than what they went for. There is a certain approach that most companies take when choosing the wording. Avoiding "down words" as far as possible. Maybe it's because I worked in PR for many years. My only point is "tenuous" is an eyesore and they should have simply called them thin atmospheres.
Exactly. They have a reputation and tenuous is a word they need to avoid
A thin atmosphere is a lot fatter than a tenuous one. Using thin would imply things that tenuous does not, thin makes promises they are likely avoiding by using the more accurate scientific term of tenuous.
VR support isn't even tenuous.
Not a bad suggestion. I wonder if they are going to indicate the atmospheres density in game. Would be good to know exactly what kind of atmosphere you're dealing with before going exploring
Well, sure, but people have been saying "we should have atmospheric landings by now, like FFE had in 1995" for years, and "coloured skybox" is the only thing FFE landings had that Elite Dangerous landings don't, so do they need more than that?
I guess it does if you use every other word except the one they use, all of which have subtly different meanings.
I note suck isn't on the list of similies
One might be so bold as to suggest that the little line seen here around the earth might constitute a tenuous atmosphere. As opposed to that in a gas giant.
You wouldn't want to be walking around in heavy atmosphere....
That's the sort of thing you find in the comments section on youtube, or over in a conversation on Reddit.
Need I remind you?
No you don't, you just need to understand who adjectives work.
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"Not at launch." Sounds pretty tenuous to me.
Tenuous has two potential meanings in this case - literal tenuous atmospheres in a scientific sense, which can mean anything from a current Horizons potato with some mist, up to and beyond real life Mars. The other is expectation setting off the cuff use of tenuous, in a single interview.
Either way, there's no negative connotation or 'down' to the word. No more than thin. In fact I keep posting this image because this is not a particularly thin atmosphere but it's almost certainly a tenuous one:
Either way, there's no negative connotation or 'down' to the word. No more than thin. In fact I keep posting this image because this is not a particularly thin atmosphere but it's almost certainly a tenuous one:
Would you use the word tenuous to describe something good and positive? If your relationship with your wife is tenuous, would you describe that as a positive or negative thing? If your grip on reality is tenuous, is that a good thing? I've worked in PR for many years and no company should ever describe any product or service they render as "tenuous". Just because a word does technically describe something, it doesn't mean it's the best word for the job.
To me "tenuous atmosphere" means:
-no weather (no clouds, no rains, no storms)
-bare haze (no fog)
-no water (no seas, no rivers, no lakes)
-no flora and no fauna (just some new type of localized pumpkin and braintree)
-just colored skies
Which is not tooooo bad, still a progress, but after 6 years they could've done much more than this....
Thanks! I'll save this for later!
IMO Tenuous sounds a better way to describe something than using all those synonyms. The synonyms just make things complicated.
For better or worse, the vagueness of tenuous makes for some interesting theories as to what surprises await in the upcoming update. There's no surprise if they say, for example "rubbish atmosphere planets with yellow and pink skies".