The awesome Dr Kay Ross is moving on from Elite & Frontier onto a stage of their life :)

[optiplex]

Dr. Kay Ross i wish you all the best in your future endeavours and thank you for your awesome work on elite dangerous.

 

[Gwyther]

You really were!

Sorry, it was late and I must be losing the plot.

 

[Valorin]

Good luck to whatever comes next for you, Kay! You'll sure be missed!
I'm sure you trained your minions well to take over galaxy creation on their own.

I mean, I heard of a guy who did this for 6 days and needed a whole day of rest after that. You're at it for 8 years now!

See you in the black CMDR Dr. Ross!

 

[Cohen the Worrior]

Good luck with all your future endeavors Dr. Kay Ross.
But this is bad news for the game guys.

 

[alexzk]

...please make full back up of stella forge like "last working day of dr. Kay" :/ so later can rollback to this.

 

[Arthur Spooner]

I won't lie, I'm sad to see her go. To me the knowledge and passion she brought, gave heart and soul to the game as a whole.

I wish her all the best for wherever she is going. Thank you!

 

[Terry Daniels]

I hope that we once get the oppertunity to walk in our own settlements we have built on planets, as well as to walk and completing missions in ships, in shipwreaks, in ships which have been disabled, on asteroids and so on.

Up from Update 10 perhaps?

Temper your expectations commander. Most of what you're asking for, if even in the thinking about it stages, would be a new paid for DLC, so 2 to 3 years away (after Odyssey is 'fixed') - at Fdevs current pace.

 

[Pigletslastand]

Temper your expectations commander. Most of what you're asking for, if even in the thinking about it stages, would be a new paid for DLC, so 2 to 3 years away (after Odyssey is 'fixed') - at Fdevs current pace.

Yes Temper those expectations.. Only been tempering them since about 2015.. temper temper temper. I've given up hope they can get it done this decade.

 

[Slange Lands]

Bethesda, Chris Roberts and other space game devs should be showering Dr. Ross with roses, Chanel and Lamborghinis right now. What an incredible dev.

The stellar forge is magnificent and should be part of every space game.

 

[Pigletslastand]

Bethesda, Chris Roberts and other space game devs should be showering Dr. Ross with roses, Chanel and Lamborghinis right now. What an incredible dev.

The stellar forge is magnificent and should be part of every space game.

Showering in Lamborghinis sounds like a death sentence!

 

[Slange Lands]

Showering in Lamborghinis sounds like a death sentence!

keys then

 

[Cohen the Worrior]

Showering in Lamborghinis sounds like a death sentence!

It's the idea that counts.

 

[Deleted member 182079]

keys then

Keying Lambos, while probably quite satisfying, isn't nice either...

 

[Fizzatron]

...and then there is this.

By "cluelessness", however, I meant that he seems to be unaware that the Stella Forge wouldn't exist without Dr Kay Ross. Both the Stella Forge and Dr Kay Ross are unique to the (existing!) game world and cannot simply be replaced. Have fun watching the fruits of future newcomers who get to tinker with the heart of the game.

I'm sure she put a major stamp on it but lets not forget that Frontier Elite II on the Amiga already did the galaxy sim thing, albeit with a few less polygons. BTW; did anyone check out whether the heightmaps were up to par in that game?

 

[Codger]

Does this count as a canyon? It gets really narrow in places.

PS: Good luck wherever you go, Dr. Kay. You will be missed.

 

[Fizzatron]

Bethesda, Chris Roberts and other space game devs should be showering Dr. Ross with roses, Chanel and Lamborghinis right now. What an incredible dev.

The stellar forge is magnificent and should be part of every space game.

She's extremely smart, which may mean that she is leaving game development behind completely.

 

[Dextio]

Bummer, but not altogether unexpected. I wish Dr. Kay nothing but the best on the next stage of her career.

 

[Mrc_NorthEast]

Thank you Dr. Kay Ross for everything you did. Good Luck with whatever is next for you.

 

[Commander Biscuit]

Interesting timing considering the trouble FD are having getting planet gen right.

Hear Hear.. I don't know who we could ever get to match that.

A game developer.

 

[here_it_comes]

Does this count as a canyon? It gets really narrow in places.

I guess? Nothing I'd go planetside to explore. This screenie really demonstrates the EDO heightmap terrain.