Avago Earo
Banned
It was sent via gravity. Did we not learn anything from "Intersteller"?
Now, less dissecting and more playing please.
Yeah get off the Forums and fire up the Quatro!
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Yeah get off the Forums and fire up the Quatro!
*sigh* real-life traders. Not gamers.
Welcome to Elite wonderland, Alice!Instant galaxy wide data transfer, stations broadcasting system wide, galnet instantly updating in fringe systems - OK!
System wide chat - OMG BREAKS MUH IMMERSHUN WORSE THAN HITLER
Sometimes, it's rather bizarre what people find troubling in a fictional video game.
There comes a time when you have to remind players complaining about "immersion" that they aren't piloting a ship across the galaxy - they are sitting in desk chairs from Office Depot... and this is that time.
There comes a time when you have to remind players complaining about "immersion" that they aren't piloting a ship across the galaxy - they are sitting in desk chairs from Office Depot... and this is that time.
Avago Earo
Banned
No proper reason. Just wanted to say something. At this rate I might actually go off and play the game
Like truckers?
... I give up. Look the word up in a dictionary.
I just dont know of any real-life trading happening that allows you to pick up tons of something and then drive across the country to some random shop and instantly being able to sell everything for profit.... just doesnt happen. lol
Cradle2Grave
Banned
Erm... it's not a realistic simulation of space travel/communication anyway so, ya know.
Derp... I don't care about the transfering part - was talking about trade data and not someone's 18-wheeler.
you're right though, if i'm buying resources cheaply i'm not going to want the competition knowing where i'm getting it from, it would drive my prices up and lose me money. trade secrets - the lifeblood of commerce.
We already have the ability to use quantum entanglement to transmit 'information' over distance in 2014 ... it's not unreasonable to think that a distress signal could be transmitted using entanglement, but that 'complex' information cannot, even in 3300
Like stock market trade data? I guess.... but you can look all that up on the internet as it is constantly updated. Or like, if someone had inside info on a company about to go bankrupt and they pull their money out before hand so they dont lose it, which is illegal.
Sure it can be done... But In 3300 It is still not possible communicate and to see the market prices of one station while at another? <--- This is where the whole trading thing breaks down. I have lots of station market data recorded but it constantly changes so by the time I finish a route it could have changed. Even back in the 20's we had news papers that told marked prices all over the country now we have internet and I can see the price of anything in the world. But in the years 3300 and beyond I can't see the market data for the station in the next system. Talk about unrealistic communications. That is soooo beyond realistic you have to throw any type of realism for ED out the window. Even the flight model isn't realistic. Everything in the flight model can work realistically but as soon as you dumb down the yaw and the thrusters to flip the ship. The whole flight model is now unrealistic. So FD should definitely change the advertised premis of the game as there really isn't anything realistic in it. Oh yeah 400B stars in the right place. Ohh that's lots of fun.
It's not the same as premium (paid) stock data which is updated without delay (unlike internet which gives snapshots and not down to 1-second accurate data of the "right now").
It was sent via gravity. Did we not learn anything from "Intersteller"?
Now, less dissecting and more playing please.
But that's the over all problem with ED. If the game had something to do in it and was more fun. Then no one would be in the forums accept to ask questions and get help. And before you say anything ask yourself why your in forums and not playing lol. If you are at work that's acceptable. If your in game and tabing out that is not because your obviously bored in game and not doing something waiting on rares to pop or something that takes ridiculously long for no reason at all.
