The Planetary landing and planetside missions discussion Thread
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Too right. Bugs pre PP not fixed, focus on PP... PP bugs not fixed, focus on Xbox... Planetary landings would be another step in this cycle.
FD are like kids with Lego at Xmas. They get all excited about a new creation and start to build something amazing. But before its finished their excitement has moved on, the previous project left unfinished and there seems little appetite to fix it. Does the company not employ anyone that is a completer/ finisher?
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No. No, we don't. We need bug fixes and background simulation. Then we talk.
I agree on these points:
1) it's a paid for expansion apparently, so to avoid someone all you have to do is enter the atmosphere.
2) frontier and FFE had them and tbh most used the stationsin system than landing on planets
3) the whole space side needs sorting out getting it all complete before you can decide where to go on planets. After all is imperial planets a different building style than federation etc? Will there be caves, flora and fauna. Everything has to be worked out first otherwise the whole forum will fill up with 'you forgot this lifeform' and 'this wouldn't scientifically be able to live there'
Let FDEV get the game to the state they want before adding landing on planets
Remember the military missions, where you had to nuke a planetary base? Hardly boring Liqua. Be fair.
their reasons is mainly legal ones i think.
its some,,,,,complicated stuff that always given me a headache when i tried to get my work into games.
basically everything that is not in-house developed usually (or always) got some upholder rights, and things can become really complicated if they want to make changes to it.
its why game modders like me usually gets hired by the game companies instead rather than just having our work licensed.
This "procedurally generated" mantra is getting a little tired.
At the moment we have a game with a milky way skybox, about 6 or so types of station, a bunch of spheres with different sizes and skins, a bunch of spaceships, and some missions. Now we have powerplay, a tacked on minigame. If procedural generation were at all feasible it'd already be incorporated to make this game feel more alive.
Planetary landings, if they come at all, will be like stations. A dozen or so differently skinned environments that are reused over and over. That will be the reality.
Planets were featureless blobs in FE2 and weren't much better in FFE.
Planetary landings would need some serious work if they were going to match up to the rest of the game in ED.
Landings need to have a point. One that goes beyond "Look at thing, possibly get money for looking at thing", like exploration works now. Unless they're able and willing to provide an incentive we really don't need such a feature before the base professions aren't fully hashed out and balanced income-wise.
oooh really?!
was it something he said on E3?
if its true then im really exited!
it would be amazing and possible one of the greatest game developing achievements in recent years
i need a source now!
edit: why does my emotes look like they got a sarcastic grin? they are supposed to be happy emotes,
edit2: fixed now
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The qoute thingy didn't work... Meant to quote the OP.
What we need is proceduraly genarated backstory.
This is IMHO what the game treuly lacks.
Im all for roleplaying... And i got my role, game mecanics to play out that role, but no backround/lore to get any kind of emotional connection between my role and the rest of the galaxy.(although some player groups do well creating there own)
What use would there be in landing on a planet when even a relitively small enviorment like a station doesn't have anything to do or any kind of culture to sniff up?
Lets wait with planetery ladings and first focus on getting us out of our ship and into a stations bar.
What we need is proceduraly genarated backstory.
This is IMHO what the game treuly lacks.
Im all for roleplaying... And i got my role, game mecanics to play out that role, but no backround/lore to get any kind of emotional connection between my role and the rest of the galaxy.(although some player groups do well creating there own)
What use would there be in landing on a planet when even a relitively small enviorment like a station doesn't have anything to do or any kind of culture to sniff up?
Lets wait with planetery ladings and first focus on getting us out of our ship and into a stations bar.
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Too right mate, rep given.
Source please?
Unhelpful, not constructive and rude. If you disagree with his opinion offer a reasoned counter argument rather than attacking him with sarcasm.
Never heard of this myself. Unless it's from a really old dev video where he might have suggested 2015 as a throw-away possibility for the release. AFAIK they have never specified anything other than a firm intention to do it, and it would be after the main game's release and the smaller updates to version 1.
