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I wonder how many people remember the second verse. They had to redact it
I've never met anyone who can make it to the end of the first verse
I'm Irish, so I've got an excuse
Robert Maynard
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I wonder how many people remember the second verse. They had to redact it
Indeed they did.... <grrrrrr>
I wonder how many people remember the second verse. They had to redact it
Wonder how many hit Google (or Bing) after reading this exchange
S.O.G. Mk3 : Making people educate themselves.
Wonder how many hit Google (or Bing) after reading this exchange
S.O.G. Mk3 : Making people educate themselves.
"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught"
Winston Churchill
I see. Can you give us an ETA on how many years you will complain about the lack of offline mode for then? Are we talking months or years?
Well, both games are being made by Brits.... so the best space games to ever be made are both coming from Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk
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Is upstanding for the national anthem.
One of the most torturous things about living in LA was the huge nuclear fireball frying the land every day. Now that I've moved back East, I thoroughly enjoy a nice English/Irish day - gray & drizzling.
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I must object to this categorization - Hawai'ian vegetables (with pineapple) are delicious!
I don't know why, but in Rebirth the devs decided to have the player stuck to a single, upgradeable ship. Well, the player can purchase other ships, but can't directly control them.
It's not a bad game (now after the many fixes), nor a bad design per see, but when one of the main features of a series is allowing the players to pilot dozens of different ships that change is indeed a very bad idea. It would be akin to Frontier trying to pass a 3-lives bullet hell shooter as the true successor of Elite; even if it was the best game of its genre, it would still rile up fans.
I heartedly agree with this post. I almost did the same, but then I researched the game, kept up on the news and decided (on the basis of solo/online) to purchase.
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Being a Pict myself, all you fluffy poms get the raspberry
See, it's been too long between mergers - a good merger always brings us back on topic once we've wondered off.
Currently everyone here has said their bit... nothing to talk about until new folks turn up with "new ideas", that have been talked about for 3 years
And it's a holiday, it's all hallows eve. where we tell our children to forget all those safety talks and actually go and talk to strangers, ask for sweeties from them and see how they get on.
So grab a Twix, Mars or Marathon (Snickers can kiss my ...), turn up that national anthem and laugh at how ridiculous it is it
Happy Holiday
oh, 1 more thing....
BOO !
The two answers that matter, IMHO, are:
- Because Frontier wants Solo players to influence those things.
- Because, since they promised it from the start, removing the ability of Solo players to influence those things would cause issues with players that bought the game based on those promises.
(See, for example, the Dev Diary Video #2, at the 4:10 mark. Which is linked from Jockey79's Wall of Information.)
The rest is speculation on our part about what motivated Frontier. Both designs have positive and negative points, though they do attract different kinds of player; allowing Solo players to influence all aspects of the game makes it more apt to attract both Solo players and those that value their independence, while restricting it to Open makes the game better at attracting the players that either want others to be forced to play with them or that value interdependence. This, in turn, makes it specially troublesome to change the design after sale has started, as it would make the game inadequate for the player base it has already attracted.
Games that have "a SP game with PP" are fairly common, actually. Plenty of solo games out there where you can join a faction and strengthen it, or work against a specific faction to weaken it, while being given a choice of multiple factions to work for or against.
Besides, if Open players can influence what I see when I'm Solo, I should be able to equally influence what they see in Open through Solo gameplay.
Not anything special, really. It's basically a popularity contest where you can only vote by playing, which is the common design when you want the community to dictate the direction of the game without having to fit all those players in a single instance. And, if the game allows PvP but isn't PvP-focused, when you want the whole of the player base to influence it instead of restricting the choice to just the PvPers.
That would be the offline, DRM-free mode Frontier discarded roughly a month before launch.
I would love it, mind; it's what I actually purchased the game for. But, as long as I can't have my own little galaxy no one else is allowed to influence, as long as I'm forced to share the same galaxy with everyone else, then I want to be able to fully influence said galaxy without ever needing to meet anyone.
oh, 1 more thing....
BOO !
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See, it's been too long between mergers - a good merger always brings us back on topic once we've wondered off.
Currently everyone here has said their bit... nothing to talk about until new folks turn up with "new ideas", that have been talked about for 3 years
And it's a holiday, it's all hallows eve. where we tell our children to forget all those safety talks and actually go and talk to strangers, ask for sweeties from them and see how they get on.
So grab a Twix, Mars or Marathon (Snickers can kiss my ...), turn up that national anthem and laugh at how ridiculous it is it
Happy Holiday
oh, 1 more thing....
BOO !
I really should steer clear of you, you make me think & post bad things (sometimes)
I mean intergalactic blackmail, where did that come from, I never even played that other game, I surprise myself sometimes.
Anyway OT, maybe we should start another thread to keep this one tidy and the mods happy, you mentioned a support group for the quiet times, maybe a better idea would be to call it "The Lecturers rest room". Most of the regulars in here have to repeat the same info month after month to new
I really should steer clear of you, you make me think & post bad things (sometimes)
Hey, don't blame me because you have no will power
The depths of my psyche are optional, a free DLC if you like - I didn't force you to partake, just because we have sweeties, naked bodies and beer - you don't have to join in
This is not a bad idea.....
While part of me wants to name an "off topic" thread for this one: S.O.G Support Group, I do have other names knocking about the depths of my mind.
Be afraid, very very afraid
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This whole thread is like a bad copy of Frankenstein.
Someone always comes up with a reason to cut somebody else out of the game. I say we should take all the parts that have been cut off and make a new monster.
Open should be ditched! Everyone should be forced to pick a group to play in, agreeing to the terms of that group. Then the community can arbitrarily enforce behaviour. And once that person has alienated him or herself from every group by being selfishly obnoxious, they can go play solo.
Someone always comes up with a reason to cut somebody else out of the game. I say we should take all the parts that have been cut off and make a new monster.
Open should be ditched! Everyone should be forced to pick a group to play in, agreeing to the terms of that group. Then the community can arbitrarily enforce behaviour. And once that person has alienated him or herself from every group by being selfishly obnoxious, they can go play solo.
HEY!
I pushed that idea for ages in mega 2.... How dare you support me, without telling me you are supporting me. You should support me by quoting my posts in order to show you are in fact supporting me.
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^^
that hurt my brain
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