Nope, still crashing every 2 to 5 minutes.
Server's have gotten unstable again within the past few hours from what I noticed. Patcher is working fine for me, however I'm aware of the problem with copying accounts.
The ship launching is interesting; If a lot of people turn up at the same time will you have to queue up to launch your ship (or have a big ruck)?
There's 10 landing pads in 2.0, but only two of them can support a connie or tali, so if more than two of them are spawned, you gotta wait for them to leave the pad. The terminal will tell you if there's no pads available.
303i, just wanted to say thanks for the informative replies.
On a side note, have they now opened the PTU to all? I just got an invite. Considering I've been on probation for the past month I doubt I'm high on the list of people they like to hear from
I'm actually too busy preparing for Horizons (rl means I have to choose playtime "wisely") to download the PTU, so I'm not going to bite, but I do appreciate the feedback from those who do.
15,000 people got invites today. Basically, you're a lucky one.
Oh man... Now I remember reading this one, thought I misread it but it seems not. I think it's one of their cheapest excuses: mostly any 3d engine, even the "mainstream ones" like Unity can express any position, rotation, scale in local as well as in world space. Mostly any can bind any object (cameras included) together through a parent/child relationship. It's the basics. Period.
What next? "CIG reveals its new never seen before rotational technology: quaternions. World willnever be the same.Emotions never were so close tfidelity"?
From June's report:
In June, Frankfurt Engineering deployed to the main codebase some major items that were planned for this month. As mentioned in the last monthly report, the Large World (moving the codebase to 64 bit coordinates), Camera Relative (rendering coordinates relative to the camera thus allowing galaxy size rendering without loss of precision)
I don't think they mean what you think they mean. They're talking about CryEngine's native way of rendering, where it check's the camera's XYZ co-ords from the center of the map + rotation, and then renders the viewpoint based on that. At very large distances/numbers, that kind of rendering would lose precision. Instead they changed it so the camera is always considered the "center" and everything is rendered relative to distance from the camera, rather than the distance from the center of the map.
Kerbal Space Program did something similar to overcome jittering issues AFAIK:
One solution the Kerbal Space Program uses is to centralise the camera at the origin, and rotate the world around it
EDIT:
Yeah no. I know people with more than $1k in the game and they didn't get an invite. Same with people with low citizen numbers. Within the subreddit chat, only of a handful of us got one. I seriously doubt anyone asked CS for a refund cuz they couldn't play 2.0 for a few days. You might as well not bother alpha testing if you're gonna be like that.
With an instance cap of 24 players, I doubt there's going to be a huge problem
2.0 instance cap is similar to ArcCorp, so around 30-40 players max.
It was .
A guy in my guild got an invite and he's only ever played AC once ~6 months ago for maybe 20-30 minutes.
He hadn't even had SC installed and had even forgotten he had pledged for it since the SC emails went into his trash bin.
He found out he was invited after I mentioned it and he went looking for an SC email.
He was in the initial 1000 invited.
Did he actually get an email, or did he check his account on the website? For around a 1-hour period there was a glitch where the PTU button lit up for everyone, so people got access without an invite. Amusingly, I have seen people get invited that don't even own game packages, but spent a lot of time in free flight weeks.
