Alternatively, we fight our petty battles on the the forum and it's just background noise. It seems to me that Frontier have no faith in the forums for answers, that's why a hand picked group are invited in for discussions and revelations. The rest of us are told to just bide our time.
This is why I worry about the future of ED - it's FDev themselves
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Alternatively, we fight our petty battles on the the forum and it's just background noise. It seems to me that Frontier have no faith in the forums for answers, that's why a hand picked group are invited in for discussions and revelations. The rest of us are told to just bide our time.
Nah. Conspiracies are a normal and widespread part of human existence throughout all of human history. Denying their possibility offhand is just pure stupidity.
Wait you think this is a battle? Words aren't fighting. They are the opposite.
You might stick to the 2D one after checking it out (like I was with Holo-Me), but I would be the opposite and favour the 3D visual map as I perceive far more information from that at a single glance - plus, since maps are on a separate screen, time acceleration would totally be possible. That's not to diss the importance of the 2D map which gives a [redacted]load of extra information on planet / star info not accessible from an orrery.
If you're a holy defender it's ok but negative (against the game) nancies can't do it.
This! Yes please.
Keep reading that conversation, you'll like it even more.
That's going a bit too far, it is why the focused feedback threads have a suggestions only policy though IMO.
Over time people buy, leave or restart playing video games all perfectly usual. Every now and again there's an edge case who can't seem to move onto other games and hangs around resentfully. The longer the games going the more of them you collect and the more toxic things get.
Not to lower your enthusiasm, but.... NMS can be played entirely off-line. Elite not so much
As an example, I played all day Saturday at one of the current 'credit rushes', about 30% of it in 'open' as saw no-one. (Even I was surprised as 1. I wasn't ganked! and 2. I didn't realise I was in Open)
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I have to say though that you are much better at expressing this viewpoint than, shall we say, your less-eloquent/less-even-keeled contemporaries. And you still actually play afaik, so you have real(fake)world experience to back up your position.
The ones that mystify me are ones that haven't signed on in 2 years to the game and yet still hate on it like it killed their fish. It's genuinely puzzling why anyone would spend so much time on a recreational thing that they despise.
Not to lower your enthusiasm, but.... NMS can be played entirely off-line. Elite not so much
As an example, I played all day Saturday at one of the current 'credit rushes', about 30% of it in 'open' as saw no-one. (Even I was surprised as 1. I wasn't ganked! and 2. I didn't realise I was in Open)
The gankers are all coming after AX pilots these days.
Misery loves company.
Been away for a few days...came back to a thread of posts. This one made me spit my coffee everywhere
When working in small dev teams, each team working on their own project, it's simply not possible for everyone to know every last single answer to any question they are asked.
Rather than make up stuff, like CR does, the best thing to say to a customer is that you don't know but you'll find out for them. This happens week in, week out, in many industries. Personally it happens to me in almost every meeting I do with a customer.
Going and finding the correct answer was the most professional thing to do, hats off to them for doing this rather than saying "Don't know" and just sitting there twiddling their thumbs...it's not like they had a pre-set list of questions that they were handed 24hrs in advance.
This is exactly what I wanted to say but couldn't be bothered to make the effort for. Well said that commander!
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Been away for a few days...came back to a thread of posts. This one made me spit my coffee everywhere
When working in small dev teams, each team working on their own project, it's simply not possible for everyone to know every last single answer to any question they are asked.
Rather than make up stuff, like CR does, the best thing to say to a customer is that you don't know but you'll find out for them. This happens week in, week out, in many industries. Personally it happens to me in almost every meeting I do with a customer.
Going and finding the correct answer was the most professional thing to do, hats off to them for doing this rather than saying "Don't know" and just sitting there twiddling their thumbs...it's not like they had a pre-set list of questions that they were handed 24hrs in advance.
Please don't ruin Rafe Zetter's belief in Chris Roberts by highlighting that the 10ftc shows were pre-recorded, with pre-selected and researched questions.
As to Chris himself knowing his game inside and out...
[video=youtube_share;ZWq8ynUq7wM]https://youtu.be/ZWq8ynUq7wM[/video]
Okay I have to eat some humble pie now. IN the past I 'may' have alluded to the fact that I consider SC to be a tech demo. But after watching that video, I just can't say that anymore, as even the most basic demo is supposed to be playable and that was rather embarrassing to watch.
You didn't go back far enough. That's not the first thing he said in the thread. This is:
Which is the same thing as my interpretation, albeit with a veneer of polite suggestion painted over it.
A game where its players advise other players to go somewhere else for their fun is a dead game.
Shouldn't be that hard to figure out if you think on it a moment. I'm hoping that at SOME point my repeated messages, ones that I'm confident are shared by other players besides myself, will carry through to the decision-making table and make a difference - because I've enjoyed playing Elite, I want to enjoy it more, but the game itself is getting in the way thanks to what's been happening at that decision-making table.
This is nonsense. Any minute amount of forum browsing can prove this wrong. It occurs all the time, in many gaming communities throughout the web. And each and every time, pushing or pointing people away is the wrong thing to do.
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I see that as wrong. When something is not fun, it's time to improve it so that it is fun again. That's how change, innovation, and improvement occur, Bob. Nobody would be driving automobiles if everyone was happy to settle for going on foot every time their horse decides it's too tired to keep moving.
And when you say derogatory, disingenuous nonsense like this, it does not improve my personal estimation of you.
Which is fine, you're allowed to be not-bothered. Just as I'm allowed to point out that appears to me like having your head in the sand. We're both entitled to opinions, Bob. Note that I'm not telling you to take yours and place it elsewhere where it's more fun to voice it.
I don't know how you're completely missing everything about the 'ship transfer' debacle and why I brought it up to begin with. I don't know how to help you here. At no point did I question or complain about 'lore reasons' for ship transfer to exist; this has literally nothing to do with what I've said.
Polling the players =/= "they knew exactly what they were doing". Why would they feel the need to ask the players to be sure that it was a bad idea after all, if they knew what they were doing in the first place? And the fact that they removed polling immediately afterwards just reinforces the impression that they became aware of their own shortcomings there and decided, out of fear, to pre-empt the community forming collective opinions in the future from that point onwards, because *lord forbid* there be any biases or flaws in a poll - no way could anybody be trusted to read between the lines when it matters, noo-ooo...can't have it, toss it out!
And again, you seem to be completely ignorant of the fact that I VOTED AGAINST INSTANT SHIP TRANSFERS. I cannot state that any clearer for you Bob, and if you insist on continuing to act as though I've said the opposite, you *will* be earning the latest spot on my ignore list, as I will have run out of all patience and tolerance at that point.
p.s. Dismissing me as a 'minority opinion' with zero evidence to back it up does not serve as a valid argument.
Fun is subjective, and a lot of the demanded changes are dreadful ideas that should be dismissed out of hand like the BGS mode objections or open only.
The trick to gaming fun is know your own preferences, buy games that fit them, whilst recognizing when you've burned out on a game and moving on as soon as its not fun either temporarily or permanently. If you've properly burned out you wont miss it so its permanent.
Its not disingenuous or derogatory its exactly what I think and do about games and genuine advice.
"If you don't like it don't do it its optional" is not a controversial opinion.
I don't have a personal estimation of you this is a trivial video game discussion and it has no wider implications beyond that.
I like the game warts and all, my head isn't in the sand I'm just positive about it and happily overlook minor flaws.
It wasn't a debacle, they polled the players and introduced the most popular option. There's nothing wrong with that. Calling it a debacle just makes it sound like you disapprove hence my assumption you don't like transfers.
Same reason they allowed the 17 to see B4 I'd imagine.
Then why are you bothered ?. I've reread your other post and I'm no clearer what it is you are trying to say. Other than you don't like Pokémon and you call it a debacle.
About ignore lists, people rob themselves of the ability to answer to make a dramatic flourish in a post whilst I'm free to make any counterargument I wish as often as I wish. Then most of the time they forget they've said it and carry on talking to you anyway which is funny. In extreme cases (old duck) they theatrically put you on ignore six or seven times. Each time it gets funnier and carries less weight. Then you've got people who ignore you but carry on trying to talk to you from behind the ignore shield, which sort of misses the point and is again really funny.
You seem miffed about transfers for some unclear reason. Its reasonable to assume that's down to being on the losing side of the vote in the absence of a properly made argument beyond "debacle".
This is the bit I don't get.
I don't like Halo...hate it. Such a useless, rubbish, poor story lined game...GFX are ok.
Guess what...I don't play it...nor do I go onto MS's forum asking to make it better to suit myself.
I play 2-3 games my whole adult life...all the others I don't like, don't enjoy, can't be bothered with. I don't have enough hours in the day to whinge at gaming companies to make their games how I'd like them.