Too little too late. Why ED failed.

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Gypsy12 said:
I know its a bit of a statement, But this here game is doomed.


Why? What is ol' Gyp peeved with now?


Well, id better get it done before the flame cannons kick in. I have always loved Elite, and played it on the model B. I knew some basic BASIC and Machine Code. And I was well impressed with what DB and IB achieved. Man, that was a beautifully written piece of software.


And then DB had 20 years to think about it. Ill stop now on that topic, and express what DB realized:
1: I just made a RNGish Galaxy of 400 billion suns. How do I fill it up?
2: What network model do I use? Ah, server based.
3: Whoops, now I need to fill this 400 billion star system up myself, as everything is now server side. I love my intellectual property and that's that.
4: Control is everything, even though the kind folks kickstartered me.
5: Do I need help with this? NO!

How it is in reality - and what I would have done, and what I would do now:

1: First off, fess up. How am I going to do this: I just made 400 bil Systems, and I have to have some quality control.
2: I will have to concentrate on the bubble (remember the limited bubble during Alpha?) This means I will have to introduce VERY different factions of mankind (Perhaps digital vs analog or other sentient races with wildly varied ship and culture designs)
3: I will make a trading system that makes sense. That means I have to build a server that specifically tracks the market realistically. So, I need to pay for that. With 100,000 players, im gonna need a petabyte server. Or more.
4: That is going to cost too much to maintain.
5: Just give up and redesign the entire system as P to P. Offload the data.
6: Give Universities the code to enable them to introduce new objects. So you need a way of editing placement. Its so stupid that FD model a realistic simulation of our galaxy and WE DONT GET TO REFINE IT. YOU ARE A GAME COMPANY BUT ARE DEALING WITH ADVANCED TOPICS THAT CAN REFINE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE GALAXY. Are you stupid to the financial benefits or what? Its about time FD realise that. It is just insensible. Do the people who program ED actually realize what they are doing? It's amazing stuff, and it is being wasted.
Utterly wasted and this is my core concern with the way FD behaves. You could have a serious responsibility, but you shun it.

It's a shame.

Gyp out.
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I think this wins the award for the most nonsensical "ED IS DOOMED!" thread I've ever seen.

At least it was a good laugh.
 

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There are a couple of problems with modding.

Firstly, I'm sure that many people would create many awesome mod's that would be amazing additions to the game but you're also going to get people who create "mod's" which, say, allow you to complete a mission to deliver 1t of biowaste to a station 1ls away and pays a billion credits or, perhaps, put a crashed sidey on a planet surface which can provide all the mat's and data.

Secondly, and related to the previous point, is the shared universe.
You could, possibly, create specific modes which allow mod's but then you're just going to get people doing sketchy things in those modes and then bringing their new toys into Open with them.
After all, a player might give themselves a gazillion credits and mat's with a mod' but if they then use those credits to buy ships and upgrade modules, you're going to struggle to find a way to keep those things out of every other mode.

I guess it might be possible to allow mod's and then lock a player into whatever mode allows them but I'm not sure it'd be a good thing to fragment the player-base like that.
 
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