Except it seems spacelegs is now become a whisper, nothing tangible anymore if Sandro is to be believed.
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No because as you seem to be unable to remember or read stuff posted here, instant would have broken the game
Underused or waste of programming time features
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Except it seems spacelegs is now become a whisper, nothing tangible anymore if Sandro is to be believed.
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No because as you seem to be unable to remember or read stuff posted here, instant would have broken the game
Indeed for ED spacelegs only this scene comes to mind....
[video=youtube;jEblfSKCXM0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEblfSKCXM0[/video]
As someone who was vehemently opposed to instant ship transfer I think this is as good a time as any to say ...
I was wrong and Sandy was right.
There, I said it (and I feel sooo much better).
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I'd like to weigh in here...
I think that really none of us has enough insight as to what is a waste of programming time as we don't really have the information of the internal workings of Frontier Development. I think we have to remember that first and foremost it's a business that needs to make money because, well their employees like to eat too. Whether or not you approve or like the new features is of course a matter of opinion, but I don't think we should critique Frontier so much for what it can do. I'm sure they have a plan for the future long ahead of what players can even imagine.
I think Frontier knows what it can push out with its current budget and programmers in order to maximize player base and therefore profit. Also, is Frontier a publicly traded company? Because then you have to factor investors and promised release dates. Deadlines are a b&$ch!
I think that really none of us has enough insight as to what is a waste of programming time as we don't really have the information of the internal workings of Frontier Development. I think we have to remember that first and foremost it's a business that needs to make money because, well their employees like to eat too. Whether or not you approve or like the new features is of course a matter of opinion, but I don't think we should critique Frontier so much for what it can do. I'm sure they have a plan for the future long ahead of what players can even imagine.
I think Frontier knows what it can push out with its current budget and programmers in order to maximize player base and therefore profit. Also, is Frontier a publicly traded company? Because then you have to factor investors and promised release dates. Deadlines are a b&$ch!
Uh huh.
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Every feature is a step up the ladder to the next feature or a feature down the road.
I won't deny Powerplay is a feature I don't touch.
however, it's a patch and extension to the background sim allowing players to interact directly with the "politics" of the powers, without being able to 'mess up' the direct story 'hand' of frontier and how they want it to progress.
It gave faces, names, to many of the intrigues of the galaxy, and was the first step to fleshing out the bare-bones starfield simulator with an excel spreadsheet at the end of the journey which was Elite 1.0
CG's allow for a "poll" to ask gamers how to develop some story elements.
CQC battle tested the fighters and added more environments to the main game, making 2.2. ship quicker.
Passengers may feel lack-lustre, and as one youtuber said, how can a text file and gui take so long to develop, it's not like they are creating the interior of these cabins.....which if you know anything about how ED is put together, is exactly what they were fussing over. THEY HAVE BEEN DESIGNING THE INTERIOR TO THE PASSENGER CABINS. Just looking at the store icon gives you a rough idea.
Again, if you look at the proposed "features" of the finished product (in years to come), you have to start stubbing out those interactions in advance, working the exact in and outs, before you flesh them out with the walking around, gaphics, networking and interacting.
Heck some of the passenger "interaction" from the upcoming 3.x when walking around was already stubbed out in the 2.1 comms panels and "NPC" faces.
NPC's fighters stubs out 2.3 Multi-crew AND 3.x multicrew when you can physically walk onboard a ship (sneaked in or invited). The 2.3 HOLO-ME allowed telepresence to make up for the shortfals of 3.x versions of actually meeting up transfer commanders physically.
I won't deny Powerplay is a feature I don't touch.
however, it's a patch and extension to the background sim allowing players to interact directly with the "politics" of the powers, without being able to 'mess up' the direct story 'hand' of frontier and how they want it to progress.
It gave faces, names, to many of the intrigues of the galaxy, and was the first step to fleshing out the bare-bones starfield simulator with an excel spreadsheet at the end of the journey which was Elite 1.0
CG's allow for a "poll" to ask gamers how to develop some story elements.
CQC battle tested the fighters and added more environments to the main game, making 2.2. ship quicker.
Passengers may feel lack-lustre, and as one youtuber said, how can a text file and gui take so long to develop, it's not like they are creating the interior of these cabins.....which if you know anything about how ED is put together, is exactly what they were fussing over. THEY HAVE BEEN DESIGNING THE INTERIOR TO THE PASSENGER CABINS. Just looking at the store icon gives you a rough idea.
Again, if you look at the proposed "features" of the finished product (in years to come), you have to start stubbing out those interactions in advance, working the exact in and outs, before you flesh them out with the walking around, gaphics, networking and interacting.
Heck some of the passenger "interaction" from the upcoming 3.x when walking around was already stubbed out in the 2.1 comms panels and "NPC" faces.
NPC's fighters stubs out 2.3 Multi-crew AND 3.x multicrew when you can physically walk onboard a ship (sneaked in or invited). The 2.3 HOLO-ME allowed telepresence to make up for the shortfals of 3.x versions of actually meeting up transfer commanders physically.
Well I'm not surprised you don't get it and I'm not going to take the time to go over what everyone pointed out. Go back and read that thread if you want to understand.
Oh I understand I just find all your arguments against it pretty crap.
Any issues could've been balanced out if need be.
What are the arguments?
I would look for the posts against it but in all honest I want to go play a quick game of BF1 rather than trudge through this echo chamber.
Aah I see so when I call your bluff you can't even name them. So basically you have no clue why instant travel would break the game inseveral areas but worse than that is that you know the game so poorly, you can't even think of one. I bet you could if you put your mind to it.
And I am surprised that I see people in the forums that go crazy because two of 25 basic modules of the game are "not so well designed" or lets say "a waste of developer time". You are not dying, the world is not collapsing and the game is far from being "ruined". I also think CQC was a big mega-fail but I think the game has sold pretty well since then. There will (hopefully) be better times for us players, I have hopes for Season 3 and 2.4.
We will never know, because forum whining got it nerfed before it was even tried in Beta.
No we would have known exactly how the game would have been broken. Since DeVaStAtOr doesn't have a clue we can ignore anything he says as he doesn't know the game nor the reason why it would have been game breaking so over to you.
Why would it have broken the game?
Maybe you could elaborate on why this is?
making such a blanket statement without explaining why generally doesn't do your own view any credit because it can be seen as just not wanting a certain thing period, which really isn't how things work.