Waiting for Distant Worlds 2...

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Ziggy Stardust said:
See Frontier? It's that simple. You give us exploration toolage, the exploration community will give you exposure by going on some massive expedition. Because explorers are awesome that way.

Contrast with combat features. You give them combat multicrew, the combat community will give you an earful how it's unfair they make less money than being in a wing.

You decide :)
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Prophetic words Ziggy [up].

I can tell you we already have some great ideas in mind for DWE2 now that it's happening. Stuff that needs FDs input. We'll be pitching ideas to them over the course of next year to see if they'll help us out in making DWE2 something far more than another sightseeing and endurance trip. :)
 

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
Erimus said:
Prophetic words Ziggy [up].

I can tell you we already have some great ideas in mind for DWE2 now that it's happening. Stuff that needs FDs input. We'll be pitching ideas to them over the course of next year to see if they'll help us out in making DWE2 something far more than another sightseeing and endurance trip. :)
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Sweet!

Maybe we could witness a beige planet explode. You know. To give closure. Just make up some scifi reason like an unstable planetary core that was interfered with by the Thargoids or something.
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
Ziggy Stardust said:
Sweet!

Maybe we could witness a beige planet explode. You know. To give closure. Just make up some scifi reason like an unstable planetary core that was interfered with by the Thargoids or something.
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It needed to be sacrificed to the one true God (whichever that may be) to allow colours to explode into the galaxy!

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Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
Zeeman said:
It needed to be sacrificed to the one true God (whichever that may be)
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All hail his fryness!
 

marx

marx
Erimus said:
I can tell you we already have some great ideas in mind for DWE2 now that it's happening. Stuff that needs FDs input. We'll be pitching ideas to them over the course of next year to see if they'll help us out in making DWE2 something far more than another sightseeing and endurance trip. :)
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No offense, but I hope that Frontier won't add anything exclusively for any player expedition. I would suggest a flight operations megaship though, since those are already implemented (for player groups too), and having one go through the galaxy would be great. But when it comes to implementing new stuff, I think it should be done for everyone. For the devs, adding specific content for one expedition would be risky, because if you do it for one expedition, others will want it for theirs as well - and then where do you draw the line?

More importantly, relying on an outside party (even if it's FD) to give meaning to an expedition is risky as well, because they might not wish, or be able to, fulfill your wishes. Better to work with what you have, or are going to have, than what you wish you had.
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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marx said:
No offense, but I hope that Frontier won't add anything exclusively for any player expedition. I would suggest a flight operations megaship though, since those are already implemented (for player groups too), and having one go through the galaxy would be great. But when it comes to implementing new stuff, I think it should be done for everyone. For the devs, adding specific content for one expedition would be risky, because if you do it for one expedition, others will want it for theirs as well - and then where do you draw the line?

More importantly, relying on an outside party (even if it's FD) to give meaning to an expedition is risky as well, because they might not wish, or be able to, fulfill your wishes. Better to work with what you have, or are going to have, than what you wish you had.
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I wholeheartedly agree with this: we need to be going out there to discover whatever (new?) treasures the galaxy has to offer, not have them placed in our path exclusively for our benefit.
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I do worry that it is far too soon to start planning objectives as we have no idea of what new mechanics and functionality will be provided to find anything or change how we go about exploring. To plan objectives, destinations and an itinerary now seems to be getting ahead of ourselves - DWE2 might as well launch tomorrow if we're only considering what is already there. If we're going to wait until after the Q4 Beyond update, then we need to be utilising whatever functionality, mechanics and content it has - which we might not find out until a few weeks before it is due to be released, as even FD will not be able to guarantee what will be in it until then.
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The expedition has already hit its first hurdle, I feel: expectation management. Having been announced perhaps well over a year in advance, people are wanting to become involved but because of the above issues, there is not too much that actually needs doing right now. The greatest need is for patience - it could be another year before the expedition even has a goal, never mind a specific destination or itinerary.
 

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
marx said:
No offense, but I hope that Frontier won't add anything exclusively for any player expedition.
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Edelgard von Rhein said:
I wholeheartedly agree with this: we need to be going out there to discover whatever (new?) treasures the galaxy has to offer, not have them placed in our path exclusively for our benefit.
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In terms of content, sure. But since we already have some confirmed FD employees taking part, they could organise events making use of content available for all.

Even something as simple as a live stream in landmark locations could be nice.
 
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