Every player spawns at the star when they jump in ED. It's kinda a chokepoint, too.
What's the Brand New Feature for ED in 2024?
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Concord doesn't protect players in high sec. It provides consequences to people committing crime in high sec. CCP explicitly made this distinction in response to people claiming high sec suicide ganking was an exploit.
Fleet logistics capitals also allow for arbitrary point-to-point connections between arbitrary systems, circumventing gates. Any player with an alt (common practice) can do this.
Players can't claim low sec. You might be short-circuiting terminology despite mentioning the 4 security classes before, but there's:
- High Sec (0.5->1.0) - NPC controlled, players can set up but have no control
- Low Sec (0.1->0.4) - NPC controlled, players can set up but have no control
- NPC Nullsec (0.0 -> -1.0) - NPC controlled, players can set up but have no control
- Uncontrolled Nullsec (0.0 -> -1.0) - Uncontrolled, players can establish sovereignity and have territorial conflicts
- Wormhole space (0.0 -> -1.0) - Uncontrolled, players can set up but have no control
So, ability to "control" space outside of highsec is much less than "high sec or bust". But again, it matters.... otherwise you end up in Fox News Mass Effect territory
The same effect could be accomplished if only the galmap opened with the same orientation as the ship. The view in galmap would then be the same as the cockpit view. I'm not sure why FD didn't do this to start with.
Fdev will add a brand-new feature to the core gameplay of ED. The tentative release date is end of 2024.
What could it be? Such as:
1. Delayed
2. Grind
3. Convoluted
4. Disappointing
5. Counter intuitive
6. Not what we expected
7. Broken
8. Half baked
9. All of the above
What could it be? Such as:
1. Delayed
2. Grind
3. Convoluted
4. Disappointing
5. Counter intuitive
6. Not what we expected
7. Broken
8. Half baked
9. All of the above
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Too little too late, I heard that a Mr Roberts just raised nearly $1 billion after excitedly talking about releasing such vivid real-world bureaucratic banality into his next Alpha build but with Digital Pen support for enforcing hand-written forms in black ink only and harnessing the latest RTX Nvidia AI chips to simulate not only petty syntax error-checking but also dynamic, high-level systematic corruption thus unlocking the tax avoidance and laundering skill branches.
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The unnamed feature will probably be fairly modest. Features needing a fair bit of development like base building or ship interiors would probably be tied to an expansion.
It's probably a new mission type, maybe similar in scope to when core cracking was introduced. Perhaps Odyssey focused to try and reinvigorate sales in the expansion.
I'm dreaming of derelict megaships (or fleet carriers) with procedural interiors using existing Odyssey assets, but that sounds like a fairly big feature. Oh well.
It's probably a new mission type, maybe similar in scope to when core cracking was introduced. Perhaps Odyssey focused to try and reinvigorate sales in the expansion.
I'm dreaming of derelict megaships (or fleet carriers) with procedural interiors using existing Odyssey assets, but that sounds like a fairly big feature. Oh well.
TheThe trick is to buy a plot where someone else has already done all the planning and permits and given up before actually building anything. Then you can fast-track it through the local council and architectural bureau. The hardest part would be finding a contractor who doesn't screw things up too much and getting through all the audits and final paperworks.
Sorry, misunderstood, my bad.
I'm hoping that it's some sort of replacement for PMF applications. They did state that they want to investigate something more meaningful when they announced pmf applications departure.
It would be nice to finally discover the fabled planet Zirconia.
That's presumably where they're going with Powerplay 2.0 - I wouldn't expect it to be a direct replacement for PMFs (or even necessarily interact with the Political BGS much at all), but that didn't feel like the direction they were indicating with that announcement either.
Obviously "meaningful" will be very subject to taste and player opinions vary substantially on whether (other) players should be able to make noticeable changes to the game world.
Obviously a lot of 'ifs' at this point, but I had similar thoughts when I read Bruce's post back in the day.
IF base building is part of that new feature, maybe those buildings/bases can/will be owned by groups like squadrons or similar. That could be a more appealing feature for people who would otherwise have tried to get a PMF to leave a stamp on the galaxy. There's enough room for everybody. Bonus points for Frontier if they strictly exclude inhabited systems and other famous or important locations. That would keep quarrels over location to a minimum.
And it would also tick the colonization checkbox. That's way cooler than cluttering the bubble anyway.
edit: Bruce's quote, for completeness' sake.
IF base building is part of that new feature, maybe those buildings/bases can/will be owned by groups like squadrons or similar. That could be a more appealing feature for people who would otherwise have tried to get a PMF to leave a stamp on the galaxy. There's enough room for everybody. Bonus points for Frontier if they strictly exclude inhabited systems and other famous or important locations. That would keep quarrels over location to a minimum.
And it would also tick the colonization checkbox. That's way cooler than cluttering the bubble anyway.
edit: Bruce's quote, for completeness' sake.
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Possibly, but I don't think PP even in its new form (what ever that maybe) will ever be personal enough to replace the old PMF process. I might be wrong and we might be able to create factions within powerplay, but that's just more wild speculation. Eitherway, it has to be personal for me and I'd say, many others too.
Had an idea while observing, why not have the ability to board capital ships, like the ones that appear in conflict zones. Would quite enjoy sneaking onto them to do missions and cleaning them 
I mean have you seen the state of federal stations. I know I know they can't help it there only feds but standards guys. At least boarding an imperial ship you know it would be pristine, organised and well layed out plus you wouldn't catch anything 
I mean have you seen the state of federal stations. I know I know they can't help it there only feds but standards guys. At least boarding an imperial ship you know it would be pristine, organised and well layed out plus you wouldn't catch anything Are Frontier cynical enough to start a rumour about a new feature when even they don't yet know what it will be, and then see where our speculation goes?
If so, I'll add my vote for base-building, in the hope that I can set up a tritium-refinery base thousands of lightyears from the Bubble and sell to passing Carriers. Or have an attractive seafront property on an ELW oneday (maybe both, if the ELW has an icy ring).
I'd certainly be prepared to pay for an expansion if what's offered is appealing enough, so that might give Frontier the fiancial incentive to develop it.
If so, I'll add my vote for base-building, in the hope that I can set up a tritium-refinery base thousands of lightyears from the Bubble and sell to passing Carriers. Or have an attractive seafront property on an ELW oneday (maybe both, if the ELW has an icy ring).
I'd certainly be prepared to pay for an expansion if what's offered is appealing enough, so that might give Frontier the fiancial incentive to develop it.
I keep trying to tell people this, but some reply to me with "BUT BUT BUT, someone datamined it from a memory leak so it must be true".