will elite dangerous ever become open source?
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Sorry, my time machine is still out of service. I tried to book a repair but it's a long time until there's an opening...
No.
I think its very unlikely, as its built on the FDev's proprietary game engine (Cobra), and I don't see them making that open source any time soon.
No chance.
this game ,lets go back in time u have an amiga 500,its difficult to figure at start once in ,ur hooked,its unreal,even a book 90 pages understand maybe more lol,change keyboard by hitting f1 keys,diffrenet functions apply buttons now,i think the game play was amazing ,these wake scanners elite dangerous dont compare,id be witing my target to appear and have and autopilot function whilst looking 3rd view zone ,lol
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FDev seem to struggle with ir, and they've been developing it for 10 years. I wouldn't wish this codebase on my worst enemy.
Could you imagine what kind of electronic nightmare exists with the code in this game? I'd expect trying to alter anything resulting in us being sucked into a Tron like hellscape where Rubbernuke has taken over and is making us all do powerplay.
It uses some AWS specific cloud services, so running a local server wouldn't be possible without some rework. Even then (and despite what people think regarding the use of P2P) it would require some major cash to offer an open experience that enables any number of players to have "twitch gameplay" instances anywhere in the galaxy goverened by edservers. You'd probably have to keep the numbers quite small somehow...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJPyjmfdz0&t=468s
I'm guessing it says you have a crap purple hat....?
Oh come on dude, there's a time and a place to bring up such nightmarish ideas. Imagine racing against Rubbernuke on one of those bikes, where he's trying to stab bits off of you, to grill on his sidecar that happens to have a firepit in it.
You're really pushing the limits of the watershed. And my sanity. Which is saying a lot.
Well, I only said powerplay, so I did try to keep it pre-watershed. Although I do expect the reality of what would happen if he got control would make Cthulu blush.
CMDR Thrust from Bradford reports some spaghetti issues with v26.1.7 of the code on GitHub 2. Mostly due to weird patch jobs on the water reflection shaders used for the Moray Starboard hull.
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