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General Will the Elite Dangerous Universe become free?
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Take a trip to Hutton Orbital in Alpha Centauri, then you'll realise just how poorly your idea will be received...
Trouble with that is, as I understand it, is that the hyperjump loading screen is to allow the next system instance to load. Not that a truly seamless universe isn’t an admirable vision!
never going to happen lol, you're essentially asking Fdev to rework one of the most fundamental parts of the game to make it more like another game you play.
I'm always slightly confused when people say that because its totally devoid of meaning like its real world origin.
Elite in this case didn't stop being great because we have a loading screen between systems its all we've ever had since the game when gold.
If you're supercruising between two systems, then they could probably do that load seamlessly when you cross the 55% point between the two, in most cases. They'd have several minutes longer than the current transition, after all... (55% so if you immediately turn around it doesn't then instantly reload the other one, leading to silly consequences if you stop just on the line)
There are some cases in the core where two systems are close enough that the primary of one could be within the orbit of a distant secondary star of another, which would make it trickier, though.
The thing this sort of seamless flight would lose is that currently, hyperjump fuel is proportional to (depending on drive class) somewhere between the square and the cube of the distance - with seamless, it could only be linear, so the distinction between economic and fastest routing would go. (Admittedly, it's not a very important distinction, with modern jump ranges)
Space Engine is not a game, it is a pure simulation, so this starts out with an Apples and Oranges comparison. All you do in SE is travel, you don't interact the same way.
Elite Dangerous is not a single user environment, so you are now requiring that the game maintain an instance of the ENTIRE galaxy and have the continuously updated information of every player logged in at all times.
Effectively, you want the game to be able to maintain a 400 Billion star system in memory in real time with every subordinate object in those systems, meaning all of the generated solars, BGS elements, NPCs, PCs and their various munitions, defenses and velocities.
I doubt your internet connection can handle it, and even more so, that your computer won't cook itself trying.
Imagine the laughs though if you could get hit by a stray rail gun slug fired from the other side of the Bubble last week
Imagine the laughs though if you could get hit by a stray rail gun slug fired from the other side of the Bubble last week
Hear hear!
Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a
The odds of that would be... astronomical!Imagine the laughs though if you could get hit by a stray rail gun slug fired from the other side of the Bubble last week
No...... no you won't. Not in this game.
Increasing the odds one rail gun slug at the time!
It is a signifier for being suggestible and NTB.
In Elite V maybe, another 20 years down the line.
I don't quite get this Mr Rump - why is the game suddenly rubbish because of the 15s wait between systems? I'm genuinely interested in what you mean.
Well, this feature exist already in the galaxy map only.
That 15s is just the right amount of time to check my phone to see if my latest hilarious forum posting has enough ‘likes’.
Not that I want to start a whole ED vs SC thread debate but I think Elite Dangerous has shown why instancing is the way forward. I've played Dual Universe and Star Citizen both try to be seemless but those games are years from working. Maybe we just don't have the tech and power for seemless giant universes. Elite doesn't feel compress or small by any means.
