It's not just a matter of adding them, FD do scrutinise each of them in terms of name and lore. It's not like getting a guild HQ in an MMO, getting a PMF into the game is literally asking FD to canonise a piece of fanfiction. Trying to verify 300+ snippets of backstory for each PMF to prevent conflicts in the lore is no small task, one which doesn't even have any real in-game mechanics but instead is purely a flavour thing for players to read a little description.
Youtuber frustration with minor faction applications
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It's not just a matter of adding them, FD do scrutinise each of them in terms of name and lore. It's not like getting a guild HQ in an MMO, getting a PMF into the game is literally asking FD to canonise a piece of fanfiction. Trying to verify 300+ snippets of backstory for each PMF to prevent conflicts in the lore is no small task, one which doesn't even have any real in-game mechanics but instead is purely a flavour thing for players to read a little description.
Ummmm.... They have the most sway with any company and therefore their voice is the direction the game will follow. I guess don't watch them if you like surprises
Personally I think Frontier are probably aware of that.
Player minor factions were never really a thing. Its a minor factions clone, just like the multitudes of other copy and paste minor factions. It acts and behaves the same as anyother minor factions with the same government type. The only thing unique about them is the name.
Another check in the box for backer promises. I wish it was different.
Another check in the box for backer promises. I wish it was different.
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Nah man I feel it too. Personal progression is great. Wouldnt change much besides mission scaling for credits. And kill the money meta's.
But the multiplayer part of this game SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSS.
Squadrons is their chance though. Hope they kill every meme in the book.
im very very skeptic about that, just look at multi-crew or wing missions... they took handy fun idea but then made it impractically and not fun.
You have missed the point! Which is FD’s complete lack of communication!!!
It's not about the difficulty to create its a simple economic problem. Space mmo is a niche market those with the skills to do it well choose easier genre with higher success rates. Or at least this is the perception of many. I personally think there is substantial empirical evidence to support the argument that the market is much larger then estimated. The problem is that people don't often know what they want until they see it. You didn't know you wanted a smart phone until one was invented that you could afford that did the things you wanted it to.Maybe the lack of similar games (and the state of games that try to do the same) is a sign that it may not be that easy to do it.
A solid space mmo space Sim that will capture maximum market share will need to check a few boxes. It needs to have controls that are easy and intuitive. A true economy with proper wealth and asset generation and loss. And it needs to be fun to play. All of these goals have already been achieved by different developers but sadly no developer has solved them all successfully in a single game hense the high failure rate and perceived lack of demand.
If eve star citizen and elite had a few children together one of them would become the new standard by which all future space games would be compared. And that game would have a user base conservatively of Atleast 50k invested players willing to spend money and every disposable minute of their time to game advancement. This is if just the bare minimum required is achieved. It could scale to potentially a few million if the game exceeded the minimum requirements and also caught a zeitgeist in the gaming community.
I just looked at a list of player factions on Inara.
Wowsers. Lots and lots of them.
No wonder systems change hands so often.
Wowsers. Lots and lots of them.
No wonder systems change hands so often.