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Whoa, I just pulled into Newholm Station and saw blue sparks crackling here and there across the exterior. Is that a construction thing? A UA bombing thing? Just a normal thing that I've never noticed before for some reason?
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Trustworthy posted:Whoa, I just pulled into Newholm Station and saw blue sparks crackling here and there across the exterior. Is that a construction thing? A UA bombing thing? Just a normal thing that I've never noticed before for some reason? It's been like that for a couple of weeks, maybe a few months even? I first noticed it after the bombing...
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Oct 12, 2016 18:12
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Poll: How should players transfer to friend's ships?
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Oct 12, 2016 18:21
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Should have to be at the same station, obviously. It wouldn't be realistic otherwise. 
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Oct 12, 2016 18:25
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They shpuld be able to telepresence as needed, duh with a 50 mil bandwidth fee
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Oct 12, 2016 18:28
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If it's anything other than hot join from anywhere at anytime the functionality is useless. I don't even know how you'd justify it working any other way 
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Oct 12, 2016 18:39
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I can already smell the juicy tears Edit: of course 66% demand that you be docked at the same station, otherwise it would be Edit 2: quote:"Immersion" in many cases just means "things make sense" Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Fun is tedium. TorakFade fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Oct 12, 2016 |
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Oct 12, 2016 18:40
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The OP of that thread does sensibly point out that if it's not instantaneous and is location bound then explorers will never get to play with friends. As someone who enjoys exploring and aspires to have friends, I want hotjoin.
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Oct 12, 2016 18:52
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Is that a problem with multicrew specifically or a problem with exploring in general though? They suffer a huge opportunity cost already for lots of stuff.
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Oct 12, 2016 19:23
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I don't get it. Why can't one roleplay that they are playing an NPC pilot in their friend's ship and be instantly there? How is that somehow immersion breaking? 
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Oct 12, 2016 19:24
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For crying out loud, it is simple. You want to join a friend, you push a button, he pushes another one to accept and you are there. You want out, you push a button, you leave and go back to your ship. Granted, there is a slight problem with what your ship is doing while you are away, but its not like the game does not have exploits, or that those would matter anyway in a game like this...despawn the ship, like you logged off, and you are done. Dante80 fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Oct 12, 2016 |
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Oct 12, 2016 19:25
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I'm fine with only being able to join friends in the same station if they change CQC to only be playable if you physically dock at the station, and you can only battle other players at that station. Otherwise it makes no sense... 
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Oct 12, 2016 19:28
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I like the dude bros idea that you can take over anywhere if they have crew.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:It's been like that for a couple of weeks, maybe a few months even? I first noticed it after the bombing...  has to manually upgrade them to different station models.E: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/297199-Sothis-Ceos-still-under-construction-!
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Oct 12, 2016 19:37
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Mr. Crow posted:I like the dude bros idea that you can take over anywhere if they have crew. It works well because you can have crew even without a fighter bay.
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Oct 12, 2016 19:38
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Mike the TV posted:It works well because you can have crew even without a fighter bay. But NPCs have names and pictures so they are just like real human beings and you can't just take over their mind you monster
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Oct 12, 2016 19:41
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While being required to join when docked at the same station would be immersive, it's not feasible from a gameplay stance. Perhaps your friend has been playing for a couple of hours and is quite far away from you in the bubble. If you could join them from anywhere, it would be more fun than needing to coordinate to join them at a station. You might have people logging off and on for different times. If you're HazRES farming, should you need them to head to the closest station so you can join them? It would let someone who might not be that skilled at getting around or able to afford the proper FSD to get to your friends ship. You may have someone who has been trying the game for a couple of hours but wants to actually participate in shooting while someone more skilled flies around. Seriously, another player to aid you in a ship would be great to get people to play the game together. Even moreso if one person can control the main ship and the other person flies a ship launched fighter.
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There needs to be a rule where broken 40+ year olds can only collectively submit 1 awful tedious idea per patch
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The autopilot thread is even better. Pointed out at one point: "We want our AI NPC crews to be able to fly our ships! "We don't want any auto-pilot at all! It's not in line with the idea of Elite Dangerous! Of course, the guy who pointed it out has been shunned by all of those suffering from Immersion Cancer.
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Oct 12, 2016 20:07
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Has Frontier ever hinted at what multi crew activities would actually be available? Besides flying a ship launched fighter, which is kinda lame because you could just be there in your own ship, what's in the works? Clearly ships are currently running as one-man shows, and unless you can put a guy manning turrets or doing some mini game to repair the hull or strengthen shields (kinda weak options too) I really can't see the point of it
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Oct 12, 2016 20:13
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TorakFade posted:Has Frontier ever hinted at what multi crew activities would actually be available? Besides flying a ship launched fighter, which is kinda lame because you could just be there in your own ship, what's in the works? There will be a guy manning turrets, manning the shields, manning engines, and of course one person piloting.
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Holy poo poo. So this guy just posted these replies to some things I said in the Autopilot thread on the forums. Alien, the ancient, all knowing, all seeing, been-here-the-longest motherfucker on the forum posted:*sigh* ... you want a valid counter-argument? Here's a valid counter-arguement. FRONTIER DO NOT WANT TO PUT SYSTEM TO SYSTEM AUTOPILOT INTO THE GAME. That idiot, Alien posted:Oh if you want an e-peen waving contest, then listen up ... I have been here a long time means I've seen many discussions on this forum get repeated. I have a very good idea of what Elite "is". I know people in this community through this forum and in real life. I have campaigned for Elite IV since before the kickstarter. The only reason you're here at all "debating" a non-existent feature is because Frontier decided to launch a kickstarter, and it can be said I had a direct part to play in that. I literally laughed so hard that I had to get up and leave the office to compose myself.
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Oct 12, 2016 20:17
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can we please program some of that guy into frogbear?  E: boy.
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Oct 12, 2016 20:19
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LCL-Dead posted:Holy poo poo. Hahahahaha
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Oct 12, 2016 20:24
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isn't the Blue Danube on the docking comp an homage to 2001?
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TorakFade posted:Fun is tedium. Frontier's mission statement right there.
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Its all about the number of hours you spend before you realise that all of this is pointless and we will all die some day.
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Efexeye posted:isn't the Blue Danube on the docking comp an homage to 2001? Yes, unequivocally.
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E Equals MC Hammer posted:Its all about the number of hours you spend before you realise that all of this is pointless and we will all die some day. driving around on planets is still in to me at least
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Oct 12, 2016 20:54
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LCL-Dead posted:Holy poo poo.  Efexeye posted:isn't the Blue Danube on the docking comp an homage to 2001?
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At least it looks cool.
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LCL-Dead posted:Holy poo poo. Thanks for reminding me that although I am a bad, lovely person, at least I am not the worst, shittiest person. That spot is taken and I shall sleep easy tonight. Also please tell me that you replied "nice meltdown" IAmTheRad posted:There will be a guy manning turrets, manning the shields, manning engines, and of course one person piloting. So people will basically be a pip management system? That's... Unimpressive. Or will they make you able to push the limit and do crazy stuff? Genuinely curious here
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Only knows.
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If that guy and his ilk have any actual influence on the game's development it would sure explain a lot
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IAmTheRad posted:Only And if Frontier knows, then Grognards know! 
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Has any game ever figured out what to do with multiple crew in a game where one person can fly the whole ship? Discounting that star trek commmand game because that was built around the idea...
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Elite Dangerous: So, you want to cut the crap? fine ... how about YOU start showing some respect ... boy.
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frank.club posted:There needs to be a rule where broken 40+ year olds can only collectively submit 1 awful tedious idea per patch Make a poll on this! 
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Here's an idea of that could maybe make everyone happy or at least happy-ish: You can instantly join anyone's ship, from anywhere in the galaxy, as long as they have npc crewmembers. 80% of the experience and money that gets made goes to the ship's commander and crewmembers though. You're basically just role-playing as that commander's npc crewmembers. But, you can also dock at the same station as another commander, store your ship, and then join their ship as yourself, in addition to/in place of the NPC crew, and when you do it like that it becomes a more fair money/experience split between you, the guest commander, and the ship's commander. Would be a decent balance between convenience and  immersion, and would make sense when combined with space legs too.
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