Briareos H on 11/4/2014 at 08:09
Who'd have thought that good ol' Braben's Elite would end up more exciting than the overblown Star Citizen. I'm really interested in seeing what the SP will be like.
faetal on 14/4/2014 at 10:03
That looks exciting. I'm looking forward to all of the upcoming space exploration games. Haven't really played one since Freelancer and I felt that lacked something. The only thing I didn't like was the minigun in space, since the purpose of a rotating barrel system is heat dissipation and I gather the temperature in space is somewhere around the zero Kelvin mark. I guess you could imagine that it's a retro design aimed at history buffs or something.
catbarf on 14/4/2014 at 12:30
Quote Posted by faetal
That looks exciting. I'm looking forward to all of the upcoming space exploration games. Haven't really played one since Freelancer and I felt that lacked something. The only thing I didn't like was the minigun in space, since the purpose of a rotating barrel system is heat dissipation and I gather the temperature in space is somewhere around the zero Kelvin mark. I guess you could imagine that it's a retro design aimed at history buffs or something.
Seems a bit silly to bring realism into a game like Elite, but as far as heat dissipation is concerned getting rid of heat in space is actually really difficult because there's no atmosphere to facilitate convection, and no surface for conduction, leaving only radiation. The ISS is (
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2001/03/20/ast21mar_1_resources/iss_sts98_strip.jpg) covered in heat radiators and even then it apparently stays pretty hot inside.
faetal on 14/4/2014 at 13:59
It's not 100% realism I'm expecting, but miniguns in space seems to jar a bit more than say transporters ignoring Heisenberg's laws or similar.
As for the heat dissipation issue, you'd expect something a little more sophisticated than something which found on 20th century helicopters. I don't know, I guess I'm being pernickety, but just something about them I don't think gels.
SubJeff on 14/4/2014 at 15:46
If it's not broken then why fix it?
EvaUnit02 on 16/11/2014 at 06:31
Yeah, I'd say that it'd be a bit hard to make an offline MMO.
Shadowcat on 16/11/2014 at 11:32
Wow... there are currently 3342 posts / 223 pages in that thread on the official forums. It'll be interesting to find out whether there are enough unhappy customers for Frontier to reconsider. I would strongly suspect it's far more cost-effective for them to stick to their decision, but they've clearly burned some good will with this.
That said, one of the reasons I didn't back this was because the description of their offline plans were much too wishy-washy for me; so I'd have to say that the people who backed it <em>despite</em> this were taking a bit of a leap of faith (above and beyond the fact that's it's a kickstarter project).
n.b.: I gather that if you backed it and you're really unhappy about the change, now is a good time to request a refund.
EvaUnit02 on 16/11/2014 at 18:50
^
Still sounds like a vocal minority to me.
Noticeable delusional individuals who consume this entertainment medium expecting that everything always goes exactly to plan in game development.
Here's an example of Kickstarted game which suffered because they listened to Lunix-using anarchist muppets who live in cloud cuckoo land.
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http://youtu.be/RkDz7C1d2TA?t=20m34s)
icemann on 19/11/2014 at 10:46
I don't see it as that unreasonable to expect singleplayer content from a game series that had that in every other game released under it. If anything it's a betrayal of sorts to longtime fans since the Spectrum / Commodore 64 days.
People already have E.V.E online for the MMO side.
Of the current gen games out there, there isn't a single game I can think of that offers that style of gameplay (a singleplayer free roaming space game), where as there is a few on the MMO side.
I thought one of the biggest advantages of kickstarter was for helping to back the sorts of games that we don't see that often these days? Rather than going for more of the status quo.
