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News from Lavecon 2016

Postby Xebeth » Sun Jul 17, 2016 1:25 pm

Unapologetically stolen from CMDR Cosmos' thread on the FD forum here

Anything in italics I have added

Stream is available to watch here, interesting stuff happens at about 4h:40m

• New hotrod skins. Eagle, Cobra, FDL, Conda. (EDIT -possibly only for people attending the event though?)
• FDEV will support calls for the expansion of a Jaques bubble. (EDIT - possible new human bubble?)
• CGs out of Jaques CGs. Will run month long (because so few are out there)
• In Game Commander Journal in 2.2 An actual content announcement. Journal will dump to text file for TP apps
• Tourism Destinations - Very far distances away. Have objects to be scanned to confirm arrival.
• Tionisla Orbital Graveyard in game after 2.2
• "Karma System" possible in future for Hostile Player Commanders ganking newbies.
• Engineer Rebalance before 2.1. More drops. Easier to find. "We made it too harsh"
• More ship kits are definitely coming. "Ask the marketing people"
• Multicrew for multiplayer. NPC crew hires not on the cards.
• Asteroid Bases? Not anytime soon.
• Improve the base game damnit! All stations look the same. Same advertisers! Same Yellow trucks! "GamesCom" (EDIT - something to be announced at Gamescon?)
• Crossplatform multiplayer? Not anytime soon. (EDIT - i.e. XBOX and PC playing together, sounded like the issues are on Microsoft's side)
• Jumpgates to get to Jaques? No.
• Beluga Liner for 2.2 "Wait and see"
• Improved Plot Routing - More to say later.
• Instancing Issues? Working on it. Please give us reports. Please give us network logs for all players.
• Ship Naming? "Highly desirable feature"
• Formadine Rift? "Big galaxy and we want to fill it with interesting things"
• HTC Vive Updates? "On the list" (EDIT - FD said it was in the deeper code but they are working on it)
• PP Faction Decals? Speak to Zac. For DG guys. Nothing to say about existing PP powers
• We will take a gun-ports closed attitude to whatever aliens that may come (ala the Myrmidons). Will it have an effect? "Depends. What can you do against a superpower without guns?"
• CG God Intervention? "Yes. The effect of a few players was disproportionate to the efforts of thousands. We will be changing lockdown thresholds" (EDIT - this refers to the recent FD intervention in a community goal)
• Questioner was about this. FDEV advised they won't be doing this again going forward. IE Founders' current situation (EDIT - FD said the CG was a specific problem, they haven't interfered with the lock-down of founders world)
• Formadine Rift? Can it be found? "Talk to Drew"
• Guildtags? "Highly desireable" (EDIT - i.e. being able to show that you are for instance part of the Order of Mobius to other players)
• BGS Faction Retreat Destroying BGS Factions? "Yes, but I won't preempt any possible future announcements, but factions can never retreat from their home systems"
• Killing Commanders not effecting Combat Rank? "Uh, that sounds like a bug"
• Can intelligent life be found. "All life findable with a few notable exceptions is ground based... will be expanded on in future"
• Hey dawg, remember that art book kickstarter goal? "Uh, we're onto it"
• Better VR Support in Galaxy Map? "Nothing to say yet"
• Can I turn slaves into sausages "Probably not"
• What happened to the space cats from Elite "Wiped or or not sentient in the first place - whichever answer you prefer"
• Rise of the Alliance? MB: "I think they're a bit shady honestly"
• Passive Resource Collection? Passive Mine Rigs? "No plans"
• Community Content? Ship Builder? Mission Builder? No.
• Big Ships docking at Outposts? Extra large ships with Stations? "We can do it. We can have large ship docking at Outposts now. It's a intended design drawback"
• Remote Summon Ships "No Comment at this stage"

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Re: News from Lavecon 2016

Postby Xebeth » Sun Jul 17, 2016 1:42 pm

From watching the stream it FD seems to have accepted that they didn't get 'Engineers' quite right.
It also sounded like there will be a bunch of news at Gamescon
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Re: News from Lavecon 2016

Postby JohnLuke » Sun Jul 17, 2016 2:27 pm

Thanks for the update!
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Re: News from Lavecon 2016

Postby Cmdr Kharma » Sun Jul 17, 2016 2:48 pm

Xebeth wrote:From watching the stream it FD seems to have accepted that they didn't get 'Engineers' quite right.
It also sounded like there will be a bunch of news at Games(con)



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Re: News from Lavecon 2016

Postby Roger Wilco Jr » Sun Jul 17, 2016 3:32 pm

No NPC crew? Does that mean ship launched fighters are for multiplayer only?

Dear FD ...
It's time to give this another go.

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Re: News from Lavecon 2016

Postby Xebeth » Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:11 pm

Roger Wilco Jr wrote:No NPC crew? Does that mean ship launched fighters are for multiplayer only?

Dear FD ...


IIRC ship launched fighters can be AI controlled, or you can fly the fighter and have the AI control your ship.

I think this just refers to 'bridge crew'
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Re: News from Lavecon 2016

Postby TorTorden » Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:17 pm

Cmdr Kharma wrote:
Xebeth wrote:From watching the stream it FD seems to have accepted that they didn't get 'Engineers' quite right.
It also sounded like there will be a bunch of news at Games(con)



*Snick*


Considering how most players are playing DESPITE! Their new bigname expansion "not quite right" is rather understated.

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Re: News from Lavecon 2016

Postby Hrdina » Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:39 pm

Xebeth wrote:From watching the stream it FD seems to have accepted that they didn't get 'Engineers' quite right.

Have they ever made that statement about PP?
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Re: News from Lavecon 2016

Postby Cometborne » Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:45 pm

Hmm, I might have to change my stance about going to GamesCon if they mean the one in Cologne in August...
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Re: News from Lavecon 2016

Postby Schmobius » Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:41 pm

Xebeth wrote:
Roger Wilco Jr wrote:No NPC crew? Does that mean ship launched fighters are for multiplayer only?

Dear FD ...


IIRC ship launched fighters can be AI controlled, or you can fly the fighter and have the AI control your ship.

I think this just refers to 'bridge crew'


They aren't going to see many people bothering with fighters if this isn't the case.
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