Light-Hawk

BurstarFPS in space isn't the issue (and it's while in atmo that it would become the problem ftr). The issue is as Saka has basically said: it has essentially been deemed too much effort for insufficient return by the FDev management. All the bs the CM's throw our way is to avoid admitting this.

And yet Braben said back in the kickstarter days that ships were already being modeled with their interiors in mind and mentioned some gameplay mechanics in mind for how to make use of them.

Also if I'm remembering correctly, I think someone in the Odyssey alpha test phase, managed to glitch themselves inside of the hull of their ship and found there were incomplete models for the ship's interiors already present. They were no where near complete but they were there. I could be wrong. I'll see if I can find it again.

Aunty Sledge
Arthur could learn a lot from seeing how Jared Huckaby handles the role. A sentiment that would now probably get my account banned on the FDev forums in these new "feelings" driven times. The grown-ups have left the building...

Aunty SledgeMaybe they should take a leaf out of CIGs book and sell the Panther Clipper for £1000 a pop to fund the work?

BurstarThat's my point. They were all pie in the skied lets put it all in there, really knock their socks off. Then 'something' happened. What was that something? FDev management looked at the time it was taking and deemed it too much effort for insufficient return.

Light-HawkHow hard would it be for them to model a coffee cup with "Hutton Orbital" on it and sell it as another dashboard ornament in the ARX store with the requirement to have actually made the trek out to Hutton before players are allowed to buy it?

BurstarA ridiculously long, tedious, unchallenging waste of time but you get a cookie at the end.

Meowers

BurstarA ridiculously long, tedious, unchallenging waste of time but you get a cookie at the end.

If one have such a challenge with adding one, single, simple asset of textured 3d model without any functionality into the game, one more position into the store, and one more boolean variable into the player dataset... Their coding skills is absolute irredeemable crap.

Light-HawkHow hard would it be for them to model a coffee cup with "Hutton Orbital" on it and sell it as another dashboard ornament in the ARX store with the requirement to have actually made the trek out to Hutton before players are allowed to buy it?

Rho Tefnutet
In many, cases consoles are a forced choice given no alternatives. I got a new "business-class" PC for "office stuff" and Series S back in December. Because that is all I can afford given how bad wages are and how high prices of high tech/digital items are thanks to unified EU markets. I'd need to spend four times money if I wanted to get a gaming PC, not to mention I'd have to rebuy ENTIRE library of games that dates back to 2011.

So please, don't insult the console players. Consoles are a viable choice for a lot of reasons, especially the budget ones given how ridiculous the prices are during pandemic now and thanks to bitcoin mining (as the GPUs are gone even before they reach respective distributors).


Also, as a sidenote, the console release is postponed because neither Microsoft/Sony wants to allow second Cyberpunk 2077 (which forced refund system that is not within their TOS) nor FDev wants Early Access label on their console release.

EpisparhConsoles are one trick pony.

Rho Tefnutet
I got an office-work PC and Series S at once. Both costed me three to four times less than trying to get a gaming PC where I live (as for December 2020).

EpisparhLol, so basically you spent 100$ for outdated hardware to do stuff that cheap xiami phone will do perfectly.

Rho TefnutetI was going to explain how not everything can be comfortably be done on a phone.