Elite: Odyssey

Light-Hawk
28 Jan 2022, 11:31am
Burstar the Magnificently MediocreJust a reminder, Arthur can be quoted almost a year ago as saying "We honestly thought the game was ready".


I really wish I could have been a fly on the wall to observe their development of Odyssey and see how they made decisions on it and what made them think "the game was ready."
Episparh
28 Jan 2022, 11:51am
Well, if you've been in the software business you can make a fair guess how it was.

A company makes a successful product and decided to expand. In the process they put key people from initial product to new projects. This brings issues with the competent people who were left such as: more work due to the lost expertise, additional burden of training new people, etc. This inevitably leads to some people leaving the company all together. At some point the decision makers are replaced with people who have no clue of the history and the culture of initial team but they are pushed for results. This leads to very unfortunate practices nowadays: outsourcing work for the cheapest price possible and selling Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as premium polished and finished thing.

The customers then start complaining... (This is where we are currently. I can speculate further but you probably getting the idea)

Last edit: 28 Jan 2022, 12:13pm
Light-Hawk
28 Jan 2022, 12:40pm
EpisparhWell, if you've been in the software business you can make a fair guess how it was.

A company makes a successful product and decided to expand. In the process they put key people from initial product to new projects. This brings issues with the competent people who were left such as: more work due to the lost expertise, additional burden of training new people, etc. This inevitably leads to some people leaving the company all together. At some point the decision makers are replaced with people who have no clue of the history and the culture of initial team but they are pushed for results. This leads to very unfortunate practices nowadays: outsourcing work for the cheapest price possible and selling Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as premium polished and finished thing.

The customers then start complaining... (This is where we are currently. I can speculate further but you probably getting the idea)


All this I totally understand and would have predicted. I just think it would have been more interesting to see their actual thought process and development efforts unfolding in reality right before they released it. What they saw in the product that told them it was ready, etc...
Episparh
28 Jan 2022, 12:51pm




R. I. P Risitas
Episparh
28 Jan 2022, 2:09pm
Yesterday I learned a nasty trick:
Prospecting EDO settlement - targeting prospector limpet - Unleash pack hounds
Rayman.
30 Jan 2022, 5:02pm
After 10 weeks being in the black i managed to hit elite 1 rank of exobiology. Dont wanna do anymore... My endurance doing those things over over.. survived somehow
Burstar
30 Jan 2022, 6:06pm
Rayman.After 10 weeks being in the black i managed to hit elite 1 rank of exobiology. Dont wanna do anymore... My endurance doing those things over over.. survived somehow

Yeah I did my Tour of Duty a couple months ago. Feel free to look up Burstar+Exobiology in here to see my rants on the subject
Kurakil
31 Jan 2022, 4:40am
Burstar the Always on Time for Dinner
Rayman.After 10 weeks being in the black i managed to hit elite 1 rank of exobiology. Dont wanna do anymore... My endurance doing those things over over.. survived somehow

Yeah I did my Tour of Duty a couple months ago. Feel free to look up Burstar+Exobiology in here to see my rants on the subject

I've been holding off as there seem to be more and more surface gameplay related bugs these days.
Burstar
01 Feb 2022, 1:48pm
But at what cost? What cost!?
Iwao Kishiro
02 Feb 2022, 8:30pm
Episparh
02 Feb 2022, 9:02pm
Anyone experiencing excessive CPU load in stations while sitting in ship?
Gryphnn
02 Feb 2022, 9:58pm
Why would the location you are using your computer in influence the CPU usage? Magnetic singularities?
Meowers
02 Feb 2022, 10:47pm
GryphnnMagnetic singularities?

Nope. FDev 'optimisation'. Make the load at stations heavier, so the load in settlements could be seen as 'lower'.
Burstar
03 Feb 2022, 12:07am
EpisparhAnyone experiencing excessive CPU load in stations while sitting in ship?

I noticed it in U10. The CPU choke that happens at the start of a ground CZ also happens when passing through the mailslot sometimes. Never happened before.

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