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Todd Papy spoke about using the Endeavor Radio Telescope to scan large areas of a system while discussing the Long Range Scanning mechanic. He expressed that they were considering it to work like opening an aperture and collecting data over time. There was never anything at all about doing an...

For the iteration provided to Evo yesterday, there were neither gates nor rings. The game has you fly up to the anomaly itself and trigger it with your jump drive. There is a minimal HUD assist to allow alignment; otherwise you are there on your own, face to face with an incredibly powerful...

Yes, Evo had some fun yesterday. CIG put up a 4:100 shard, set up with 2 game servers on each side of the wormhole. Using it was much simpler than they've shown in the past: Jump to the Gateway, fly over to the light in NAV mode. When the ship is close enough to the entrance a set of circles...

PSA - When you get to take your first dive through the wormhole, pick a ship that has a good view from the flight deck. Yes, for the visuals AND to give yourself a chance of staying within the tunnel. It's a rollercoaster folks.

The new network code is working like a champ. I spent a few hours after the test just meandering around, I think it was the 6 server to 800 player shard arrangement. It was bloody amazing to see the server tick locked at 30 FPS the entire time.

It's a mechanical way to enforce capability limits on ships for the purpose of encouraging multicrew gameplay. I was hoping a Nursa would fit in the ES, giving a viable solo/duo Exploration option to the Corsair and Aquila. But alas, 'tis not to be. The single best way that CIG could encourage...

Correct, the bay door is not wide enough to fit any of the Ursa variants, or the ROC DS. Everything smaller is fine. I believe they did this intentionally, because there is plenty of internal space in both the CL and the ES.

Fuel prices were hammered about during Evo phase. The official response is that this isn't intentional, it was a side effect of merging several branches of code and the associated systems. Expect it to be corrected and probably quite soon, as the prices are prohibitive. It's not a Cutlass...

Theorycrafting is fun :) @Shadow Reaper does a lot of it, and while the information we have to work with for ships like the Polaris is very incomplete, painting scenarios is a good way to learn the game systems. Latest information on Scanning has three elements: a) Completely passive, good out...

It's another case of "Oh shit, we built this and it's TOO strong". Even though I don't own a Corsair, my opinion is that they should just leave it in and deal with it having the high kill counts. What has actually happened though is a bit more complex. As has been pointed out elsewhere, the...

Level 4: I no longer have a wife/significant other. Actually not recommended in most cases.

Lots of good thoughts here, I appreciate that all of you have kicked in on the discussion. Some of my underlying 'angst' (if you will) from the original post relates to the loss of Todd Papy as Director of the PU. He had a clear idea of how it was intended to work, and an understanding of the...

Definitely Stockholm Syndrome. With regular, powerful doses of buff to the Connie lineup. 2x size 2 --> 1 size 3 shield 2x size 4 + 2 size 5 --> 4x size 5 pilot guns many iterations on handling improvements P-72 buffed for both racing and combat manned turrets NOW BUFFED from 2x size 2 -->...

Erkul's numbers are just for the placeholders that have been used for QA testing (and game capture, advertising, etc). John Crewe himself said that they were looking to up-gun the ship so it would have tools for larger vessels. The torpedoes are going to be expensive and powerful; using them...

I believe you, never did get into Elite even though it's in the collection. But what you are saying is that 90% of the playerbase opted out of whatever PvP looked like in that game. That's a pretty strong statement that it wasn't satisfying to a large portion of the players.

I think you are correct here Boss. I'm not a creative, so there may be other ways to manage or mitigate that are beyond my vision. But what I do well is analyze systems, and the game as-built is not going to reach the goals they claim to be aiming for.

Sharing this without completely endorsing his argument. He is very, very good at the small piece of the game he engages in, and it's not until late in the video that there is an acknowledgement of other gameplay outside of that. However, it is my opinion that he identifies the core problem...

With not one, but TWO P-8s. Hitting with the full FOMO on this one. Which won't keep me from buying it, we are in need of a good DMR in game and I'm not rich on time to farm them. As the package appears in your online hangar, you hear, ever so faintly, a trace of sinister laughter from your...

The ship with the lowest signatures overall is the Sabre Firebird; right now it sets the floor for stealth gameplay. However, none of the ship modules that affect signature have been re-adjusted to that reality yet i.e. a shield is a shield is a shield. A point worth making is that CIG has...

Yep!! It is so consistently bad that I've come to think of it as some kind of weird marketing ploy.