http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=5fd2c5476a&e=68b1bc48d0

Please... please do read and tell me it's not me brain gone absolutely banana sandwich with a lobster bib...

I'm speechless. I feel like a kid at Christmas, with his birthday one day after and a winning lottery ticket too.

Woo!

Such fun looks to be in store!

Character creation, Multi crew (Woot! WOOT!) ships, crafting and bobble heads!

Yea, and apparently the multicrew can switch off roles. So not just the owner of the ship piloting.

And the multicrew members can jump to the surface rovers or launchable fighters on thusly equipped bigger ships. Lots of interesting multiplayer scenarios come to mind!

Character creation is meh, I've seen it in EVE and it's basically useless.

Multi-crew and ship-launched fighters have me excited though! Also looking forward to the new missions! Might return to E:D to grind missions instead of credits.

Makes me wish I bought the lifetime pass now.

it is looking damn good ... the premium beta is looking like a good investment

Don't i know it!
Just imagine, the first fullw "Professionally" crewed ship!

Glad to finally see a screenshot (rather small, looks to be a screenshot) of in-game SRV surface play. Very familiar layout.

With moon bases coming along with the Horizons package, I wonder at how the situation will vary depending on whether you are landed at a moon base, or landed out away from one? Certainly things like the base bulletin board, but perhaps some "off the radar" finds will present themselves when out independently scouting around.

the panel video from EGX

Watching as we speak.

While it sounds good, I just don't see multicrew working out with the #%&*$# P2P architecture.

THere's nothing FD can do about someone else's bad connection... unless they go a server-client model.
It's already bad enough that you can't see what other CMDRs in your wing are shooting at, or worse, being unable to talk to your wingmate.

If only they made it so players could not hide in solo mode. Open is dead and has been dead. It sucks! Because Elite is a great game. But they made it too easy to avoid players--which makes it pointless for open minded players like myself.

Dunno, I do play only in open and it ain't this orrendous holocaust...

I have no problem with people being able to do what they want. The problem isn't Frontier enabling solo mode as it is the collider griefers who make people want to go to solo mode. The problem with those griefers is that they can do whatever they want and there's no way to fight back since you'll get shot by the station if you defend yourself.

I think every one of them should be beat within an inch of their real lives, but that's a different topic. It's also a very good reason for people to play solo until these turds are eradicated.

What colliders? I've played since December and haven't met one in Open--and I exclusively play Open with over 350 hours in it.

Where? Where are the players? Where are the traders trading at?

I'd love to know! I threw in the towel back in July because I'd spend three hours looking and see only one person.

I really don't see the hate with Human pirates, or collider griefers. They play within the realms of the game. That is what the game is about.

I don't see any human players at all. Only been interdicted by humans once and that was because I went to where lots of humans are.

If you don't like humans doing what humans do in packs, then get away from there man. its not hard to figure out. You don't need to hide in private or solo mode. Just move away. plenty of trade mining hunting missions etc in a very very very very very very very large modelled sandbox.

And you do know that you don't have to travel far to be grief free.........

They hang out at LHS 3447 so they can bag newbies, and they also go to where a community function is. My buddy was just getting started and he couldn't even dock at one of the stations at LHS 3447 because of these turds. He was hit twice in a row before we figured out what was going on.

I know he recently tried to do some bounties with a community bounty function, and was rammed before he could get to the station to collect.

Here's a video of these dirtbags in action:

What do you do when you see a player ship? I don't understand that part.

Most always, they just fly on their way like any NPC? I do this myself, going about my business. How does it matter if other players are even there?

The guy in that video is in a Python. He could have easily winged with another of the players and taken on the griefers. If there's anything to report from that--is the player's utter lack of doing something about it.