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I have a sneaking suspicion she typed Atlas out of habit and meant to type Ark in that spot.

This is welcome news as it makes shipyard bp's less like tits on a bull and is also an idea I support.

The cake is a lie! Let the truth of pie never be doubted though the PTR comes and goes. Did you get the memo about the new coversheets for PTR's? It's just that we're using the new coversheets on all the PTR's now....

Season 6 of GOT might be the best season of a plotted tv program I’ve ever seen. Just one epic episode after another, with the episode revealing the origin of Hodor’s name one of the most well crafted hours for the small screen ever. If I had paid full movie theater ticket price to see that one episode on a big screen, I wouldn’t have felt cheated at all. To be fair, as a reader of the books, that was the first season where everything was unknown because it was beyond A Dance with Dragons completely, so I didn’t know any of what was coming. That probably made it all the more enjoyable. Come to think of it, you don’t suppose all of Wildshot’s delays are their own twisted homage to George RR Martin, do you? *mutters under his breathe about Winds of Winter for the eleventy billionth time.*

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo This thread wasn’t supposed to be helpful or informative in any way. Begone with your updated information. This is mindless drivel only, thankyouverymuch.

I dared.

I beat Perci to it.

Nudge nudge Grin grin wink wink Say no more.

That’s because he was a legendary vampire hunter, duh.

Possible, but I like my Abe Lincoln sim theory better, mostly because I like me.

The person wasting your time fretting over delays to an online game stated in advance to be under 2 years of ongoing development with a team long established to miss their publicly announced dates is you.

Well he’s apparently getting wood from somewhere. You don’t suppose he’s playing Abe Lincoln log cabin simulator by mistake, do you?

Bah. You kids don’t know how good you have it with your newfangled inter webs and fancy automobiles. Back in my day, we built the pyramids one giant ass stone at a time, and if you wanted it finished by the time pharaoh died of old age, you had to start when he was ten! Things didn’t take years, they took lifetimes!

Debatable. Undeniably true to some extent, but to what extent is a matter of pure conjecture and not empirically knowable.

I need this feature in my life and the fact it was not available for use on my English teachers for both junior and senior years of high school, or really most of the United States Congress, is criminally negligent if you ask me.

Excellent. Now let’s start a discussion about the difference between objective and subjective, since that seems to be a thing people on discussion forums struggle with mightily.

The server math in this thread feels way too much like an SAT word problem. ”If a train leaves Chicago going east carrying 3 NA servers, and another train leaves Frankfurt Germany going west carrying 3 EU servers, if both trains fall into the ocean because Grapecard didn’t get the bridge patch out on time, how many people will need to unlock the submarine to recover enough servers for PTR before everyone gets bored and goes to play Satisfactory instead?”

I had to laugh when I read this on my ipad, sitting at a gas station before setting out on a 2 hour one way drive to a sales apointment as part of a job where I drove over 30k miles for work last year (Congress eliminating the mileage deduction for employees hit my return HARD). I'm sure childhood me would be horrified if you told him as an adult he would drive those kinds of distances almost daily. Thanks for the chuckle.

I would disagree that my post infantalized myself because it didn't imply I do not have appropriate age or maturity now, it merely illustrated a lesson learned from childhood. If you think applying any lessons learned in childhood as an adult infantalizes a person, I would invite you to reconsider your understanding of the process of growth and maturation. The point I was making doesn't imply that I or anyone else am incapable of having reasonable expectations, merely that constant precise updating by the devs isn't necessary. But since you seem uncomfortable with childhood analogies, let's return to the one you yourself provided. "How much longer?" would of course be a reasonable question to ask a taxi driver. However, if the taxi driver told you at the outset of your journey based upon the destination you requested (launch), that the drive would take 2 hours (we were told at least 2 years of EA), then expecting the taxi driver to announce to you in advance to the minute when precisely the taxi would be entering or exiting an expressway as part of the trip would not be a reasonable expectation. You might reasonably expect the driver to inform you of changes to the route he or she was taking based on conditions, but giving you precision time information as part of that would not be necessary. "The ride might take a few minutes longer, the gps advised rerouting to avoid a delay due to construction." would be entirely sufficient. The more germaine direct underlying point is this: some development teams give precise dates for upcoming updates or changes, some do not. Given that these developers have proven comically bad at meeting their own announced deadlines, leading moreso to frustration, distrust and erosion of their reputation amongst the playerbase, I am suggesting, as I have suggested on multiple occasions in the past, that they consider abandoning giving precise dates as it seems to do neither us or them much good. Since you dislike gamers infantalizing themselves, I'm sure you'd agree we should all have the maturity and patience to simply wait until changes take place, since we have been forewarned this is an ongoing development process and should play accordingly. I do agree wholeheartedly that EA does not mean developers have a get out of jail card on everything, and I think the growing perception and acceptance of such excuse making is problematic for both the gaming community and the industry as a whole. I also agree that once one pays for a product, EA or no, one has a right to different expectations than would exist for a free beta as used to be industry standard. I just disagree that precise dates for changes should be part of those expectations since developers of actual launched games (notably MMORPG's) have often declined to give precise dates for updates or patches and that system worked perfectly fine.

Let them ask. When I was a kid and we were going on vacation “Are we there yet?” “How much longer” etc were questions I asked constantly on long car rides. My parents did not feel any need to answer every time I asked and they did not owe me constant updates. At first this caused me all manner of childhood anguish. I got over it. What I learned to do instead was enjoy the journey. I can think of no compelling reason Grapecard owes us dates for anything. I can think of several they should stop giving them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BlJXW_DplYQ The sun’ll come out tommorrow.

Well. Said. Sir.

Madam, if you were my wife I’d drink it. (More Winston and Lady Nancy for those who aren’t history nerds)

There are many many fair criticisms of this development team. Given that the game was literally not announced at all until 6 weeks before EA launch in an industry where months and months of pre release hype and advertising is the norm, whereas in contrast Grapecard did one EA trailer and let streamers do one preview weekend; and further given that they specified very clearly that the game would be in EA for 2 years, I do not think saying they are trying to handle and hype it like a released game is one of them. Just my two doubloons.

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