Games are a software project, nothing more, nothing less.

Idiots like jared try to deny this and come up with tactics trial and error as normal part of the development process.

If you develop software with trial and error, you are already on a wood way (germans used to say). If you need to summon the "games are special" vibe you dont care about software engineering the slightest and your output will be pure shit on many occasions.

For this reason, pyro coming is good. It will show how their ideas (especially the lack of) will work out.

They try to survive with their 2 faction system but that will only work on POIs - as soon as you lift off, you just can be shot down without any negative effects - over and over again. I cannot imagine how this scenario will be appealing to players.

Yeah, that's true.

Hopefully the sheeps will have made it working like the legacy one by finding lots of bugs.

They touted a big update and thats all? Engineering - a single topic?

They are really desperate.

There was no need. The legacy launcher worked fine. I tried to install the new launcher but it was hidden behind "waves".

But the idiots made it so, that you could download + install - it just refuses to work. Never bothered again after this shit idea.

I still hope, they implement the game economy in a meaningful way:

• no insurance in lawless systems (you may get some other kind of insurance like stealing a ship and hand it in to insurance to keep their pool to increase the chance to get your ship back when lost in lawless system). If you get a ship from insurance, it was stolen and using it in any place that is run by a to lawful faction will have a risk of getting exposed. Normal insurance only works in lawful systems - which all consequences (meaning: with criminal reputation in a lawful system, you cannot use insurance)
• shooting down smugglers that bring in wares will have devasting effects (instantly increases prices of NPC to bother to bring in wares, that wont exist otherwise while greately reduce the number of NPC that are willing to do so. The effect scales with the smuggler reputation the attacked smuggler has)
• the UTTER AND TOTAL idiots that want to place special and rare rewards into a zone that has no economic output, will get finally booted from the design process and as thus cannot do more harm. OTHERWISE let these idiots explain, how these rewards are created in a zone, that has no economic output and lacks of literally everything
• lawless zone means smuggling. Shooting down a smuggler will get you instantly hated by EVERY faction in that system on permanent basis, meaning the same thing as in stanton when get criminal reputation: you need to leave because there is no place you can show up beside player run facitlies (which will not exist for quite a few years). There should be a reputation that tracks the amount of smuggled wares into the lawless zone, so you can detect the negative consequences of attacking a smuggler.
• data running from lawless zones should be quite lucrative
• smuggling into lawless zones should be extremely lucrative
• there should be special reputations, to make your past visible (like: number of shootdown medics, number of attacked service ships (starfarers, vulcan, SRV and the like) and so on. This is permant and bound to the current avatar. At the same time, make service beacons have conditions like "shootdown medics == 0" to remove these assholes from beacons. Also make it possible like "shootdown medics > 1" = reward * 100 so you can offer services as medic to assholes but let them pay. If you raise one of these counters above 10 there is a slight chance, that this negative reputation is partly inherited by your heir, starting the game with a massive disadvantage.

To be honest, the more I know about pyro the less is the desire to visit it.

I understand, that CIG desparately needs a place, that can be used to extinct all the players to when pushing them out of stanton but there is less and less reason for me to visit this new place.

Pyro looked good indeed but looking at the time they spent into creating it, it is no wonder.

It is a pity that all these devs dont have a clue how to create something without using PVP for everything.

So they are bound to a success of pyro - given the shitty start in terms of security / social state, it will be a bumpy ride. First thing they will learn, that people will just leave pyro because its not worth the hassle. Their two faction system will not solve the problem, that you just get shoot down everywhere without any negative effects (especially in space).

Gathering missions in a lawless system? Really? REALLY? I cannot comment this stuff, its too stupid.

If these PVP idiots dont get stopped, it will break the game and nobody can fix it, when all PVE players are gone. Like any other games that tried to focus on PVP.

transient jump point should not persist on time but on usage. Each usage of a transient jump should increase the chance to vanish (should start at a low value and then increase with every use). This way 2 things will happen:

• if you keep it hidden, you can maximize the use
• you cannot plan exactly as each use has the chance to remove it

This also makes the position of a transient jump point extremely valuable (because it not removed by time), especially if you can "scan" the crash possibility and this is part of the jump point data (which would lead to very valuable data (low possibility) to low value (high possibility)

This is a major communication issue. You cannot say X and then deliver game play of Y which is the opposite of X.

Touting a "cargo event" and then deliver a combat event is exactly what is going wrong here. Everybody sees, that you either a dumb human or a lying human. Not exactly a good choice to make.

Using PVP as a filler will become a big problem over time when your vast part of players is PVE oriented.

contested zones are DOA when they think, they can add snipers as PVP element that just shoot other players from a hidden location. As long as this dumb idea is used by lazy devs to create "content" it will alienate the PVE share of players (like 95% of player base).