Do you want to ask Bernd something about X Rebirth?

Post by **CBJ** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 13:45

With so many of you asking questions about X Rebirth following the Gamescom demo, Bernd has agreed to give an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session. This will take place this Friday (2013-08-30) on reddit at 19:00 UTC - that's 20:00 BST (UK), 21:00 CEST (Western Europe), and if you are elsewhere then don't forget to take into account any Daylight Saving adjustment - and will last for approximately one hour. Please join us also on our own DevChat for some smalltalk.

We will announce the reddit link for the AMA shortly before the scheduled AMA session. Keep an eye on Twitter or this thread.

NOTE: We moved the AMA from DevChat to reddit in order to keep this well organized and allow more people to participate.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 13:54

Wonderful. I hope to see the chat filled with gold.

DaddyMonster · Post by **DaddyMonster** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 14:16

Hmm.. Sister's wedding is firmly in the way of that - maybe she can cancel, that guy was too good for her anyhow!

A transcript after the fact would be nice!

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 14:20

Devchat saves the history (usually. It can be a bit temperamental...

) so a transcript should be no issue.

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 15:10

This should be good.

Won't be making the chat itself but definitely looking forward to the transcript.

ThommoHawk · Post by **ThommoHawk** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 16:07

impressive. Bernd once more displays his fearless and courageous nature. Rather him than me....

Brave man. My thanks in advance to Bernd.

Don't know if I will make it to the chat - will probably mess up the time difference calculations ...

Post by **Santi** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 17:01

Could someone ask please, how trade works, what kind of market is it and about direct trade?

Thank you so much will be working that day so will not have a chance.

Skeeter · Post by **Skeeter** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 18:34

My number one question would be. Why another x game. If you had a chance for a new IP this would have been it. Why continue with the franchise and not kick off a new one. Even if its the same type of game it could have been a totally new ip but similar gameplay as that would have let you really loose with races, ships, areas to explore, tech, etc.

Next question would be somit like. So x universe is getting a rebirth does this mean another 10 years of x games for you or are you going to stop at some point with x? Which is along the same lines as above but different enough i think.

Next erm. What new stuff do you want to see come from x rebirth and follow up games, what do you want to do differently and what dont you want to do again that has been done in a past x game?

One big question i guess would be. Seta. This made station trading alot easier as in as a owner u could set stations up and seta till you got some money. Without seta there is worry owning stations will be so slow to make stuff that will it be worth really building stations now or has manufacturing process been sped up considerably to compensate for those players who used to do seta station owning gameplay?

Last question i guess. If EGO did dlc for the game on steam what kind of content would show up do you think. Missions, story based npc companions (think of kotor games), more flyable ships with cockpits? New areas like new solar systems thats been discovered from a wormhole or hidden working gate?

Hmm i thought this was a reddit AMA thing. Cos i was gona say can someone ask bernd this at reddit. If its in devchat i might be able to pop on but if i cant can someone ask these ones plz. Ta.

AgamemnonArgon · Post by **AgamemnonArgon** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 19:31

Wow.

That is so cool.

I will try to be on for that.

Should be an amazing chat session.

Excellent.

RustInPieces · Post by **RustInPieces** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 20:12

Skeeter wrote: One big question i guess would be. Seta. This made station trading alot easier as in as a owner u could set stations up and seta till you got some money. Without seta there is worry owning stations will be so slow to make stuff that will it be worth really building stations now or has manufacturing process been sped up considerably to compensate for those players who used to do seta station owning gameplay?

I don't think the devs ever intended for SETA to be abused by leaving it on for long periods of time. I only used SETA for travel, and never had any problems making money off my stations or UTs.

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 20:25

RustInPieces wrote:
Skeeter wrote: One big question i guess would be. Seta. This made station trading alot easier as in as a owner u could set stations up and seta till you got some money. Without seta there is worry owning stations will be so slow to make stuff that will it be worth really building stations now or has manufacturing process been sped up considerably to compensate for those players who used to do seta station owning gameplay?
I don't think the devs ever intended for SETA to be abused by leaving it on for long periods of time. I only used SETA for travel, and never had any problems making money off my stations or UTs.

It was also designed back when the universe only had about 35 sectors and a dozen or so ships in each. Time has shown that something like SETA is a pretty terrible idea when you start scaling up that universe.

Lunif · Post by **Lunif** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 20:26

They already have stated that production will be accelerated a bit to compensate for the lack of SETA.

Earth Ultimatum IV. · Post by **Earth Ultimatum IV.** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 20:33

PLEASE SOMEBODY IF YOU ARE READING THIS, Iam not able to ask Bernd my question myself, so here it is, some good soul please ask this for me:

-Can I command my capital ship from inside? (I mean, talking to captain about orders, while standing on the observation deck of my capital ship).

Thanks thanks thanks thanks.

Post by **Geek** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 20:46

Bernd already answered this one. Did you miss the answer ?
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 59#4123259

PJ · Post by PJ » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 20:53

I hope I'm not repeating a question, but I would like to ask;

"With the game having native controller support, a highly multi-threaded game engine and a more accessible learning curve, this seems ideal for porting over to the Xbox One and PS4. Has this ever been a consideration at any point in development?"

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 22:43

PJ wrote:I hope I'm not repeating a question, but I would like to ask;

"With the game having native controller support, a highly multi-threaded game engine and a more accessible learning curve, this seems ideal for porting over to the Xbox One and PS4. Has this ever been a consideration at any point in development?"

This has been answered dozens of times over the years (long before X Rebirth even went into development, I might add). It's boiled down to:

"We've kept consoles in consideration, and we've always liked to do something with them, but [insert current project here] isn't it."

Post by **linolafett** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 23:01

Because of the great response today in the Devnetchat, we consider moving the Q&A to reddit because our chat server likes to crash under heavy load.
Also this serves us a better overview over the questions asked and we can better answer questions then without loosing questions in a rolling chat.

Post by **Santi** » Wed, 28. Aug 13, 23:09

That is great news, will check it out after work, don't forget to post the link.

DaddyMonster · Post by **DaddyMonster** » Thu, 29. Aug 13, 00:34

Santi - btw, I love the loquillo quote - although I'd have gone for "nena has tenido suerte de llegarme a conocer"

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Thu, 29. Aug 13, 00:37

linolafett wrote:Because of the great response today in the Devnetchat, we consider moving the Q&A to reddit because our chat server likes to crash under heavy load.

Called it.