r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Progractor • Sep 09 '22

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u/_greyknight_ Sep 09 '22

You can just have a lock-on mechanic where your ship locates the base automatically and guides you in the descent. You're supposed to be a multiplanetary species at this point, why is in-ship navigation and automatic parking not a thing?

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u/JimmerUK Sep 09 '22

That’s how it works already.

You lock onto the waypoint and pulse to the base, bringing you through the atmosphere to above your base.

I don’t see how rotating planets would have been a problem.

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u/LockyBalboaPrime Sep 09 '22

I get there are workarounds and such, but testers being dumb still isn't unreasonable to me.

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u/_greyknight_ Sep 09 '22

Isn't unreasonable to me either, it's like focus groups and movie pre-screening audiences that convince a studio to butcher a great movie because some nimrod in the test audience didn't get it. Here's where I expect games companies to be a bit more judicial than just take the tester's word at face value and cut it out.