I don't know how you do that but it's fine for you.

Navigators see the current of the warp, the astronomican isn't the only astral/psi point of reference in the galaxy.
Talentd navigators could go anywhere they want, astronomican only serve for Imperial space travel.
Most of the time, outside imperium boundaries navigators select a spatial anomaly know to them, and sometimes also the Imperium to make their travels.

This could be helpful in explainig your \our querry:

I would like to see that audited cost accounting but ofc first somebody must prove something went wrong, and we all know all's good right?

It is clear that they bite much more they could chew. Game was supposed to launch at 2015 (right?). Unfortunatly they realised that every step they took was strugle.
They just thought they can make it as good as it was promissed in xxx months and then realised they aren`t good enough. Simple...
Is it really important now to know what they meant and what happened that things are loking as bad as they look?
If I could trust his answers anymore I would rather ask what they are planning for next courple of weeks.
If they will keep balancing game or waste time on store items / terminators? Or perhaps they are working on campaigns and optimisation...
Do they have some priorities or will just release next patches that are not focused on single aspect of game and are bringing "a bit of everything".

The problem wasn't them getting their budget wrong. The problem was his smug reply. Basically trying to make people for dumb, like wow you dint even know infinite money is impossible?

He speaks from his emotion too damn much without accepting all the failure this title has endured. I'd rather he just be honest about the situation but reiterate that a plan is in place to fix it all. Don't need these little remarks.

Also his steam post justifying this being an MMO was cringe worthy. It hurt to even read. I was embarrassed for him.

BAMCO .... just look at thier history as a developer .... they have forced A-AAA games to release early in unprepared cases and they always require a NDA for a certain amount of time to protect them from the backlash until its too late for the consumer...... its thier modus operandi. They are really bad partners as developers when you really get down to it ... but they are also like the red light district in a lawless town they will take you in for cheap .....

Because you'd never get investors or cleared to go forward with a project otherwise. o3o

So you do your best with what you can to then make a good case to beg for more money when you need it.

So many Nathans have posted in this thread, but no one is real Nathan.
Post is for Nathan. Who are all this people? What are they doning in this thread? Why are they sure, that their opinion is interesting to the author?
An universal riddle.

If they wanted just nathan. They would have put it in Ask The Team sub forum. See how that works buddy?

Ask team - the same thing. Strange people, are argue with you. Sharing an opinions, whish you don't want to know.
I think it is called: democracy.
In a real world it's not working buddy. Democracy too.

They navigate by the local "terrain" of the warp itself or sometimes if they're lucky rare astropathic relays rather than the Astronomican. Like I said, dangerous and not done except under extreme circumstance. Or you're looking for PHAT LEWT and don't care.