Thargoid War: The Beginning of the End!

Stabby_Dave

Stabby_Dave
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EdzUp

EdzUp
To be fair if they are going to destroy the bubble they are taking their time about it, surely if they intended on such a thing we would have more maelstroms incoming to cause even more devestation 🤔
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
EdzUp said:
To be fair if they are going to destroy the bubble they are taking their time about it, surely if they intended on such a thing we would have more maelstroms incoming to cause even more devestation 🤔
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I don't think Frontier intend to let the Thargoids take the bubble down, but who knows. Frontier's new communication is very like the old, as minimal as they can get away with.

No launch parties, no expos, just updates with unknown content.
 

whothe

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Seljdon said:
As the title says... I have discussed this with a couple of people who have 10,000+ hours in the game and the conclusion we have come to is that it is quite possible that Frontier is in fact bringing Elite: Dangerous' story and game play to an end. It's increasingly looking like the Thargoids will destroy the bubble.

What we don't know is what will happen after it's finished... I have suggested that Frontier is going to scatter the factions around the galaxy to those places that are closed by unobtainable permits. There are several "cluster" systems around the galaxy that are locked with no known way to get the permits. So I have suggested that Frontiers end game is to make the game single player offline with the ability to connect with friends over the internet when they shut it down. That the galaxy will have each faction spread around the galaxy so that players have something to do instead of sitting in one spot.

My friends think they'll shut down the servers and call it the end. Or they don't know... What do you think?
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I'm actually cheering on this thargoid invasion. I don't see this as the end, but quite possibly a new beginning. Say the Thargoids do destroy the bubble, or reduce it to a small entrenched ' front line '. Why must that be the end?
Why not a Battlestar Galactica type narrative? We have FC's and Megaships, and the Colonia highway. Perhaps Colonia becomes the new 'bubble'. They have all the ingredients, including engineers. The original bubble becomes a giant scrapyard... Maybe this is where we encounter the Thargoids in FPS play, while scavenging the wreckage of starports and ground settlements. Maybe we have new CGs to build new outposts around the galaxy. Not to mention this would leave future narratives wide open to almost anything. Guardians returning? Finding something important in guardian ruins during FPS missions? Maybe the guardian systems offer some kind of new tech discovery that allows humanity to colonize their ruins in a mass relocation?
Maybe this is how they revamp the PP system, burn it down and start over. The PP factions are reduced to only a few. The unification of humanity in the war against the bugs.
Maybe some kind of base 'building' is added, that player groups could pick and choose the where, outside the bubble, and with work, and commerce ( or piracy ) become an organic system of player directed starports and settlements.

Would a galactic war with the bubble being decimated be worse than the stagnant status quo we have now? Idk, I see it leading in many possible directions.
 

SteveWW57

SteveWW57
My carriers are ready to go. Useful services installed/suspended, half a hold full of tritium, bug out systems scouted, tritium and platinum hotspots located.

Steve
 

Shabine

Shabine
So wait... the prevailing theory is that Frontier ran the game for 7 years, then introduced Odyssey... so that they could wind up the game and shut it down a couple of years later? The game still hits 7-10k players on Steam alone, but "only 100 people are still playing because I left to play Scam Citizen"?

What?

This game's Doom crowd are even more delusional than the "WoW is dying in 2008" and "EVE will be dead by 2010" people!
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
I don't agree with those who think the demise of ED is imminent, I tend towards ED might be going somewhere, but it's not breaking any speed records if it is, crowd.
 
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Darrack

Darrack
Seljdon said:
As the title says... I have discussed this with a couple of people who have 10,000+ hours in the game and the conclusion we have come to is that it is quite possible that Frontier is in fact bringing Elite: Dangerous' story and game play to an end. It's increasingly looking like the Thargoids will destroy the bubble.

What we don't know is what will happen after it's finished... I have suggested that Frontier is going to scatter the factions around the galaxy to those places that are closed by unobtainable permits. There are several "cluster" systems around the galaxy that are locked with no known way to get the permits. So I have suggested that Frontiers end game is to make the game single player offline with the ability to connect with friends over the internet when they shut it down. That the galaxy will have each faction spread around the galaxy so that players have something to do instead of sitting in one spot.

My friends think they'll shut down the servers and call it the end. Or they don't know... What do you think?
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Jack Winter

Jack Winter
whothe said:
Maybe this is how they revamp the PP system, burn it down and start over. The PP factions are reduced to only a few. The unification of humanity in the war against the bugs.
Maybe some kind of base 'building' is added, that player groups could pick and choose the where, outside the bubble, and with work, and commerce ( or piracy ) become an organic system of player directed starports and settlements.

Would a galactic war with the bubble being decimated be worse than the stagnant status quo we have now? Idk, I see it leading in many possible directions.
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It would be a golden opportunity to deflate and reset the economy too! ;)
 
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