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A very easy way for FDev to improve ship engineer grind
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Does literally every pilot in the galaxy eventually get invited to your private ranch?
So I would be in favor of there being exactly one material dealer in the game, at Beagle Point.
That would greatly enhance the gaming experience.
That would greatly enhance the gaming experience.
Oh I'll be the first to shout a hearty "Amen!" to anyone proclaiming that Engineering in Elite is totally and completely nonsensical. I much rather it follow typical crafting models common in other games, where we the pilot engineer our own ships, after we learn the "secret arts" of engine tuning or weapon enhancement. I also think the material system is utterly bonkers - the idea that I have to go out and chip rocks to somehow get processed iron without a refinery (I guess the magic synthesizer is a refinery, too?), but I can't get these COMMON materials at the localDoes literally every pilot in the galaxy eventually get invited to your private ranch?
Oh, and all these materials are massless, volumeless, and omnipresent. Yet they also have restrictions in quantity, defined by some arbitrary law of nature. Same goes with data, with individual files taking up terabytes of drive storage (either that or ships in Elite switched back to old floppy drives for data storage).
I'm just saying that your idea is trying to fix nonsensical with nonsensical for the sake of ease of gameplay. It's duct tape on a rusty truck.
Thats showroom nik compared to some ive drivenOh I'll be the first to shout a hearty "Amen!" to anyone proclaiming that Engineering in Elite is totally and completely nonsensical. I much rather it follow typical crafting models common in other games, where we the pilot engineer our own ships, after we learn the "secret arts" of engine tuning or weapon enhancement. I also think the material system is utterly bonkers - the idea that I have to go out and chip rocks to somehow get processed iron without a refinery (I guess the magic synthesizer is a refinery, too?), but I can't get these COMMON materials at the localhardware storecommodity market like I can IRL, but I can buy Uranium at thegrocery storecommodity market, is the most illogical, nonsensical, immersion-breaking nonsense that has every been created during mankind's existence on this earth.
Oh, and all these materials are massless, volumeless, and omnipresent. Yet they also have restrictions in quantity, defined by some arbitrary law of nature. Same goes with data, with individual files taking up terabytes of drive storage (either that or ships in Elite switched back to old floppy drives for data storage).
I'm just saying that your idea is trying to fix nonsensical with nonsensical for the sake of ease of gameplay. It's duct tape on a rusty truck.
O7
Playing games is a waste of time
And playing a career game like Elite is an even more waste of time - it's basically why i avoided Elite in the early years - i decided that in dont want one game to rule them all and eat all my spare time...
However i succumbed to it by the end of 2018 and here is me, 8000+ thousands hour spent i game already (well, cumulated over 3 account, but still)
So yea - it's part of the game.
However, if you really want to have everything in 1 jump distance, move to Colonia. A nice part of the Galaxy, with its charms, but not without flaws.
Áfter some time spent there, you may decide that jumping around a bit to get things done is not as bad as it looked before moving to Colonia
There is no grind - the entire process is non-trivial so the engineered ships have an achievement value.
Else we all would be playing Counterstrike, buying the weapons at the start of the round and be done with it several minutes later.
Even after 50+ engineered ships, every single ship i engineer is part of a process i really love, starting with deciding what i want from that ship, to numerous coriolis/edsy iterations then the engineering itself and then the maiden voyage to apply experimentals
Else they could have implemented a 1-button engineering and be done with unlocks, blue prints, materials and the entire ship building and customization process
Else we all would be playing Counterstrike, buying the weapons at the start of the round and be done with it several minutes later.
Even after 50+ engineered ships, every single ship i engineer is part of a process i really love, starting with deciding what i want from that ship, to numerous coriolis/edsy iterations then the engineering itself and then the maiden voyage to apply experimentals
Else they could have implemented a 1-button engineering and be done with unlocks, blue prints, materials and the entire ship building and customization process
I agree, grind is player choice, not mandatory.
In RL it's not "player" choice though, any time spent other than eating, sleeping and free time, is a relentless grind. As in, anything you don't enjoy doing is a grind.
RL, mine has never been a grind either... Sorry yours is so terrible - mine's been particularly good!
ETA: If I find I don't enjoy playing a game, I don't play it... Amazing how well that works for negating grind.
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You must be a millionaire then.
it takes around 10 minutes to get 100 imperial shielding if it takes longer to you them that is a you problem . it takes me 4 seconds to load from mian menu to the game again.... with taht sayd . do you actaully have the game . it dosent seem so . btw hteres more than imperial shielding theres other grade 5materials you can farm at hge wich takes 10 minutes .and yes its 100 imperial shielding my bad the 150 is to get around 900 grade 1 in trading value for every engenerring material.
I'm not sure as I haven't relogged at a HGE for a long time. Doesn't that need to be a relog to desktop?
i agree with this ,. make every drope be a 10plus . and reduce the costs for trading . 1 to 1 for grade 5s and grade 4s are 1 to 1 etc like this but keep like the cost of other grades
At times, I fear I enjoy the Coriolis/EDSY & general ship design part more than playing the game!
10 minutes for 100 is impressive to the point of being unbelievable (it's well over a factor of 2 quicker than I can do it). Suggesting that this is routine for all players is nonsense and I guess you know that. You're either exaggerating or you're the quickest material collector ever seen.
And 4 seconds to reload the game is rather fast, but then you go on to admit that...
...indeed yes, it's a reload from desktop so 4 seconds becomes harder still to swallow.
Putting the pieces together, and noticing some other hyperbolic posts such as these two about PRs:
...I conclude that you are simply trolling. (Feel free to post a video of your HGE gathering and/or your PR gathering to convince people that you aren't, of course.)
All I can say is that relogging to desktop sucks as gameplay. Been there, done that, and never again...