There's alot to admire in this game but I wish the architecture of the space staions was more futuristic looking. Looks very 20th century to me with an almost 80s aesthetic with fans, floodlights and spinning radars. I know that thus was when the original game was made and thought maybe it was a nod to its origins but it makes it feel a bit old fashioned and clunky in my opinion. I think they should maybe have an in game campaign to upgrade stations and modernise them maybe with donations from players. Making it slightly sleeker with maybe more use of holograms would be good. Havent started playing odyssey yet but that is my opinion sofar. In some ways its more ols fashioned than the original 1984 version.
Upgrade space stations
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"Futuristic" is not a useful term. The grunge industrial look of Alien looks 'dirtier' than the 'clean' corpo look of Covenant and yet technically Covenant predates Alien in that story's timeline. 
Almost every 'futurist' vision of the past has been laughably incorrect.
Almost every 'futurist' vision of the past has been laughably incorrect.
I like the style of the games vision of the future. Looks used, old (like its been there for generations), dirty, lived in, realistic. As far as the ships, function over form, usefulness over beauty, well except for Saud Kruger and Gutamaya. You need a fan, how else are they gonna circulate air around? Dyson ionizer fans? They're like 700 dollars now, the fans in 3311 would cost more than the whole station! lol 
More than that- You're in space, in a floating piece of metal. Do you want a fancy pants super duper piece of technology with a million moving parts or controlled by half a dozen circuit boards, or do you want a direct drive motor attached to some rotating vanes which could be rebuilt by the station's toilet cleaner with the scrap that falls when a T-9 gets stuck in the slot long enough to anger the station guns.I like the style of the games vision of the future. Looks used, old (like its been there for generations), dirty, lived in, realistic. As far as the ships, function over form, usefulness over beauty, well except for Saud Kruger and Gutamaya. You need a fan, how else are they gonna circulate air around? Dyson ionizer fans? They're like 700 dollars now, the fans in 3311 would cost more than the whole station! lol
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Add new but don't take away existing as many of them are the hallmarks and quintessential vibe of Elite!
NPC routines would be great. But we know there is no simulation of life here. NPCs are just here for us to complete objectives. They had more important things to do like make CQC, Powerplay and soon Colonisation where NPCs don't have any agency.
Blade Runner springs to mind."Futuristic" is not a useful term. The grunge industrial look of Alien looks 'dirtier' than the 'clean' corpo look of Covenant and yet technically Covenant predates Alien in that story's timeline.
Yes! This is what I've wanted for so long, different station landing area based on economy was a nice start, but they really need more variety. Then Odyssey came around and the concourse had exacly 7 interiors, split between thousands of locations. Such a wasted opportunity.
Different interiors based also on population and security would also be great. A low security system with a tiny population might look very run down with peeling paint and burned out or flickering lights scattered throughout.
Not to mention more locations within stations. This could open up station based missions.
This is what I want more than anything else. Just barely above all planet surfaces being landable.