Hi
I've been mostly playing X4 Foundations, because they just revamped the flight model and released a new version. The game keep improving, which is nice indeed.
One thing I really enjoy in X4, that I wish Elite had, is the ability to have your NPC crew do things for you. You can just ride along and let them drive. You can have them haul for you, mine for you, etc. It's really a fun aspect of the game.
Ahh, the Egosoft X series.
I've got most of those games on my Steam account.
I've played most of the series right back from X Beyond the Frontier's release, and I was a regular poster on the Forums more or less when they first created the main forum for the game, happy days!
I don't play the games now, (though I might start them all up again from the beginning someday, who knows). X Rebirth was the turning point for me, I couldn't get much interest in it mainly I think because (apart from the awful release state) and the new feature of the 'space highways', which was a big change from the original BGS. I'd also frequently asked for planet landings, but it was not to be.
... Elite now fills that specific feature for me.
I agree with you on the NPC principal, there's many a task in Elite I think would benefit from more active NPC participation, especially for those mundane repetitive tasks. I personally think that repetitive tasks / play can lead to a few negative outcomes, boredom, physical strain and I bet nobody thinks much of the wear and tear on your keyboard, mouse and joystick. I mean, how many times do you use those 'peripherals' in the game when a well programmed NPC could theoretically cut that wear out by a large percentage.
No, I suspect it will be down to when they are happy they have fixed the issue(s) rather than a fixed time.
I wonder if they'll add some extra time to the station build times which players have already started, as there has been a fair bit of server down time last week?
Today....Still unloading my Carrier in my claimed system, then when that's done I'll maybe as I said earlier, go to the appropriate systems and start filling it up again with more of the same.
Incidentally, just thought to add. When I went to another players Coriolis station yesterday I took a mission there for (can't remember the actual amount) some gold...
...it might have been 75 units or something like that, a go find bring back type. The reward was roughly around 30,000,000 so I took it just to do something different other than hauling for my station for a change. I brought back a full Cutter load of 512 units (I always re equip my Cutter with strong shields in the top slot doing missions) consisting roughly of 250 gold, some silver and platinum.
I went back to the station to deliver and....the same sort of missions kept popping straight up again, plus similar payments / amounts for platinum and to a lesser amount silver!
...
I stayed at the station for about an hour (I was doing other RL stuff as well.) Okay, it was just sheer luck, but I made roughly over 200 million in that hour.!
Jack
. Doing plenty of jumping trying to find a nice system two found so far hoping to find a system with a ringed planet no such luck so far 
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