Taking a walk around in the space station.

We human beings like contact with other people. This is what makes multiplayer games to be unlike solo games.
Lack of contact in games usually kills the feeling of action in any games. This is why we need to improve Elite's way to get in contact and to communicate with people.

This game would be so much better if we could step outside the spaceship and talk to people in hangars in "first person view". This is not a new thing in some games.
Elite on the other hand is very very good looking game with extremely nice graphics and all that. This should not just stop being a space ship thing. It could become far
more than that, by thinking of it being a pilot and a good first person fighter together is a lot in this game.

It would also bring a whole new aspect to the Elite if you own an apartment in some space station which you consider your home.
We could fly around space looking for fancy furniture and placing it in our saved apartment.
There would be a limit how many apartments you can own by law. This is because there are millions of lifeforms which lack space for living.

Your space trips would have a totally new meaning when you really do have something to fight for. A team, your friends, your "home" ...


Zones with guns, zones with no guns. We would all start from areas without guns.

Some first person shooting action in the space stations would also give us a meaning of invasion. ( This is probably far in the future. )
You would be a pilot which brings in special forces into space stations to fight. There would be two frontiers.

Hospital trip to avoid complete death would be a bit more expensive than being shot as a pilot. This makes it important to keep your pilot skills up. You need to have
a lot of back up money if you take a shot as a pilot in first person area. Death as pilot is one thing, a bit different than being shot inside a ship with escape pods.

Visual aspect of another form of life is something games like this should go for. Being a classic game, Elite could be the best game ever made with a team who can
bring this game to totally modern level with virtual space life.
 
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Yeh, but it's a huge amount of work and then there's the 'uncanny valley' problem.

I believe FD want to add this, but I would take, for now, a simple, but powerful alternative: have comms between all players docked at a station.
 
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It would also bring a whole new aspect to the Elite if you own an apartment in some space station which you consider your home.
We could fly around space looking for fancy furniture and placing it in our saved apartment.
There would be a limit how many apartments you can own by law. This is because there are millions of lifeforms which lack space for living.

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So like a 34th century doll's house?
 
The best thing to do before posting a feature request is to have a look on the DDA (Design Discussion Archive) to see if it's already there. ;)
 
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