The physics is wonky?
What is the last time you travelled at faster than the speed of light around a remote solar system trying to dock at an orbital space station?
I hate supercruise
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The physics is wonky?
What is the last time you travelled at faster than the speed of light around a remote solar system trying to dock at an orbital space station?
You can't strafe in super cruise. Your thrusters don't work at all. Try an ever-decreasing-altitude spiral around your target destination -as in, putting your destination at the top of your cockpit while orbiting, slowing down to fly ever closer. Some people call it button hooking.
Well, yeah, it's difficult for a faster-than-light bullet to slow itself down. The game assists WAY more than it needs to, at that. If this were real physics, you'd have to turn and face the opposite direction to burn engines to slow you down and it would probably rip your ship to bits. There are some things that you just need to concede on. It's like going to the movies and having to suspend disbelief for entertainment value. It's not game-breaking and this game isn't selling itself as pure realism. You're playing in Braben's imagination.
Nav becons. You're welcome.
Also, I like that the game doesn't just tell you where to go and what to do. Surprise, sometimes you have to figure stuff out by trial and error! Additionally, sometimes you fail. Sometimes you WON'T find the canisters. I like that you can fail. I like that you can do everything you possibly can to try to finish a mission and sometimes life just kicks you in the nuts and tells you no. It makes the game a LOT more interesting. Plus, if I have to work harder and I DO succeed, it's that much more satisfying to know that I accomplished the task at hand.
It is also way worse than in Frontier /First Encounters where you just select a station and autopilot gets you there
This supercruise minigame gets annoying after several hundred landings.
As an explorer, the only thing I'd like to see changed is a way to turn off the flight assist when cruising out to unknown planets and stars >50000ls so I don't slow down as I approach them. I don't have the "ultimate" advanced scanner, so I can only pick up object 1000ls or less. So I do a lot of searching using parallax viewing. (which I think is more fun than knowing everything in the sector from a single scan)
yes keep supercruise,i like it makes space feel big,please no jumping from planet to planet,that would just feel like going from room to room.The people who dont really like supercruise must have short attention spans.they may be better off playing a game that more combat oriented.Just how many dislike supercruise if 75% like it then there is no justfication to change it.
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It is also way worse than in Frontier /First Encounters where you just select a station and autopilot gets you there
+1 and Amen. *fistbump*
You do realize that if they kept SC and added in a faster means of travel as an option, you'd have the option of using it or SC, I agree there's no reason to remove SC because it's good and provides value, but that value gets overshadowed by its cumbersomeness if you do alot of traveling inside an individual system as opposed to seconds to jump between entire systems. You give up access to the SC stuff to get around faster, or go back and SC if you want to access that part of the game. If you dislike it, don't use it, and you won't be affected by it, whereas now the only option is the "huurr duuurr don't play dis game it nut for you" response coming from some of the resident forum trolls who are hopping on the "FD is always right" train.
TLDR: don't change super cruise, just add a faster travel option, everybody wins, including the people who are vehemently opposed to a faster travel option because they can just ignore it and keep on cruising.
If a faster method of travel is implemented, it removes the challenge of getting from Point A to Point B while avoiding other players and NPCs who will interdict you and kill you or steal your cargo.
SC should be kept exactly as it is and anyone whining about a faster method of travel needs to realize that they'd be removing a major game mechanic by doing so, effectively negating the entire effort of creating the game mechanic in the first place.
YOU ARE A TARGET. PERIOD.
There MUST be some way for other players to have a chance to catch/interdict/steal/kill you. Changing this at all negates that risk/reward mechanic. The people whining about SC just aren't thinking this through or have no attention span or are carebears that don't want to get interdicted.
Wrong. I personally want to get interdictet. By _actual_ Pirates. Not by some Dude who dont know how to pirate properly and instead shooting at me for no reason and without a single word.
So you want to control who interdicts you and who doesn't? Awwwwww, must suck wanting to control everyone else in an MMO.
DON'T INTERDICT ME, GUYS, unless you're qualified!
If someone interdicts you and shoots at you with no warning, just kill him. What's the problem? If there were some way to skip SC, to remove yourself from the state in which others can interdict you, everyone would abuse it and no one would be interdicted. Hurrr durrrr
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Nothing. But its totally pointless. And... oh, this might be some nice fuel for your trolling... It totally breaks my immersion. Even the AI does a better Job in being a random psycho, shooting on sight.
so now your complaining about random people interdicting you and just shooting at you?? Umm what? So they have to pirate you or do some RP stuff for YOU?
Imagine if this was required in the real world. "Excuse me sir, I'm going to rob you and mug you now, is that alright?" "Sure it is" Or even a better one, "Excuse me I don't care who you are, but I'm going to kill you"
*facepalm*
Take it easy, he obviously comes from a kiddie console... It's not the first time people try to 'annoy' me by such comments. The thing is, typically they are also the ones asking questions about how to "configure the key bindings", "what joystick to buy", "what is your computer specs to run this game", "is anybody usimg TrackIR", etc. you get the point.
I know my intention to help people having my specs in the signature, and if somebody want tips or imfo about certain stuff feel free to PM me. I don't really bother about the occasional kiddie troll.
Sounds like AI to me. Currently AI does a veeeery bad job at 'pirating'. Interdicted me with 'no'(!) Cargo and attacked me (I had NO fines or bounties on my head).
AI interdicted me while hauling scrap from A to B etc.Even the 17th/18th century Pirates could do better than that! They used informers, spies and so on at ports or in towns, looking up ships with valuable cargos or how they were armed, before putting their lives at risk for some load of grain or scrap...
You do realize simply ignoring the facts people now told you multiple times, won't help? It doesn't matter if you speed up supercruise by warping/jumping or by making the throttle more 'responsive".
In the end it makes interdictions more or less impossible, thus removing the whole Bounty Hunter, Pirate and Assassin profession's mechanics! And neither the developera nor the silent majority would be happy with that, just a few very vocal kids would quickly get 'bored' , because "the only thing you can do in this boring game is 'grinding' for mkney and go dogfighting. lame!" So please, either read what people write or use your brain to think options through, before complainng and whining.
EDIT: if you don't like Trading, go Pirating or Bounty hunting, it is not that you HAVE to trade to get money... unfortunately you would still need to learn how to fly in supercruise, but it is much more challenging to get behind a ship and pull it out of sc.
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Very well said, Deyn.