The reason why I have played less Elite is.. all the waiting all the time

[soma]

My joy, and curse, is that I play with a DK2! Visually, ED is amazing in the Rift and I'd never go back to a monitor (I actually wouldn't be playing ED at all if it wasn't for the Rift) - but this kind of precludes "doing other stuff" to a large degree. I guess that's part of the issue for me - hence the "curse".

I see. That is a fair point, I can see that this gets boring rather quickly once you get used to the Rift and the novelty wears off. Still the Rift sounds pretty sweet. Once the consumer version is out I might get one just for ED

 

[Patrick_68000]

when your ship goes into the bowels of the station, spins, comes back up and waits for the blast things to lower!

This is also a form of horror

 

[jabokai]

This is also a form of horror

Only if suffer from seven different phobias!

 

[ash73]

Maybe they should add income tax returns to fill out during SC, to further aid with the immersion

 

[Cmdr Cheese Wedge]

I like sitting back relaxing on the beach and watching the sun set, maybe thats why I enjoy ED so much.

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It doesn't? Crap game! It should.

On that note, anyone tried "Spintires"?

Spintires weird quirky muddy Russian fun, not quite as good as a beach sunset though.

 

[Komemiute]

Totally unrelated- but I want again landing fees!

 

[kiario]

I would suggest an optional entrance efter hyper space. Like the option we got to remove orbital lines. We could get the option to arrive at a certain distance to a Star. Could be set in the onboard computer.

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Also, introducing remote communication with stations would be great to cut down on monotomeus operations. Then we could call the station turn in the mission and bounty without having to go all the way back waisting time again.

 

[anikaiful]

*kicks everyone's arses* - Thargoids!

 

[kiario]

*kicks everyone's arses* - Thargoids!

What do you mean Are they behind the waiting?

 

[amigacooke]

LOL! 100% true. Albeit I had the superior C64

C64! What a hunk of junk

 

[cpy]

I agree everything should be skippable

/console_commands enable
/set status elite: trading, combat, exploration
/set credit 999 999 999 999
/win game

GG next game please!

 

[kiario]

I agree everything should be skippable

/console_commands enable
/set status elite: trading, combat, exploration
/set credit 999 999 999 999
/win game

GG next game please!

I dont know, you totally missed the meaning of the post

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Still have C64 in my closet ready to go amongst 7 other vintage consoles and computer.

And I am not a school kid anymore, just 47. Still childish though

 

[cpy]

I dont know, you totally missed the meaning of the post

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Still have one in my closet ready to go amongst 7 other vintage consoles and computer.

And I am not a school kid anymore, just 47. Still childish though

Did I? You don't want to fly in space ship, you don't want to hyper jump, you don't want to move at all, you just want to do everything from single place, maybe you want to play some RTS?

 

[amigacooke]

Leave Elite for 10 secs and nobody will notice.

I used to play Space Invaders back in the day. You couldn't leave that for a second but I'm not sure it made it a better game because of that.

 

[Microblitz]

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Waiting in starport turning on landing pad and decsending in garage. Why cant we access station menu while this sequence is running?

Why bother to go in you can access the station menu on the surface?

Waiting to get up to Surface again. Waiting for blast wall to be lowered.

You got me there. I tend to mash the undercarriage up button in frustration

Waiting to get out of mass lock till SS

All pips to engines and two burns and your out'a there!

Waiting 4 sec or more to enter SS and HS

That's so you cannot instantly warp out of harms way when being attacked, because you ran you must pay the price, the price is 4 seconds of bad guy fire.

Waiting in HS to load instance

I'm not a big fan of the hyperspace sequence itself, but f you're waiting for it to load, buy yourself an SSD

Arriving at Star, waiting to turn ship around to avoid melting.

Close the throttle before you arrive and start turning as part of the deceleration

Waiting at SS exit to load Starport, nav Point etc

Why are you waiting for load times? Is that a pentium 3 in there by any chance?

Waiting in SS travelling to reach dest. This can be huge waiting

It's a frikin' space simulator, what you actually want a teleport button!
Hell why not an "I win button too" You can press it and instantly finish the game!

There is far too much waiting and dead time. This shouls (sic) be slimlined (sic) more.

So lets get this right you want
Docking to be instantaneous
Travelling to be instantaneous
Frontier to pony up a new computer for you to reduce load times.


Imaging pressing HS and 2 sec later you are in a new system NOT facing the bloody star.

Yes let's imagine that. The game would be :

Not a space simulator. It would be an arcade game. So travelling 30 light years should be the same as travelling 200 light years?

Your next post would be "I'm bored, I travelled all the stars last night and now I have nothing to do! Boo Hoo! Wah Wah Wah! etc".



And lets not talk about all the waiting in missions USS...oh my.

yes Oh My indeed!... have you considered Marios Brothers, I'm told it has a instant travel between universes and no loading times

 

[Joe Akeem]

I love all the bits and bolts revolving, animation and manual inputs. Makes feel like i'm there and not playing Excel.

 

[Bortas]

that I have gotten tired of all the waiting and monotomeus sequences in the game.

Waiting in starport turning on landing pad and decsending in garage. Why cant we access station menu while this sequence is running?

We can. If you are not planning to visit the outfitting, it's even faster to directly access the menu, without entering the hangar. When you take off again, the ship will be spun around and you won't have to wait for the blast walls to lower.

Waiting to get up to Surface again. Waiting for blast wall to be lowered.

I use this delay to do my route planning.

 

[Zueuk]

Waiting...
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Waiting...

You don't understand! It's all for IMMERSION!!!
Nobody will feel immersed in the game world if they won't wait at least 10 seconds for any thing (no matter how insignificant) to happen.
(edit) Except for cargo loading/unloading of course. It happens instantly, just like in the real world... right?

 

[zsmono]

Actually, that's how it might have been originally - just pointless jumps to specific point of interests. I'd suggest the solution, which was lobbied for by the DDF, is far superior.


Toodles!
S.

So, You are responsible for this nonsene! How can I thank you for that? Got it! I will drop to You 1000 tons of palladium, meet me at Alpha Centaury - Hutton Orbital.

 

[ash73]

All this waiting, and there isn't even a pause button so the game can wait for me.