Yeah so I've been watching closely but I didn't even buy E
yet because there's a huge,huge turnoff for me. It has been discused many times but this game lacks any social tools. Yes, I've heard about the Wings update, but that's simply not enough. I want to be able to form an organization of players, but there are no tools to support that. I want to trade with other players, but there's no way to do so. I want to help my organization grow in power and prestige, because this is what gives a sense of meaning to what I'm doing. And I know from personal experience with other games that if there's no sense of meaning then even the most innovative game will make me bored quickly.
Look, you have the entire Milky Way to play with, but it's empty. There's noone to harvest it, noone to say "this is mine, I have taken it. It's the measure of my power". There are factions nobody really cares about as the only thing they really do for you is giving you some boring quests. With that much space avaiable, why not to allow creating an organization of players(a corporation) and allow them to own a planet or other stellar body and harvest resources they could then trade with other players/planets/corporations? Why not to allow them to build their own space station and collect fees for landing? Or an orbital shipyard that allows to build capital ships? There's so much potential when there's 400 billion stellar bodies involved!
That said I'd really like to buy E simply because it looks fun. But I just can't. Not without basic social tools. Creating a corporation is the bare minimum for me, otherwise it just won't work. If it gets implemented I might join in, otherwise I'll probably wait for Star Citizen to launch sometime in 2016.
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It's funny how E: D becomes E
yet because there's a huge,huge turnoff for me. It has been discused many times but this game lacks any social tools. Yes, I've heard about the Wings update, but that's simply not enough. I want to be able to form an organization of players, but there are no tools to support that. I want to trade with other players, but there's no way to do so. I want to help my organization grow in power and prestige, because this is what gives a sense of meaning to what I'm doing. And I know from personal experience with other games that if there's no sense of meaning then even the most innovative game will make me bored quickly. Look, you have the entire Milky Way to play with, but it's empty. There's noone to harvest it, noone to say "this is mine, I have taken it. It's the measure of my power". There are factions nobody really cares about as the only thing they really do for you is giving you some boring quests. With that much space avaiable, why not to allow creating an organization of players(a corporation) and allow them to own a planet or other stellar body and harvest resources they could then trade with other players/planets/corporations? Why not to allow them to build their own space station and collect fees for landing? Or an orbital shipyard that allows to build capital ships? There's so much potential when there's 400 billion stellar bodies involved!
That said I'd really like to buy E
simply because it looks fun. But I just can't. Not without basic social tools. Creating a corporation is the bare minimum for me, otherwise it just won't work. If it gets implemented I might join in, otherwise I'll probably wait for Star Citizen to launch sometime in 2016.- - - Updated - - -
It's funny how E: D becomes E
