Could we have more than one character?
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I can see both sides of the argument and I'm not sure what side I fall on to be honest.
Exploration is really the only role where a second commander might be useful to me. I go with the flow, doing whatever sounds fun at the moment, and the thought of being thousands of light years away from being able to do anything else but explore has been one of the main reasons I haven't tried it. You have to really want to do it, you have to commit yourself to it, and I think that's part of the point of exploration. That would be lost if you could simply load into another commander and blow off some steam in a RES for awhile. That's why I don't think I'd want another commander slot. Even though part of the game is basically off limits to me that's my problem. Whatever is in my head that's preventing me from making that commitment isn't something Frontier can solve in a patch.
On the other hand it is just a game. Everyone derives enjoyment out of it in different ways. Some people wouldn't have any qualms at all about jumping back and forth between their explorer and their other commander back in civilized space. And their jumping back and forth would have no impact on me whatsoever so by all means, have at it.
So after typing it out I guess I've come down on the side of not objecting to another commander slot. I wouldn't use it personally, but others would, and having more options is always better than having less.
Exploration is really the only role where a second commander might be useful to me. I go with the flow, doing whatever sounds fun at the moment, and the thought of being thousands of light years away from being able to do anything else but explore has been one of the main reasons I haven't tried it. You have to really want to do it, you have to commit yourself to it, and I think that's part of the point of exploration. That would be lost if you could simply load into another commander and blow off some steam in a RES for awhile. That's why I don't think I'd want another commander slot. Even though part of the game is basically off limits to me that's my problem. Whatever is in my head that's preventing me from making that commitment isn't something Frontier can solve in a patch.
On the other hand it is just a game. Everyone derives enjoyment out of it in different ways. Some people wouldn't have any qualms at all about jumping back and forth between their explorer and their other commander back in civilized space. And their jumping back and forth would have no impact on me whatsoever so by all means, have at it.
So after typing it out I guess I've come down on the side of not objecting to another commander slot. I wouldn't use it personally, but others would, and having more options is always better than having less.
..or be a micropayment, at a stretch. It's not an uncommon thing in online games of various sorts.
Seems a bit on the mamby-pamby side to me....
I'd say, no playing of any other game while an ongoing Elite game exists on your pc....
And if you are killed in game, your installation and account are deleted.
Its the only way to keep immersion.
Had I a mouthful of coffee when I read this, I would have been forwarding you the insurance bill for my A-fit keyboard.
The only benefit I could see to having more than one toon is that my children could play a little. My main has been out int he void for some time, that's fine I don't mind missing anything cool back in the home worlds because I choose to go 20k LY away from there. I have no doubt eventually they will add more character slots or saves.
Quite happily pay an additional £10 each for 2 more slots. I long to head off into the deep unknown, but not for weeks at a time with no option to do anything else. It's the only reason stopping me from making an explorer and heading off- the fact that once I start, my only option when I log in is to carry on exploring, and I might be in the mood for some trading or some fighting. It's a game, not a job, so I'd like to be able to do what I enjoy when I want to.
Precisely. Also, there's no way in heck that I'm doing Ironman mode with only one commander slot- given how unreliable the networking is, and how common random explosions are.
Snakebite
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I understand where you are comming from, but this has been discussed many times and the conclusion is that multiple characters would be a really bad idea.
No it wasn't. It certainly wasn't FD's conclusion, either.
dayrth
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Nor mine, nor the majority of posts I've seen on the subject.
Quite liking the small fee idea. I would only want 1 extra, for exploring and wouldn't mind if it cost me a tenner.
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And can be achieved by buying a second account. I don't think this falls into the category of "FD didn't give it because it breaks immersion".
You wouldn't need to use a second slot if you didn't want to. Just like you don't need to buy a second account.
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Who's conclusion?
I've been trying to think of a single MMO style game that doesn't let you have alts and I can't think of any. Most games let you play multiple alts.
Perhaps it would have been better to let us have a single Open Game alt and multiple Solo Game ones. Best of both worlds as it were.
Seriously? You'd pay £10 for an extra character slot? I'm honestly slightly amazed, though not entirely surprised. It would be such a horribly cynical and disrespectful thing for Frontier to attempt to charge for extra slots. This is not a free game, we've all paid good money for it. Some of us have even paid extra for the 'privilege' of helping to alpha/beta test. Let's compare perhaps to a real F2P game, Path of Exile, where you are given 24 character slots to use. Very different game, I realise, but the point stands. Grinding Gear Games have not tried to gouge their players or sink to base money grubbing. For frontier to do so on a title priced in the AAA bracket would be disgusting. Don't enable them by saying you'd pay such absurd prices for something which should not be charged for.
Fixed that.
I want to agree with you, but find the ranty way that you make your point extremely offputting.