Can we talk about things that just don't make sense?
- Thread starter Bojamijams
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Certainly not. Have closer look in the left panel. The next destination on your route is marked by something with three(?) dots.
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Why does failing any mission seem to hurt your faction rep much more than a completing it successfully?
This makes perfect sense if the mission is delivering medical supplies or secret Imperial transmissions within a time limit. If it's a contract to kill a pirate in a 450Mcr ship, for 150kcr, it makes no sense whatsoever.
This makes perfect sense if the mission is delivering medical supplies or secret Imperial transmissions within a time limit. If it's a contract to kill a pirate in a 450Mcr ship, for 150kcr, it makes no sense whatsoever.
Systems selling slaves looking for 2 slaves at the bulletin board.
Outposts only capable of handling one docked cmdr at a time, even though it has numerous docking pads... <Access denied>
What do you think they make the burgers from?
A Federation restaurant? Strong rumours abound that they use Lugh's children.
Several changes were made to FA off during early beta for the sake of playability, without lengthy explanations addressing each point (I just cba) just accept the devs felt it necessary.
In response to the complaints about module values, the devs have said they would make more information available at some point, but that is a lot of ui data to change, especially when there are more important things to address.
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Linked detail from mission contracts would be good. It could like to a whole mine of stellar, lore or commodity data.
This one does actually make sense. Deploying your cargo scoop halves your ship's top speed. So the 25% is still 50% of the current top speed (because you deployed the scoops).
The FA stuff is odd though. In beta, if you boosted with FA off, you'd maintain the max speed. And this makes sense, as why would you slow down? They changed this for release though (for gameplay reasons, I think).
The one thing that really gets my goat is the landing pads on outposts. Who repeatedly employed the same idiotic designer to place serious obstructions in the "nominal" flightpath for so many of them, especially when if you turn the pad 180 deg there is clear access.
Chris, are you familiar with Hong Kong's old airport?
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Exploration turn in being slow and awful.
Inability to target celestial bodies from system view (yes I am aware this is changing in 1.3).
Inability to easily switch to external view without a buggy debug camera (X series from Egosoft made it easy to do, why can't Elite?)
Detailed scan failures due to backend problems.
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Exploration turn in being slow and awful.
Inability to target celestial bodies from system view (yes I am aware this is changing in 1.3).
Inability to easily switch to external view without a buggy debug camera (X series from Egosoft made it easy to do, why can't Elite?)
Detailed scan failures due to backend problems.
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What is the purpose of nav points anyway? You don't need to go there to leave the system and you don't drop out there when you arrive.
Why do kinetic weapons lose damage potential over distance? Air friction?
Why do beam weapons lose damage potential over 3 km? Going through dense fog or smoke?
Why do Agri planets want food cartridges, the crappiest form of food available?
Thrusters, they are made out of pure magic. Why can't they make a ship where the thrusters provide better yaw than roll?
Why do the sensors look for thermal radiation? What happened to radars?
Why do Radar jamming Chaff confuse a sensor tuned to look for thermal radiation? Are they flares, instead of chaff?
Why do thermal sensors weight 5-10 tons and have 8 km radius? Maybe in 1984, they were like that. Present day infra sensors weight 400 kg and have a range of 100 km.
Why do kinetic weapons lose damage potential over distance? Air friction?
Why do beam weapons lose damage potential over 3 km? Going through dense fog or smoke?
Why do Agri planets want food cartridges, the crappiest form of food available?
Thrusters, they are made out of pure magic. Why can't they make a ship where the thrusters provide better yaw than roll?
Why do the sensors look for thermal radiation? What happened to radars?
Why do Radar jamming Chaff confuse a sensor tuned to look for thermal radiation? Are they flares, instead of chaff?
Why do thermal sensors weight 5-10 tons and have 8 km radius? Maybe in 1984, they were like that. Present day infra sensors weight 400 kg and have a range of 100 km.
The Python costs over 3 times the Type 7, that cost has to be justified. We've already had a Python nerf, please do not go there again.
Philip Coutts
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Being able to be ranked with all three major powers? What?
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Also my bank balance at the end of each month rarely makes sense to me...
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Also my bank balance at the end of each month rarely makes sense to me...
Shoot a non-criminal, cops open up on you. Without scanning. All of them. Conveniently forgetting about everyone in the area with 6-digit bounty on them.
I think he's saying it's a bit weird that a T7, a ship that is basically a container with a canopy in front and engines in the back (e.g. as space-optimized for cargo as possible), only fits on a large pad, whereas the python, a sleek dagger-shaped warship with all sorts of angles and space compromises can (a) land on a smaller pad, (b) somehow is bigger on the inside than the outside and can fit more cargo?
The real problem here is that class of the utility slot is doing two separate things: governing how sophisticated a module goes there, while at the same time scaling linearly with cargo container that goes into that utility slot. That design is weird and kind of makes no sense. A ship like the python is like a missile cruiser of today -- capable of carrying all sorts of interesting military kit, but should really not beat a container ship for cargo hauling. But that's neither here nor there, the design is not changing now.
The real problem here is that class of the utility slot is doing two separate things: governing how sophisticated a module goes there, while at the same time scaling linearly with cargo container that goes into that utility slot. That design is weird and kind of makes no sense. A ship like the python is like a missile cruiser of today -- capable of carrying all sorts of interesting military kit, but should really not beat a container ship for cargo hauling. But that's neither here nor there, the design is not changing now.
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Players may choose not to but NPC do.
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Regardless, it has already been explained a number of times: it's the HEIGHT of the T7 that bars it from using medium pads.