Is Elite Dangerous a Dad's Game Played mainly by "non-gamers"?
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No problem.
We can't have a discussion if we agree on everything!
Also, if we all agreed on everything, what a boring place this would be!
I'm a dad/granddad/gamer, that's says it all no!
Hm.
You don't need reputation with anyone to be a combat oriented player.
Just ignore the rest.
Makes the game more difficult? Uhm .. maybe? But why care?
Why plot a "A class" Anaconda for 600 mio and then grind there with the most profitable (and boring) way, clocking 500 hrs of pure trading?
Noone -but one's own habit and the ringing of bells- is forcing you to somesuch.
Oh, and in case you mean you cannot join an official navy and work your rank up .. can't be a lawyer, either. Or a Turkeybreeder on Planet Lave (that was Starwars:Galaxies
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AMEN!
I like you already, good Sir.
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To get into the Capital Planet, I need to be rank (forgotten), but I can't get there, since... no missions....
Slightly more indepth: I cannot do criminal missions (being a nice fella, and I keep my RP clean), I don't do non-combat oriented missions, all I had was Kill X Pirates/Assassinate Criminal.
But these vanished with 1.4...
Addendum: Vulture, my only boat.
And yes, I love to take on big daddies, even winged...
This is one of the things I do like, really.
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I've been a gamer since 82 so not sure what that says about our generation.. .. ..
Well.. I'm 43 years young, have 1 kid (and one who died) and 2 step kids. I've been a gamer since 1979, I loath football entirely and I am a self confessed Nerd. I work in IT, do Cosplay (Jedi Knight) when the situation deserves it. Have a back catalog of more than 500 games on steam alone (was an early adopter of steam and digital distribution 12 years ago). Have been a Sysop of BBS in the past, played the original Elite in 84, as well as Frontier Elite 2. I'm SQL fluent and getting there with Java. In essence, I am a Dad and a Gamer Geek.
Oh, and Elite: Dangerous is my numero uno game of the moment (steam review: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Oziman/recommended/359320/ )
"Elite: Dangerous, simply put, is one of THE best games ever made, it is every Star Wars boyhood dream come true."
Oh, and Elite: Dangerous is my numero uno game of the moment (steam review: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Oziman/recommended/359320/ )
"Elite: Dangerous, simply put, is one of THE best games ever made, it is every Star Wars boyhood dream come true."
you understand the concept of development? you have heard what is coming in Horizons? Even just taking player avatars and multi crew, as an example, shows a movement towards getting out of our ships and interacting with the BGS directly via npc's. also, if you think the BGS is dead.. you are either unsure what you are looking at, or haven't tried to interact with it, in an organised and focused manner.
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Whippersnapper.
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Hmhm. You do have a point there. The mission on offer balancing as such does sucketh mightiely at times and is pretty counterproductive.
There's still seems to be the odd pirate mission every now and then (like 1/100 .. totally random from kill 3 to kill 25?), but it's far and between (and then never for the right faction and so on).
And yea, referencing that other thread, I would (like "common sense") expect Combat Zone participation / War Bonds for a certain faction to give a major boost to (auxiliary) military rank, where it seems to do absolutely nothing?
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Aye, and this was the first time I spoke of it, and i am anxiously awaiting the new updates in that regard, too.
My comment was at someone saying that "space is a dead place" or something in that way.
It was not meant as a complaint, really.
Casual games are not necessarily dadgames, though dadgames can be casual and vice versa. Certainly compared to the days of Jet Set Willy things are far more casual these days, though as someone who used to spend their time doing narcotics runs for fun on the original Elite, other than that there wasn't a great deal of difficulty in it. But that wasn't the point of elite, then or now and doesn't have to be.
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Hmmm ... we may have a contender for someone who is older than me!
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I'm all for that, really.
But then you get a few that say: "This mission became too hard..."
Hard is good, it pushes us to become better, I think.
I can be wrong, of course!
I just like some challenge...
Or a lot, actually.
So enjoying discussing something you wish was otherwise is now verboten? Hmmm ...
Regardless of what the OP said, I bet you there are now a bunch of real gamers pointing at this thread on Reddit and laughing, due to the amount of dadgamer indignation it has caused to be expressed.
To indiebob: why does it matter? Yes, I've read your original post, but I failed to grasp your meaning.
To indiebob: why does it matter? Yes, I've read your original post, but I failed to grasp your meaning.
I can't agree here. I am a fully combat oriented pilot, and while I do enjoy PvP I don't go looking for it (I just always submit to player interdictions then come about with guns blazing), and I have no problems.
I suspect part of your problem is focusing too much on ranking up to get the bigger ships. A lot of people who treat this game as a grind to the big ships have major issues with the game, and I believe that is because the game wasn't intended to be played that way (an oversight from the design team, who should have anticipated that behaviour from people used to that being the norm in many modern games, especially MMO's).
I believe that the game was intended to be more about enjoying the journey, not rushing to the destination, and that the bigger ships were meant to be something you naturally progress into slowly over a very long time playing.
As I said, FD should perhaps have anticipated this problem, but they didn't apparently.
Still I'd suggest slowing down and taking the time to hone your skills in ships like the Viper, DBS and Vulture, and by the time you get access to the bigger ships, you'll be a better pilot for it.
No, but if someone basically just doesn't like a game, going to that game's community and complaining that the game should be something else is rude and disrespectful, and deserves all the scorn and derision it gets.
If you went onto a forum for the FIFA soccer games and complained that the game was dead and boring, and it needed assault rifles and an iron-sights mode, you'd get the same reaction (well, maybe with more laughter).
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Exploring in Elite: Text Adventure
Go West
You go west
Go west
There is a pirate in the way
Shoot pirate
You shoot the pirate
Go West
You go west
Go west
You go west
Go West
You go west
Go west
There is a pirate in the way
Shoot pirate
You shoot the pirate
Go West
You go west
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You go west
Another thing they could do, possibly as an alternative to hard missions, is score boards. Let players see how well other players on their friends list did on a specific mission, as well as global scoreaboards. Players might be rated on "least ammo used", "least damage incurred" or "fastest completion time" and you could compete with others on different bases. That way human opposition, rather than the game, becomes your opponent.