Things in ED that make you scratch your head!

Where did you think all the scrap metal on the commodities markets came from?

Not to mention that every laser shot that MISSES a target slams into the opposite side of the station - and the inside of the station have no shields.

Or the poor workers inside the station that get shredded by red hot metal shrapnel.
 
That scanners require firing like a gun and take up one of my only two weapon binds when I can apparently jump lightyears in a second.
 
That an eagle can keep up with my enitre robigo run even though I am fitting with enough extra fuel to go the whole 400ly without refueling....we will not even bring up how he can scan my wake and keep up when I jump the second my fsd cools down.
 
Point of Interest on an as of yet undiscovered moon 50.000 ly from Earth:

Tea canisters and a broken SRV.

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Npc Asp in CZ takes full broadside of Imperial Interdictor main guns right to the belly.

Shields hold. 0_o
 
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Cop scans smuggler with illegal cargo on board. Fines him. Doesn't confiscate the contraband. Smuggler can go ahead and sell on the local black market or leave without paying the fine. Nobody bothers him.

0_ô
 
Why in the real world 21st century we have orbiting satellites that can pinpoint people and objects on the ground, yet in the Elite Dangerous 32nd century we can't pinpoint a cargo canister using the ships scanners from 2km altitude...
 
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Being asked to deliver 4 tonnes of food of in a ship capable of carrying 200 to a planet of 10,000,000 starving people and it making everything better.
 
The ridiculous small bulge in your avatars croutch.

I find that, in combination with the fackt the avatar is carrying to the left very immersion breaking in my VR experience.
 
The little yellow trucks just going around and around, nothing else, around the inside of the stations, constantly and indefinitely. This puzzled me for months, but now I know why they are there.

Isaac Newtons theory of equal and opposite reactions. It is the trucks that keep the stations rotating.

Now don't go checking, because, knowing my luck, they travel in the same direction.
 
That needs some testing I think, I recently got into a fight with an NPC and despite silent running, I could have sworn his lasers were hitting me despite him not being perfectly aligned towards me.

Went up against an NPC Elite Conda this week, in my Viper IV.

Discovered going Silent was completely useless; the turrets continued to nail me. Even chaff seemed to be rather limited in effect, I finally had to jump out.

Also amusing was being on the 6 of another NPC, and his Frag Cannons were shooting BACKWARDS and hitting me...
 
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Why in the real world 21st century we have orbiting satellites that can pinpoint people and objects on the ground, yet in the Elite Dangerous 32nd century we can't pinpoint a cargo canister using the ships scanners from 2km altitude...


ED is very sciencey. :)
 
To be honest...

We all wanted a awesome and realistic game.

We got this.

People play dark souls for c sake. Physics would be good. Always dreamed of a game that put all of our astronomical and cosmological knowledge into one platform. So kids and teachers alike could look at it and be stunned.
Any idiot can make an Xbox game. Takes a lot more to make a staggering game.

And for the love of G, don't you guys realize what you have here? The worlds first artificial Galaxy? Make something of it. Then the money will roll in. Because its not only a game - its a platform physicists and so can use. I personally don't mind my suns getting moved a bit during realism updates. Seriously consider doing that PLEASE!!! Open the galaxy map up to universities and hold a yearly competition for accuracy, while withholding storyline. Then you have something like "google galaxy map"?

Why not? In the meantime, we are all safe in the knowledge we have something that no other game has. And we can blow stuff the H up.
 
To be honest...

We all wanted a awesome and realistic game.

Except for ships with weapons that shoot backwards, don't overheat, don't run out of ammo, and eat chaff for breakfast. ;)

Always dreamed of a game that put all of our astronomical and cosmological knowledge into one platform. ... And for the love of G, don't you guys realize what you have here? The worlds first artificial Galaxy? ...Open the galaxy map up to universities and hold a yearly competition for accuracy, while withholding storyline.

More than a few people don't give a rat's butt about the accuracy of the ED galaxy.

...people asking if the orbit cycles are accurate - seriously, who gives a frak? Why does anyone fraking CARE if the orbit cycles are accurate? It's a game, not a thesis for people gearing up to use the Hubble Telescope...

Seriously, in things that most people look for in a game - "COMPLETELY ACCURATE GALAXY WITH 400 BILLION STARS" isn't a the killer feature. It's a nice marketing tagline, and that's it. ED would be just as playable with 10,000 systems... unless your thing is just jumping 900 times to get to Sag A (I guess you have to find SOMETHING to do for entertainment at some point...).
 
Let's say (in our present day world) some guy robs a liquor store. As he is fleeing the scene, a witness takes note of the license plate number of his beat up Pinto and reports it to the police.

The police then put a bounty on this man's head, which can be claimed by just about any citizen with a license to drive a car.

One day, Citizen Goodman, driving along the freeway in his Prius, randomly scans the robber's vehicle and notices he has a bounty on his head.

Goodman proceeds to ram the perpetrator off the freeway.

As the beat up Pinto goes flying into a layby, Goodman wastes no time riddling the perp's vehicle with high caliber bullets from the machine guns that pop out of the hood of his Prius.

With the final blow punctuated by the shrieking flight of a heat seeking missile, the criminal's Pinto explodes in a glowing fireball of angry death.

Citizen Goodman is immediately awarded a 600 dollar voucher, which can be redeemed at the nearest police station.

This scenario sounds absolutely insane when viewed from the perspective of someone who isn't a total nutter, but it is standard operating procedure in the universe of Elite: Dangerous.

Looks like a possible and plausible projection of US anti-crime and pro-weapon policies, projected 1300 years into the future.

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There are times when you are interdicted when a quick trip to the toilet is required!

Naah, those are simply "brown space suit" moments.
 
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