They've "fixed" insta-station-leaving

Vorxian

Vorxian
It was a 'useful' time saver, but, no one can deny an immersion breaker.

Imagine stepping out of your front door, starting your car engine, logging out of irl, immediately log back in, and you were automatically east bound on the M20 doing 70mph!

Heck that's damn useful and saves about 25 mins in rush hour, but kinda silly :p

(tinfoil hat on; analogy gunfire inc!)
 

Garbarrage

Garbarrage
Vorxian said:
It was a 'useful' time saver, but, no one can deny an immersion breaker.

Imagine stepping out of your front door, starting your car engine, logging out of irl, immediately log back in, and you were automatically east bound on the M20 doing 70mph!

Heck that's damn useful and saves about 25 mins in rush hour, but kinda silly :p

(tinfoil hat on; analogy gunfire inc!)
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I think that anybody who logs out of the game for any r reason is forfeiting their immersion anyway. Back to real life as it were.
_Flin_ said:
As a family father, being able to leave the house fast and without hassle just has this wonderful flair of uniqueness and purity for me.
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As a family father, when the need arises, I know that where I need to be away for a long time, I can just log off any time that I want. If I just need to leave the computer for a moment, I can just drop out of SC where I am, and head in any direction at full throttle (in case someone follows my wake), and pick up exactly where I left off when I get back.

SC is necessary. Simply jumping from station to station would be way more boring.
 

_Flin_

_Flin_
askavir said:
I wonder what some people play this game, a spaceship simulator, for. What is "gameplay" for them? Watching a numeric counter (credits) change?
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The thing is, this is Your opinion.
You have a dogmatic ideological problem with people that do not like what you like.
As i can see from the immediate maximum escalation from "this guy does not like taking off - he must be a greedy creditscrooge that dislikes everything except looking at his balance".

I like playing the BGS and think PvP is pointless. Others dislike the BGS and like PvP. Good for them.

Being forced to undock does take nothing away from Your game experience.
Being forced to undock takes out about 10-15% from my enjoyment of the game.

I think it is a horrible change. It adds nothing to the game. It does not make the game any more fun. It does not make me want to play the game more. It probably does not make anyone want to play the game more, because the people who wanted to undock manually, already do so!

It's just another incident of immersion evangelists liking to have their own preferences forces upon others while having themselves no benefit at all.

I was happy being able to avoid undocking. It's as interesting as watching paint dry. Tieing shoes is more interesting. It's the second most useless part of a video game i know, right after sitting on a these flying animal in WoW to get from A to B without being able to do anything.

And this being a spaceship simulator? Yeah, right. With max speed, faster than light travel, laser and explosion sounds and flight assist. If i want a space simulator, i play Kerbal Space program.

If i have the choice, i take fun over realism every day of the week. But then i dont care about how others have fun as long as it doesnt interfere with my fun.
 

DrakeAurum

DrakeAurum
askavir said:
People don't ant to "waste time" undocking.
People don't ant to "waste time" docking.
People don't ant to "waste time" jumping.
People don't ant to "waste time" flying in supercruise.
People don't ant to "waste time" looking for outfitting, checking markets at stations, look for missions, etc.
People don't ant to "waste time" working to get better gear / ships.
People don't ant to "waste time" going back to a station to refill ammo / consumables.

I wonder what some people play this game, a spaceship simulator, for. What is "gameplay" for them? Watching a numeric counter (credits) change?
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So, did you manually type out each line of your post and make the same typo six times, or did you take a short cut so as not to "waste time"?
 
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askavir

askavir
DrakeAurum said:
So, did you manually type out each line of your post and make the same typo six times, or did you take a short cut so as not to "waste time"?
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I copy pasted obviously. But then I didn't purchase Typing Simulator so I could then complain I had to type.

Also you didn't answered my question. Taking into account this is a space sim, if you take out the actual spaceship flying, what is "playing the game" for you?
 
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Sugarat

Sugarat
_Flin_ said:
Well, I've been never able to get my head around why people think an unskippable cutscene that one has seen multiple 1000 times is anything else but a nuisance.

When was the last time you played a car racing game where you had to drive your car from the garage to the starting line?
A soccer game where you had to tie your shoes?

"Game Mechanic" for me is of no value in itself. Doing fun things is. Leaving the station is... usually not fun.

But after having played online games for 20 years i know there is no task mundane or boring enough that there wont be people that have the opinion that it has some kind of value.
Great if it suits you.
For me freetime is a rare commodity, and spending 15% of my game time leaving the station is just tedious and exactly zero fun.

Of course fun is different things for different people and my views are rather pragmatic.
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For me docking and take off is the only fun there is when trading (which is why I don't do it).. but each to their own I suppose :)
 
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