Would certainly add a new level of depth and allow more people to join up for wings or crew a ship. It would be more realistic that commanders would relax in a lounge or bar area and socialise with other commanders whenever they stopped at a station for refuelling, trading and outfitting their ships.
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This for the soontil relics. Apparently they are going to put in a fix so that the system spawns at least one for you to satisfy the engineer. And the meta alloys are normally obtained from the barnacle sites, however it appears there is a bug that is preventing the spawn. So they will be available for sale from Maia
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Pretty sure all the items have been mentioned in galnet from time to time, I know for a fact that if you look in the commodities market meta alloys are in there, you might not be able to buy them but there is a chunk of information about them for certain.
A search option in Galnet would be very useful. Players would then search "meta-alloys" and the articles involving them would come up. A bit of in-game detective work, where you read the articles and then try to piece together the information. Deduct the time-line of the whole barnacle thing and then search the candidate locations. That would even feel rewarding gameplay-wise, feeling like you've accomplished something.
Going out-of-game for this and looking for spreadsheets is not good
In fact, I would avoid looking at out-of-game spreadsheets and prefer the in-game detective way. Would be more fun. It would make me feel "hey, this makes sense." Currently, it doesn't make much sense.
Going out-of-game for this and looking for spreadsheets is not good
In fact, I would avoid looking at out-of-game spreadsheets and prefer the in-game detective way. Would be more fun. It would make me feel "hey, this makes sense." Currently, it doesn't make much sense.
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The ultimate excuse for lack of in game information = We love our community ! Lets let them handle it all!
I hope they go for three
one would not be enough to satisfy my engineer.Achilles7
Banned
Thanks for the laugh...yep just go about your business among 400 billion systems with dozens of planets, moons, POIs and stations in each one!!! Remind me not to ask you anything..ever!
Michael Brookes
Game Director
Normally i would agree, but it's in the corner of the eye and full of NPC spam. If we had a chat window right in front of us, well, maybe the community spirit would be a bit stronger.
You know how sorry that excuse sounded?
As for clues I suggest to pepper NPC chatter with hints and suggestions for players. It is nice way to extend mechanic and give players ideas.
There is definitly a need for some kind of encyclopedia inside the game where players can get background information about all these stuff, including a brief history about the major factions and other important characters, summaries of important stories, general lore etc.
Refering to GalNet articles does not work since you can only access articles a few months old. New players are totally on their own.
Unfortunatly, some time ago David Braben said that althought this would be cool thing, it would be too much work.. I hope they will change their mind some time..
Refering to GalNet articles does not work since you can only access articles a few months old. New players are totally on their own.
Unfortunatly, some time ago David Braben said that althought this would be cool thing, it would be too much work.. I hope they will change their mind some time..
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I am a little bit torn apart here.
On one hand, I do understand that FD loves to have a strong and communicative community. Working together in order to find things (out), gathering data and sharing it with others is an awesome thing to have!
On the other hand, I agree with the OP. A game (any game!) shouldn'd rely on external information. There should be perfecly valid in-game ways to get access to every information you need.
I'm not saying it should be easy - not at all! I appreciate the necessity to do a propper research, hunt for treasures, fulfill long "quests".
But I need at least some "bread crumbs", hooks that give some innitial information where to start. Sheer luck of stumbling over something exciting (e.g. barnacles) isn't the solution, imo.
The initial hunt for these alien(?) structures was fine, I guess. There were galnet news about them.
However, if a new player comes to the game now, those galnet articles won't be accessible in-game any more. He doesn't even know, they ever existed!
So, how to get access to the necessary information? Maybe, this new player prefers to play in solo-mode, too, so he isn't able to ask other commanders.
As mentioned already, we need in-game hints, for example:
- NPC com chatter
- missions leading us to foreign places
- information as mission rewards
- new galnet articles
- the ability to pay informants
- ....?
On one hand, I do understand that FD loves to have a strong and communicative community. Working together in order to find things (out), gathering data and sharing it with others is an awesome thing to have!
On the other hand, I agree with the OP. A game (any game!) shouldn'd rely on external information. There should be perfecly valid in-game ways to get access to every information you need.
I'm not saying it should be easy - not at all! I appreciate the necessity to do a propper research, hunt for treasures, fulfill long "quests".
But I need at least some "bread crumbs", hooks that give some innitial information where to start. Sheer luck of stumbling over something exciting (e.g. barnacles) isn't the solution, imo.
The initial hunt for these alien(?) structures was fine, I guess. There were galnet news about them.
However, if a new player comes to the game now, those galnet articles won't be accessible in-game any more. He doesn't even know, they ever existed!
So, how to get access to the necessary information? Maybe, this new player prefers to play in solo-mode, too, so he isn't able to ask other commanders.
As mentioned already, we need in-game hints, for example:
- NPC com chatter
- missions leading us to foreign places
- information as mission rewards
- new galnet articles
- the ability to pay informants
- ....?
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Why not put a browser in the game then?
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This. I've missed quite a few messages because of the nature and location of the chat window.
Some kind of audible alert when a player chats would be nice
