I agree with every thing you say but I shouldn't worry too much, Frontier may take your suggestions on board, this has been my recent experience:-
I was looking forward to the 2.1/1.6 upgrade so much so, that I purchased the Horizons season pass at £19.00. Like everyone else I waited patiently for over 10 hours for the upgrade to complete, and then had a go.
I went straight into Horizons, and my first reaction was 'This is pretty good!' I even got 2 invites for Engineers, so I thought I would visit Felicity Farseer so off I went, got there and discovered that she requires 1T of Meta Alloys, after some research on the old internet I discovered that this commodity is as rare as unobtainium, but hey I carried on and did some normal training and missions just like I have been doing for over 6 months, then it began, blown out of the sky while trying to run, killed within 3 to 4 seconds, I thought OK must have been a bug, lost 12 million credits (rebuy for my Python) and cargo, did a few more missions and then it happened again same problem, so I closed it down, thinking if I carried on I would eventually be totally broke and unable to play this game anymore, I prefer to wait for Frontier to sort these problems out before continuing, so I emailed Frontier for a refund for Horizons.
They replied within 2 days and gave me the refund, they said that they were aware of the problems and wished me well, this is the email:-
I'm sorry to hear that it hasn't met your expectations but I do completely understand the issues that are currently surrounding the updated NPC's. If you'd like to add your comments to the
discussion, we'd be thankful for your feedback!
As you requested I've refunded your copy of Horizons to you for which you should receive a confirmation email soon.
Fly safe and true, Commander and if there is anything else we can do to assist you please let us know.
Kind regards,
CMDR Normandy
Elite Dangerous Customer Support Team
Now that's what I call service, and I will more than likely re-purchase Horizons and start playing ED again once they have sorted these problems out. So there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Well done Frontier, we at last have a games company that understands. This is a great game, I remember playing the original Elite on the BBC Model 'B' (I used to sell these back in the day) and that game was exceptional at the time even though it used wire frame graphics.
Looks like the poll is beginning to fall into the Too Hard camp, was pretty much 50/50 now the Too Hard camp is higher.
By the way it says on the left that I'm mostly harmless, I am in fact Expert now!