I will keep bringing this up after every expansion is released. Sorry to be annoying but....

[bmad]

WHY CAN WE NOT HAVE MULTIPLE COMMANDERS!!!!!!!

The thing is I'm a bit bored of elite. It is a great game and I have invested a massive amount of time and effort into it. However, the most fun I have had with the game lately was in the Engineers beta. It was great because I cleared my save and started again safe in the knowledge my "primary" commander was still alive and well in his alternate universe. The thing is I'm not willing to clear my main commander in the real world. I have done it before but at a much earlier stage which was fine. Why should I just erase all my hard work?

I do not know why multiple commanders cannot exist in the same game world. They will never be online together. FD can make sure of that with a software tweak. It works just fine in other games, MMO or otherwise.

For me the Engineers update was a major one. The game has in effect been overhauled in many areas for the better. Of course my primary commander exists quite happily in this new universe but I'm a bit fed up of having to adapt him to every new update. I will still play this commander from time to time as he has a tonne of cash, giving me certain freedoms to try different things. Also it sounds terribly cliched but my commander has some great history behind him. Yes I know it is not documented anywhere but in my head and occasionally on these forums but it is still a part of my character that I do not want to just kill off to make way for a new bod.

That is why I want to create a new hero but still preserve my old one. Sadly, as it stands I probably won't play elite as much as I would like now, (though Warhammer Total War has not helped this!!).

Please FD sort this out. I love elite and want to keep playing it for a long time.

ps. I have bought another copy of elite when it was on sale but that really is a rubbish solution as it does not contain the Horizons expansion.

 

[illyTheKid TM]

Why should I just erase all my hard work?

You shouldn't. The game doesn't have morale system, builds, character customization as mmo's have.
Go to nearest station, buy sidewinder, note the amount of money you have and make it your 0 point. There New Game with a "new" commander. How hard can that be?

I have bought another copy of elite

dude...

 

[Commandr Sam]

You shouldn't. The game doesn't have morale system, builds, character customization as mmo's have.
Go to nearest station, buy sidewinder, note the amount of money you have and make it your 0 point. There New Game with a "new" commander. How hard can that be?


dude...

This does not reset your faction reps, combat ranks or trading ranks so it is not like starting a new commander.

Edit, it also does not allow one of your commanders to play as lawless and the other to stick to the rules.

 

[Whiterose]

lol, me, me, me, me.

 

[Siranui]

WHY CAN WE NOT HAVE MULTIPLE COMMANDERS!!!!!!!

You can: Get a second account.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

You shouldn't. The game doesn't have morale system, builds, character customization as mmo's have.
Go to nearest station, buy sidewinder, note the amount of money you have and make it your 0 point. There New Game with a "new" commander. How hard can that be?
...

This!
I cant face a wipe either, however as soon as i have enough for the hull of a conda (10mil short now) i will buy that, mothball it and am starting from scratch - albeit with my rep - in an imperial eagle and 1k credits and then checking out the ships i skipped or did not exist last time

its like a wipe "lite"

all effects in elite are short term (actually a pet hate of mine but it is what it is so may as well embrace it) so i mah have a dabble with piracy and human trafficing as well..... when i am done with that, i will probably get my negaitve rep back up in places i care about, its not like its hard, and eventually go back to my "main" role...... but until then, my eagle with 1k in my mind will be a "new" character.

 

[illyTheKid TM]

This does not reset your faction reps, combat ranks or trading ranks so it is not like starting a new commander.

Edit, it also does not allow one of your commanders to play as lawless and the other to stick to the rules.

And how does that effect you? Don't pick elite missions if you don't think you're there yet and don't buy faction ships you think you haven't earned yet if you're that hardcore.
I understand appeal of starting fresh but you're just asking for another pointless rank grind in that case.

 

[anikaiful]

WHY CAN WE NOT HAVE MULTIPLE COMMANDERS!!!!!!!

The thing is I'm a bit bored of elite. It is a great game and I have invested a massive amount of time and effort into it. However, the most fun I have had with the game lately was in the Engineers beta. It was great because I cleared my save and started again safe in the knowledge my "primary" commander was still alive and well in his alternate universe. The thing is I'm not willing to clear my main commander in the real world. I have done it before but at a much earlier stage which was fine. Why should I just erase all my hard work?

I do not know why multiple commanders cannot exist in the same game world. They will never be online together. FD can make sure of that with a software tweak. It works just fine in other games, MMO or otherwise.

For me the Engineers update was a major one. The game has in effect been overhauled in many areas for the better. Of course my primary commander exists quite happily in this new universe but I'm a bit fed up of having to adapt him to every new update. I will still play this commander from time to time as he has a tonne of cash, giving me certain freedoms to try different things. Also it sounds terribly cliched but my commander has some great history behind him. Yes I know it is not documented anywhere but in my head and occasionally on these forums but it is still a part of my character that I do not want to just kill off to make way for a new bod.

That is why I want to create a new hero but still preserve my old one. Sadly, as it stands I probably won't play elite as much as I would like now, (though Warhammer Total War has not helped this!!).

Please FD sort this out. I love elite and want to keep playing it for a long time.

ps. I have bought another copy of elite when it was on sale but that really is a rubbish solution as it does not contain the Horizons expansion.

Immersion. Stick to one. Alt-oholics have other games to look at. What you do will follow you, no escaping that with alts for whatever nefarious purposes there might be.

 

[Commandr Sam]

And how does that effect you? Don't pick elite missions if you don't think you're there yet and don't buy faction ships you think you haven't earned yet if you're that hardcore.
I understand appeal of starting fresh but you're just asking for another pointless rank grind in that case.

I have a deadly combat rank, try buying a d rated sidey and pretending to start again and see what comes interdict you...

 

[anikaiful]

I have a deadly combat rank, try buying a d rated sidey and pretending to start again and see what comes interdict you...

And feel elated when you beat them while flying the sidey. Commanders (=account) may be wipeable, but learned skills not so. There is, thus, no thing as "reset" - you can't unlearn.

 

[FredTA]

Yeah, I want this too, I want to be able to fly a sidey again, where the whole game is about lefty gun and righty gun, I know I can now, but knowing I can just switch back to my 200 mil conda just aint the same.

Of course there are technical and design problems that would arise, for example if I in my conda filled up with imperial slaves, gave them all to a friend who then stayed put, switched commanders and then got them back from said friend I would be insta rich. Nothing is insurmountable though..

 

[Starkiller_]

THe only real way of doing it right now is by buying another account but I believe that they are going to introduce this at some point.

 

[Commandr Sam]

And feel elated when you beat them while flying the sidey.

I would very much, but you can see why it is not like having a second Commander slot.

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THe only real way of doing it right now is by buying another account but I believe that they are going to introduce this at some point.

It was in the original DDF, but so were many other things...

 

[Arvel Yael]

lol, me, me, me, me.

Yeah heaven forbid a player should be chiefly concerned with their own enjoyment of a game, right?

 

[anikaiful]

I would very much, but you can see why it is not like having a second Commander slot.

Well, the only time I've wanted to have 2nd cmdr slot (Even if for a brief moment) was when I was traveling the deep dark far away and felt a bang of "home sickness".

 

[illyTheKid TM]

I have a deadly combat rank, try buying a d rated sidey and pretending to start again and see what comes interdict you...

I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm Dangerous rank and I still get interdirected by Harmless/Mostly Harmless ships. And I have not seen any prof or official word that enemies scale on your combat rank. Combat rank only gives you access to higher end missions as far as I now

 

[anikaiful]

Yeah heaven forbid a player should be chiefly concerned with their own enjoyment of a game, right?

Selfishness is politically incorrect.

 

[Mephane]

Immersion. Stick to one. Alt-oholics have other games to look at. What you do will follow you, no escaping that with alts for whatever nefarious purposes there might be.

In what way is your immersion damaged if someone else can make a 2nd CMDR? You wouldn't even know it is the 2nd CMDR slot of someone.

Well, the only time I've wanted to have 2nd cmdr slot (Even if for a brief moment) was when I was traveling the deep dark far away and felt a bang of "home sickness".

"I don't need it so you cannot have it, either."

 

[anikaiful]

I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm Dangerous rank and I still get interdirected by Harmless/Mostly Harmless ships. And I have not seen any prof or official word that enemies scale on your combat rank. Combat rank only gives you access to higher end missions as far as I now

Combat rank also gives you a *chance* to encounter higher ranking opponents. Most I spawn are deadly-elite.

 

[Whiterose]

Yeah heaven forbid a player should be chiefly concerned with their own enjoyment of a game, right?

To the detriment of others? OP stating we as if he was speaking for the whole community? If we all got what we wanted the game would be even more confused than it already is.