I personally think there should be some sort of delay... in reference to above quote, we are the pilot so if we get up while flying to a station (risky) or while docked (much safer) to go to the bathroom or grab a bite in between pilot actions, that is the pilot taking a break for such things... As far as the death and instant rebirth, it can be explained by consciousness. I assume that when you eject especially if it is due to cabin oxygen running out, it is eject in a stasis pod of some sort, so you are blacked out in a controlled coma, when you awaken, the first thing you see is the insurance paperwork and pay credits to have your ship back, then you are back in your ship ready to go. This type of waiting being cut out is for the betterment of the game, nobody wants immersion at the cost of having to watch their pilot waiting on a bench while the insurance paperwork is filed and the ship is rebuilt, but for the sake of balancing, I wouldn't have any issue with coming to a new system, finding that I like it here and want to move my base of operations and running some missions while my fleet arrives vs spending the next 3 days of gameplay ferrying ships back and forth. Even having the wait shortened by saying you have some super frame shift driven tugboat that can jump 100's of ly at a time is preferable to instant transfer... You are going to have an imbalance as people will be free to have a long range ship drag along an entire fleet of warships into systems they never would have spent the time going into, or worse, if they had taken the time they would have had to retool the ship and maybe some of those combat mods are unheard of in that system for that reason....
2.2's Instant Ship and Module Transport - Yay or Nay?
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I personally think there should be some sort of delay... in reference to above quote, we are the pilot so if we get up while flying to a station (risky) or while docked (much safer) to go to the bathroom or grab a bite in between pilot actions, that is the pilot taking a break for such things... As far as the death and instant rebirth, it can be explained by consciousness. I assume that when you eject especially if it is due to cabin oxygen running out, it is eject in a stasis pod of some sort, so you are blacked out in a controlled coma, when you awaken, the first thing you see is the insurance paperwork and pay credits to have your ship back, then you are back in your ship ready to go. This type of waiting being cut out is for the betterment of the game, nobody wants immersion at the cost of having to watch their pilot waiting on a bench while the insurance paperwork is filed and the ship is rebuilt, but for the sake of balancing, I wouldn't have any issue with coming to a new system, finding that I like it here and want to move my base of operations and running some missions while my fleet arrives vs spending the next 3 days of gameplay ferrying ships back and forth. Even having the wait shortened by saying you have some super frame shift driven tugboat that can jump 100's of ly at a time is preferable to instant transfer... You are going to have an imbalance as people will be free to have a long range ship drag along an entire fleet of warships into systems they never would have spent the time going into, or worse, if they had taken the time they would have had to retool the ship and maybe some of those combat mods are unheard of in that system for that reason....
QFT +rep
Ship transfer: Woohoo!
Instant transfer: http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
#NoToSpaceMagic!
Fly everywhere in my Asp (ship with best jump drive) then summon my fighter/trader and it instantly appears. Meh!!!!!!!
Instant transfer: http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
#NoToSpaceMagic!
Fly everywhere in my Asp (ship with best jump drive) then summon my fighter/trader and it instantly appears. Meh!!!!!!!
Robert Maynard
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Yes they can - whether that improves the game remains to be seen.
After Engineers I treat -anything- as an improvement, if this means at some stage you can magic bag meta alloys about and avoid the pirates interdiction happy fun game, I'll take the MAGIC BAG EXPRESS please!
This.
Longer distances should take more time. Make it take a second per ly or something in that range. Of course the timer should also run when you're offline.
Robert Maynard
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Has there been any FD comment regarding changing the fact that we cannot store ships with cargo embarked?
Incidentally, for those like myself that missed it, this ship transfer stuff was shown here ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n__hfgKygs
43min30sec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n__hfgKygs
43min30sec
Robert Maynard
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And there we have, in one clear and concise statement, why instant transfer is a spectacularly bad idea. Elite: Dangerous! The space trading simulation, now with added fun! Primarily due to the removal of the space bit!
Well done Fuzzy!
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No. I put the question in on the day 3 feed thread.
No, not yet, but I'll work on the assumption that at some stage that will follow. I'm assuming that the instant transfer of ships is stateless, so they're likely looking at a way to manage stateless transfer of cargo, the easiest way to do that would be to bundle it with the ship you're transferring.
Yay to moving ships but it should take time for a ship to get where it needs to go.
By allowing instant transfers, it will stop players from having to use outfitting services. Why bother if I have a dedicated mining ship 100lys away I can gain access to in an instant?
It should take the time it would take a pilot to actually fly there. It wouldn't even need to be exact but seem real enough.
It would also make a mockery of how the game works.
By allowing instant transfers, it will stop players from having to use outfitting services. Why bother if I have a dedicated mining ship 100lys away I can gain access to in an instant?
It should take the time it would take a pilot to actually fly there. It wouldn't even need to be exact but seem real enough.
It would also make a mockery of how the game works.
Robert Maynard
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Now that we can remote sell ships, will we be able to remote sell ships at the rebuy screen to liquidate assets to avoid losing a ship when flying about without rebuy?
So every station has every possible eng. mod and every ship on stock. Oh, if I knew about that before
.Robert Maynard
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Which would completely trivialise any rare trading or long distance smuggling - and piracy for that matter....
I was surprised by it, but I imagine it's a small thing to code in a wating time that's a multiple of the LY distance. So 1k Ly distance is a 15 minute wait.... and scale up from there?
The point of ship transfert is to remove potential gameplay barrier that would break people enjoyment of the game, because of time lost travelling back and forth.
Adding large delay is like nullifying the whole purpose of the feature, and i can't see the point of adding a small one... So keep it like that, and thank you Frontier.
Adding large delay is like nullifying the whole purpose of the feature, and i can't see the point of adding a small one... So keep it like that, and thank you Frontier.
Well they're trivializing ship to ship combat by virtue of allowing you to use your speedy taxi to get around and only get into the big heavy at the appropriate combat zone, so it's not THAT far fetched...
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