LOL this! There's a ton of things that don't make sense and the list is only increasing. Engineer's are the only one's that can make mods that are so tricky they can never make the same mod twice yet your insurance company has an infinite stock of them. Communication is somehow hampered by systems as we can't get info on them (does anyone really care this info is hidden anyway) but we can insta transport ships anywhere!
DB is going for real science underneath - so the bread is real he's just smearing it with a cheap butter immitation spread.
This game is onoly going in one direction - the one of bad decisions and it drastically needs a reversal or just put the breaks on!! Stop making new things, you're messing it up! Go back to all the stuff that needs braodening and fixing. That way you can't do anymore harm just make the existing stuff better....I hope.
To me that's the biggest flaw with the whole instant 3D printing thing. If the feature was delayed for 2.4 (could be a good "surprise" feature) but was polished it would have been just great. Imagine a system where carrier ship transports leave the station every one hour. Carriers you can actually see docking in the station. Once they do your ship that you called for somewhere between the last hour arrives. So much more believable.
Yes its not instant, you have to wait at least an hour, or plan what ships you call ahead, but it is better than what we have now and it doesn't dump down the game. I do like having to bounty hunt in a subpar Asp at times, even if it is because I forget to order a ship transfer for my FDL before I logged out the last night..
4 players in a wing, 2 of them forgot their ship order.. well they ll have to make due with their sub optimal wing for a few hours...
Why do we need to make it so much easier to play everything optimally? Is the multiplayer side of the game so antagonizing? If that is so, do ditch the whole randomness and make the game about specific fast results from specific choices. That way everyone can play optimally, min maxing their ships at will. It sounds irrelevant but to most people in the forum apparently, ship instant transfer changes what this game is about.
Not that I do not understand the part of the community which wants their time spent on things they like, but you can do these things suboptimally with any multirole ship, Asp included. A small delay will not change things. You just have to wait a few minutes or if you cannot wait, have your taxi ship setup as a multirole. Choices which have implications as someone mentioned in this thread.
To be fair, we do not know the actual limitations of the system and while the instant part is hard to swallow, implementation might be very different than what we imagine.
What I m worrying about is that FD gives a feature that frees things up completely concerning transports, and it will be hard if not impossible to recall, or even put some limits on it later. Exactly how the 10% module rebuy penalty played out, so it ll make any balancing calibrations improbable and leaving a feature semi broken.
Inserting a feature with many limits and gradually opening it up until its fine, would have been preferable.
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