Moving the CMDR as a passenger would have solved that without initiating such a radical paradigm shift.
Would have probably been an acceptable compromise for both camps. Insta-CMDR transport into any owned ship at any station where stored.
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Moving the CMDR as a passenger would have solved that without initiating such a radical paradigm shift.
Would have probably been an acceptable compromise for both camps. Insta-CMDR transport into any owned ship at any station where stored.
I want instant transfer as it is a game and a game to be enjoyed, not traveling all over the place to switch ships wasting hrs of potential entertaining game play. Maybe the poll should be this.
Yes to Instant transfer ( working/student/limited time to play parent etc)
No to Instant transfer ( working/student/limited time to play parent etc)
Yes to Instant transfer ( can play 18 hr a day everyday, I have no job or too rich to need a job/ retired , kept etc )
No to Instant transfer ( can play 18 hr a day everyday, I have no job or too rich to need a job/ retired , kept etc )
Yes to Instant transfer ( working/student/limited time to play parent etc)
No to Instant transfer ( working/student/limited time to play parent etc)
Yes to Instant transfer ( can play 18 hr a day everyday, I have no job or too rich to need a job/ retired , kept etc )
No to Instant transfer ( can play 18 hr a day everyday, I have no job or too rich to need a job/ retired , kept etc )
also, for the Immershioniteers:
1) if you get blown up, you should float around in an escape pod (potentially for weeks) until some kind soul scoops you up and takes you to a starport, where you have to buy a whole new ship from scratch. Instant insurance-rebuy is immersion breaking.
2) or better yet, if you get blown up you should start from zero, with a new commander in a sidewinder. anything else is immersion breaking
3) It should take you two weeks to get a new engine fitted on your ship
4) refuelling/reloading rockets should take a good few hours
5) You shouldn't be able to instaprint a Ship Launched Fighter. once it's gone, you have to go and buy a new one. Cos immersion.
6) it should take you like 6 years to fly to Jaques. heck, it should take you six years to fly from Earth to Sirius.
The game is already full of shortcuts and gameplay "helpers", how does one more break the game? I just don't understand it at all. Honestly.
Thank you so much for this Sandy. However is there any reason why we can't see how the vote is going in real time? Not wanting to put down the community but without transparency you know someone will call Shenanigans...
Ben
I'm guessing that Sandy doesn't want a feedback loop and gaming of the system. A secret ballot is far fairer in this way, as long as the system is transparent after the poll closes.
Neither is the immersion of any player who can't wrap his head around instant-transfer without it breaking the game for them.
It's a QOL feature that is use-at-will, not required, yet somehow this little community seems to think it will break a game that is without end-game content, that is without things for players to break, that has only the most minimal of player contact available and only through one or two avenues.
Thank you FD for a wonderful game. Thank you for giving us a vote on this too. I just voted on the sight you provided. I am all for the transfer delay. I love the realism you put in the game. It makes it what it has grown into. I always thought the instant ship transfer was a bad idea whatever the cost. The delayed transfer will make me feel like I'm actually posting a job for a rent a pilot to bring me my ship, quick like bunny.
Trans Galactic Fleet Service Inc. "You need it there. We'll fly it there." Our professional pilots are clean, skilled, ship certified, and courteous. Ask about our security escorts. Not liable for Thargoid attacks. A security deposit will be held against your account for the rebuy insurance cost of your ship.
Trans Galactic Fleet Service Inc. "You need it there. We'll fly it there." Our professional pilots are clean, skilled, ship certified, and courteous. Ask about our security escorts. Not liable for Thargoid attacks. A security deposit will be held against your account for the rebuy insurance cost of your ship.
I was on the fence ever since the feature was announced. In the end I dropped my vote in for delay, even though the other thing would be more convenient. Maybe we could pay a premium for a little faster (not instant) delivery over great distances.
Oh dear. Because, as discussed multiple time in the threadnaught, having magic but only if you can afford it, is still having magic.
Given that the mods have shut down the threadnaught, I see we are going to have the same old points made again (from both sides - this is not a complain about this OP per se).
This sentiment from someone who would like instant is possibly the most mature reaction in this thread.
In other words, I'm disappointed in you growing up while I wasn't watching. You're far more fun when you're doodling on galaxy maps. [mad]
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You're certainly not alone in having a job, home, family to deal with - that does not mean that everyone in the same situation should vote for instant transfer though.
Instant transfer is love, instant transfer is life.
Not a whole lot more gameplay in waiting maybe 10-20 minutes on average for your required ship to be transferred, in a game where it takes some 10+ minutes accept a mission, travel to the destination and start doing whatever you're required to do, where missions are procedurally generated, potentially leaving you without suitable missions for your current ship. not even taking returning and handing in your mission into account, depending on its type.
If this turns out to be Frontier introducing artificial delay with all the other instant things in the game, I'll just call it the tea time delay. Sure, saves me a whole lot of time. Will also have me personally logging out of the game and returning another time, when the game design has taken its time to immerse me.
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The 250 ship limit and actual bookmarks to name two.
Huh? What!?!?!? I've never wanted instant and I resent the accusation!
I think this ship transfer (not module transfer) should be based on the jump range of the ship you want to transfer.
Let's say you want a combat ship transferred to the Jaques station. ship has a 17ly jump range, 10sec per jump (need to be tested and adjusted), the game would calculate how many jumps would the ship require and how much time it'll take + credit fee ofc. Also it would be GREAT if the ship could be SENT IN ADVANCE, so you have time to get to your new location. it doesn't matter if you arrive before your ship or the ship will be waiting for you.
It adds REALISM and also prevents stupid griefers from instantly hop around the place causing problems everywhere instantly.
I have absolute confidence in you FD ! Don't screw it please. [up]
Let's say you want a combat ship transferred to the Jaques station. ship has a 17ly jump range, 10sec per jump (need to be tested and adjusted), the game would calculate how many jumps would the ship require and how much time it'll take + credit fee ofc. Also it would be GREAT if the ship could be SENT IN ADVANCE, so you have time to get to your new location. it doesn't matter if you arrive before your ship or the ship will be waiting for you.
It adds REALISM and also prevents stupid griefers from instantly hop around the place causing problems everywhere instantly.
I have absolute confidence in you FD ! Don't screw it please. [up]
Well i was exaggerating for effect sorry
I would think 250 especially in concert with other like minded vandals, would be plenty.Voted. Instant for me. Gameplay beats arbitrary wait times.
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