Exit poll of the official ship transfer poll

[Marc_Hicks]

Well, "all my ships" sounds a bit to much. Normaly I have the Asp an Vulture a Curier and sometimes a bigger one.

But I did some estimations: So with that delay option I had to wait 100 minutes for a transfer of about 300 to 400 Ly.
That's not faster or more convenient than getting a taxi cobra and bring my most important secondary ship to the new port.

So that new feature would be for naught.
And as the options where 100 minutes delay or no delay I voted for instant execution, as I said 30 would be a perfect compromise and could even be explained with a capital class transporter lore wise.

You really should properly read the options before voting.

 

[bubbabenali]

The options were "instant" and "somewhere between 5 and 100 minutes depending on distance" - with the 100 minutes time corresponding to the ship transferring across the bubble.

Am I getting something wrong? Isn't "across the bubble" ~400Ly? How is it a problem to do that transfer in more than 40 minutes without that transfer feature?

 

[NeilF]

Well, "all my ships" sounds a bit to much. Normaly I have the Asp an Vulture a Curier and sometimes a bigger one.

But I did some estimations: So with that delay option I had to wait 100 minutes for a transfer of about 300 to 400 Ly.
That's not faster or more convenient than getting a taxi cobra and bring my most important secondary ship to the new port.

... Probably not a lot slower, and it would be less faff, and obviously a lot quicker when bringing 2+ ships?

So that new feature would be for naught.
And as the options where 100 minutes delay or no delay I voted for instant execution, as I said 30 would be a perfect compromise and could even be explained with a capital class transporter lore wise.

Again, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the delivery times change... Just as long as they don't get faster than a CMDR flying than ship from A-->B.

And no mention/consideration of the other effects, only how fast can I get my ship(s)

I'd love to get my ships instantly... But it was the associated effects and possible outcomes that made me choose delayed.

 

[Robert Maynard]

Am I getting something wrong? Isn't "across the bubble" ~400Ly? How is it a problem to do that transfer in more than 40 minutes without that transfer feature?

Of course it could be done in less - but requiring to travel the journey twice, firstly to travel from the current location to the location of the stored ship and secondly the return leg in a ship that may not have that great a jump range would also take time - time that the player not be able to avoid as they would be travelling.

Summoning a ship stored elsewhere to the player's current location permits the player do play the game while the ship is being transferred - with no requirement to travel.

 

[bubbabenali]

Of course it could be done in less - but requiring to travel the journey twice, firstly to travel from the current location to the location of the stored ship and secondly the return leg in a ship that may not have that great a jump range would also take time - time that the player not be able to avoid as they would be travelling.

Summoning a ship stored elsewhere to the player's current location permits the player do play the game while the ship is being transferred - with no requirement to travel.

Yeah, the convenience is there. But you sure have to hope that there is something to do while you're waiting for your main force.

On a side note aren't cpu wingmen a thing too in 2.2? Why not bring 4 ships directly to the new homebase anyways?

 

[Ozzie F Isaacs]

Yeah, the convenience is there. But you sure have to hope that there is something to do while you're waiting for your main force.

On a side note aren't cpu wingmen a thing too in 2.2? Why not bring 4 ships directly to the new homebase anyways?

No thats ship launched fighters, NPC wingmen would be totally different, and IMHO a much more awesome concept. Hey, if the galaxy is balanced for a wing of 4 players, why not a wing of one player and 3 NPC's? But before we can get that, remotely operated ships need to be following the rules laid out by the game, so no teleportation!

 

[Quill]

It wouldn't change to how I do it now:

My main ship is an Asp Explorer with reasonable FSD range and if I want to transfer my "Home cluster" I sell all my othe ships and speed to the new lokation, where I buy anythin I need from ground up anew.

Its not like I have any engi modds in these low FSD ships anyways thanks to their hatred for civilisation.

That's fine, I personally only have one ship at a time anyway, so for me it probably won't change my gameplay, but I could easily be a victim of it. But for the BGS, roleplaying, immersion, "realism" etc. etc. I think time to get your ships to you, if you choose to have them transported, is fair enough.

My personal idea would be to have big bulk carriers safely delivering ships to you (slow, but cheapish and safe) or you get an NPC to bring individual ships to you (expensive, risky [based on the NPC skill/rank], but fast) this would add a little more depth to the NPCs as you could also then employ these characters as crew.

 

[Jex =TE=]

Yeah, the convenience is there. But you sure have to hope that there is something to do while you're waiting for your main force.

So exactly the same as it is now then you mean?

 

[bubbabenali]

So exactly the same as it is now then you mean?

Exactly, like a transfer feature would not exist... wait...

 

[Jex =TE=]

Exactly, like a transfer feature would not exist... wait...

LOL no the waiting part and having nothing to do. So that would mean the entire game is like that right now?

 

[CMDR Pugwash]

I am interested to see how closely the result from this poll matches the official one. It would demonstrate the value of polls in gaging opinion.

 

[Jypson]

I am interested to see how closely the result from this poll matches the official one. It would demonstrate the value of polls in gaging opinion.

It would demonstrate the value of polls in gaging opinion providing entertainment.

 

[GraXXoR]

Next poll we need about instant refuel, repair, refit, rebuy
I am quite sure here "hardcore" players will vote for non-instant

I do actually think instant cargo loading is stooopid. IMO repairs should take time, too, and the biggest ship repairs should take a long time and force you into another ship/loaner for the duration. But that's my opinion and I'm sure it will never happen.

 

[GraXXoR]

Escape pod? What escape pod? If such a thing actually existed, ye could target and destroy it...and in the interests of realism, that would result in the deletion of all yer progress from the moment ye first set foot in a sidewinder. There could be a sub section on the forums where we could pretend to be communicating with the dead spirits who have been reincarnated into different brand new accounts after being killed.

Docking at night and taking a mission? No problem but the ground crew are refusing to work unless they get double time fer anti social hours, so ye gotta wait till morning for the cargo to be loaded onto yer ship. And the repairs may take upto a week as there is industrial action taking place there too.

In the interests of realism of course ^^

UA bombing is s thing, why not revolts and dockers strikes? I don't see he difference.

 

[GraXXoR]

Really hope it is instant, I don't get enough time to play as is and if I have to suffer for people who can't restrain themselves then I may have to play other stuff in my spare time :/ just a fact of life, when you only have a certain amount of free time and it gets wasted you should use it another way. Spending time looking at a counter is wasted time.

It'll be interesting, this transfer thing. Anything other than instant could lose a lot of players and instant itself could annoy a small but unbelievably vocal portion.

I'm just glad I won't have to sit around for the gloating on these forums if it's got a delay That would be like when a cat vomits a dead bird on the floor and looks at you awaiting approval.

A small portion being about 900 players or a figure that represents 20% of the average daily players on Steam. Doesn't seem that small a number to me.

 

[AnotherVoice]

I do actually think instant cargo loading is stooopid. IMO repairs should take time, too, and the biggest ship repairs should take a long time and force you into another ship/loaner for the duration. But that's my opinion and I'm sure it will never happen.

Yeah, and how about forced save wipe when you die? Wouldn't that be neat ?

 

[aRJay]

Yeah, and how about forced save wipe when you die? Wouldn't that be neat ?

That should obviously be randomised in frequency and severity, sometimes only wiping your saved ship, sometimes wiping your credit balance (after rebuy), sometimes wiping all your standings.

 

[Arubeto]

I do actually think instant cargo loading is stooopid. IMO repairs should take time, too, and the biggest ship repairs should take a long time and force you into another ship/loaner for the duration. But that's my opinion and I'm sure it will never happen.

It's not just your opinion. I agree and suggested something like that - but even less drastic - here, but my idea was shot down pretty fast

 

[Jypson]

That should obviously be randomised in frequency and severity, sometimes only wiping your saved ship, sometimes wiping your credit balance (after rebuy), sometimes wiping all your standings.

...and sometimes wiping your hard drives!

 

[Bomba Luigi]

I do actually think instant cargo loading is stooopid. IMO repairs should take time, too, and the biggest ship repairs should take a long time and force you into another ship/loaner for the duration. But that's my opinion and I'm sure it will never happen.

I would really like it to take time once we have walking about but I too don't expect that to ever happen.