Yeah, but the girl on meme you so wittyly include would be a mother of four by now if she'd been waiting for exploration content as long as we have.
interesting email from FD
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Yeah, but the girl on meme you so wittyly include would be a mother of four by now if she'd been waiting for exploration content as long as we have.
After not playing for a good bit I got the same weird email haha, interesting. But I dont really think there is something new out there to see, maybe after 2.3.
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An explorer sets out to explore, he may not find anything, sometimes he may find something. The problem in ED is that exploring is against billions of systems. It's a game and the player needs to feel a reasonable possibility of reward for time invested. If things are seeded out there, there needs to be encouragement for the player. I would like to see more financial reward for scanning systems. The reward for honking is fine, as is going to a nav beacon and targeting the beacon, but scanning without using the nav beacon should be more rewarding on a sliding scale, so that the last objects scanned get more more reward. This encourages following after the initial discovery to manually scan the system. If you honk and the system has something of interest, it should be flagged to the pilot. This gives the pilot a reason to explore that system.
I would actually be in favour of some sort of scanning functionality that allows you to scan when inside a system but not targetted on a specific planet, eg having a probe you can send out which maps a planet and gives you anomalies. Maybe a fly past of a planet yields a scanned map of what was visible. The player then reviews the scanned map(s) and can locate areas to explore. Together with that there needs to be the ability to locate a specific point on the planet.
I would actually be in favour of some sort of scanning functionality that allows you to scan when inside a system but not targetted on a specific planet, eg having a probe you can send out which maps a planet and gives you anomalies. Maybe a fly past of a planet yields a scanned map of what was visible. The player then reviews the scanned map(s) and can locate areas to explore. Together with that there needs to be the ability to locate a specific point on the planet.
Well, technically speaking, they are right. There is no realistic limit to what you might find. What you will mainly find though is empty planets... but meh, i'm fine with that, i love exploration.
At the age of 60, Denise Nickerson (the actress of the girl above) is more likely a grandmother of 4.
Well, the irony is that I find it annoying as well to see posts complaining about annoying posts. Because I cant see how your post is any better than what it claims to be against. We can complain ad infinitum here; I find your post about annoying posts annoying. Lets add a third level if you want, saying that you find my post about your annoying post about annoying posts annoying, but the waste of bits and space will only get bigger. You can either complain and whine about people making the forum toxic, while making it even more toxic, or you can articulate a proper and honest argument that actually has other intentions than ridicule something or someone.
Salty?
No, not at all [noob]
Not annoying, just a tedious and pointless and never ending. And a bit sad. And it places folks in a no win situation because to respond just serves to perpetuate. To ignore is frustrating. To disagree means you are just a fanboi with little brain and a low expectation. I so wish there was a thread killer function. Its not really enough to block the obvious whiney negative ones because the evidence is still there of the bile they are posting and if its being quoted you still get to see it anyway
So sadly, the only option appears to be to leave the forum, get on with something else and enjoy playing the game
So sadly, the only option appears to be to leave the forum, get on with something else and enjoy playing the game
Exploration desperately needs some TLC in HUGE! amounts. It's not even difficult to come up with Exp missions for factions, even within the game "universe" I'm sure there would be gazillions of Universities/Professors/Observatories that would give vital personal organs for exclusive data of certain nebulae/planets/suns. How about a scooping mission to gather some of that life (micro) that I keep meeting on Gas Giants. Don't even TRY to tell me that would not be of interest to soooooo many institutions.
It's really is soul breaking finding dust bowl after dust bowl with no real difference between them regardless of your Galactic location. I'm out in the deep dark far from home...hoping against all hope that I'll find something worth the effort.
I'm not the least surprised that non-pew-pew players give up.
It's really is soul breaking finding dust bowl after dust bowl with no real difference between them regardless of your Galactic location. I'm out in the deep dark far from home...hoping against all hope that I'll find something worth the effort.
I'm not the least surprised that non-pew-pew players give up.
So if it's about email then it shouldn't be on the ELITE forum?
BTW I'm not on every thread, I only come to this salt fest known as Dangerous Discussion every now and then
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Welcome to the internet, everything turns into a cycle of people arguing over the same thing.
Also come down from the Moral High Horse, I didn't "Ridicule" anyone lol
No don't leave! I'm sorry
Since everything is perfect to you, stay. I'll leave!
There is no point since devs are deaf to our questions and i don't play elite anymore.
When new updates are released i'll see is it worth buying it and start playing, simple as that.
So enjoy elite forum and game, again sorry for ruin your safe space.
Have a nice day!
Mods please lock this thread.
No idea what determines if one receives those mails or not.
Never had one, and i only play sporadically with long breaks in between.
I have however unsubscribed from all FD communications/newsletters in my user profile (back in early 2015 already), so perhaps that plays into it.
Other than that...RNG
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You are talking about sightseeing, creating personal goals independent of the game mechanics. I’ve done more than my share of that while creating my own fun with Elite Dangerous. And it’s why I agree with you, pressing honk and pointing the ship at a stellar body is not exploring, yet those are the only mechanics that Elite has for exploration today. This is why so many of us feel that it needs more, because more robust mechanics would allow much more dynamic, engaging, and interactive potential for explorers to “create their own content” for exploration.
The virtual galaxy is there, Frontier just needs to fill it with the content and mechanics to actually make it engaging to explore, so that a strong creative imagination isn’t required first. A sandbox without sand isn’t very fun to play in…
drop the loach despoerado, fix your game, upgrade your graphics to where they were at least and up your PG and i might reconsider
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