Easy. You can do quince scanning missions on a sidey, and the Horizons starter "package" includes an SRV.
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News Elite Dangerous - 2.4 and beyond
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Easy. You can do quince scanning missions on a sidey, and the Horizons starter "package" includes an SRV.
I understand the concern and a potential incentive for a conflict of interest regarding game development quality and the like, but I would likewise hope that Frontier understands that they can continue to attract new customers by making the highest quality game they viably can. Hyped headline features that don't mesh well with the overall theme and style of the game and that aren't more fully fleshed out to attract new customers in the short term won't do much to improve the overall quality and popularity of the game in the long term, and Elite: Dangerous does seem to be a long term project of Frontier's. They don't seem like a here today gone tomorrow company, nor one that pushing out another reskinned version of the same basic game every couple of years for people to buy all over again.
But yes, like I said, I do understand the concern and the good faith investment on my part. Likewise, I wouldn't necessarily recommend others get the LEP, if given the opportunity.
Ideally, a pay for expansion content (not prepay) would be preferable overall, and I hope Frontier move toward that model.
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Emphasis mine. Except those of us with the Lifetime Expansion Pass, of course.
Yes. Always important to underline it
Of course this week's newsletter will have absolutely no surprises now
It will for people who don't live on these forums
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Indeed, I think Frontier's best bet to attract new customers is to really deliver on the plan to flesh out the gameplay and grow the game by word of mouth as the community becomes more addicted to the gameplay itself rather the idea/hope of the game. So I think their current plan is a good one if they can deliver good gameplay. I have my reservations about their core concepts of what constitutes good gameplay (since they only have snippets delivered via combat-only and not anything remotely holistic yet) but it's certainly possible!
The simple solution to me is, anything that is core gameplay enhancement only is for *everyone, anything entirely new to the game will be "pay-walled".
Yes, I'm all for enhancements in content and ways of interacting that make sense within the game universe and lore. [up] These sort of things help fully flesh out the game even more and would make it an even more compelling experience. Well, to some of us at any rate, I'm sure.
That makes sense... but Zac didn't speak about new features. And that worries me.
His post was vague, not compromising... He only had to add "...and besides core game improvements, of course, exciting new features!!!".
Actually, his follow-on post did mention that there will be new features, but those features must enhance/complement the core gameplay.
Now though I am speculating, I might read that as-new modules for Exploration, Mining, Smuggling or Bounty Hunting (the last one especially if they move bounty hunting beyond RES farming); new SRV types to improve the planetary gameplay; new roles & tasks for Multi-crew.
Now to further speculate, I might see the new SRV's as the content most likely to be paywalled, & most likely the new modules.....yet I'd expect the new Multi-crew stuff to be available to anyone that already has multicrew capability. As I said, though, mere speculation.
Man I hope your gut is wrong. That's exactly the kind of "pay to win" rubbish that might be enough to drive me away from the game.
I agree, more and varied things to do and ways to go about doing them – preferably "realistic" within the context of the game universe and lore – would be much appreciated in exploration. Making credits is just something you do along the way to keep you busy working toward various long or short term goals and has more to do with basic game balancing.
How you specifically go about making credits while exploring could be improved though, in my opinion, making it more of a dynamic and involved system. Here's a thread with my and other's thoughts about this that I started some time ago, if anyone is interested. → https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...of-cartographic-data-be-market-scarcity-based
PS: I wouldn't complain too much if I could trade in my SRV hanger and landing gear for tank treads on my Vulture explorer ship...
I think a combination of a less passive mechanic for exploration, coupled with greater persistence of USS's & PoI's would help a lot. As would more exploration centric missions.
Phew! I was afraid you were abandoning the Mac version and all the people who paid into your Kickstarter stretch goal for a cross-platform game!
Oh, wait, that's exactly what you've done.
Oh, wait, that's exactly what you've done.
I bought Civ5 and all of its content for the game. I got what I paid for and I'm happy with it. I'm not interested in Civ6, the Civ community, etc., nor are they relevant to my enjoyment of the game.
Elite: Dangerous on the other hand is continuing to be developed, so naturally I have a vested interest in it being developed to its full potential, especially after having purchased the Lifetime Expansion Pass, unlike your typical "whiners" which haven't already bought the game.
And the reason I bought this game? Because I like it. Go figure. [haha]
Never said they were relevent to my enjoyment of the game, I was just using them as an example of another whiny, self entitled community
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I think this PS4 launch will be massive for them. This is as mainstream as they've ever been, NMS created a vacuum and the player base is massive.
Apple abandoned the Mac version (and the Mac in general).
We will have more details about the "beyond" 2.4 at the special event mentioned in the post. We will be announcing details of the event a number of weeks after E3 but make sure you watch for details. It's going to be awesome.
Sorry Zac but leaving a bunch of people who paid for a product with out an answer for a few months is not 'Going to be awesome'.
I'm happy that Frontier is going to actually finally start adding presumably depth to the sandbox, but a lot of us paid a lot of money at times to get our Life Time Passes on the assumption and word from the likes of David etc that by buying things like Alpha etc or later the Life Time Expansion pass that was on sale as its own item that all expansions are free from that point on.. If your shifting away from that promise that we will not have to pay for anything beyond cosmetic stuff from the store, then to be honest you owe it to your customers to be up front about it.
And being up front about it now even if it's simply an announcement of 'Your still getting everything that comes for free' will stop a lot of concern and speculation building up in the mean time.
Other than that, as I said, I'm glad to see that FDEV are going to give us more depth presumably in the sandbox, but as Obsidian Ant put it this is basically an announcement.. of an announcement and one which leaves a big question to a good part of your oldest contingent of the community base whom are rightly going to be worried about the state of our expansion passes and the future.
You're blaming the wrong people. Horizons won't work on a Mac because of a problem with the Mac, that Apple are unwilling to fix. If you have a problem, take it up with them.....or maybe you can do a bootstrap?
Would you like some cheese with your whine? I paid a lot of money for the game too.....& I'd say I've already gotten more than my money's worth. More is always better, but good things come to those who wait.
Blizzard, Feral, Aspyr and others say you're wrong, but thanks for playing "I Know Precisely Stuff-All About The Mac".
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