I want my own land !

PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
...And for no reason other than to own something.

Buying land to build inside the bubble would be horrendously expensive, and limited. But becomes very cheap the further you go, and free if you discover the system or planet yourself. But the construction process would require loads of materials, money, and time.

Once built, they'd more or less act like normal ports, but with added benefits for the owner(s)....
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As I mentioned, having tried base building with NMS, the satisfaction from simply building it is palpable. I don't think the land should cost a penny tbh - indeed if you're setting up an outpost to help/service other ships, you could argue you deserve a subsidy. The materials and construction effort should require decent money, esp for the more shiny elements, but please no more 'waiting for something to happen'... pretty please!!!

I don't want player-owned ports, Elite for me is all about a CMDR flying their ship, and not a CMDR driving a desk. Each to their own of course.
 
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Dakron Nova

Dakron Nova
aguettinger said:
Exactly!

Everything you build in your game would be client side only, since there are no dedicated servers.
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Thats slightly misleading as I understand it. There are handplaced assets within the game, which would be stored in a database somewhere. It doesnt seem beyond the realms of technical ability to use a similar system for deploying player owned structures (or even refactoring the current databases.)
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
henry1491 said:
As I mentioned, having tried base building with NMS, the satisfaction from simply building it is palpable.
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Odd, as NMS is what put me off base building. :) I built a couple in NMS, and they took so long and require so much time to upkeep (farm, etc.) that they are just a pain. While I have no objection to it as a feature, I personally have no desire to see it implemented.
 

CMDR Carbo

CMDR Carbo
Dakron Nova said:
Thats slightly misleading as I understand it. There are handplaced assets within the game, which would be stored in a database somewhere. It doesnt seem beyond the realms of technical ability to use a similar system for deploying player owned structures (or even refactoring the current databases.)
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Not saying buying a house from a selection of premade houses and applying premade skins isn't possible.

I was talking about building, making your own changes to the game, as many people seem to want that.
Any of your own changes and customizations would likely remain client side only.
 
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Windscreen Smudge

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CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
Buying land to build inside the bubble would be horrendously expensive, and limited. But becomes very cheap the further you go, and free if you discover the system or planet yourself.
But the construction process would require loads of materials, money, and time.
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You're kidding right?

The bubble is a veritable wasteland. The number of inhabitants compared to real estate puts the population at less than 1 person per tectonic plate.

It'd be like buying land in Alaska. You pay more for the paperwork than you do for the land. It's easy to find lots that go for $100 an acre up there to this day.

henry1491 said:
As I mentioned, having tried base building with NMS, the satisfaction from simply building it is palpable. I don't think the land should cost a penny tbh - indeed if you're setting up an outpost to help/service other ships, you could argue you deserve a subsidy. The materials and construction effort should require decent money, esp for the more shiny elements, but please no more 'waiting for something to happen'... pretty please!!!

I don't want player-owned ports, Elite for me is all about a CMDR flying their ship, and not a CMDR driving a desk. Each to their own of course.
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A desk has a chair and hopefully a nice window view.

A ship has a chair and hopefully a nice window view.

You gonna discriminate just because one is mobile?
 

LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet

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Windscreen Smudge said:
You're not allowed to have it because a vocal minority of players inflicted with erotophobia are afraid you'll draw willies on the planets.
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Rafe Zetter

Banned
Rafe Zetter
Sorry - no

There are other games that have this - incorporated from the start - adding it to ED will be a clear "bolt on", quite apart from the time it'll take to develop, which will be a LONG time for a huge number of reasons, watching SC's dev blogs on the subject makes that obvious.

If you wish to build bases play the other games that are focused on it - I've been playing Empyrion which is a survival / base builder - it's engaging and the space flying is only a small part of it.

It might be nice to be able to "rent" an apartment within a station - a place to have a few cosmetic keepsakes etc, a bit like the captains quarters in Eve Online, or the hangers of Star citizen, but a whole base on a planet takes some serious doing, and there's better ways for FDev to spend thier time by fleshing out this 400 billion stars galaxy we already have.
 

Virgile

Virgile
I don't remember when but I think Devs ( Breben Maybe) said it was planned...

But maybe it was in reference to the squadron update.
 

Cocalarix

Cocalarix
Frontier builds a galaxy of 400 billion systems to explore, and players ask a feature for them to settle on a single planet. It's like going in the exact opposite direction. And what exactly should we be able to do on our lands? Play Minecraft? Farming simulator?

As far as I remember David Braben only mentioned something like this when talking about storing/hiding things, which was probably scraped.
 

Rafe Zetter

Banned
Rafe Zetter
Cocalarix said:
Frontier builds a galaxy of 400 billion systems to explore, and players ask a feature for them to settle on a single planet. It's like going in the exact opposite direction. And what exactly should we be able to do on our lands? Play Minecraft? Farming simulator?

As far as I remember David Braben only mentioned something like this when talking about storing/hiding things, which was probably scraped.
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Hiding stuff - like loots etc could be fun, but would still be quite a complicated task on it's own - HOW do you hide it; do you get a nav beacon (that others can track) or just a personal GPS bookmark, can it be anywhere or only some places.....

more effort that it's worth from a gameplay perspective I think.
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
Cocalarix said:
Frontier builds a galaxy of 400 billion systems to explore, and players ask a feature for them to settle on a single planet. It's like going in the exact opposite direction. And what exactly should we be able to do on our lands? Play Minecraft? Farming simulator?
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There might be arguments against ever introducing this kind of content but that's not really one of them.

I'm not advocating for it and it's not something that I ever had any expectation of being included in the game but if it were present, I would definitely make use of it. Obviously as the game stands today it would be a load of work for really no additional benefit because there is very little playable content on planet surfaces, other than shooting rocks, scanning bases and finding endless RNG based spawns of the same piles of cargo.

However if planetary exploration is ever expanded to something more than the bare bones content we have today then yes, I'd personally quite like to be able to get back from a long voyage and spend a bit of time exploring my immediate environment. I'd also like to be able to base my ships and store my stuff somewhere of my own rather than in generic Ocellus Starport #24,698. Maybe find a nice spot at the bottom of a cliff or the head of a canyon on a funky little moon a hundred light years outside the bubble. It doesn't have to be about 'playing house', although frankly even if it was the incredulity of your post is hardly merited since it basically says 'people might want to do something that I don't? LOL what a bunch of idiots!!!'

I can't see it ever happening though, simply because the game just doesn't do persistence to that degree.
 
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Dietger

Dietger
CMDR Arni Sigurdsson said:
I want my own land to settle, on moon or planet, to build my own landing pad and hangar for my ships where I can store fuel, hardware and cargo.
I want to build something of my own ! I am tired of those monotonous missions that change almost nothing except to get more credits,
Well it’s probably not going to happen, just a dream… but I had to say it !
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Hear him Hear him!

Commander Arni Siguridsson I concur.

Frontier get along, there are players here actually playing the game. Have a say, not mindlessly on reverse. Have a say, doing their own stuff, creating worlds of their own - Thanks to you, Frontier.
I would appreciate your'e pushing their creation, helping to get the game come along.
 

Windscreen Smudge

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Cocalarix said:
Frontier builds a galaxy of 400 billion systems to explore, and players ask a feature for them to settle on a single planet. It's like going in the exact opposite direction. And what exactly should we be able to do on our lands? Play Minecraft? Farming simulator?

As far as I remember David Braben only mentioned something like this when talking about storing/hiding things, which was probably scraped.
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What makes you think it's going backwards? Nobody has said you should have to sell your FSD's to build a base.
 
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