[FUN] Would you play Elite Dangerous if, as with 1984, you could only fly the Cobra Mk III?

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SavingPrincess

SavingPrincess
Mad Mike said:
play in VR and the answer is apparent...... ;)

(I love the cobra but most of the cockpits in ED offer a different experience...

claustrophobia in the eagle / taipan
decadence in the clipper/cutter
that "startrek" bridge feeling in the anaconda
(or the sailing an oil tanker feeling)
or the shear amazing view in the Lakon ships.
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Not enough can be said about the cockpit experience in VR. I think a lot of people in the "it doesn't really matter what ship you fly" or "why is owning all the ships a big deal when you can do everything in a ____" crowd have never experienced VR before. There's a reason I farmed Smeaton to build out my fleet. That reason is VR.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
If Crime & Punishment is introduced the way it is proposed for 3.0 at present, we will all be doing a lot more flying in Cobras to avoid high bounty penalties !
 

SavingPrincess

SavingPrincess
Lightspeed said:
If Crime & Punishment is introduced the way it is proposed for 3.0 at present, we will all be doing a lot more flying in Cobras to avoid high bounty penalties !
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Haha... yeah, with them nerfing passenger missions... even though I built my fleet on the back of passenger missions, now I'm afraid to do anything in them! So now it's

1. Travel to system in jump-hauler...
2. Order my ships to be delivered safely...
3. Run away at the first sign of anything dangerous...
4. Stop playing the game until they re-introduce a way to earn enough capital to play the game with any level of personal relaxation XD
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
Un1k0rn said:
Honestly I would.

Don't expect this to be a serious thread. 'Tis just a laugh.

But would you?
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If I had no choice I off course would.
As far as spacesims go Elite is the only serious game in town for me.
Number one selling point is the huge true to size procedural galaxy.
I love the idea of flying around in endless space and Elite is the only game that gets the psychology of that feature right.

Most other spacesims use a very limited down scaled box system, including the X games and Star Citizen.
You are not an explorer of the galaxy in those games, but someone who flies through a few interconnected boxes and will have visited them all in a very limited time.

But I do love the fact that we have many ships to choose from, and to play around with.
I would hate to lose that.
 

SavingPrincess

SavingPrincess
Iskariot said:
If I had no choice I off course would.
As far as spacesims go Elite is the only serious game in town for me.
Number one selling point is the huge true to size procedural galaxy.
I love the idea of flying around in endless space and Elite is the only game that gets the psychology of that feature right.

Most other spacesims use a very limited down scaled box system, including the X games and Star Citizen.
You are not an explorer of the galaxy in those games, but someone who flies through a few interconnected boxes and will have visited them all in a very limited time.

But I do love the fact that we have many ships to choose from, and to play around with.
I would hate to lose that.
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Yes. Removing ship variety removes the failure state of this game (which I'd be fine with personally, but I understand other's desires here). The only thing you'd lose from a total re-roll would be modules and "rank progress." Now, don't get me wrong, progression in this game is SUPER faffed up on it's face, but a single ship experience would mean that you'd lose that "fear of losing your big ship to rebuy" (which, again, I'd be fine with!).
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
I might play the game. But I probably wouldn't hang around on the forums. Because the forums would be full of people saying "I've got quadrillions of credits, why can't I buy a bigger ship?".
 
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