Please don't make this into a "I love/hate Elite" thread. This also isn't meant to be a suggestion thread. Just asking questions and praying that Frontier answers them.
I'm currently recovering from my rage quit, but I'm curious about where this game is headed. It seems that I'm not alone either. One thing that all of the complaints (both recent and past) have in common is that there's a sense of uncertainty about how the game's experience is supposed to be and where its going. People have also been going back to the old Kickstarter videos and random developer quotes to try figure it out and no one has come to a consensus yet. The speculation has been running rampant for a while now and I think its a good time to try to put that all to rest. I'm not asking for another roadmap (we already have one). I want to know what the goals are for the game in the long run. These are some of the question that I have and that I've seen floating around. Hopefully someone at Frontier can address these. We don't need concrete due dates or guarantees for any of them, but it'd be nice to at least get some thoughts on what the Dev's think is reasonably possible (because some features, while possible, are not very reasonable lol).
I'm going to pose these as questions in a list. What questions do you have about the future of the game? Feel free to comment them.
Features
Gameplay
Bugs and Complaints
I might just be wasting keystrokes, but it'd be nice to have a chat about the future of the game with the Dev's. Each time there's a livestream, everyone dumps a bucket of questions on them when the topic is a "Lets Play" or something. A forum post or Q&A livestream would be great, but I'd also love a concept video of what the Dev's think the game will look like in 2025 or something.
TLDR;
Its been a while since we heard the Dev's talk about what they want to accomplish with the game. Give us something to get hyped about and answer some questions so that people can stop arguing without facts.
I'm currently recovering from my rage quit, but I'm curious about where this game is headed. It seems that I'm not alone either. One thing that all of the complaints (both recent and past) have in common is that there's a sense of uncertainty about how the game's experience is supposed to be and where its going. People have also been going back to the old Kickstarter videos and random developer quotes to try figure it out and no one has come to a consensus yet. The speculation has been running rampant for a while now and I think its a good time to try to put that all to rest. I'm not asking for another roadmap (we already have one). I want to know what the goals are for the game in the long run. These are some of the question that I have and that I've seen floating around. Hopefully someone at Frontier can address these. We don't need concrete due dates or guarantees for any of them, but it'd be nice to at least get some thoughts on what the Dev's think is reasonably possible (because some features, while possible, are not very reasonable lol).
I'm going to pose these as questions in a list. What questions do you have about the future of the game? Feel free to comment them.
Features
- Is "Space Legs" something you think will get added one day? Will we ever see our commanders interacting in stations and aboard ships?
- Will we ever have a more complex NPC Crew? Will our ships ever become staffed with NPC's?
- Are Atmospheric Landings with massive cities and ports possible?
- Will players be able to pilot larger ships? Will Player Factions ever have access to capital ships?
- Will HUD Color ever be changeable in-game?
- Will Ship interiors ever become fully customizable? We will be able to see the rest of the ship interior?
- Will our Commanders ever have voices? Will we be able to communicate with NPC's?
- Will the Main Menu rendering ever get changed? (I'm being a bit silly, but really. It hasn't changed)
- Will we ever see high performance "small" ships? ("End Game" is currently dominated by large and high-end medium ships)
Gameplay
- Will Wings and Multi-Crew ever be compatible with each other?
- We will ever have a ranking for skill? (current ranks are for experience)
- Will missions and payouts scale more with our CMDR's? (They currently scale with travel distance, CMDR rank, and rep)
- Will CQC ever be connected to the main game?
- Will Credits always be the only main resource, or will new items of value be introduced? (There are Claims that Credits = Power. Will it stay that way?)
Bugs and Complaints
- Will Combat Logging ever be dealt with? How hard is it to fix?
- Is the game supposed to feel "grindy" or is that simply how it is at the moment?
- Will we be able to buy a ship color for all ships instead of buying ship oriented packs?
I might just be wasting keystrokes, but it'd be nice to have a chat about the future of the game with the Dev's. Each time there's a livestream, everyone dumps a bucket of questions on them when the topic is a "Lets Play" or something. A forum post or Q&A livestream would be great, but I'd also love a concept video of what the Dev's think the game will look like in 2025 or something.
TLDR;
Its been a while since we heard the Dev's talk about what they want to accomplish with the game. Give us something to get hyped about and answer some questions so that people can stop arguing without facts.