You were able to execute a couple of mining missions in sequence just by "using" the "selectable mission reward" as the fulfillment of the next mission. In my example you just need to bring the 20 Platinum, and with the 30 Gold they put into your ship you were able to take the "bring gold" mission and instantly complete it. Sorry, my english is not made for complicated stuff
Basically its in the same category as when you are able to buy stuff from the commodity market just to fulfill the mission (of course without having to leave the station).
Got it?
And that´s what I think is a consequence of limited knowledge of the game, not of developer or designer skills.
You were able to execute a couple of mining missions in sequence just by "using" the "selectable mission reward" as the fulfillment of the next mission. In my example you just need to bring the 20 Platinum, and with the 30 Gold they put into your ship you were able to take the "bring gold" mission and instantly complete it. Sorry, my english is not made for complicated stuff
Basically its in the same category as when you are able to buy stuff from the commodity market just to fulfill the mission (of course without having to leave the station).
Got it?
And that´s what I think is a consequence of limited knowledge of the game, not of developer or designer skills.
- More involved and rewarding mining? Imagine some locations/spots that are stateful, which once discovered (eg: a hot spot of palladium) heavily skew your odds of finding it, but as you do, it reduced down until gone forever. Image how this might reward mining and exploration. Potentially even with some emergent gameplay. eg: Give the location to the Rock Rats for commission.
- More involved and rewarding piracy? I'll just post my email to some friends here when I found out Asteroid bases were in the game:-
- NPC Wingmen that you can hire or can be assigned in the appropriate missions, and you can give them simple tactical instructions. Attack this. Defend that. Stay here.
- Imagine stateful NPCs so you can build up a reputation with them. NPCs who slowly learn to trust you and give you more and more involved or important missions.
- More involved missions and combat scenarios. Imagine convoy escort missions from Nav Beacon A to B. Imagine protecting a ship that's being repaired by other ships shuttling supplies in - See (3) and (4)
- Full blown blockade mechanics where rarely a station can enter full blockade so you exit SC a long way out. It's prices will of course be heavily effected. But do you risk running the blockade? What if there's mission to evacuate civilians? What if you have a mission to enforce the blockade? See (3).
- Imagine Powerplay utilising the aforementioned more interesting combat scenarios for its task? See (5)
- Imagine Powerplay utilising the aforementioned blockade mechanic for outcomes? See (6)
- Imagine a form of CQC being integrated into the core game so you can undertake fighter based missions/tours of duty. For example based from capital ship or platforms. See (3) and (5) and (6)
- Imagine Thargoids attacking and the game utilising (3) and (5) and (6) and (9).
- More involved and rewarding exploration? Imagine far far more visual and dynamic content to witness (aurora borealis, electrical storms, kilometer high geysers, common envelopes for binary/trinary stars and blackholes, comets etc). Imagine having drones you can send out in a system to discover and scan bodies and return video close ups etc.
- Imagine PvP being improved? Image a solid Crime and Punishment (karma) system being employed and the game actually orchestrating meaningful PvP? Imagine interesting scenarios to push CMDRs against each other via missions, Powerplay tasks or even CGs. Imagine the kind of scenarios in (5) with opposing CMDRs (and or NPCs)? Imagine PvP in the game even just via (9)?
...shall we carry on?
Strangely ED wasn't released with fully formed deep and interesting gameplay. Instead a lot of it is simplistic and almost placeholder in nature. Which is fine as it was always a work in progress. The problem is, unfortunately over the past 2+ years most of it has remained as such. The question is will 2.4-->3 see FD finally start deepening and improving core gameplay depth. If they don't, I think that's going to make it clear what depth FD envisage ED to offer... and that won't be enough depth to entice me back
It happened to me last year. But I came back a couple of weeks later. It's like an addiction.
I sure hope so. I'm just afraid there will be a new battle ship, combat scenarios with more thargoids, squadrons to fight each other, more weapons (like 10 of them), more materials and grinding and engineering to support combat, and ... oh, wait, nicer planets for explorers to land on and thargoids at Beagle's Point. Essentially, explorations is considered, jump-honk-look, repeat, and nothing else. Mining, will be upgraded with more mining lasers to use to shoot thargoids on the asteroids. Maybe we'll even get atmosphere with thargoids to shoot? Who knows. One thing for sure, exploration will be expanded with more combat. Do I sound like a broken record? Probably because I think ED is a bit broken record with 99.9% centered around "yet another weapon and grinding for those weapons to shoot things) updates.
I think they need some visionaries that can see beyond pew-pew.
I know you'll be back when mining is upgraded with thargoid attacks in the rings. You just need to grind for mats to engineer and buy more weapons. It'll be a great upgrade for mining.
And more weapons so we can do more mining, trading, and exploring.I want my chrome, and gold Cobra 4 paintjobs, as well as the 32 part ship kit.
