Atmospheric landings are more important.
"Prepare to be boarded!"
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Atmospheric landings are more important.
While it would certainly be the best use of "Space Legs", I would be content with just a baby-step measure of being able to dock with a derelict ship and take their cargo.
I disagree, boarding would open up new gameplay opportunities (Salvage, Bounty Hunting, Piracy, First Person Shooter?), atmo-landings are really just eye candy but would be functionally nearly identical to airless moon landings.
I disagree, boarding would open up new gameplay opportunities (Salvage, Bounty Hunting, Piracy, First Person Shooter?), atmo-landings are really just eye candy but would be functionally nearly identical to airless moon landings.
Great. Then you'll have another head for your display case.
Don't forget there are two proposed expansions.
Walking round space ships (boarding, repelling boarders) THIS is space-legs.
Then there is a second, walking around stations.
In my mind We can have 3 (paid for) flavours of Elite.
1. ED season 1 (space only)
2. Horizons (landing on planets)
3. On foot walking around stations. <= This is it's own game in it's own right, you don't even need to own a spaceship. If Frontier is smart enough, this game is already in the works effectively being worked on as a standalone title, because it can stand on it's own, it's ALSO an expansion for season1 and/or seaons2 pass holders.
But what about space legs!!
Ah, space legs, *is* the cross-over point.
Where pilots from Season1 and horizons AND station legs, can meet up.
Space ships can dock, board be them living or derelicts.
StationLegs players can be picked up to be transported between stations, For them, they never leave the corridor/room/environment even if to *us* pilots, the non-pilots are just hired thugs providing them with a shuttle service, they are providing protection for some VIP below decks.
For me if space-legs would be cool, it's the interaction, or the ability to launch station-legs as a non-flight-sim game, which doubles as an expansion for Elite Dangerous, so the graphical detailing & game mechanics are genuine.
Walking round space ships (boarding, repelling boarders) THIS is space-legs.
Then there is a second, walking around stations.
In my mind We can have 3 (paid for) flavours of Elite.
1. ED season 1 (space only)
2. Horizons (landing on planets)
3. On foot walking around stations. <= This is it's own game in it's own right, you don't even need to own a spaceship. If Frontier is smart enough, this game is already in the works effectively being worked on as a standalone title, because it can stand on it's own, it's ALSO an expansion for season1 and/or seaons2 pass holders.
But what about space legs!!
Ah, space legs, *is* the cross-over point.
Where pilots from Season1 and horizons AND station legs, can meet up.
Space ships can dock, board be them living or derelicts.
StationLegs players can be picked up to be transported between stations, For them, they never leave the corridor/room/environment even if to *us* pilots, the non-pilots are just hired thugs providing them with a shuttle service, they are providing protection for some VIP below decks.
For me if space-legs would be cool, it's the interaction, or the ability to launch station-legs as a non-flight-sim game, which doubles as an expansion for Elite Dangerous, so the graphical detailing & game mechanics are genuine.
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Speaking of boarding someone elses vessel through illegitimate means, what's gonna happen when they combat log?
You're running through their corridor and one more step woooosh! Ship's gone beneath your feet!
You're running through their corridor and one more step woooosh! Ship's gone beneath your feet!
I'd be happy if either of those happened, but they're starting to feel like wishful thinking to me. Fingers crossed anyway.
That cow has been out the barn door a long, long, time ago...
Well the target ship would have to be 100% dead in space, no power to anything and the ability to reboot systems would have to be disabled.
Because if only the drives have been disabled, then the target ship would have a very easy task of winning. The choice would be to either destroy the now unmanned ship or equally enjoyable, shooting the slow moving target floating between the ships, the the Point Defence doesn't take them first
Because if only the drives have been disabled, then the target ship would have a very easy task of winning. The choice would be to either destroy the now unmanned ship or equally enjoyable, shooting the slow moving target floating between the ships, the the Point Defence doesn't take them first
I think the way to get round combat logging, would be to not have ships automatically blow up when dead. Instead.. depending on how they died would leve a husk/derelict ship behind for you to pillage. If you set self distruct, before you reached zero hull then the ship would blow and if you shoot the power plant and it went crit it would blow.
Quite how sneaking on bord some ones ship walst docked and then them taking off would work im not shure, but braben did say he wanted that one day... (and i shal hold onto that glimmer of hope for as long as i possably can lol)
Quite how sneaking on bord some ones ship walst docked and then them taking off would work im not shure, but braben did say he wanted that one day... (and i shal hold onto that glimmer of hope for as long as i possably can lol)
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I'd be fine with this if it were possible to bank materials with Bank of Zoance or some such.
This would work, if you couldn't shred an Anacondas hull in 5 seconds with Frag Cannons.
Imagine if it was like Warthunder:
Enter combat, Railgun to the bridge, kills commander, perfect ship just sitting there.
Great idea OP, but any sort of PvP interaction is strictly forbidden in ED. This is a PvE game. Maybe the Thargoids will board you and destroy your ship and you will lose..... nothing.
...then they combat log and their ship vanishes around you.
Ditto.
I'm not playing ED to be double jumping and back flipping off walls in Zero-G like some mad gazelle. My Pilot is a 50 year old bloke (like me) with zero skills other than being a pilot. So unless I can hire a crew of Elite NPC Marines. No.
My Unreal Tournament days are done.
I'd rather pirate players for their materials than do that stupid grind. That's how bad it is. And that's how bad the whole engineers are if it'd make me do such things.
My only fear is the that the boarding thing would be done with some kind of undefeatable handwavium from FD a bit like those hatchbreaker limpets which seem to have no counter and make their way through your shields with impunity.
Captains log 1134523.5 - just shot the hell out of this ASP. Think the capt'n is dead... Lets go have a look.
...no one here, lets see the material and exploration data box...
Nothing here... dang.
Wait, what's that noise...
Me: (radios over) - sucker... you're onboard MY ship, i'm onboard yours.
Thanks for the Cutter, see you around.. <logs off>
Captains log 1134523.5
aaaarghhhghgghhhhhhhh NERF ship capture forum post...... araararagahahhhhghhghhhhh
...no one here, lets see the material and exploration data box...
Nothing here... dang.
Wait, what's that noise...
Me: (radios over) - sucker... you're onboard MY ship, i'm onboard yours.
Thanks for the Cutter, see you around.. <logs off>
Captains log 1134523.5
aaaarghhhghgghhhhhhhh NERF ship capture forum post...... araararagahahhhhghhghhhhh
Point defense kills limpets.