Who would sell their soul to actually live in the Elite Dangerous Universe (IRL)

Daniel Cloudsifter

Daniel Cloudsifter
Ozmodion said:
If there was a way, Fairy godmother or HG Wells time machine, to get yourself to 3304 and live the way we all play this game, how many of you would actually do it.

Take into consideration that there is no respawns and once you die then thats it....

for me i would be off in a shot, having my own ship and bugging out to the god knows where for months on end......got to be better than what we are doing at the moment.

OFC we dont know what its going to be like in 3304 and if we will be flying about the galaxy in our own personal ships like we do today in our own cars, but use the imagination and lets assume it is like the game.
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I would not sell my soul to do it. But if given the chance - as in, I get the pilot startup we get in the game (or even better, assume the life/career I've already built up) - I would go for it with no hesitation. Much more advanced medical technology, anti-aging drugs, traveling among the stars (or settling on some lush/pristine Earth-like world)! Yeah, I'm all in.

As for the chance of dying, meh. Dying is easy. Living is hard. :cool:
 

Daniel Cloudsifter

Daniel Cloudsifter
Iskariot said:
If only it was so easy in real life to earn millions and billions.

But I would not want to live in the ED universe.
I have been dead several times already and ED does not have a narrative explaining the used resurrection mechanism.
So in the real ED universe I would have died and stayed dead in the first week I entered it, as there is no actual mechanism in place to revive me, or save me.

I have proposed a good resurrection mechanism several times, based on cloning, like in the Takeshi Kovacs novels. The mechanism used in those books would fit ED like a glove.
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I think our escape pods have a built-in FSD drive. That's mentioned in one of the "official" ED books that came out before the game; the agent that used it mentioned that it was rare. I guess it became more standard for Pilots Federation members a few years later (after all, the FSD drive hasn't been around all that long).

Also, there is cloning and consciousness transfer in the official books as well (rare, probably illegal). Salome' is the fourth in a series of clones used by the Club. The third was Octavia, who became a pirate and heavily modified with cybernetics. In the first book featuring Salome', Octavia arranged for her abduction. The pod she was kept in had the ability to transfer her consciousness.
 

krylite

krylite
I wouldn't sell my soul for it, but yeah if there was a chance to, I would be interested to see the lore world of ED in 3304. This assuming you were already a member of the pilot's federation seemingly a very small percentage of the population of a number of trillions of humans in the habitable galaxy.

Where all kinds of political doctrines can positively work their controversial strengths like communism, dictatorships and cooperatives because there are astronomically and vastly more available resources among the myriad star systems and through interstellar commerce. You have the power of whole cities in one ship's fusion powerplant and then the overinflated credits average earning potential of the members of the pilot's federation. The construction efficiency of thousands of massive city-like stations seems unreal compared to today's construction tech. You could initially make a few hundred million and be set, then you could pick and choose any among hundreds of ELWs or stations to settle and live high on. Have your own mansion and farm in one of those orbis rings. Or even on one of the massive ground bases with buildings several times taller than today's skyscrapers and square area in the habitat domes and structures bigger than major cities today.

True, there are myriads of inter-system and local conflicts among faction nation states and such, but the death toll is far minuscule still, compared to the overall population of trillions of lives able to live stable varied lives away from the conflicts and spread out among thousands of star systems. Looking in the backgrounds of the npc mission board reps, aside from the anarchy factions one can see they live and abide in posh, hi-tech homes , buildings and offices. I would argue the ED world could be far less dystopian than could seem on the surface in some perspectives, and that there could be far more of a percentage of people living quality lives and lifestyles in the ED world than our own today.

A couple of similar sci-fi civilizations the ED world reminds me of are Niven's "Known Space" including the latter novels and Asimov's human only foundation galaxy (barring the galactic collapse).
 
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dubsdj

dubsdj
Back to the 80's for me. But seriously in 10 years I reckon the VR Tech would have advanced a fair bit and it will almost be as if you were there.
 

Chorda

Chorda
777Driver said:
Yeah, why not, become a billionaire in a week, stock up on food and meds, live on a Cutter with your wife and kids on a secluded Earth like 20,000LY from populated space. Whats not to love about that?
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Then have the Dark Wheel show up, having tracked you through your Pilot Federation computer and explain that you've been tapped for some volunteer work on experimental drive technology. Thanks in advance, your family will be well looked after et cetera.
 

surfarer

surfarer
Rubbernuke said:
Well, having today's level of societal development with species ending levels of technology bolted onto a shaky galactic civilisation would be a scary place.

Whatever you do, you are harming someone at some level. Those floating mats were at some time in the past someone else, every mission oppresses someone at some point. You have to compromise your ideals with Powers, while doing BGS work is using a systems population like a disposable tool.

ED is a game that teaches you that there is no co-existence in the end, and that to thrive someone else has to suffer for that. It wouldn't be fair or enlightened, just a choice of being strong or accepting weakness and living in fear.

So in essence you'd fit right in if you had sold your soul to get there...
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...If we take money out of the equation, that would fix it. I need 10 of 'a' you need 10 'b' ...lets do business.

Money just creates greed.
 

Kathryn Kando

Kathryn Kando
As a Thargoid overlord, yes.:D

No, seriously as much as I love flying through space, the ED universe is a bit too much on the dystopian side. You may love to play it, to live in it is a bit sad even if you become a space hermit, solitude turns into madness quicker than one may believe.
 

Nadreck

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We know surprisingly little about what they do for entertainment. There's Galnet, but that doesn't tell us much about everyday life. How bearable is it for the average citizen?

In our own time, we have people who fantasise about living in a simpler world with medieval technology. Maybe they imagine life in the 21st

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Backelaer

Backelaer
Daniel Cloudsifter said:
I think our escape pods have a built-in FSD drive. That's mentioned in one of the "official" ED books that came out before the game; the agent that used it mentioned that it was rare. I guess it became more standard for Pilots Federation members a few years later (after all, the FSD drive hasn't been around all that long).

Also, there is cloning and consciousness transfer in the official books as well (rare, probably illegal). Salome' is the fourth in a series of clones used by the Club. The third was Octavia, who became a pirate and heavily modified with cybernetics. In the first book featuring Salome', Octavia arranged for her abduction. The pod she was kept in had the ability to transfer her consciousness.
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However, in those later books by Drew (like the one that reveals that thing with Salomé and Olivia - you might want to put some spoiler tags there btw), if your ship dies, you die.
You can 't have your cake and eat it ;)
 

Daniel Cloudsifter

Daniel Cloudsifter
Backelaer said:
However, in those later books by Drew (like the one that reveals that thing with Salomé and Olivia - you might want to put some spoiler tags there btw), if your ship dies, you die.
You can 't have your cake and eat it ;)
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You must've missed my first post, where my response to permadeath was "Meh. Dying is easy. Living is hard."

The medical advances alone are worth it. Especially when you live with health issues that modern medicine can't handle...

Also, all my family is dead. There are some good friends that I would leave behind. They would be missed, but the choice would still be worth it.
 

JesusRocks1988

JesusRocks1988
Somewhere I read that 1cr in Elite is worth about £50 and that credits aren't the running around money that they seem to be, so even if we lived in the ED universe, many of us would still not be able to afford to live the lifestyles we live in the game.

So from that perspective many of us would either be living in starports or on ELWs and things wouldn't be that different to now in terms of lifestyle. Sure the tech would be better, but otherwise...
 

M00ka

M00ka
Although tempting, I think I will give it a miss. Any society where one can incur a simple speeding fine only to find out that now any other citizen can legally kill you isn't a society I really want to be part of :D
 

Ozmodion

Ozmodion
just goes to show doesn't it that we love playing these games but if you had the chance to actually live it then things get a bit more real.

When i first posted this i was all for it, but after reading some of your comments im now having second thoughts.
 
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