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

[m0rl0ck]

You must be playing a different game than i do Factions vying for control using theft, assassination and outright murder of innocent civilians.
Systems so poorly and thinly protected that you have to fly with eyes in the back of your head and 4 pips to weapons.
Regular disease, famine and civil unrest outbreaks and starports regularly taken out by aliens.
And thats just the situation pilots face, who i gather are a somewhat privileged class. Who knows what the planet dwellers deal with.

Its a nice place to visit, as long as there is an escape pod handy, but would be a little too exciting a place to live for my taste.

 

[FrankMurphy]

Would it be open,solo, or a private group though .

 

[Parmo]

No way!
We'd still be asking for more content!
And never be content!

 

[Hell Razor5543]

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.

You mean to say you HAVEN'T?

 

[Oss133]

Really? Sell your actual soul to spend all eternity in hell? For a game?

Now, for Jennifer Aniston, fairy nuff!

 

[Han Zulu]

I'd rather live in No Man's Sky. Far more interesting environments and things to do and see. ED is great for space flight, but NMS is killing it on so many other fronts.

 

[DNA-Decay]

I kind of imagine that a high population coriolis smells worse than a submarine.

 

[m0rl0ck]

I kind of imagine that a high population coriolis smells worse than a submarine.

I would like a pine tree shaped deodorizer for my cockpit. Im blaming the ships cat.

 

[Sapyx]

To be fair, many of the negatives that people point out are as a result of "having to be a game".

The entire ED universe is designed to allow maximum opportunities for combat. I'm pretty sure that, "in reality", a prototype stardrive that allowed a pirate/criminal/terrorist to pull you over, teleport you millions of kms away from where you were and start shooting at you would be thrown into the "nope, not good enough" basket - they'd keep improving the tech until we had point-to-point jumping - no flying in space, no opportunities for combat, no need for any guns on ships at all.

People have pointed out the "death penalty for parking violations" thing - this too is as a result of being a game. "It's just a game", people say, so they go and do stupid things with their billion-dollar starships. Further, doing a minor crime like a parking violation "in a real-life version of ED" would result in a few months in prison - but they can't lock you up in prison for a few months in ED, because ED is a real-time game; logging in and doing nothing but staring at four walls before logging out again, for a few months, would be "not fun". So, fines and death are the only viable punishments.

The amount of death and dismemberment in ED is also highly exaggerated, often far beyond what's physically impossible. Take the current bounty-hunting CG in Olelbris. System population is 4.03 million, yet players have earned 20 billion credits in bounty vouchers in that system in the past week. That's, what, about half a million ships in the system this past week? Only a tiny fraction of that 4.03 million people are going to be criminals; that system should have been completely drained of criminals within the first few hours of the CG, and no foreign criminal with even a tiny amount of brain activity is going to want to fly their poorly equipped, easily destructible pirate ship there when it's swarming with heavily armed, maxed-out bounty-hunters. It shouldn't be physically possible for us to kill that many ships in that small a system in that short a time period. Yet it is, because in ED, every star system has an infinite amount of pirates present.

 

[Vasious]

To be fair, many of the negatives that people point out are as a result of "having to be a game".

The entire ED universe is designed to allow maximum opportunities for combat. I'm pretty sure that, "in reality", a prototype stardrive that allowed a pirate/criminal/terrorist to pull you over, teleport you millions of kms away from where you were and start shooting at you would be thrown into the "nope, not good enough" basket - they'd keep improving the tech until we had point-to-point jumping - no flying in space, no opportunities for combat, no need for any guns on ships at all.

People have pointed out the "death penalty for parking violations" thing - this too is as a result of being a game. "It's just a game", people say, so they go and do stupid things with their billion-dollar starships. Further, doing a minor crime like a parking violation "in a real-life version of ED" would result in a few months in prison - but they can't lock you up in prison for a few months in ED, because ED is a real-time game; logging in and doing nothing but staring at four walls before logging out again, for a few months, would be "not fun". So, fines and death are the only viable punishments.

The amount of death and dismemberment in ED is also highly exaggerated, often far beyond what's physically impossible. Take the current bounty-hunting CG in Olelbris. System population is 4.03 million, yet players have earned 20 billion credits in bounty vouchers in that system in the past week. That's, what, about half a million ships in the system this past week? Only a tiny fraction of that 4.03 million people are going to be criminals; that system should have been completely drained of criminals within the first few hours of the CG, and no foreign criminal with even a tiny amount of brain activity is going to want to fly their poorly equipped, easily destructible pirate ship there when it's swarming with heavily armed, maxed-out bounty-hunters. It shouldn't be physically possible for us to kill that many ships in that small a system in that short a time period. Yet it is, because in ED, every star system has an infinite amount of pirates present.

Even if you take out the gamey parts The ED universe is painted as a fairly bleak one; even on the simple level of
Systems run by corporations, where they might tell you who to vote for in the Federal elections.
Imperial Slavery which is rampantly abused
Imperial Senators Enslaving entire systems due to government debt
Anarchy Factions taking over star ports and unregulated slave markets opening
Powers suppressing local authorities in hideous ways (just look at the Power Play actions, marked slaves )
Star ports being cities in space where there are outbreaks, famines, riots and open warfare, where oxygen isnt free
The common food is a algae food cartridge printed into junk food
Outdoor worlds are massive automated farms, not places the masses live
Even on outdoor worlds cities may be in Habituate domes
Some of the Thargoid attacked surface site depict poor people scratching out a miserable existence as a scrap merchant on a world with no atmosphere, half normal gravity and a mean temperature of 33k, and miners working in terrible conditions

On the flip side, energy is cheap limitless, Elite Encounters RPG paints everyone using electric cars and bicycles, the mean life span has increased due to medical treatments, organ cloning and bionics, assuming you can afford them, so I guess like real life, it all depends on where you are and how far up the money ladder you are.

 

[Underhook]

Just move to a 3rd world dictatorship. Just like ed but no space ships

 

[metatheurgist]

The bubble has conflicts and crime, but the majority of inhabited planets, moons and the established superpowers are stable. Controlling factions change, but there's no sign that the bubble is collapsing other than the Thargoid threat.

A galaxy where any bunch of yahoos in ships can force a billion population system to change governments, start and finish wars, go into famine or outbreak just so they can turn a profit in a week. It'd be the Illuminati dystopia that every crackpot has nightmares about. And that's before we start talking about sanctioned slavery.

 

[Gun Star]

ED universe no...

Mass Effect Universe....Heck Yes!

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Do I get to keep my current fleet and credit balance? If so, then... edge of the galaxy, here I come.

 

[Furnace]

If you give me a private Beluga Liner loaded with goods and Aisling Duval as my companion, I'm game. I would set a course to the longest unknown ever... [yesnod]

...yeah, time to crack up another bottle of Leestian evil juice... - no, for real, very tempting idea TBH!. [up]

 

[Captain Thea Kreutzer]

I would if it were to operate like this life and not just like the game.

 

[Spacecat]

Sadly, I don't think we'll ever have FTL travel. Some things may simply be impossible, no matter the technology.

 

[Captain Thea Kreutzer]

Sadly, I don't think we'll ever have FTL travel. Some things may simply be impossible, no matter the technology.

There alot of things that use to be impossible that are now possible. It just takes time. I doubt we will see it in our life time but i think it will happen eventually.

 

[Spacecat]

There alot of things that use to be impossible that are now possible. It just takes time. I doubt we will see it in our life time but i think it will happen eventually.

Yes a Porsche seems amazing compared to a Model T or a horse, but that doesn't mean we'll someday have cars that can go 5,000 mph. There are limits to how much things can be improved.

 

[Gun Star]

Yes a Porsche seems amazing compared to a Model T or a horse, but that doesn't mean we'll someday have cars that can go 5,000 mph. There are limits to how much things can be improved.

Look at planes. First flight was a distance of 120ft at 6.8 mph in 1903. First supersonic flight was 1947 at 1600 mph. That is only 44 year gap.

It will come.