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

Ozmodion

Ozmodion
Sapyx said:
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.
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Thats the spirit. The Universe ED is set in not the game as it is being stuck in a chair for eternity until the gods release legs.

Its very interesting reading these comments especially the commander (sorry cant remember your name) who went on about we will never get FTL....are you religious cus only religion holds us back. We strive to go forward....
 

Nova McCool

Nova McCool
I would. I'd bring my mistress or family with me though.... It would be an interesting experience flying a cargo mission to another system and returning a half hour later just to see everyone who stayed on the station a few years older.

I'd probably head into the black in an T-9 and colonize an ELW presenting myself as a god, fly back to the bubble (if it didn't get taken out by Thargoids) for more supplies and when I got back a few thousand years would have passed.

Now if we took Timespace out of the equation than no, getting killed for loitering is not how I want to go out.
 

Kellan Fell

Kellan Fell
Do I want to live in a universe where the penalty for being a bit late getting to your parking slot is summary execution, but the penalty for murder is a 4,000 Cr bounty...Let me think about that for a moment...

HELL NO!
 

Squid Gumbo

Squid Gumbo
Honestly, yeah lol. I could grind out a few years of living just hauling some commodities, live amongst my wingmates, and one day just pack up a Type-9 full of survival equipment and spend some years exploring the galaxy with my cat
 

KG_Jedi

KG_Jedi
To live in a grind universe? Nah thanks. I'm good. There are tons of other universes with better worlds than Elite has.
 

Achilles7

Banned
Achilles7
surfarer said:
...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.
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Back to the barter system; you sir, are a visionary

...& that Adam Smith geezer was indeed, a clueless muppet!
 

Demascus

Demascus
If local system chat is still getting blown up with the same lines of dialogue from wedding barges.......I will go on another mass murder of wedding events.

For the greater good
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Sorry to burst your bubble OP, but that's like joining the Navy and serving on a submarine for six years after watching "Hunt For Red October". I can tell you from experience, life isn't a video game, regardless if you're living on a nuclear submarine today or a spaceship in 3304.

Oh, I forgot to answer the question - NO.
 

Darth Ender

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the pro's and cons of being on a ship aside, anyone who chooses to live in ED's universe would be quite short-lived if the game is canon. Jump ranges alone would collapse the entire bubble into chaos and destruction pretty much immediately. Once you start getting over 20ly, the close ranges of the systems in the bubble would make the entire layout and lore just not work.

Have fun with that if the game is canon.

If the game is not, then things look a lot better. But if i had the choice, I'd pick a future universe where i dont have to spend all my time being a poor person or a person constantly needing to protect myself from being murdered if i happen to be one of the 1% that can afford to leave a planet/station in my own ship.
 

Miko

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No, because I would be bolted to a seat without space legs and unable to see a single planet from the surface that had anything Green on it. It would be great for people who like to watch paint dry.
 

777Driver

777Driver
Miko said:
No, because I would be bolted to a seat without space legs and unable to see a single planet from the surface that had anything Green on it. It would be great for people who like to watch paint dry.
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You should probably actually read the topic, as opposed to just the thread title.
 

Miko

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777Driver said:
You should probably actually read the topic, as opposed to just the thread title.
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Or maybe you failed to acknowledge I took the opportunity to make a joke. But then a lot of people tend to lack the sense to pick up on jokes these days... Why so serious? Haha.
 
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