Am I the only one that finds the FSS rather addicting?

Ethaidan

Ethaidan
DrewCarnegie said:
Long range DSS is was your friend ;)

I just enjoyed the flying around, looking out of the window part. Sure, dragging yourself 500,000 Ls from star to star wasn't exactly fun, but 'in system' I was always looking to minimize my SC time, which actually involved using my brain rather than simply selecting the nearest target and flying straight towards it. The FSS doesn't require me to use my brain for anything, so it's much less engaging for me.

I agree you can't make everyone happy, but why deliberately make people UNhappy by removing something that they were enjoying?
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You can still 'use your brain' to save time flying out in SC to map planets. But you know that, and everyone knows exactly how you feel about the new FSS, you've shared it over and over and over and over in the few complaint about it the FSS, but thanks so much for coming to a positive FSS thread and repeating yourself again, just in case there might be someone who hasn't yet read your opinion on the FSS.

I too like the new FSS - for finding USS, revealing system details, and planning any mapping. I'm still not uber fast with it and haven't tried it in multicrew, but I like to take my time with new content. So far, very much liking the FSS and how it fits in with the revamped exploration - Codex & DSS mapping.
 

Tarman

Tarman
DrewCarnegie said:
Long range DSS is was your friend ;)

I just enjoyed the flying around, looking out of the window part. Sure, dragging yourself 500,000 Ls from star to star wasn't exactly fun, but 'in system' I was always looking to minimize my SC time, which actually involved using my brain rather than simply selecting the nearest target and flying straight towards it. The FSS doesn't require me to use my brain for anything, so it's much less engaging for me.

I agree you can't make everyone happy, but why deliberately make people UNhappy by removing something that they were enjoying?
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Honestly until all this dropped and caused exploding explorer threads, I never would have considered that anyone would have wanted to keep the "fly to the donkey's end of every system just to scan an iceball" part of the old system in the first place. You yourself just said it "wasn't exactly fun". ;)

To me that seems like a huge waste of time just sitting in SC for hours on end doing practically or even literally nothing (maybe catching up on Netflix backlog). I'm imagining FD was on the same page as me for this, and didn't really see that some players are that oldschool, and actually enjoyed that part of the game.

It doesn't help that people had 4 years to either have the old system become ingrained or despised, so the "hey my ADS game is GONE" folks miss out on what they consider now-classic gameplay, while the FSS folks are like "Jeebus, FINALLY a not-placeholder". It's making rational discussion on the topic very difficult.
 

yianniv

yianniv
I find the new FSS quite addictive, too, and thoroughly enjoyable. It gives me something to do while exploring. And while I can just FSS systems and go to the next, I find myself using the probes more and more. It's a brilliant change.
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
DukeIronHand said:
Expect much salt here from certain quarters but eh?
I find that when I am exploring, nosing about, or looking for something specific in a system with the FSS I just have to scan everything. This may change in a month or three but for now I enjoy the FSS feature to check out a system in its entirety and learning all about it.

Suppose I am one of a handful so fixated?
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Using the FSS feels like astronomical exploration. I love it.
 

[Diplomacy] Carnegie

[Diplomacy] Carnegie
Tarman said:
Honestly until all this dropped and caused exploding explorer threads, I never would have considered that anyone would have wanted to keep the "fly to the donkey's end of every system just to scan an iceball" part of the old system in the first place. You yourself just said it "wasn't exactly fun". ;)

To me that seems like a huge waste of time just sitting in SC for hours on end doing practically or even literally nothing (maybe catching up on Netflix backlog). I'm imagining FD was on the same page as me for this, and didn't really see that some players are that oldschool, and actually enjoyed that part of the game.

It doesn't help that people had 4 years to either have the old system become ingrained or despised, so the "hey my ADS game is GONE" folks miss out on what they consider now-classic gameplay, while the FSS folks are like "Jeebus, FINALLY a not-placeholder". It's making rational discussion on the topic very difficult.
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It's kinda like online shopping and getting it delivered tomorrow versus driving to the next town over to go to a particular store. Some people like the immediacy of the results, some people like to feel that they've experienced the purchase, even if the getting there is time consuming and tedious. The FSS doesn't feel like I've achieved anything, just chased some dots around a screen, so I miss that sense of having done something.

There's lots of rational discussion going on - alternatives, compromises, etc - but there's also a lot of people just yelling 'NO!' and that doesn't really achieve anything.
 

Kaocraft

Kaocraft
I enjoy it very much, but good lord it would be so much better if you could use it while traveling in Supercruise. The "Throttle Down" thing is such a detriment to what would otherwise be a superb scanning system, that it deserves to be treated as a scandal with its own "gate" suffix and everything.
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
Kaocraft said:
I enjoy it very much, but good lord it would be so much better if you could use it while traveling in Supercruise. The "Throttle Down" thing is such a detriment to what would otherwise be a superb scanning system, that it deserves to be treated as a scandal with its own "gate" suffix and everything.
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ScannerGate®
 

Mengy

Mengy
Yep, I'm enjoying exploring with the FSS and new DSS very much.

I do have one downside though: its making me travel MUCH more slowly about the galaxy. I'm enjoying it more so it's not really a downside, but the hit to my travel speed is very noticable.
 

Riverside

Riverside
Mengy said:
Yep, I'm enjoying exploring with the FSS and new DSS very much.

I do have one downside though: its making me travel MUCH more slowly about the galaxy. I'm enjoying it more so it's not really a downside, but the hit to my travel speed is very noticable.
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Perhaps that's part of the intent, to offset the increased jumprange available with engineering & the Guardian booster. I'm using the FSS Scanner Screen to 'fill in the blanks' in populated space atm, grabbing all the distant stuff I never bothered to supercruise to before.

It does undermine any previous sense of achievement that came from completion scanning, but we have completion mapping instead now instead ;)

I don't find the FSS addictive though, I used to be satisfied once a system was completed & I was ready to move on, now I am relieved it's finally over.
 

OBYOZ

OBYOZ
DrewCarnegie said:
It's kinda like online shopping and getting it delivered tomorrow versus driving to the next town over to go to a particular store. Some people like the immediacy of the results, some people like to feel that they've experienced the purchase, even if the getting there is time consuming and tedious. The FSS doesn't feel like I've achieved anything, just chased some dots around a screen, so I miss that sense of having done something.

There's lots of rational discussion going on - alternatives, compromises, etc - but there's also a lot of people just yelling 'NO!' and that doesn't really achieve anything.
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I also like it much better than the old system.

DC - You don't have to use it, the old way is still working so why not do it the old way?
 

m0rl0ck

M
Idk if addictive is the right word, with addiction there is some pleasure when you get a score. I think compulsive would be more accurate.
 

TheSisko

TheSisko
DukeIronHand said:
Expect much salt here from certain quarters but eh?
I find that when I am exploring, nosing about, or looking for something specific in a system with the FSS I just have to scan everything. This may change in a month or three but for now I enjoy the FSS feature to check out a system in its entirety and learning all about it.

Suppose I am one of a handful so fixated?
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More then a handful. I love it.

As a Trek/Sci-Fi fan, I remember all the episodes when they mentioned they were on an mapping survey. 3.3 actually makes me feel I'm out there, mapping and cataloguing the stars, mapping planetary surfaces and finding interesting things on the surface.
 
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