Well, this explorer has been asking for discovery gameplay since the Alpha, and the utter lack of it until 3.3 had me Buckyballing it back to the Bubble after about a week out of sheer ennui. Now thanks to the brilliant FSS, I’ve been out there three months and still going strong.
Why FSS Mode Must Go
- Thread starter Commander William Diffin
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Well, this explorer has been asking for discovery gameplay since the Alpha, and the utter lack of it until 3.3 had me Buckyballing it back to the Bubble after about a week out of sheer ennui. Now thanks to the brilliant FSS, I’ve been out there three months and still going strong.
It was Dec 11th, the beta ran for a month before that of course. And how long it's been depends more on how many hours the player puts in than the actual dates imo.
Then enjoy your brilliant "FSS-Tourism Office" discovery gameplay, "Explorer".
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Why do you always have to resort to trolling. Darkfyre was perfectly reasonable and you are like this.
Also your description is farcical.
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I read that and hear "welcome aboard... captive"
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More like bordering on baiting. Darkfyre's reply can be summed up as "I read your opinion, but I find the FSS brilliant, and the exploration you used to like was terrible".
And that is fair comment marx. Darkfyre takes the view that provided it is no compulsory fitment the return of the ADS would not be a problem, which in my view is a reasonable stance to take. The OP in this thread takes an unreasonable view that others should be denied something that works for them.
That's the thing-- I think if we got at least some of the old ADS honk functionality back, via an optional module, it would make a lot of people happy. It seems like the "least evil" way to give functionality back to those who want it, but not force it on those who don't.
As much as I hate repeatedly going in circles on this, I do hope that FDev at least considers the above. Personally I like the FSS as a replacement for the artificial scan timers we used to have, but I too would like the old honk data back as well, if it becomes an option.
As much as I hate repeatedly going in circles on this, I do hope that FDev at least considers the above. Personally I like the FSS as a replacement for the artificial scan timers we used to have, but I too would like the old honk data back as well, if it becomes an option.
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More sad trolling I see. Cool.
Well we are all allowed to voice our opinions, by they should be courteous about it which Scytale seems to find impossible.
I don't like the old version but have no issues with others liking it. Each to their own.
Of course I would much rather have the "scanning" resolve itself but the delays have been so long at times that I decided just to wait a little and then move on. I do of course go back if nearby to see if it has resolved (often it has but many times it has not).
Similarly if there was a way of interrogating one's scan after doing the zooming (completing system scan) then there would be no problem, unfortunately there is nothing but "volcanism" to see in the system map and it seems nothing else is passed to the journal either. So pen and paper or nowt it seems.
Now in "target" type systems, of course I pay more attention to surface features but in the main, extending the scan time of a system with large numbers of icy bodies by the huge amount that the scan delays cause is just not worth it in my view. Hopefully the server issues that I presume are the cause of these delays will improve in future (touch wood).
I, for myself, would even be more than happy if I could revert MY game to pre-3.3. even when I would have to be playing a "standalone" and solo-only version of ED.
I have no need of all this fancy bugged "new" content, this absurd PP and BGS, the inconsistent and pathetic "story-lines", these redundant new ships or this meaningless Codex.
Just give me the beautiful Stellar Forge and a Sidey.
Just give me "Elite: Explorers".
Please.
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Yeah well when you look at the results of the latest update and the complaints seemingly from every direction now the novelty of stuff has worn off. The steam charts that were an advert a few days ago are showing a distinctly downward turn. Is the game dead? No but its definately sick.
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It's just as sick and doomed as before.