How does the Lore Explain This?

mikelowndes · Mar 17, 2019

There's a manual? [woah]

Morbad said:
Explanations of fundamental aspects of a setting help flesh out that setting, making it seem less arbitrary and increasing verisimilitude.

There is a bit of handwavium in the manual about a hyperspace window sending the excape pod back to the nearest civilization, but a less obviously gamist explanation, and mechanism, would certainly have been appreciated by many.

Dillon Fallon · Mar 17, 2019

Maybe there is an answer to this. Anyone concerned about the instantaneous transportation to the station being immersion breaking could just close the game at the rebuy screen and not play again until the next day to simulate the escape pod being rescued. Personally I prefer being able to get on with things though.

I'm sure there's probably some unwritten rule in game development about not encouraging players to walk away from the game because of an enforced delay.

znôrt · Mar 17, 2019

Morbad said:
I wish Frontier would think things through and sacrifice a bit of convenience for the sake of consistency.

not that they needed to invent anything either. eve had got this right a decade earlier already, simple and brilliant.

lots of fuss and embarrassment frontier could have avoided by just looking a bit at prior art. but they like to play their own way.

Arry · Mar 17, 2019

MickyG1982 said:
You can reset your account, if you don't like it.

In effect you can imagine that you have ejected, sent a subspace distress call through hyperspace. Someone responded to it and came to get you. Your "ejection" pod is actually a stasis pod that keeps you alive until you are found and taken home.

Or...

It's just a game. Lore does not need to explain everything.

So it is a bit like the Fuel Rats, but a top secret organisation, that rescues all of when our ships go bang. Except those guys, have cloaked ships.

Arry · Mar 17, 2019

mikelowndes said:
There's a manual? [woah]

Yes, it is in your first Sidewnder.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/480308-Pilot-s-Handbook?highlight=game+manual

Arry · Mar 17, 2019

znôrt said:
not that they needed to invent anything either. eve had got this right a decade earlier already, simple and brilliant.

lots of fuss and embarrassment frontier could have avoided by just looking a bit at prior art. but they like to play their own way.

I got the impression from my early contact with this game; that anything EVE, was taboo here. I.E. If it happens, or is done in EVE a set way; then that is not the way, it will be done here.

Yes the EVE death thing, is handled better, than here.

Werewolf13 · Mar 17, 2019

Attack Chimp said:
Forget to kick your dog this morning?

I never have to kick my dog. He's very smart.

Thepirateorc · Mar 17, 2019

Werewolf13 said:
NOTE: a lot - if not all of you will consider this a TROLL and maybe it is. But - instead of responding as would be normal to any almost blatant troll use your imaginations, have fun with it. Make us laugh or cry. Y'all can do it. This community is full of intelligent, clever and imaginative players. Give it a shot.

So - here's the situation:

You're an explorer.

You've made a long lonely trip to the rim of the galaxy. No, not the close rim the rim all the way on the other side.

Jump into a system with a Sirius size star with a high velocity ring system very close by. So close your ship does an emergency drop and within seconds - BAM!

Your ship is now one with the universe and you are floating in the black vacuum of space surrounded by spinning, high velocity asteroids and then...

You wake up on the last station you embarked from on your long journey.

One wonders - just how did your capsule travel the 100,000 light years back to that station. Teleport? Nah. Some crazy fast super faster than light speed special drive that only capsules have. Magic?

Come on guys. Help me out here. How does the lore explain that?

there are these eti bity teeny weeny little robots that rebuild DNA. That's how