ANNOUNCEMENT April Update - Coming 23 April 2019
Yup I’ve been waiting for the clipper since kickstarter days
Yeah, so imagine if they didn't die immediately and pathetically as a result of a wildly unbalanced ecosystem. That'd be crazy right.
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Except this does not help players to learn. With this automation stuff, they will never learn how to fly "gud" which is probably the biggest part and deepest thing to do in this game.
A docking assistant, showing the trajectory, speed and things (player input) to do on pilots hud from 3-4km of the station would have been something to help them to learn. Not simply remove gameplay in a game that has already poor gameplay mechanics.
Supercruise acceleration gates could have been implemented instead of automation as well. Scaled towards the system size, once you go through the first SC gate, you will have to go through others gates on your way to accelerate and reach your destination faster (for exemple, Hutton in less than 5min if you manage to take all the gates). To do this, players input would be required (pitch, roll and managing the speed). At the end, it would provide supercruise gameplay instead of boredom.
If players struggle to learn the game, help them in learning instead of removing the learning part. Automation is the worst decision FDev could have made.
Wait, does that mean we will finally be able to enter orbit in the first place? For right now, all we can do is fly at minimum supercruise/orbital cruise speed, but not actually orbit a body, and as soon as we drop out of cruise, we are under powered hover (and with FAOFF will start dropping like a stone).
This is what I'm afraid of, as someone who played WoW since Wraith of the Lich King, an expansion where the slide into ultra casual began I would hate to see the same thing happen to Elite Dangerous as I can't see them being able to attract casuals without gutting some of the game's systems.
You obviously meant "without" being banned. ;0
Kind of reminds me of the whole "combat log" being against Terms of Service and an investigation by players showing Frontier did nothing about those reports...and even after they got bad publicity about it. still apparently do nothing about it.
And yes.. I find the "we can't say anything about an investigation due to anonoymity policy" as something Frontier hides behind in order not to show what they're doing or not doing.
Kind of reminds me of the whole "combat log" being against Terms of Service and an investigation by players showing Frontier did nothing about those reports...and even after they got bad publicity about it. still apparently do nothing about it.
And yes.. I find the "we can't say anything about an investigation due to anonoymity policy" as something Frontier hides behind in order not to show what they're doing or not doing.
But still no CQC from in game? in whack.
Outstanding! I'm looking forward to the changes. Good list of enhancements! My kids will love the advanced docking computer! They still have a hard time exiting dock at busy stations!
or they will just be lazy and never try for themselves and actually try to master the game.
But when Matty wanted pretty skins for his new ship before leaving on DW2, boy was he entitled to them. Apparently.
Flippin' 'eck ... that REALLY caught me by surprise. I haven't said this since PP was unfortunately added to the game but I'm actually hyped!
Also, I like the idea of new players being gradually introduced to the harsh realities of the game.
One thing I would like to see in future is a way of seeing which planets you have mapped in the nav panel without resorting to pen and paper. What about using a different colour?
Also, I like the idea of new players being gradually introduced to the harsh realities of the game.
One thing I would like to see in future is a way of seeing which planets you have mapped in the nav panel without resorting to pen and paper. What about using a different colour?
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I have to say, I agree that we should have a separation between physical ship's expansion slots and ship's computer expansion slots. The former would hold things like HRPs, MRPs, shields, cargo, and all that sort of stuff, and the latter would hold the things like autopilots and limpet controllers. It has always annoyed me that something like a limpet controller has to be so huge when in reality it would be nothing other than a software package and maybe an add-on card... and those things just don't take up the cubic volume that sixty-four tons of cargo would occupy. Those huge limpet controllers don't even hold any limpets! If they did, their size would be justified. We already have military expansion slots, so why not computer expansion slots?
As for the new players' training ground, here's a slight alteration... make these new planets a simulation within the simulation, where only those pilots in need of training should be, but anyone who has not graduated (including existing players) can go - for a fee if you're not new to the game. However, everything is really cheap because it's all simulated, except that at the end of the course, you get your sidey with the fitout you set up in the in-game sim. Ganking doesn't really matter, since, being a sim, you can't die for real, and therefore there's no rebuy. Finally, set it up so that once you display a certain level of competence - not related to elite rank, but in things like ship-handling and combat ability, measured in the time taken to perform necessary actions and use of more of the ship's features in combat. Once you demonstrate this level of competence, if you haven't left of your own accord, you get booted with a "Congratulations, you've graduated from the Pilot's Association online school of piloting." message. Long-time players wanting to stay around to gank the baby seals would have a hard time doing so for long, since they would have to adjust their play-style to that of a newbie, and hence be a less-effective newbie killer, or graduate in short order.
As for the new players' training ground, here's a slight alteration... make these new planets a simulation within the simulation, where only those pilots in need of training should be, but anyone who has not graduated (including existing players) can go - for a fee if you're not new to the game. However, everything is really cheap because it's all simulated, except that at the end of the course, you get your sidey with the fitout you set up in the in-game sim. Ganking doesn't really matter, since, being a sim, you can't die for real, and therefore there's no rebuy. Finally, set it up so that once you display a certain level of competence - not related to elite rank, but in things like ship-handling and combat ability, measured in the time taken to perform necessary actions and use of more of the ship's features in combat. Once you demonstrate this level of competence, if you haven't left of your own accord, you get booted with a "Congratulations, you've graduated from the Pilot's Association online school of piloting." message. Long-time players wanting to stay around to gank the baby seals would have a hard time doing so for long, since they would have to adjust their play-style to that of a newbie, and hence be a less-effective newbie killer, or graduate in short order.
The update in 2020 will not be free, so that's actually how it works... You develop, you sell it, I buy it... It's called business. Sell me atmospheric planets for 20 euros, I'll pay it... sell it for 50 euros, I would buy it again, sell it for 100 I'm still on it...
Hurr Durr, we don't tolerate botting or scripting, but we're totally making it easier to do...