What do you mean by legal changes? How they would do it is up to Fdev. No reason why that as soon as changes occur they get update online straight away. Other commanders in the instanced area would see the station get updated. It may even have a building animation.
Thank you Omega, very cool!
Tbh I think this is a tease if this leak is true, it could lead into us getting new blackmarket technology allowing us to steal ships and whatnot
I was able to resist responding to your earlier post but since you doubled down I'm here to tell you you're wrong and your analogy stinks. GTA has never at any point in time been primarily a car/driving game it was always about controlling a character who could get into and steal cars. There was never at any point in time a GTA game where you were just a car driving around, whereas every Elite game has always been built from the ground up to be about flying and outfitting spaceships (and in the first game it was ONE spaceship), which is why your hypothetical scenario about GTA players complaining about "road legs" is bizarre and idiotic.
You are a Microsoft Flight Simulator player who demands to walk around in the airport. You are a Sim City player who is upset that he can't play as a Cloud. You are a Castlevania player who wants to play as a chicken leg hidden inside a brick wall.
I don't see any problem with limiting new base construction to areas outside the bubble, or at least to uninhabited space.
I didn't come up with the GTA anology and didn't mention GTA players complaining about road legs, that was someone else. It's just a better anology then iracing which is a bit rubbish. The old elite were built the way they were because the tech wasn't there to add in elite feet. You didn't get SRVs in the old elite games either. DB himself said that the games are about the commander, not the ships. Maybe ED should have stayed as a wireframe game like the original Elite. Games move on. GTA used to be a top down game with very limited walking parts, it was mainly a car driving game. The new GTA is all about the person that drives those cars, the same with ED, except in ED we are glued to our seats.
Ere nope. ED is nothing like Microsoft Flight simulator. Your other anologies are just gobbledegook. This is just getting idiotic now and is getting difficult to take anything you say seriously.
1) Spaceships gotta land somewhere. Spaceships gotta have somewhere to go. And aren't we discussing this in the context of a FPS module also being put in the game? Gives players hallways and T junction corridors to run around in.
2) If all the parts of the base are synthesized with mats and cargo, it's a whole new grindy schlep to keep players busy. Gives new uses for the material system and new purpose to all activities which give materials. People will build out of vanity and desire for self expression, even if the bases are useless.
But: there's no reason that bases couldn't have functional components, too. You can start with all the functionality that we take for granted at any starport. Every individual function, from refueling to restocking ammo to repairing your ship to turning in exploration data, could be a separate module or structure that you'd have to build in order to have that function when you dock at your base. This would make the material gathering-schlepping loop even more compelling.
Etc
I don't get why people keep bringing up base attacks like that's some kind of inherent problem. Almost nothing in Elite is destructible or interactive in any way. You already CANT damage starports, surface installations, those little satellite dishes near outposts, inflatable ground shelters, uh, ROCKS, or crashed nav beacons. Why would player owned bases be the exception to this?
As relayed by Sandro, Braben's vision for the game has always been that you're more than just a ship.
Changes that are made on the p2p host need to be verified by the server to check if the change does make sense/ nobody cheats.
If a new building part gets placed somewhere another player is currently driving around and there is suddenly more latency so the host doesn't register this fast enough, will that player be moved to a safe place or destroyed?
THIS GAME NEEDS TROPHIES!
Edit: Played a bunch of other games with storage for the (unique) mission rewards, boss drops and other collectibles but then, most of them had some kind of global (universal?) chat channel where you could link the things you'd found and then let people know where you got them and how they could go get one too.
Still waiting for PC to get an achievement list, another "collectible" that seems sorely lacking in ED
Edit, edit: Even some in-game mission / CR collectible paint jobs, kits and gear would be a nice start.
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Lol, this could be pretty lucrative if you managed to grab a conda, cutter or corvette. People are always on the move in space, but when docked to stations their just sitting rabbits. The gameplay possibilities imo. Wait for the cmdr to leave the ship than hack and steal or storm/board the ship while their still inside
. I’d prob sneak aboard while the cargo door is open and go for a joy ride before despatching the unsuspecting cmdr. The age of the Elite thieves will be upon us if stealing becomes a thing.
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I would hazard a guess that you can't build on certain places. There would be rules involved. If there is an obstruction, like a commander then you can't put anything there. You are already instanced with the other person so it doesn't matter. If you are not instanced, well that's fine, once you leave the instance and then come back, the new part will be there. If you have parked your ship there, then I would have base defence and have a proximity area where ships are not allowed to in and will be fired upon after a certain time unless you have permission from the owner. I'm sure it won't be difficult to sort out.
Perhaps this is all part of Frontier's new marketing campaign. Paying a shady internet user in a dark, foggy alley somewhere in London for posting this on Reddit, only giving information about Planet Zoo while the rest is just nonsense... People start talking about Frontier, the forum starts rioting when Planet Zoo is announced... The world as we know it has been changed forever as wildly speculating people think they have found a grain of truth in that pile of poisonous rubble that is the internet... It's just like Aleister Crowley said: One must not bestow trust upon the internet, for it dost lie.
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If base building did indeed become a thing, I think people should only be allowed to build one base, not multiple bases, per person. If one wanted to build their base somewhere else they would need to dismantle their existing base.
Also, I think some systems or planets should be permit-locked from building bases, so the tourist spots or important sites (e..g Guardian/Thargoid sites) don't get littered with player's bases.
Also, I think some systems or planets should be permit-locked from building bases, so the tourist spots or important sites (e..g Guardian/Thargoid sites) don't get littered with player's bases.
Squadrons could have operating bases, like an HQ or smth, limiting the activities of the members, encouraging them to visit the base from time to time.
I know it would not work for squadrons with exploration purposes though.
I know it would not work for squadrons with exploration purposes though.
Or it could be like the wearable tech they teased last year which resulted in absolutely nothing at all