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Q. NPC Crew & Wings?
A. It’s something we want to do, but we need a bunch of other stuff such as communicating with NPC’s and more rules to govern them, so not at the moment.
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IIRC they said more SRVs are on their to do list.
I don't think you can compare adding a new weapon to adding more exploration content, anyway they added "new phenomena or cool things to find" with almost every update since release.
I believe adding seamless transitions from supercruise to normal flight is more of a technical challenge than a design decision. Anyway, I remember that they thought about adding the glide animation from planetary landings to station approach.
A few examples would be good. But I would probably agree anyway...
Not really, unless you assume that creating legs and atmospheric landings require the same amount of effort and time like the engineers did. Guardians and Thargoids on the other hand have been some of the most requested additions, which shows that their roadmap does reflect what the community wants. I believe the only feature that nobody asked for was CQC.
Yes and no. If it would be a true MMO it would probably be a better MMO but 50% of the players wouldn't like it. If it would be a true single player game it would probably be a better single player game but the other 50% woulnd't like it. Meanwhile I like that the game is both, although I am mostly interested in my personal narrative the shared universe gives me the feeling of belonging to a real world, while a 100% single player experience would get boring after 50 hours because I woulnd't have the feeling that I can do anything meaningful.
You could say the same about the careers. It would probably be a better trading game if all you could do was trading. I would miss the combat and exploration though.
What,.........no more bugs.
Why,...........no more bugs.
How,...........fix the bugs.
There are other things I would like to change but this one is pretty high on my list.
Why,...........no more bugs.
How,...........fix the bugs.
There are other things I would like to change but this one is pretty high on my list.
In the olden days we exited much further away, can't remember the exact distance, there was much grumbling and discontent and the distance got reduced.
So good luck with your suggestion
I assume that introducing legs mechanics and atmospheric planets with dedicated gamplay would take 3 years of development, which was the duration of horizons + beyond.
Consider also that guardians could have been a content much more enjoyable on legs with guardian structures and temples to be explored in first person rather than on a futuristic wheel chair (SRV) that stucks at every single rock.
So basically no content updates at all for 3 years? Peope are already losing their mind over 2 years WITH regular content updates. The end result would probably be a better game, the question is if there would be a playerbase left to play it. Money would probably also be an issue.
The OP said one thing... not thousands
You've got a point but I wish there was more depth to excisting features too instead of getting new half developed features time and time again.
For me personally, if that would take another year or two then I'm all for it but that's just me.
I fear you're correct thought that it would become a financial and players numbers problem.
The OP said one thing... not thousands
Lol, there goes my coffee.........
No, contents released little by little like they did with horizons.
example:
Dec. 2015 Horizons
June 2016 Rocky and Ice planets with atmosphere
Dec 2016 Gas Giants, Volcanic planets with planetary mining
June 2017 Legs in stations and ships with new gameplay to interact with ships and modules (basic version of engineering where you are the engineer that modify your modules for additional boost)
Dec 2017 Dedicated missions and exploration contents for legs
June 2018 Thargoids (combat ship) and guardian (exploration on legs)
Dec 2018 HMC and WW with submarine SRV
June 2019 (wow now!): ELW and life on planets
I believe you are underestimating the effort it takes. You've just given them 6 months for atmospheric planets and another 6 months for space legs.
Definitely not.
The developers team that works at legs is not the same that works at atmospheric planets. Frontier demonstrated several times that their developers are organized in teams and assigned to different topics.
So the Atmospheric Planet team actually has 3 years to release all planet types starting from the simplest ones to the most complex ones.
The legs team has 18 month to introduce a basic version of legs plus another 6 month to bring in more contents.
Consider also that the complete game development started in 2012 and Elite was released in 2014 so I can't see why they should not be able to add some effective contents in the same amount of time.
I would like to ringed planets have at least 4 to 5 of the medium sized ports so I can re stock limpits and such just re stocking no market or anything like the one in the training mission
This is what I would change:
Engineers are just highly skilled mechanics. One should be able to walk into their garage, tell 'em what you want and then pay for it with CR's earned in the game. Maybe have to come back and get it later - some minor delay kind'a like moving ships and modules around from station to station or the completed mod could just be shipped to you and installed wherever you happen to be when it is completed.
Then again the silly grind that is the search for MATS would no longer be needed.
OH WAIT! That's a GOOD thing!
Engineers are just highly skilled mechanics. One should be able to walk into their garage, tell 'em what you want and then pay for it with CR's earned in the game. Maybe have to come back and get it later - some minor delay kind'a like moving ships and modules around from station to station or the completed mod could just be shipped to you and installed wherever you happen to be when it is completed.
Then again the silly grind that is the search for MATS would no longer be needed.
OH WAIT! That's a GOOD thing!
#1 being able to use the money that you buy from frontier to buy ships fully built and plus have NPCs to be your wingman on solo play
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One Limpet bay to rule them all. The limpet proliferation is getting out of hand!
Death. I have a real issue with death.
I want to fight, but I don't actually want to necessarily kill (don't ask why, no idea) - if opposing pilots would eject upon ship destruction, bounty hunting 'dead-or-alive' could be a thing - I could get my Boba Fett on and collect their escape pod to return (pods being already in game). The sadists among you can vindictively shoot the helpless pod, and so assassination can still be a thing.
Similarly, watching the fireball that was my ship, before magically appearing at the last station, is also immersion breaking - just show me a pod floating out of the wreakage of my ship and I'll be happy to suspend my disbelief (make them invulnerable for players to avoid ridiculous griefing).
If spacelegs ever emerges, an on-board dash to the escape pod during the destruction countdown would also be fun, and a reason to acquaint yourself with the layout of your vessel!
I want to fight, but I don't actually want to necessarily kill (don't ask why, no idea) - if opposing pilots would eject upon ship destruction, bounty hunting 'dead-or-alive' could be a thing - I could get my Boba Fett on and collect their escape pod to return (pods being already in game). The sadists among you can vindictively shoot the helpless pod, and so assassination can still be a thing.
Similarly, watching the fireball that was my ship, before magically appearing at the last station, is also immersion breaking - just show me a pod floating out of the wreakage of my ship and I'll be happy to suspend my disbelief (make them invulnerable for players to avoid ridiculous griefing).
If spacelegs ever emerges, an on-board dash to the escape pod during the destruction countdown would also be fun, and a reason to acquaint yourself with the layout of your vessel!