"The Game is Doomed" was last week, so it's about time for "Travel Time is Boring" week to start.
Please reduce travel times in the bubble
- Thread starter Chrizaim
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Yes! Absolutely we need that feature. There's a "Start Game" button, and when you get in there, there's just one single button to click, named "Win Now." That's what we pay for, isn't it, to be entertained for 1 second.You know what I want? The game to completely play itself for me. How's that for a request.
This appears also true of NPC interdiction.
- Reduce time at SC (doing nothing) by around I don't know ..25% of what it is now (but only do this in the bubble, only for station to station travel). This still gives opportunity for attacks.
- Faster travel to stations in system also would be to 'station nav points' perhaps. More risky, but faster.
- Pirates would have to find you more quickly, and maybe all jumps into a system should land at nav becon. Or maybe anchary systems don't have the faster travel.
- Add gameplay for gravity wells. And for chasing someone in supercruise so it doesn't take forever.
Few ideas, I;m not a game designer. But I know 'super-cruise alt tab' is not gameplay.
Not another one of these flipping threads? See my signature for a link to one way to make it work without getting all kindergarten/carebear about it.
Hmmm... I doubt it.
From a purely personal point of view, having regularly played Flight Sims and Train sims for years and years, and recently having acquired a truck sim, IMO and with not a little credibility say that in those types of games/sims you can sight see while flying/driving to your goal. In a realistic sailing sim unless you turn on autopilot you're too darned busy sailing to get bored.
On the other hand: In ED there's not a whole lot of visual stimulation going on to relieve the boredom of flying a 100,000 LS to your destination.
That said: again - from my personal point of view, the lack of any kind of game provided stimulation while transiting to a station 100,000 LS away beats the livin' bejeezus out of the boredom derived from planet, ring and asteroid mining hands down! GAWD! I hate mining - gotta be done but MINING is the ultimate boredom generator in ED!
Want real boredom OP - try mining.
Or make it longer if they engineer better than you.
Lestat
Banned
Then You made it your own fault. We see 30 Missions. Some far some close. Instead of clicking and Accepting all Missions with OUT reading. Start reading them. Start Researching them before accepting them. This goes for anyone who complains about distance.
If it too far for you Dismiss the damn mission. Your problem would be solved. We have 65,000 stations. 90% of them are suited to players who don't want to travel long distance. Only 10% suited for players who love long distance.
I could see this done by changing the “trade routes”. If orbit lines are on, these should be visible, and if one stays in the lane then they get a buff to SC acceleration.
Pirates/attackers benefit because they have a set spot to look for a score. Taking a longer less trafficked route may be safer. Could create fun dynamics
That might not be a bad idea.
Create some kind of C1 "Advanced Nav-Computer" module which provides a HUD-overlay of all the optimal travel-paths in a system, avoiding gravity-wells and providing extra speed if you follow them (and, perhaps, offers additional functionality such as surface navigation?) and then let people decide whether it's worth fitting a module to speed-up travel, knowing that if you're using it to optimise travel, a pirate can also use the same tool to figure out where their targets are likely to be.
Course, the only issue might be whether or not the game's actually capable of figuring out what the optimal paths would be.
Presumably, though, the NPCs are programmed to follow some kind of optimised paths.
Maybe the same paths NPCs use could be what's displayed and made into the "motorways" through systems for everybody?
Up to ten minutes is fine for me in VR, I use the time to plan routes or similar (i.e. browse the galaxy or system map to work out what I'm doing next). Longer than that and I'll probably park the headset and do something else - but that's sometimes risky. On long supercruise journeys it's usually ok, though.
I doubt any pilot who enjoys the thrill of catching other pilots would not have the best Supercruise possible, so engineering Supercruise speeds is a win-win-win situation. It reduces the tedium of travel time for those that just want to get someplace. It will increase the chances of catching cargo ships for pirates. And it can be ignored by those players who love to crawl through space at a time-consuming pace. An added bonus for those who think there's plenty to do in Supercruise is that they'll have even more to do as they have to dodge more interdictions.
Lestat
Banned
I think it a bad idea. Right now even new players can go after any ship. If you adjust by engineering for supercruise. It caters to PvPers. So no.
Depending on how I feel on day I play depends on how far I travel in supercruise and how I accept the mission. If I feel carefree with no regard to distance. I choose to accept all missions with no research. Ignoring the fact some could be 15 Minutes. But if I want the shorter missions. I start using other features of the game namely on the Mission board. like the Galaxy Map and System Map before accepting a mission. If I feel the distance is too far. I look at the other missions.
I can't see why people can't do this?
FD still take feedback from players now. I am stating that the supercruise mechanic has nothing to do with crowd-funding. It was a mechanic designed by FD, and FD have always had control of the game. This was always made clear to the backers - but that doesn't mean that FD won't discuss aspects of the game with both backers and players. All crowd funding did for E: D was allow FD to make it.
I just dropped into a system to do some trading. Headed to the nearest station to sell my goods, but did my usual thing: looked around for interesting signals. Found some weapon fire, threat level 4. I'm a bit overconfident now 'cos my annie's got some engineering, so I am up for a challenge. I drop out of supercruise, 3 or more ships there, 2 of which head in ny direction, scanning. I scan them: uh oh, 2 annies! I had to run!
Back in supercruise: another signal, threat level 2 this time. I drop in to have a look, just 1 alliance challenger this time. I don't bother, go back to supercruise, 1 minute later I'm outside the station, wondering why I didn't take on the challenger, I am sure I could have destroyed that ship, maybe still a bit rattled from the 1st encounter? Anyhoo, sell my goods for a half mill profit and I'm off again.
So, I'm still not sure why others are finding supercruise boring, they could make it interesting if they wanted to. Is checking out signals just too much effort for some?
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i'm more than fine with travel times but i will say yes, uss are likely the most boring, pointless, appalingly naive and low developement effort part of the game. i don't even see them anymore.
Then why do you think FD made the game as it is?
Ah, then speeding up isn't the solution.
Completely unpractical and it'd need a major reworking of the game.
The reason why some of us can't do this is because we take all the missions for a particular minor faction in a particular system. I'm assuming you don't play the BGS