See we are in the same boat here. With Combat or distance. Both have one distinct feature we both can use. Discard Mission. They both have one common denominator and that is credits earned. Is the Time worth the credit earned? Just like is it worth me Dying for the credit Earn. But in any case. Asking for an easy mode for either Distance or Combat Dumb downs the gameplay.
Um 90% of the stations in Elite Dangerous.Cater to your needs, not mine. Use third party websites you will find I am right. Oh, maybe you should stop using Supercruise assist. Because that will make travel time way slower. While being skilled at travelling you can shorten your distance.
Yawn. Woopie I don't think anyone cares about your combat skills. But let talk about your accepting Mission skills. They seem to be somewhat lacking kinda like my combat skills. I don't sit at the computer accepting 20 Mission in 2 Minutes time span without reading them and then complain about the distance. I sit down and read them which shortens the time travel. I also use the Galaxy map to buy system data. Or even look at the system to see if distance could be an issue. If I am unsure I use third-party sites or go into that location. If it too far I have a choice. Look at the price vs Distance. If the price is low. I discard that mission. Problem solved. If the price is High I willing to accept that mission and the distance it required.
Are you implying that 'neckbeard grinders' have... parents?
Could be!, though I'm more inclined to imagine them crawling out from under a pile of something, equipped with nothing but a can of Dr Peppers and a slice of Pizza... stuck to their chest.Dayum boy...…
You're implying that they were hatched?
Me, personally?
And why it's such a point of annoyance for players like myself?And the way the FSD works in this game, altering the "acceleration" also affects "deceleration" , because both are a side effect of the mass lock effect: how mass affects FSD performance. If you decrease the mass lock effect in order to decrease the amount of time it takes to escape from a gravity well (usually your arrival star), you increase the amount of time it takes to stop when entering the gravity well of your destination.
Which is good, coz there's stuff needs tweaking
if it were up to me, I’d tweak the mass lock effect upwards again. This would have the effect of decreasing the travel times of those who fly optimal paths and pay attention to where their destination is.Nope. I prefer what we currently have in the game: a situation where what you describe is slower and more dangerous than active flying. If anything, I’d prefer a return to the Alpha iteration, where active flying was even faster, and “hands off” flying was even slower and more dangerous.
Well you’re in luck, because something like that already exists in this game! There already exist optimal routes through a system that reward skillful flying with shorter Supercruise times (which can be significant in crowded systems), and the slingshot equivalent is gravity braking, where you take advantage of the greater mass lock effects near large masses to rapidly decelerate your ship, vs the “blue zone” method.
Maybe one interesting way to achieve some interesting FSD effects would be to introduce some extremely speculative (i.e. fictional) spacetime physics when it comes to our understanding of gravity wells.
The FSD clearly works on the basis that you achieve maximum speed when you are flying on the flat surface of spacetime outside the gravity wells and that you are s[eed restricted the 'lower' into a well you are.
Now, instead of imagining those gravity wells as smooth curves from that flat surface down to the mass causing them, imagine them more as a splash on the surface of water.
So we still have the 'well' effect, but we also have circular ripples radiating out from them.
These ripples are 'raised' up on the surface of spacetime and would theoretically enable a higher speed (thus greater acceleration to get there).
The size of the ripples, how many there are, and how far they radiate out would vary depending on the mass.
They could potentially create complex interference patterns as they intersect with the ripples from other masses.
The main implementation discussion would be about whether they are standing waves in fixed positions or whether they actually do radiate outwards, and then how to visualize that in SC flight.
They could create all sorts of potential SC flight navigation gameplay:
- riding a ripple as a form of gravitational slingshot.
- navigating optimal routes through complex systems.
- using ripples to effect more rapid exit from gravity wells.
- using the troughs for braking.
- etc.
