What do you want from space legs?
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Good riddance, the quicker the better. That's the whole point.
IF we got space legs, I would love to explore my ship honestly. between that and check out the Trucker Lounge on the stations.
What do you mean good riddance. There is a difference between criminal gameplay and gankers. Criminal gameplay should be a valid way to play and there is nothing wrong with it. Ganking though is another subject.
an interesting option would be adding a Bunk/Captains Room in the ship and "going to sleep" being an option for log out or game shutdown.
I guess I'll just close off with saying that it sounds like we have very different definitions and standards of "good" here, which kinda makes this a pretty pointless endeavour from here on out. The above suggestion(s) sound exactly what I'd consider contrived and derivative of current mechanics.
LOL, all I did was describe current mechanics, so how they are a derivative of current mechanics is beyond me.
As to contrived, all gameplay mechanics are contrived as they are all deliberatly created for a purpose.
All I did was describe how some of the current mechanics can work with a space legs expansion.
Err... did I push some buttons or something?
You signed off with "Sounds pretty good to me.", and I don't agree... I think your suggestion of how legs would fit in is pretty bad, that's just my opinion. But you're allowed to think it's good... and I think it's a waste of time to try and change a subjective opinion?
Nope, just found your reply to make little sense.
How is it bad, please explain what is wrong about it. Just saying its bad without any reasoning doesn't really help.
I said it was contrived and derivative... not sure how that doesn't provide my reasoning. Personally, your interpretation of the word contrived is way too narrow, but I want an English debate even less, so replace contrived with bolt-on, tenuous, strained, whatever.
I also totally disagree that the game is pilot-centric. It's ship centric, and the website shoves that in your face.
... along with animations of just ships doing all sorts of things, and not a single commander in sight.... contrasted against the NMS site which is leg centric which shoves the pilot running around doing stuff... on the surface I'd say much less than half the background animation is ships, everything else is walking, planets, people-interacting.
People have actually asked me "Hey, you play Elite, have you checked out No Man's Sky, seems like that sort of thing?" and my answer is nope, because it's an entirely different concept to what I'm after. It's leg-centric, and good on it for doing a good job of that, but if that's what I was after, I'd go grab that rather than wait for it happen to Elite.
But again, I'm not here to convince you to my side of this, you just seem to be seeking it for some reason (do you really care that much what I think?). If you think ED is pilot-centric, fill your boots. Think my use of contrived is wrong, great. I'm not playing that game in this thread.
Bolt on, sure, I can see that, bolt-on as much as horizons 2.0 planetary landings was also bolt-on, but as long as the bolt-on is good fun, I fail to see the issue. Tenuous or strained make no sense.
Sorry, just going by what Daved Braben said. Maybe he is wrong.
Maybe, thats because there is no space legs part of the game yet. Just a hunch.
I agree. NMS is nothing like ED and will still be nothing like ED if/when space legs gets introduced. I think flying your ship will still be the main part of the game, as it should be.
I just want to hear your side, all of it so I can come to an informed conclusion and discuss it like civilised people.
Again, just going by what DBOBE said, maybe he is wrong and you are right. Maybe you know more about Elite then the person that created it.
What game would that be?
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Oh that won't ever happen in Elite Dangerous... no matter how cool that would be... no no no... if you ask anyone around here, being able to get out of your ship = a CoD/Doom Eternal/Serious Sam/Insert Frantic FPS Here twitchfest of bloooooooooood! There is no possible other thing you will be able to do. Just murder murder murder everyone you see!!!!
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I hope so! Besides, it's better than having it crammed up the other end.
...and smoke them
...I care what you think. Don't worry, you're in a safe space.
Oh my gawd, you poor thing!!! Is it too hard to switch controllers in VR? Tell us more about your first world problems.
This community...
What I want from Space legs is FD getting a system for decent missions that utilise it properly, and not something that gankers/greifers can exploit.
But I mainly want to be able to find/get a mission to investigate a derelict spaceship and mooch around in it.
Just think of a mixture of Alien (for a planetary wreck) and Event Horizon (for a derelict in space).
But I mainly want to be able to find/get a mission to investigate a derelict spaceship and mooch around in it.
Just think of a mixture of Alien (for a planetary wreck) and Event Horizon (for a derelict in space).
Sounds good! Let's make sure this applies to all forms of unprovoked PVP... on foot, and in a vehicle!
Whereas in principal I agree with you both, it's not in the spirit of the dystopian future the game portrays where people are allowed to pirate as gameplay.
I want Atmospheric landings from Space legs.