[Video] Open letter from community to Elite Dangerous

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arxenio hall?
 
I have, it was fun for about two weeks.
But was it fun only for two weeks because the ships are so closely balanced (advantages and disadvantages in each) or simply because you were unable to bring in your own choice of ship? I quite enjoy the odd, frenetic foray into CQC as it is painless fun, no rebuy, no worries if my skills are lacking (which they certainly are) and everyone playing there is there just because they want to be...

CQC deserves more players joining in, but is sadly neglected because...
 
I actually do do PVP in ED, just not the chest beating personal organ waving rubbish some are really into. Never needed to grind to do it, just go looking.

I'm not talking about fighting your friends in private groups.. I mean open world PvP against randos. Looking at all your responses it sounds like you're afraid of losing to randoms in PvP.. Losing is ok, as long as you don't act like an idiot about it.

Star Citizen ? isn't that the sequel to duke nukem forever.

No it's just the most ambitious and complex gaming project ever attempted.
 
I'm not talking about fighting your friends in private groups.. I mean open world PvP against randos. Looking at all your responses it sounds like you're afraid of losing to randoms in PvP.. Losing is ok, as long as you don't act like an idiot about it.

I'm actually just picky about who I'm willing to play video games spaceships with.

No it's just the most ambitious and complex gaming project ever attempted.

If anyone tries to sell you something at tens or even hundreds of times the actual value of the thing they are probably not on the level.

Video games are worth about £50 you do the math.
 
Just pointing out to those reading this that when you say 'they ignored us' you mean 'they repeatedly wrote lengthy explanations of their considerations and reasons for making the changes'. Which is pretty much the exact opposite of what happened. I leave it to everyone's discretion to determine how you call someone who intentionally claims the opposite of what happens took place just to get a false claim on some desired victimhood status over a change in a computer game.

Anyway: weekend y'all. Time to find the cocktail shaker. 🍸

IIRC their only reason was, "We don't really care about the affected explorers...", I really really don't recall any other comments of why the ADS had to leave.
 
True, I'm doing my best not to here :p
You're actually doing quite well! Excellent :)

I'd just like to interject a personal viewpoint and hope I can follow your exemplary example:

The PvP players of the game do have to amass a large amount of materials and resources to build ship(s) survivable against other, carefully considered builds. Even in PvE a 'vanilla' ship soon becomes a liability as NPC's become engineered (not terribly smart - but clever enough to wake out if they take too much damage) so engineering materials will be required also.

The only difference (regarding materials) between the 2 play types is that the PvE player is more likely to amass the materials 'on the go' as the requirement is less urgent.

About the only 'placation' I could offer to the PvP player is to treat the 'needed' grind as a rite of passage into their chosen play style. No criticism or argument about the need, it is obvious - but it should be made clearer to those wishing to pursue this path that to get there the journey will not be a bed of roses :)
 
Respectfully max im not even going to engage with this. Slowly pointing out why i dont agree with what you just said would be painful and will slowly fill this thread with nonsense :)
I agree that your reply would fill this thread with nonsense. Thank the lord you are not.
 
Careful with that Kool-Aid, I've heard it can be addictive. Oh well, it might eventually catch up with ED, by about 3305

I'm a backer of both games... Elite may have arrived quicker and I may have quite a lot of time invested in it (it does have its good parts). But I dip in and out of Star Citizen as well every few months to check progress and the game is starting to looking very good now.

Being a fanboy/fangirl about specific games is cringe... playing both and comparing them is the only sensible way to judge them.
 
You accumulate a lot of credits in a game you've played since 2014 without grind, you also git-gud and never pay rebuys.

You can also get military rank by taking the rep option in any mission for the relevant superpower. After a while you find you've hit the top whilst doing other stuff. They are both maxed out now just by playing the BGS.

Mat gathering is the same, scoop as you go bins always full.
Sure, there is no grind as long as you have no focused goals, or really any skill based goals at all. If all a player cares about is randomly wobbling through the private/solo pve aspect of the game then it's a moot point. The second you actually develop a goal, especially one that involves skill, your perspective on grind changes considerably.

Your entire argument on this point is nothing more than mocking the players who have different goals then you (or any goals, for that matter), and isn't particularly informed since the closest you ever get to even being in the vicinity of their point is poking at them and making fun on this forum.
 
I'm a backer of both games... Elite may have arrived quicker and I may have quite a lot of time invested in it (it does have its good parts). But I dip in and out of Star Citizen as well every few months to check progress and the game is starting to looking very good now.

Being a fanboy/fangirl about specific games is cringe... playing both and comparing them is the only sensible way to judge them.
Oh I'll play Star Citizen too when it comes out, assuming I live that long...
 
No it's just the most ambitious and complex gaming project ever attempted.

No that would be the game I am working on; an epic combination of GTA, ED, Minecraft, X4, The Witcher and whatever that thing is that kids like now, but in a distant-future yet middle ages setting, with procedural generation of entire galaxies, base building, you can form star confederacies, tame wild animals and sell them on the black market, crash economies, blockade entire systems with your fleets. Its all pretty darn impressive*!

*right now you can only move the cursor up and down occasionally, and it does tend to crash the 'game' most of the time, but still. The most ambitious game EVER!
 
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