Quality of Life: One Thing

[Good Whiskey]

According to Deft Beck of NeoGAF (who I assure you is a stellar chap) -

"Quality of life" in the context of video games refers to features or aspects of game design that ensure that players have a smooth gameplay experience and do not get burnt out as fast.

I think it's a flawless definition.

If you had one - just one - quality of life improvement that would boost your enjoyment of Elite in general, what would it be?

Mine would be having different HUD configurations along with the ability to customize their colors and save them in the game, right there in my cockpit. No external files. No more uniform appearance. Select a HUD from a list, mess with the colors until you get them just right, and save it to that specific ship or some external list. The one that got close but didn't make my top choice was updating the Clipper. If can't be classified as a medium ship, give it a damn fighter bay.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

better management tools and menus for modules in storage. Name modules and place them into sub headings so i can find them easier.

I swap modules a lot and reconfigure ships for different uses.

 

[Stigbob]

Movable pilots chair, left right or centre line. Make it an ARX thing and they can make some cash from it.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

Movable pilots chair, left right or centre line. Make it an ARX thing and they can make some cash from it.

Bribing developers for changes and improvments... have we sunk so low in this community.

 

[Stigbob]

Bribing developers for changes and improvments... have we sunk so low in this community.

Lol, its the only cosmetic I'd ever consider buying with money rather than freebies.

Might break the not paying for an advantage in-game rule though as it would make the FDL really OP if I could see range to target instead of that dang strut.

 

[Wyaston Hypatia]

Sizeable information screens and or text sizes. There's currently screens that require scrolling because the text is overly large and others that have relevant into hidden because of the need to scroll. being able to resize these for what ever output device folk use would be a great step forward.

 

[Red_Beard_98]

Galaxy map bookmarks. I would settle for just having more but options to organize them (different colors and/or create categories on the list view) would be a bonus.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

Lol, its the only cosmetic I'd ever consider buying with money rather than freebies.

Might break the not paying for an advantage in-game rule though as it would make the FDL really OP if I could see range to target instead of that dang strut.

I just put gaffer tape on my screen to cover the strut... Job done.

 

[Iron Golem]

Relative mouse on auto toggle when engaging fa off so I wouldn't have to keep it on all the time and having it make my super cruise steering a chore (Mouse / Keyboard user here).

 

[Northpin]

Ingame tools similar to what eddb.io and inara offers

 

[Dagwit]

Might break the not paying for an advantage in-game rule though as it would make the FDL really OP if I could see range to target instead of that dang strut.

VR. Instead of moving your chair, you just move your head.

Mind you, if Frontier ever get into the business of supplying VR headsets, they're going to want an awful lot of ARX for one.

 

[Riverside]

I would get the ADS back into the game so discovery worked in virgin & partially explored systems as it does in explored systems.

Last time this topic came up the ADS was specifically excluded, I went with cross-platform instancing (cross-play).

 

[Sup3rfluiD]

Fleet management tools

 

[ethelred]

can't decide between a fully functioning economy (up to and including providing basic materials to allow construction of ships, and the availabilty of brand new ones being finite but with a second hand market)

OR

dynamic modelling of wear and tear leading idiosyncratic profiles and non-standard user editiable configrations. (e.g. a hauler that is just about only a massive engine with a cabin taped on)

 

[Vedmo]

Universal Limpet Controller.

 

[gorankar]

Crossplay / Cross save, or if I can't have that, full damage modeling of all ships, if I can't have that, then the ability to color code and annotate bookmarks. Not sure how that last one has not been dealt with already.

 

[Good Whiskey]

Ingame tools similar to what eddb.io and inara offers

This would be fantastic. Just good, readily available information.

Fleet management tools

This is a good one. A small, simple improvement.

Universal Limpet Controller.

I didn't know I wanted it until you posted it. Activate controller. Select program. Program limpet. Deploy.

Now that's a real quality of life improvement right there.

 

[Speedcuffs]

HUD config.

 

[CMDR GRAEME COWELL]

System controlling faction shown in the reticle info when selected for jump like the system state currently is.

and being able to swap modules directly between ships at the same station, instead of having to strip one ship, swap to the other ship then transfer the modules across.

 

[Good Whiskey]

being able to swap modules directly between ships at the same station, instead of having to strip one ship, swap to the other ship then transfer the modules across.

I like realism as much as the next commander, but having to strip a ship and repeatedly access different menus while doing it is painfully archaic. For such a detailed and futuristic game, you would think that Elite would allow us to do this, and to save loadouts for quick swapping when we use a multipurpose rig. Some people even have a combat, a mission-running and an exploration loadout for ships like the Dropship. So, probably far more for Anacondas and Kraits, on average.

Is this process really supposed to simulate removing and applying each part systematically, in real time, or is it just a lazy series of interfaces?