fortunately there isn't a company with employees behind it that need it to survive.
I’d like more commanders in the Open
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fortunately there isn't a company with employees behind it that need it to survive.
Then describe the content you are missing. If the 'Live in a dystopian future' isn't enough for you, what do you need?
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Have you looked at Frontier's published accounts recently?
I've struggled with this recently. I had 4 people buy this during quarantine. Every single one of them had the same digression: Man these ships are cool! Wow this universe is huge! The sound is great! These missions are pretty cool.... oh more missions. How did I die so fast? Engineers? What do I do for that? Ok.
Days later.
Hey man you Logging on? No. I'm bored. I just dont know why the hell I'm doing any of this .
Why does it have to be outside those 2 things?
Those sold it for me, and for many others and kept me occupied for more than 2 years.
The Stellar Forge is a great content provider.
Edit: crap. I has no opinion of value. Nevermind me
Honestly the ships and the Galaxy you fly them in would be my selling point too. It's the best parts of the game.
Everything else is average at best or even a bit tedious. Especially here lately with the lack of content.
Dystopia sucks. I'm glad you said that because I assumed as much.
I need player to player interaction... I need a risk of losing my ship. I need people to actually.want to mine materials for a greater goal. People.who want to.work together to build.something.
Trading with a computer is stupid and pointless. They don't need what I'm selling. Its . I'm glad you can accept that, but I just cant get past it. It's like thinking a stripper likes you. Cmon now.
Why do I want to mine? What am I going to do with it?
Why do I kill one of the zillion npc pirates?
Why do I want to passenger NPCs?
Sorry. Maybe I'm just incapable of accepting that vapid NPC interaction is the best Elite can do. Maybe I need to accept that video games have gone the way of music and this is dubsteps cyber equivalent. Repetition. Droning. Meaningless layers. Zzzz.
2 words: Distant Worlds
So just exploring the map with a ship is worth thousands of hours to you. Ok cool. So the first discovered tag is probably important to you too, and with the number of stars in the game it will indeed give thousands of hours of content just honking shooting probes and jumping. But is that meaningful in any sense of the word? Do you think that can sustain a player base?Why does it have to be outside those 2 things?
Those sold it for me, and for many others and kept me occupied for more than 2 years.
The Stellar Forge is a great content provider.
Edit: crap. I has no opinion of value. Nevermind me
This is why we are talking about this. Everyone here likes the spaceships. People stop playing because it's boring and there is nothing to do with them... and its getting worse.
I'm really glad that a small percentage of gamers enjoy doing pointless monotonous tasks in cool spaceships... proud of you.
It was my selling point too. But the key addendum to my question is showing somebody who’s new content that will keep them playing. And that’s the point of contention myself and many others have
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
What percentage of gamers play any game?
.... and gaming, unless for tangible reward, is ultimately pointless anyway.
If Elite dangerous had a larger playerbase and a smaller area to play in you would have a point. But it doesn't. And the area we play in is a scale model of the Galaxy. So NPC interactions are a must. If we relied solely on player to player interactions then there would almost never be anything to do.
And people dont keep playing. And the ones that do get anxious for new content that's engaging. Then they get more grind and act surprised about it.
If you have a game with no player interaction... all you can do is.add more grind... and that grind needs to net.you some.pointless achievements. That achievement, because there is nothing else.in this game is a more powerful ship. Thus increasing the gap.between noob and vet (in what was a skill based game but has not turned into every other mmo. Getting ganked by a lvl 70).
Great attitude. I'm curious as to why you're still a volunteer with such a post-modernistic attitude!
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
It passes the time when I'm not playing....
Really?
That's fine, I'll still be playing, and not anxious - unless I don't survive the pandemic, of course
Who said solely? NPCs form the base to get noobs on their feet. But serious who actually does missions anymore?