There is nothing wrong with "Daydreaming", from daydreaming come ideas, and ideas eventually can become a reality.
Elite is not really a space sim, it is arcady/sim space game.
Nah. The examples you gave have answers in this thread. My earlier example of a short, highly prone travel time, would not kill piracy or interdiction because it would expose you to greater danger from both in the rare systems in which they happen. The long-distance character of things during, say, exploration could be maintained with the above suggestion of only allowing microjumps to places with a nav beacon, or places you've already explored. Your time to Salome's reach would be unaffected and space would still be big. The game would still be "a space sim game" because the thing that would replace flying a spaceship in supercruise would be flying a spaceship doing something else, be that docking to trade, canyon running, or dogfighting. Finally the idea that the lore is sacred and the gameplay serves it is putting the cart before the horse. FDEV wrote lore that explains the gameplay we have. If the gameplay were different, our lore would grow to reflect it. If it didn't, we would still have the stardreamer and hyperspace jumps would take days, as it was in FE2 and FFE.
Just because you do not like them, does not make them any less valid points thats now how that works.
They already are pointless, those stations aren't any different apart from being boring to get to. Can you try to make it clear why they're so vital to the game that it's worth making 60% of the playtime involving them something so skill-free and inactive that people regularly watch movies while doing it? Because just saying they'd no longer take ages to get to is not only not compelling, it's pretty much the point micro-jump supporters are making.
are you a trader? because this is objectively false, a lot of stations far off from stars end up having higher prices on good for buying them.
Ah, well, I do remember that being true in Colonia. It's much busier even than Witchhead. I saw people everywhere. What is it you like about it- is there much interaction, or is it just that it feels active and lived-in? How would it be if a hypothetical "medium-wake" (with links knocked out regarding interdiction and piracy) left CMDR signatures/contacts? Would it feel right that way?
Except then you have to also explain how jumps work to primary stars where there is no nav beacon. The existing beacons have nothing to do with jumps, they're basically traffic monitors and in-system information sources.
I agree with you here.
Part of the problem is the rebalancing of economics (again), since cargo and data courrier mission payouts are scaled on system distance to the target station or port, if micro jumps are a thing, there's no reason for those to scale.
Nah, if you want to trade at the highest price location, you could jump there and still trade. If people need to operate there, they can jump there and then operate. If it worked with the above suggestions, you'd still have to decide if a route was worth treading the slow way the first time, or if you could risk a medium-wake given the number of pirates around.
Addressing this and the similar nav beacon point, you can definitely technobabble it-
I would not be against this, if it took place only in specific system states, IE if you are in a war, anarchy, cvil unrest, ect ect, zones that basically indicate upheavel and unrest you are more likely to be targeted for piracy ect ect.
I have explained how interdictions and piracy could be maintained in a direct reply to you and you haven't addressed those suggestions. Several suggestions have covered ways in which supercruise can remain relevant whilst being less of a time sink. No-one so far has suggested taking it away, so you would always be free to go cruising.
I have covered lore, interdictions, piracy and world size. You've not engaged with any of it, and you're back to suggesting that this is willful intransigence. That is rude.
This is the suggestions forum, it's specifically aimed at things that aren't part of the game, for goodness sake.
Can you quote the post where to addressed this? because i did not see it.
I can see where you're coming from, and I understand wanting to find tranquil activities- for me, this would be core mining- but exploration is the thing that needs this the most imo. Give me solar flares, asteroid showers hyperspace vortices and, as Morbad suggests, a gravity map I need to learn to navigate. I should have to keep my eyes on the road. The only two challenges in the black as it stands are landing while drunk and selling data in open.
