There already is a second concourse...
Development Update 3 - August
- Thread starter Arthur Tolmie
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I kind of doubt it but I will also voice my desire to have this, it would add a whole new level of immersion to having a carrier to be able to jump around the galaxy from the bridge.
My guess is they would never want carriers to be full blown stations, but it would be so sweet to be able to buy carrier services like Apex shuttles, Pioneer stores.
Great update though, things are moving in a positive direction I think.
Are you meaning the planetary ones, or the outpost ones? Good point. Why do we only have 1 layout for each of those, too? Here's an idea. How about 5 or 6, for each?
The thing is the changes suggested for the concourses, while good to have, suggest there wont ever be new or different concourses. I want to know why. Do they need a new model? How many here can make them some models? A lot, I'd think, and for free. So what is the actual reason? If it's a reason that makes sense i.e. the amount the game has to handle already is at maximum, I'd be fine with and I'd never expect more and that's sort of what I'd guess is the issue. But it's something that would be good to hear, officially. It would explain only having on SRV for so long, etc.
When will this update be released?
It takes time to make, and those folks are doing other things. That's it.
One issue I noticed the other day, is that a commander (or commanders) parked in your instance of a station and off on foot to the concourse dont seem to appear in the concourse when you go there.
Would be fun seeing a queue at the suits/weapons guy and deciding "naw I'll goto the bar and chill out there while those doofuses get their suits/weaps sorted"
Bill
And how about a choice of destinations in the stations.... those lifts from the docking bay could take you anywhere...... also the cops waiting for you there and going "You're nicked sonny" when you are caught smuggling stuff
Would be fun seeing a queue at the suits/weapons guy and deciding "naw I'll goto the bar and chill out there while those doofuses get their suits/weaps sorted"
Bill
And how about a choice of destinations in the stations.... those lifts from the docking bay could take you anywhere...... also the cops waiting for you there and going "You're nicked sonny" when you are caught smuggling stuff
Mid September.
Doesn't telepresence/multicrew with another cmdr work during the taxi flight? Join in some combat, earn some credits.
It's not like we're kicked out of the taxi on arrival.
A lot of people will go on it though:
EVERYTHING the vast majority of the community asks will be in Starfield.
Interior of ships
Station interiors
Cities and communities
Identities specific to each place
Scripted missions (it's so cool the Odyssey tutorial mission that I often hear)
Quality fps (modify weapons etc)
Real choices about the world
etc., etc...
I don't think it will come in this update, otherwise they would have specified Fleet Carriers. Bringing the social spaces to Megaships is a good start though and I can imagine it being expanded to Fleet Carriers in the future.
New concourses might come with time in the same way they reworked a few of the Ocellus starport over the years.
Right now Frontier doesn't owe you an explanation why they've done what they've done or not done in this case.
This looks great!
Humble suggestion for the new CZ anti-air stuff: keep it balanced in terms of small/large ships. There should be a reason to bring both big ships and small ships to a ground fight: maybe the turrets have a harder time landing hits on smaller ones.
SLFs, in particular, would be great as "ground turrets can't really track them, but they're vulnerable to small arms fire".
Humble suggestion for the new CZ anti-air stuff: keep it balanced in terms of small/large ships. There should be a reason to bring both big ships and small ships to a ground fight: maybe the turrets have a harder time landing hits on smaller ones.
SLFs, in particular, would be great as "ground turrets can't really track them, but they're vulnerable to small arms fire".
Its a good thing we have time
Ultimately, I enjoy what they come up with. Watching the SRV from the side, seeing the suspension, etc, is so great. If time is it, I'd be fine with that. But what if it's impossible, as a server load thing? Would be nice to know officially. Or do you mean that is as good as official? Ok.
It's a horrendously glorified and inefficient menu system at the moment. The least they can do is have few enough variations I don't have to hunt around for a minute to find where they've put Pioneer Supplies this time. Once they've given us access to all Odyssey services from our ship, then they can implement a different procedurally generated concourse layout at every station, sure. At the moment massive layout variation would be like the starport menu being in a random order at each station, for me.
Odyssey is kind-of Space Daggerfall, only without the properly large and maze-like dungeons below the base surface.
I can 100% promise you a second srv type is technically possible. Mind you, I am saying they haven't done it so far is because they chose to add other things instead. That doesn't mean they will add it later, it just means it's technically possible.Its a good thing we have time
But I can also promise you they won't add everything they can theoretically add. We will just have to wait and see.