Solution to all this nonsense is to remove all engineering on ship destruction. Power creep resolved, double-engineering craziness resolved, grind issues resolved*.That ship already sailed way way back when they originally introduced double engineered gear and altered the reward tier for getting the first double engineered class 5 drive from top 25% to top 75% just because enough people had a cry about it on the forums.
If ever something demanded the 'no you can't have any sweets and you won't have any pocket money either if you don't stop crying!' response, that was it.
Solution to all this nonsense is to remove all engineering on ship destruction. Power creep resolved, double-engineering craziness resolved, grind issues resolved*.
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*OK these may need a bit of rejigging to ensure there is still even a shade of a point to go for G4 or G5. Perhaps randomise the outcome again like the "good old days" but make G1-3 easier accessible?
I'd be fine with that, but then I play pretty much exclusively in solo lol.Solution to all this nonsense is to remove all engineering on ship destruction. Power creep resolved, double-engineering craziness resolved, grind issues resolved*.
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*OK these may need a bit of rejigging to ensure there is still even a shade of a point to go for G4 or G5. Perhaps randomise the outcome again like the "good old days" but make G1-3 easier accessible?
Gaming is about wasting time anyway, if in a way that is constructive for well-being purposes. So yeah, engineering is a great cluster of game loops. But it has the problem that once you are done upgrading you are done. You have won the game. Remove engineered features upon ship destruction, and the game can continue for perpetuity.losing engineered attributes should have always been a thing if they wanted to stay consistent with the lore they put around what engineers are.
but they needed players to participate in engineers because the real purpose of engineers is to drive player game time played. that's their only real purpose and it drives their design and the mechanics involved with them.
Honestly, based on the focused feedback thread about Engineering they had, I just hope they don't do something truly awful and bin the notion of materials off entirely in favour of just using credits. The amount of "The whole thing is stupid, I should just be able to dock, tell them what I want doing, pay my bill, and be on my way" suggestions did my head in.Solution to all this nonsense is to remove all engineering on ship destruction. Power creep resolved, double-engineering craziness resolved, grind issues resolved*.
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*OK these may need a bit of rejigging to ensure there is still even a shade of a point to go for G4 or G5. Perhaps randomise the outcome again like the "good old days" but make G1-3 easier accessible?
I play almost exclusively in Open, and miss a bit of risk. Of course, I'm still in the PERESTROIKA Sector somewhere, and there are nobody else around.I'd be fine with that, but then I play pretty much exclusively in solo lol.
And here I thought it was just my personality escaping my scalp!well that depends on the kind of bar you visited the night before and with how much money you left there. Since we all know where those sparkles come from.
Gaming is about wasting time anyway, if in a way that is constructive for well-being purposes. So yeah, engineering is a great cluster of game loops. But it has the problem that once you are done upgrading you are done. You have won the game. Remove engineered features upon ship destruction, and the game can continue for perpetuity.
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I just use my tablet or laptop...In other news, I'm pondering getting a second monitor to compliment my ultrawide, so I can have Inara/Discord/whatnot open at the same time as Elite. Helpful (I think) for the long supercruises, can have the match on while hopping out to Colonia, etc.
I assume this means no playing the game in fullscreen mode, and instead have to do it windowed in the main monitor?
A spot of uncensored SotG would not be an overly horrible thing. No wait. We need hand holding or it'll all go off the rails!... and with some alacrity, following the response to my "spoiler" post, came this missive... Maybe I should invite some others to partake of the truly anarchy discord?
A special message: Oh Ender, my most darling of Bells, you are a truly beautiful amoeba, and I have missed you so much since my last post
I cried when I read this, so poignant, eloquent and ascerbic, prose of the highest calibre, worthy of the great Bard himself!
There are a lot of players who don't want to play the game. They want to wander around shouting STAR! STAR! PLANET! BASE! PLANET! STAR! And then complain it's boring and there is nothing to do and it's all a grind for credits. And then demand a new ship.Honestly, based on the focused feedback thread about Engineering they had, I just hope they don't do something truly awful and bin the notion of materials off entirely in favour of just using credits. The amount of "The whole thing is stupid, I should just be able to dock, tell them what I want doing, pay my bill, and be on my way" suggestions did my head in.
That's what discord is for...A spot of uncensored SotG would not be an overly horrible thing.
Yeah, I have my work computer in the office as well (Mac Pro) but it involves me scooting around the floor between work areas, and it turns into a pain in the ars... er, backside. I could just lump the laptop up here, but don't have a shedload of desk space for it.I just use my tablet or laptop...
There are a lot of players who don't want to play the game. They want to wander around shouting STAR! STAR! PLANET! BASE! PLANET! STAR! And then complain it's boring and there is nothing to do and it's all a grind for credits. And then demand a new ship.
stick one of your spare raspberry pi's on it.In other news, I'm pondering getting a second monitor to compliment my ultrawide, so I can have Inara/Discord/whatnot open at the same time as Elite. Helpful (I think) for the long supercruises, can have the match on while hopping out to Colonia, etc.
I assume this means no playing the game in fullscreen mode, and instead have to do it windowed in the main monitor?