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i would love a full on npc rework....... escort missions, as well as joining npc wings to do wing missions and finally npc crewmates to fly the bigger ships.
oh and npcs in SRVs
oh and npcs in SRVs
What feature do hope will be updated/refreshed for early 2023?
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My bet would be on engineering - hopefully it won't mean Horizons (Ship) Engineering being upgraded to Odyssey level engineering (return of global cap and removal of tier caps)
Modifying C&P to limit PVP/Ganking (but not only) - could also be a thing - or implementing an Open-PVE mode
PowerPlay - could be too... since the current story arc started almost 2 years ago i thought there is a slight chance this story arc will end with a total removal/revamping of PowerPlay.
Not at last - aliens. As in an expansion of thargoids gameplay, including on-foot gameplay
Is just to annoy ppl.
if PP went open only, so long as all the associated carp which goes with it (all those PP targets) went open only as well and instead we got more pirates and victims spawning in their place then i could live with that. no point having targets in a mode where they have no function however.
The trouble is that Frontier have so often 'changed plans' that you never really know what's going to happen until a launch day (followed by the time it takes to fix what's been launched).
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I agree on PP, but I'm still not sure it would get mainstream buy-in. There's a large chunk of the player base that want everything safe and easy, and despise PvP in ED as a concept, to irrational levels. Enhancing exploration is a much safer bet, playing to the game's strengths in an already mainstream activity, while having the potential to draw in players that currently ignore it as a boring or empty pastime, or at least nowhere near as good as it could and should be. Not to mention new players.
Revamping powerplay as a central dev goal for 2023 just seems too risky for me to see it happening at the top of the list. Engineering makes more sense since that's ubiquitous, players already do it despite hating it, and it's a fundamental thing in game balance and playability for basically all playstyles. It's not a draw for new players though. Mind you we already have Odyssey for revenue generation (....). Perhaps it's deemed time to put in some ground work with fundamentals.
Whatever happens I'm managing my expectations and working on the assumption that whatever it is will be disappointing
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If you have no expectations how can you be disappointed? I see certain people on here rely, thrive on and desire disappointment. To validate their 'predictions' and just to be perpetually in a state of disappointment.
I can't wrap my head around it.
I can't wrap my head around it.
You can thank the toxic players for the irrational levels. There were plenty of times ppl just trying to play along instead being trolled for doing so.I agree on PP, but I'm still not sure it would get mainstream buy-in. There's a large chunk of the player base that want everything safe and easy, and despise PvP in ED as a concept, to irrational levels. Enhancing exploration is a much safer bet, playing to the game's strengths in an already mainstream activity, while having the potential to draw in players that currently ignore it as a boring or empty pastime, or at least nowhere near as good as it could and should be. Not to mention new players.
Revamping powerplay as a central dev goal for 2023 just seems too risky for me to see it happening at the top of the list. Engineering makes more sense since that's ubiquitous, players already do it despite hating it, and it's a fundamental thing in game balance and playability for basically all playstyles. It's not a draw for new players though. Mind you we already have Odyssey for revenue generation (....). Perhaps it's deemed time to put in some ground work with fundamentals.
Whatever happens I'm managing my expectations and working on the assumption that whatever it is will be disappointing
My guess would be the enginnering mat stuff because they had the feedback thread active in main forum.
It's meant kind of jokingly. You're extrapolating wildly as regards my (?) wanting to be disappointed. Managing expectations is actually the opposite.
On the other hand if people seem to be punishing themselves for no reason, you have no incentive to wrap your head around it, rather to ignore them if possible.
I think the dev team should address the current bugs (like shadows, stutters, vanishing/teleporting planets,...) BEFORE they upgrade a feature that will create more bugs.
If bugs continue to proliferate in EDO, annoyance will overcome fun.
If bugs continue to proliferate in EDO, annoyance will overcome fun.
at some point the game needs new features..... one would hope new features could be added WITHOUT breaking the rest of the game or holding fire on bug fixes as well.... (if the game is still in active development as we are led to believe there will be all sorts of artists and design people who likely have little to do with bug smashing).
Elite has aleady had huge dry patches with delayed features with the reasons given due to improving the state of the existing game....... Beyond was an entire season almost dedicated to that, of - at a guess - a 2 year period with a few lighting features added to appease us (the other bits due to be added were shelved in beyond)
Hi All 
What features would I like updated for 2023 Phoenix_Dfire? ....
....Ships, new, Unique designs, and unique uses. 
(Am I expecting too much?)
Jack
What features would I like updated for 2023 Phoenix_Dfire? ....
....Ships, new, Unique designs, and unique uses. (Am I expecting too much?)Jack
Agreed 100%
That said, I don't have problems having new features in the game.
But these features usually require both the design AND dev teams to work together, and when they do, the (sometime very old) bugs linger in the game and never get crushed. On the contrary, new bugs will be introduced with the new content.
A shame, because at some point, ED risk being completely riddled with bugs to the point that the devs won't be able to maintain it anymore and I (personally) don't want that.
Edit: typo
There is not that much wrong with engineers now. The process is fine, its more about pruning and balancing materials required (and halving / reducing things like unlocks) and giving some blueprints a balance pass. Thats.....busy work, not a refresh really- IMO at least.I agree on PP, but I'm still not sure it would get mainstream buy-in. There's a large chunk of the player base that want everything safe and easy, and despise PvP in ED as a concept, to irrational levels. Enhancing exploration is a much safer bet, playing to the game's strengths in an already mainstream activity, while having the potential to draw in players that currently ignore it as a boring or empty pastime, or at least nowhere near as good as it could and should be. Not to mention new players.
Revamping powerplay as a central dev goal for 2023 just seems too risky for me to see it happening at the top of the list. Engineering makes more sense since that's ubiquitous, players already do it despite hating it, and it's a fundamental thing in game balance and playability for basically all playstyles. It's not a draw for new players though. Mind you we already have Odyssey for revenue generation (....). Perhaps it's deemed time to put in some ground work with fundamentals.
Whatever happens I'm managing my expectations and working on the assumption that whatever it is will be disappointing
I expect FDEV to do the 'overhaul of a key feature' in such a way that it becomes better from their perspective as the exploiter of the game. Not necessarily better from the perspective of the players. We've seen more than once that FDEV is not at all in touch with their players. Why would this time be different?
Paying lip service to a long standing issue . No real response back from the myriad of responses . So not expecting much . Possibly the easy " thargoids bad storyline" there are so many things that could do with fixing for a long time we know think ohhh bless it's just Elite ?It's going to be this isn't it. For the fourth time...I really hope not though.
Focused Feedback - Balancing Ship Engineering & Material Gathering
Greetings Commanders Now that Update 8 for Odyssey is live, we'd like to reignite the series of balancing changes that started before Odyssey's release. Now, it's time to turn our attention to ship Engineering. We recognise there has been significant feedback for on-foot Engineering too, but...forums.frontier.co.uk
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Yeah I find engineering fine, but it's not gameplay much. It's more like shopping. On the one hand this "busy work" can be passed off as a feature overhaul, however lame that might seem. On the other hand they could make it into more of a gameplay feature at the same time.
But really I'm reflecting pessimistically on the idea of the devs changing their attitude to powerplay rather than saying "it'll be engineering". That way I only stand to be pleasantly surprised
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