Sometimes you'll end up in a system that has all it's bodies shown in the system map - but you'll see other things there. Take some time to explore them, you might just possibly find something new.
Is this really it? Is this the whole game? Did I miss something?
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Sometimes you'll end up in a system that has all it's bodies shown in the system map - but you'll see other things there. Take some time to explore them, you might just possibly find something new.
You know what? I've never played any of the previous elites and I don't have any nostalgic connection to the franchise, but I'm having a really good time playing ED already. I don't even really care if they put in lots more content on release, I'm having fun and any additions FD put in would just be a bonus.
With any game you make your own fun to some extent. I could bring up any other game and disparage it by reducing it to a mechanical description of in game actions, but it doesn't mean people don't enjoy it. If you don't like ED that's fine, nobody is forcing you to play it. Meanwhile, the rest of us will bask in the grandeur and wonder of the closest most of us will get to actually going into space.
With any game you make your own fun to some extent. I could bring up any other game and disparage it by reducing it to a mechanical description of in game actions, but it doesn't mean people don't enjoy it. If you don't like ED that's fine, nobody is forcing you to play it. Meanwhile, the rest of us will bask in the grandeur and wonder of the closest most of us will get to actually going into space.
I do like the game style. I just wish there was more game. I loved the Xwing, Tie Fighter, and Wing Commander games. I also have enjoyed EVE for the trading and the mining and the exploring and conversing with other players. I like Endless Space and Distant Worlds, too. I can get in to just about any space-based game, and I have gotten in to the actual mechanics of this game well enough to learn them. I can dock fine with my 360 controller. I can easily beat the crap out of NPC ships. And I'm really good at looking things up on the Internet, then pushing the button to buy things and then pushing the other button at the other place to then sell them, which encompasses all that is "trading". So, yeah, I like the game style, unless by "style" you mean a complete lack of purpose or substance.
The game has a lot "flash", but no soul.
I dont think there is anything else big coming before Dec 16th and it will be ripped to shreds by reviewers and wont be well recieved by the general public and most importantly sales will be very bad.
I dont think there is anything else big coming before Dec 16th and it will be ripped to shreds by reviewers and wont be well recieved by the general public and most importantly sales will be very bad.
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ED is not for every one .... if you can´t get in, than it hard to explain what it is. YOU get the skills to Fly/Fight better ... not your Avatar. Its YOU which must fill the Game with Content ... the Game only give you the Tools.
Purpose? Substance? In a minute you'll be talking about guilds and territory and rainbow ponies with tractor beams 
If it's making you this bitter then put it down for a good long while and come back way later, like in the new year later. If you still despise it then, then throw the game into the Wasted Cash On Crappy Games pile; everyone has one of those. Right now you're frothing yourself up for nothing but forum spectacle. I'm not going to convince you one way or the other whether the game rocks or sucks rocks but you're just making yourself angry over something you can't do anything about.
No, no one is forcing me to pay it, but I did pay the money and I am going to voice my opinion on the matter, especially considering the game is still technically in beta, and that means the devs theoretically want feedback. Just like no one forced you to respond to this thread, but you did anyway. And yes, you could bring up any other game and reduce it to its mechanical description, but that's just it...you'd have to reduce it. There's nothing to reduce here. They didn't build on the mechanics at all. You just do the simple and basic thing, over and over again, and that's it.
So what would you like to see introduced?
You're right. To be honest, I was really hoping that I had missed something. That there was some deeper content that I just hadn't figure out how to reach. The game doesn't provide much direction, so I felt like it was possible that maybe the game itself had yet to reveal itself to me. Instead, I see people trying to justify the existence of an empty, repetitive, pointless shell of what could be a really cool game, should they ever decide to include one.
I thought the point of any game you play on PC/consoles/board or running around the woods shooting paint at each other was to forget about RL stuff/problems. To emerse yourself into something useing your imadgination to be what you would like to be/ and be the best you could be if you could get your wish for a few hours. All gamer's follow the same basic desire, to fulfill their ideal RL if they could get it.Weather thats fly spaceships or running aroung killing monsters/bad guys
My point is its not about what you do its about how happy you are doing it.
If you dont find what your doing NOW fullfilling enough try looking at doing something else that will engage your imagination enough that you will get enjoyment out of it.
P.S. sorry about the spelling my painkillers are kicking in, and sorry if this upsets anybody.
Duck Dodgers super hero to the rescue
My point is its not about what you do its about how happy you are doing it.
If you dont find what your doing NOW fullfilling enough try looking at doing something else that will engage your imagination enough that you will get enjoyment out of it.
P.S. sorry about the spelling my painkillers are kicking in, and sorry if this upsets anybody.
Duck Dodgers super hero to the rescue
Well, life, for one thing. There is zero life in this game. You never talk to anyone or anything, even though you're constantly interacting with NPCs, other than the constantly repeated bulletin board missions which have less variety than most BBS games did back in the dial-up days. That alone would go a long way toward making the game feel like it was a game instead of a shell.
The factions should have meaning instead of just penalties for being the wrong one.
Interesting things should happen at stations, such as NPCs giving you special missions or something, instead of it always being the exact same slog.
I don't know, I'm really not much of a game developer. I'm more of a writer, so interactivity isn't my forte. But I've played enough games that I know it when I (don't) see it.
It appears to me that all these posts like " i can haul, trade, mine, pirate, hunt, explore, but i cant scratch my balls" are written by one person. could be the star citizen agent.
So if you were able to get out of your ship and explore stations and planets, would that make you happy? Because it's planned. But I bet you would just pick it apart and crap all over it anyways. People invest time into games like this because it's an expanding world, things will be added constantly, new mechanics and immersive content. It's aimed to be a living, breathing galaxy to explore. And even cooler, it's OUR galaxy scientifically rebuilt to scale in a video game with real people to explore it with. Knowing you'll just complain some more about the same nonsense, how about you do yourself a favor and play Destiny, I'm sure that game has enough "depth" for you.
Mmm could be....I think i must send some of my ships to Star Citizen to check it out...but wait....there is right now no Galaxy to Conqu... äh explore.....
I thought the point of any game you play on PC/consoles/board or running around the woods shooting paint at each other was to forget about RL stuff/problems. To emerse yourself into something useing your imadgination to be what you would like to be/ and be the best you could be if you could get your wish for a few hours. All gamer's follow the same basic desire, to fulfill their ideal RL if they could get it.Weather thats fly spaceships or running aroung killing monsters/bad guys
My point is its not about what you do its about how happy you are doing it.
If you dont find what your doing NOW fullfilling enough try looking at doing something else that will engage your imagination enough that you will get enjoyment out of it.
P.S. sorry about the spelling my painkillers are kicking in, and sorry if this upsets anybody.
Duck Dodgers super hero to the rescue
You didn't say anything upsetting.
I see what you mean, but that's my big problem with this game. With it just being a few concepts attached to loosely together without any cohesion or purpose, I'm getting zero immersion. There's nothing to immerse in. Jump here, get a planet that I can't interact with. Jump there, get asteroids that are just like all the other asteroids. Jump there, fly in circles for a while until the NPC ships get blown up. There is zero life or substance to the game.
I haven't played Star Citizen. I made the decision to play this one instead as it looked like a more complete game. Oops. I really have no idea if Star Citizen is any better, though. I know they're being stupidly slow in development so I'd guess not.
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Sadly you must have missed that this BETA is scheduled for release in a month, which means we're now testing all there's going to be to test at release, or very nearly.
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