Why not some on foot CGs?
- Thread starter Salmonea
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It's not. I think Frontier are just taking the idea of CGs that not everyone can participate in by choice slowly. They have indicated they may do more now that the console migration is complete.
Which would be the goal? I can only think of two types at the moment.
1. Exobiology data sold at a CG location. Probably for some specific type of life, or life at a certain type of atmosphere.
2. On-foot items, which would be sold at a bartender for the CG location.
As bounty and combat bond vouchers are the same between space and ground, it doesn't seem it would be possible to distinguish between those.
1. Exobiology data sold at a CG location. Probably for some specific type of life, or life at a certain type of atmosphere.
2. On-foot items, which would be sold at a bartender for the CG location.
As bounty and combat bond vouchers are the same between space and ground, it doesn't seem it would be possible to distinguish between those.
We've already got CMDR's in tears about having to pay 20 quid for odyssey.
Can you imagine the outcry when the on foot CG's happen and they're excluded?
Can you imagine the outcry when the on foot CG's happen and they're excluded?
They probably could have a ground-only warzone CG by putting in a special rule to suppress the space CZs and making sure the participating factions were limited to that system, but I'm not sure why they would.
First Horizons-exclusive CG was two weeks after it released (though accompanied by a space-only bounty CG for everyone else). First Horizons-only CG week took a bit longer but definitely less than a year ... though there was Horizons-exclusive non-CG story content very quickly. I don't expect it will be long now.
Just to make myself clear, I feel Odyssey only CG's are the way forward.
I get the feeling that quite a bit has been redone to (hopefully) give some greater diversity and story telling for CG's.
In addition they'll encourage customers to buy the update when they see others having fun. Afterall, the whole point of making this game is to sell it for a profit.
How dare you sir lower the nobility of Elite to mere commerce. HOW DHAREYOUSAH!
Its all about entertaining us for nothing because we said so and are entitled to it.
I really wonder what happened to the regular "War" CGs? We used to have one each month until it suddenly stopped in February (last one was in Summerland).
Those were already very nice and included both space and on-foot CZ! Numbers for participation looked good on Inara also (~2000 or 3000 people).
It was the most (if not only) fun you could have with on-foot combat. The system usually had one High Intensity ground CZ were everybody gathered to do PvP.
Most of the people in our on-foot discord are complaining about this disappearance and I don't remember hearing any explanations from FDev.
(I made a series of pvp videos, during the 6 CGs. Link in my signature)
Those were already very nice and included both space and on-foot CZ! Numbers for participation looked good on Inara also (~2000 or 3000 people).
It was the most (if not only) fun you could have with on-foot combat. The system usually had one High Intensity ground CZ were everybody gathered to do PvP.
Most of the people in our on-foot discord are complaining about this disappearance and I don't remember hearing any explanations from FDev.
(I made a series of pvp videos, during the 6 CGs. Link in my signature)
All the powers made peace to support the fight against the Thargoids and back Salvation, that's breaking up now so they should resume eventually.
Probably because of the imbalance of bonds awarded by ground vs. space CZs. Odyssey players can earn upwards of 15m per high CZ run, by far out-earning Horizons players who they are competing against. Additionally the Odyssey players have no risk of losing their bonds before they cash them in, whereas a badly timed rebuy for a Horizons player can completely wipe out everything they've collected.I really wonder what happened to the regular "War" CGs? We used to have one each month until it suddenly stopped in February (last one was in Summerland).
Those were already very nice and included both space and on-foot CZ! Numbers for participation looked good on Inara also (~2000 or 3000 people).
It was the most (if not only) fun you could have with on-foot combat. The system usually had one High Intensity ground CZ were everybody gathered to do PvP.
Most of the people in our on-foot discord are complaining about this disappearance and I don't remember hearing any explanations from FDev.
(I made a series of pvp videos, during the 6 CGs. Link in my signature)
Great points, I also suspect it could be something related to those.
That's settled, then.
The long requested on foot mining activities will finally begin at the new salt mines!
I don't see why it can't be both / and. For CGs revolving around a war in a system, Frontier could offer multiple CGs to support or oppose a faction. This could include space CZs, ground CZs, and even a hauling CG for things like personal weapons, landmines, etc. I think that would be pretty epic, as it would bring CMDRs of all types to the system, each doing what they like to achieve a grand goal. This assumes that Frontier has a way of averaging the outcomes of the individual CGs to determine the overall outcome of the war (perhaps just let the BGS handle that itself).
No good ever came of letting the BGS handle things.