Impact on game: HeartBroken!
Version Found: 2.1.04
Frequency: All the time!
Time and date of issue: since v1.1
Commander name: Dr Indiana Jones
VR: none
Location: anywhere
Ship: Python
Description: You made me hate a game i adored since my childhood.
Steps to reproduce: Just play the damn game!
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First of all let me say, I do not wish to start a discussion or wish for anyone to try to "change" my mind. I am too old for this !
I had big issues with the first version of ED mainly because any Anaconda that "bumped", on my ASP Explorer at the time, I just got killed instantly.
Still, I would change all crappy later releases, v1.4, 2.0, 2.1 with v1.1 anytime! "Community Goals" was a must for us bounty hunters to cover for our losses easily in a weekend!
You managed to take a game I love since my childhood, that in v1.1 was a decent game that needed fine-tuning and market enhancements, and made this crap you got now!
As a developer myself, I am sure that this took some effort to accomplish!
1) v1.2 maybe WINGS is a nice feature, still other issues had to be addressed at that time (market, missions and exploration improvements). In my opinion you made a bad decision about WINGS, something else was needed in order to attract multiplayer gamers.
2) v1.3 Powerplay. Really? Do I need to even explain myself as how crappy this idea and implementation was? You already had Federation/Empire/Alliance why do we need powerplay and a load of crap guys we have to pledge with to find ourselves doing stupid and dangerous missions in order for them to "like" us an to be able to get better... ! I am tired to even think that way! powerplay just limits our options in the game, it does not expands them, it's way too complicated and all missions have high risky / low profit!
3) v1.4 CQC. WHO THE CARES ABOUT THIS ?
4) v2.0 Planetary Landings. This was needed, but past the planetary approach which is nice, the SRV and related run-around-and-hope-for-the-best missions is for the mentally insane! Get a gun and shoot rocks to get materials!
No offense guys, but what a load of crap is this! Who is the love of God had this idea? Did you open a public discussion and "we" the "paying" users agreed to make that crap??? My 9 year old son would come up with a much better idea instead!
5) v2.1 The Engineers. My God somebody kill me now!!! This was even worse! So we have to find a guy somewhere in space and find materials for him from we-do-not-know-where, to make total crappy upgrades until we get 5level, then find again more materials and pray in God we get lucky enough to get maybe 10-15% to our shields, engines, fsd, guns? WHO THE CARES? Do you really think anyone above 16years old will play the game for 2-3 months wondering the galaxy like a looser to track down materials to get a minor upgrade and then REPEAT that for the other engineers? What in the name of God are you smoking in Frontier? Please let me know!
On top of all that you made bounty hunting IMPOSSIBLE!
I get killed all the time by crappy npc ships, Asp Scout, DiamondBacks, etc that carry (obviously) 10-times my armor, 10-times my shields, turn like a hawk and have SUPER rail guns and SUPER torpedoes that killed my Python many times in about 15 sec after shields down (shields 6 + 4 shield boosters can hold on for about 30 sec when NPCs start shooting).
You make me get crappy 200-300k missions that have at least a 50% chance to destroy my 8.5M insurance ship! THIS IS THEFT!
And then I have to do trading missions for 1-2 days to cover for the losses!
Getting killed of course, I loose kill cash, explorer cash, etc.
I am very sorry if I offended you, I am just angry of your stupidity and lack of vision and just trying to "wake you up" rather to insult you.
I am giving up for now, this game has just nothing more to offer me but a waste of my time and I am heartbroken by that...
I feel sorry that this game has only to offer frustration, random material chasing for useless updates, and huge fear of dying for some small time mission by some small time "superman NPC"...
I hope you turn Elite around and make it the game it deserves to be (version 2.1 and you still have not made a decent trading goods system which was the heart of the old Elite).
Still, as a developer myself, I know this is nearly impossible when you already spend so much time and money in useless features...
I wish you luck!
PS.
See "Battlestar Galactica Online" for ideas of how some things should have been done...
You have indeed got problems, But I am sure there is help out there, As far as the game goes, leave, dont waste good bandwidth with your inability to enjoy the game.
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