That's your argument? Ruin the game, so that more people play its watered-down version?
2.2's Instant Ship and Module Transport - Yay or Nay?
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That's your argument? Ruin the game, so that more people play its watered-down version?
The don't use it, I won't be and it won't effect my game at all.
Not everyone agrees, or this'd be a thread of 2000 posts going 'Me too!'. I don't feel the game's dumbed down at all by this.
Some find movement in the new UT hard , maybe the game should move for them
Sorry for being condescending. I just got home and started playing again after not being able to for many months. And to me this will ruin the game, so I'm kinda peepd.
Hey guys, I think I've figured out what the big surprise is with 2.4! It's going to be the ability to enter the atmosphere at full throttle....and not hit the ground no matter how hard we try!!! Instead, we'll just be able to fly along about 50 meters above the surface, and when we want to land, wait for it, waaaiiitt for it....we'll just press a button and the ship will land itself!!!!
Oh darn, is this the wrong thread for 2.4 speculation? I'll go away now...
Oh darn, is this the wrong thread for 2.4 speculation? I'll go away now...
It will change how powerplay works , how FSD ballance works and worst of all it will ruin the BGS...
The BGS was sold as the core of the game
Better than no game at all.
You can just as easily claim that the breakdown of immersion will drive people away from the game. I only play this game because it is currently an immersive space sim. The more magic they introduce, the less I want to play it.
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Feels like the last days of star wars galaxy , only... with less lore errors
Yes exactly. It makes a stripped-down engineered 45Ly Asp into an uber-mothership which you can buckyball anywhere, then insta-spawn your entire fleet. Totally game breaking.
I did not spend thousands of euros to have it watered down ! and I am on the lower end of the backers...
This is just not the game david talked about , go watch the Vlogs , its just not the same
Not if it contributes to me stopping playing. Not a good thing at all. It adds another negative into the pot that one day will mean that I'll just stop.
I think we should have ship transfer but it shouldn't be instant. The time should be based on distance and jump range of the ship being transported. Likewise if a ship has a really small jump range it shouldn't be able to be transferred. This would not be game breaking and would fit with the lore of the game whilst still allowing flexibility and benefits.
It would make an interesting question for a poll. I'm with those who think it's an immersion breaking, balance shattering bit of stupidity catered to a crowd that is arguably not into the main selling points of the game (actually flying your ships, looking around in supercruise, taking your time to get places etc) but would rather just hop about between the feeding troughs (predefined action content like CGs, large ship grinding and long range mission CR hoarding). Soon as they get that done and acquire their cutter/corvette and engineer it with the appropriate thermal meta weapons and kill a few players in open will be bored and leave while the rest of us are stuck with a game that has some parts immersive, some parts painfully arcade.
Yeah great, and while we're at it let's stop all this nonsense with spaceships fighting, we're really just mashing a button when a pixel is in the middle of our screen. Let's chase the pixel. And trading? HA! Just show me the spreadsheets. Exploration? Just let me shuffle through systems like a pack of cards.
/endsarc
Arguing that because some things are already gamey, therefore everything might as well be gamey, leads you to this conclusion at the end of the tunnel. A game like this is nothing without immersion.
All of it except the jumps I need to carry the cargo.
Think of an extraordinarily profitable trade run that is 3 jumps in your trade ship, but the return trip isn't worth it.
3 jumps, sell, swap ship, 1 jump, swap ship, buy, 3 jumps, etc.
No need to compromise for that 3 jump return leg, just skip it altogether.
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See my points posted previously where you will be affected.
I cannot fathom why this wasn't the main option they went with. Two reasons: 1. They honestly believe that the players want a cheap experience and prefer instant gratification. 2. They can't be bothered to write down a few more pages of code.
Fails the "Stateless" test. Would need a scheduler (the missions are stateless until you actually complete them, interestingly enough, they're just a countdown timer and a set of conditions which you need to fulfill, the countdown timer can be run by a simple date() check client-side of all things), whereas player bound assets would be tied to a server arbitrated scheduler as you've already paid out for the service, that's an order of magnitude trickier.
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