That is not what Elite is trying to do. Elite is trying to put you into a real galaxy and make you feel like you are part of a living breathing world. Just like real life, the mysteries of the universe aren't given to us on day 1 and in Elite, that will not be the case either.
I've read the complaints and only one complaint stands out to me and that is the need to better get across what story is there...IN GAME! This seemst o be the only real problem Elite has. Too much of a need to get outside sources to find inside content. An improvement to Galnet is a must and a better way to drive players towards these content rich areas. Also....perhaps just a tiny bit less mystery....just a tiny!
Anyways, my best example of how things in Elite go would be the Trappist Discovery:
Studys are made of a system over a period of months, something interesting is found
Announcement of what was discovered along with future plans
Waiting for proper tools to discover more in depth details
Then sifting through that data for however many months to make sure everything is as accurate as possible.
All in all this is an event that will take years to complete, with little bits learnt here and there, but nothing all at once.
That is Elite and the problem with some is that we stop looking at the continuing story of Elite and focus only on the what the next patch brings.
Instead look at it like it should be looked at, a story that started 3 years ago and has been unraveling every since.
Here is what the story for Elite is...for me:
I awoke into a Galaxy on the brink of Political warfare, the galactic leader was sick and his seat ready for the taking. As powers began to make their grab for the thrown, they began to flex their power throughout the galaxy.
One of those grabs was for a small commodity being grown in a backwater system....Onionhead. Onionhead was becoming popular but and soon it was becoming illegal, but that would not stop it, months later, or maybe weeks, can't remember now, a new strain is created...and then quickly blacklisted.....this is kind of where things wen't a bit quite and I think perhaps some story changes and how it flowed went down...anyways....
....soon rumors began to spread about unknown objects being found in the galaxy...but like in real life, just cause we found it, doesn't mean we automatically know everything about it, it took time, months to begin to understand what the purpose could be. Shortly after, strange organic structures begin to appear on planets. Who put them there and why? Again questions that aren't supposed to be answered in a few hours but over months of reasearch....and as we did just that, or as much as we could in game, more things began to happen. Pilots claiming to be thrust out of SC by strange ships......
....now some complaints to address here, specifically the complaint that, "I've never been hyperdicted, this bullcrap," "RNGesus strikes again," while this has some truth to it, in reality the rarity of the event is just what is needed. These things are supposed to be myth and not everybody in the galaxy is supposed to experience it. It is supposed to make you wonder, "Is this really happening? Or are they making this up because it's never happened to me, so it can't be real." It drives the mystery and story forward, you want to find out whether or not this is really happening and if so who is doing it....
....shortly after these encounters we find more unknown objects, then shipwrecks, all of which answer some questions but bring more with those answers...and of course more months of speculation and denying any of this is real.....
Then things really start to ramp up, encounter and organic sites, more hyperdictions, distress signals with strange wrecks in them and unknown ships leaving the scenes. Members of the community claiming underhanded deeds going on and big mysteries to be revealed. Again over months this grows and grows until truth is revealed....and that brings us to today where the story has brought us to a portion of the galaxy that is overrun with Thargoids.
Yes right now they are just simple USS's...a bit disappointing but nothing terrible. After all it's just the beginning another step forward, it's not all out war day one, or day 2 or 3. Like real life things will build until they come crashing down. These USS's are the beginning, strange place in space where once ships were just leaving us alone are now actively engaging us and either becoming hostile or just doing their own thing unless we provoke them....soon we will have new weapons and the Thargoids will react accordingly, each gaining on the other until finally war breaks out.
Again we must not forget that the story of Elite is not just the new patch but the new patch and everything that came before it, It's been an ongoing story since launch and will not stop until the day the servers go down. There will be months of nothing, with moments of high discovery and action inbetween. There will be times to reflect upon what going on and times to just run the hell away and not look back.
It's an evolving story and one that I feel is new and refreshing. I knew going into this patch it wasn't going to some huge 40 hour content explosion day 1. We all knew it would be a story told over months.
So yes Bravo Fdev! I really look forward to your core gameplay fixes but I'm enjoying what you've given us with 2.4. Just wanted to share a positive post.
And try to make those complaining that this was all we got so far understand that there is plenty more to come, but it has an order in needs to be done and beats it has to hit. It was never going to be day 1, just like they have been saying for months!
And if you don't like the Thargoid stuff....hell you have improved framerates.....Galaxy map QOL that is awesome, HUD improvements free holo-me gear, new synthesis, limpets and other great things. Stop the complaining and either move on to another game, or realize that this is how ED is going to be, enjoy it or not.....
Again, I do think Galnet needs a major update and of course there needs to be better ways to get story across to those outside of pc's and not wanting to having to jump to forums or the internet but would rather stay in game and be informed.
Thanks and enjoy, sorry if this started to not make sense, I had a clearer picture in my head then what managed to get on screen.
I've read the complaints and only one complaint stands out to me and that is the need to better get across what story is there...IN GAME! This seemst o be the only real problem Elite has. Too much of a need to get outside sources to find inside content. An improvement to Galnet is a must and a better way to drive players towards these content rich areas. Also....perhaps just a tiny bit less mystery....just a tiny!
Anyways, my best example of how things in Elite go would be the Trappist Discovery:
Studys are made of a system over a period of months, something interesting is found
Announcement of what was discovered along with future plans
Waiting for proper tools to discover more in depth details
Then sifting through that data for however many months to make sure everything is as accurate as possible.
All in all this is an event that will take years to complete, with little bits learnt here and there, but nothing all at once.
That is Elite and the problem with some is that we stop looking at the continuing story of Elite and focus only on the what the next patch brings.
Instead look at it like it should be looked at, a story that started 3 years ago and has been unraveling every since.
Here is what the story for Elite is...for me:
I awoke into a Galaxy on the brink of Political warfare, the galactic leader was sick and his seat ready for the taking. As powers began to make their grab for the thrown, they began to flex their power throughout the galaxy.
One of those grabs was for a small commodity being grown in a backwater system....Onionhead. Onionhead was becoming popular but and soon it was becoming illegal, but that would not stop it, months later, or maybe weeks, can't remember now, a new strain is created...and then quickly blacklisted.....this is kind of where things wen't a bit quite and I think perhaps some story changes and how it flowed went down...anyways....
....soon rumors began to spread about unknown objects being found in the galaxy...but like in real life, just cause we found it, doesn't mean we automatically know everything about it, it took time, months to begin to understand what the purpose could be. Shortly after, strange organic structures begin to appear on planets. Who put them there and why? Again questions that aren't supposed to be answered in a few hours but over months of reasearch....and as we did just that, or as much as we could in game, more things began to happen. Pilots claiming to be thrust out of SC by strange ships......
....now some complaints to address here, specifically the complaint that, "I've never been hyperdicted, this bullcrap," "RNGesus strikes again," while this has some truth to it, in reality the rarity of the event is just what is needed. These things are supposed to be myth and not everybody in the galaxy is supposed to experience it. It is supposed to make you wonder, "Is this really happening? Or are they making this up because it's never happened to me, so it can't be real." It drives the mystery and story forward, you want to find out whether or not this is really happening and if so who is doing it....
....shortly after these encounters we find more unknown objects, then shipwrecks, all of which answer some questions but bring more with those answers...and of course more months of speculation and denying any of this is real.....
Then things really start to ramp up, encounter and organic sites, more hyperdictions, distress signals with strange wrecks in them and unknown ships leaving the scenes. Members of the community claiming underhanded deeds going on and big mysteries to be revealed. Again over months this grows and grows until truth is revealed....and that brings us to today where the story has brought us to a portion of the galaxy that is overrun with Thargoids.
Yes right now they are just simple USS's...a bit disappointing but nothing terrible. After all it's just the beginning another step forward, it's not all out war day one, or day 2 or 3. Like real life things will build until they come crashing down. These USS's are the beginning, strange place in space where once ships were just leaving us alone are now actively engaging us and either becoming hostile or just doing their own thing unless we provoke them....soon we will have new weapons and the Thargoids will react accordingly, each gaining on the other until finally war breaks out.
Again we must not forget that the story of Elite is not just the new patch but the new patch and everything that came before it, It's been an ongoing story since launch and will not stop until the day the servers go down. There will be months of nothing, with moments of high discovery and action inbetween. There will be times to reflect upon what going on and times to just run the hell away and not look back.
It's an evolving story and one that I feel is new and refreshing. I knew going into this patch it wasn't going to some huge 40 hour content explosion day 1. We all knew it would be a story told over months.
So yes Bravo Fdev! I really look forward to your core gameplay fixes but I'm enjoying what you've given us with 2.4. Just wanted to share a positive post.
And try to make those complaining that this was all we got so far understand that there is plenty more to come, but it has an order in needs to be done and beats it has to hit. It was never going to be day 1, just like they have been saying for months!
And if you don't like the Thargoid stuff....hell you have improved framerates.....Galaxy map QOL that is awesome, HUD improvements free holo-me gear, new synthesis, limpets and other great things. Stop the complaining and either move on to another game, or realize that this is how ED is going to be, enjoy it or not.....
Again, I do think Galnet needs a major update and of course there needs to be better ways to get story across to those outside of pc's and not wanting to having to jump to forums or the internet but would rather stay in game and be informed.
Thanks and enjoy, sorry if this started to not make sense, I had a clearer picture in my head then what managed to get on screen.