I love Elite: Dangerous, it's wonderful. I backed it on Kickstarter, subsequently bought it on Xbox (really annoyed that there is no way to port my shinrarta dezhra benefit though :/ ). I can even overlook the memory leaks introduced in the Horizon update/title update, as you guys worked hard to sort most of it out quickly, I know it's hard work and things do go wrong, my thanks to you.
I don't even have a particular problem with QCQ itself, yes I had to boost CTF games and I'm luckily past 50 wins.. got a little over 20 DM and TDM wins. Just can't get a game for love nor money. And then you introduce these extra ridiculous achievements. I'm quite into my achievements and I have no problem with hard ones.. I'm on trueachievements.com and I've got a super-high ratio of 2.17, I enjoy playing and I feel that the vast majority of achievements on the vast majority of games are set in a way to get the most out of the title. Elite: Dangerous is no exception but for the QCQ achievements. I currently have 730 GS from the title including the rare "well trained" achievement, and I'll have no problem with becoming triple Elite at some point.
You'd be better off with a "idled in a lobby for 24 hours" achievement, as at least people will sit there to achieve this and (probably) end up playing when the lobby is full. I'm very disappointed in this achievements and I don't understand why these have been added when it simply isn't going to be possible with out community co-ordinated effort, further more over an extended period of time as well as these are time consuming to attain. That defeats the object of setting achievements that maximise the game, to be blunt. There may have been good intentions, but frankly it's a blemish.
What are the plans around this? Maybe some extra benefits are required, like a Shinrarta Dezhra permit at level 50, Sol permit at level 30, 20% discount on class A5 and above modules at level 40, level 10, or even 10 wins across all formats, a one-off 250,000 credit bonus or something.. I don't know, anything, something please. I'd like to obtain these by-and-large by genuine FFA and TDM and not a boosting session.
Commander: "No 1 Richy" .
Just to say, because I can, I had Elite First Encounters and collected numerous floppy disks patches from Game back in the day, Elite Frontier (had a special boot floppy for the memory requirements of that bad boy), Elite on the PC and Elite on my Acorn Electron. I was lucky that my school back in the mid 80's had a "computer science" lab with nearly 30 BBC B's equipped with floppy drives, a bunch of us played most lunchtimes and I had the privilege of nailing a "Right on, commander!" after trading between Vetitice and Anarlaqu, high tech <-> drugs if I recall.. and triggered the missions. Happy days!
I don't even have a particular problem with QCQ itself, yes I had to boost CTF games and I'm luckily past 50 wins.. got a little over 20 DM and TDM wins. Just can't get a game for love nor money. And then you introduce these extra ridiculous achievements. I'm quite into my achievements and I have no problem with hard ones.. I'm on trueachievements.com and I've got a super-high ratio of 2.17, I enjoy playing and I feel that the vast majority of achievements on the vast majority of games are set in a way to get the most out of the title. Elite: Dangerous is no exception but for the QCQ achievements. I currently have 730 GS from the title including the rare "well trained" achievement, and I'll have no problem with becoming triple Elite at some point.
You'd be better off with a "idled in a lobby for 24 hours" achievement, as at least people will sit there to achieve this and (probably) end up playing when the lobby is full. I'm very disappointed in this achievements and I don't understand why these have been added when it simply isn't going to be possible with out community co-ordinated effort, further more over an extended period of time as well as these are time consuming to attain. That defeats the object of setting achievements that maximise the game, to be blunt. There may have been good intentions, but frankly it's a blemish.
What are the plans around this? Maybe some extra benefits are required, like a Shinrarta Dezhra permit at level 50, Sol permit at level 30, 20% discount on class A5 and above modules at level 40, level 10, or even 10 wins across all formats, a one-off 250,000 credit bonus or something.. I don't know, anything, something please. I'd like to obtain these by-and-large by genuine FFA and TDM and not a boosting session.
Commander: "No 1 Richy" .
Just to say, because I can, I had Elite First Encounters and collected numerous floppy disks patches from Game back in the day, Elite Frontier (had a special boot floppy for the memory requirements of that bad boy), Elite on the PC and Elite on my Acorn Electron. I was lucky that my school back in the mid 80's had a "computer science" lab with nearly 30 BBC B's equipped with floppy drives, a bunch of us played most lunchtimes and I had the privilege of nailing a "Right on, commander!" after trading between Vetitice and Anarlaqu, high tech <-> drugs if I recall.. and triggered the missions. Happy days!