What I fancy doing today is working on my Imperial rank. Unfortunately I'm about 25,000 LY away from the nearest Imperial station. Exploration is very unforgiving in that regard.
A second commander
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What I fancy doing today is working on my Imperial rank. Unfortunately I'm about 25,000 LY away from the nearest Imperial station. Exploration is very unforgiving in that regard.
Well if you'd said all of that in the beginning, so why not just buy two accounts? All you're asking for is a reskinned launcher.
You're the one that choose to go exploring... Consequences and all of that....
That is what I said. You can actually read the posts, they're still there.
As for 'why not just buy two accounts' I actually answered that too, in my first post in the thread. The short version though is that this is 2017 and having multiple save slots for separate characters as part of the 'normal' player account is actually pretty common. I think that if there's a charge for it at all it should be a nominal one only, also that it should be a one-off fee and that as cosmetic items are purchased per account, they should be available to both commanders on the single account.
The absurd hoops a player has to jump through to manage two separate accounts make it abundantly clear that the architecture was never designed with it in mind to begin with and honestly, the closest FDev come to ripping people off in my opinion is expecting players to buy not only a full second copy of the game but also a second copy of any expansions if they want to play with a second commander.
(Additionally, regardless of the fact I think it's wrong of them to do it this way in principle I simply can't afford to buy a second account and second copies of future add-ons, or more accurately can't justify the level of expenditure. My take-home pay has gone down by around 14% in real terms since 2010, believe me there is nothing more to trim from my already meagre leisure budget.)
I don't have any issue at all with the price of cosmetic items in the game and didn't even before they dropped the prices recently but in particular because the game was originally intended to provide multiple commander slots, I think they should provide it.
Finally, in case you missed it XBox players already have the ability to create a second commander without buying a second copy of the game due to the way that the console manages accounts. So it's just the PC players that are being asked to put their hand in their pocket for it and that is just flat-out wrong.
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Well if you'd said all of that in the beginning, so why not just buy two accounts? All you're asking for is a reskinned launcher.
You're the one that choose to go exploring... Consequences and all of that....
Point 1: That's literally the opposite of what he's asking for. Buying two accounts, by the way, *does* allow all the activity you're objecting to, such as logging into both of them at the same time. If anything, multiple CMDR slots per account should be implemented immediately, while the purchase and ownership of more than one *account* (what we have now) should be BANNED and PUNISHED as an exploit.
Point 2: The player base HATES any gameplay which adds more consequence to the game. There is constant demand for instant travel, instant ranking, free rebuys, minimal consequences for crime, mission failure, etc. Part of the reason for this is because players are only allowed one CMDR per purchase of the game, which means that everything has to be accessible everywhere all the time lest people progress too far down one "path" (piracy, federation ranking, etc), and be cut off from other possibilities. The FOMO effect has been holding the game hostage since launch. Wouldn't it be great if the game had *more* consequence to it, *more* weight behind the decisions you make, *more* depth to different careers? Allowing a 2nd 3rd, etc CMDR slot would facilitate developing the game further in this direction. I personally would love to use a 2nd slot for an Iron Man Mode if Frontier ever adds it (which they won't, because with only one CMDR slot no one would use it).
I renamed one launcher, installed to another folder than original. can launch both games at once
1. I have 3 accounts, no hoops, 3 seperate launchers - no worries.
2. The XBone issue is annoying. I assume that they really do have multiple commanders for the one purchase price? How does F D square with that? I suppose that's Micro$oft for you - F D having to accept their conditions.
I've got new account on Steam sale for when I finally get VR set soon.
But it would be really nice to have second CMDR available on every account just because of all ship kits, weapon colorings and such.
Another possibility could be Iron man mode only for second CMDR slot, so save would be automatically cleared with every death. HC mode for HC players.
But it would be really nice to have second CMDR available on every account just because of all ship kits, weapon colorings and such.
Another possibility could be Iron man mode only for second CMDR slot, so save would be automatically cleared with every death. HC mode for HC players.
I have 4 accounts, with each launcher installed in a diferent locations (one is a Steam version), which is very easy to do. I do not need different Windows users to have them, just a different email address for each account.
I do different things in the extra accounts, but I do use my main account to help out my other accounts - like when I needed 25 Modular Terminals to unlock Marco Qwent, because my main account had access to many more missions that were rewared with Modular Terminals.
The problem with that mentality is that it rakes in the individually larger take while ignoring the individually smaller but much more numerically significant body of people that are willing to pay "a tenner for a one-off purchase" but unwilling, or unable, to pay for a second copy of the game.
Exactly right.