A Story Line?

[Samurai83ITA]

This game have a great potential, this will be a DEFINITIVE game, but the thing that he missed is a good story that involved your CMDR.
Not talking about the lore, that is a great public story for all CMDR.
I’m talking about a storyline of your pilot depending of your action. For example. When you unlock a rank of combat (or explore or trade) you get a special mission about a story, to complete before you reach the next rank (each rank have different kind of missions).
For example the first mission story for rank combat is to find the killer of a famous person killed in a station, resolving a puzzle, and then to kill them (or let alive, that can will change the storyline). The second mission there will be a mission to defend himself about an attack of “friends” of the killer... and go on...
This “story missions” can be different for other players (with 10 variants for each missions for example)
If don’t unlock the missions with the rank (because most of CMDR are already Élite) maybe you can find them in the mission board in a separate voice (like the community goal)

 

[Para Handy]

So you want Wing Commander - complete with furry cat people in cut scenes ..... etc ....

No thanks, I bought Elite not some "game".

 

[Samurai83ITA]

No, I want more spectacular missions, with different and miscellaneous things to do, with a "story" to evolve, enigmas, and cool things to find in remote planets...

 

[dm06]

Try gain rep with any faction and you'll get various kind of missions: they need commodities or cargo to transfer or do planetary scan or mine minerals or kill known terrorist or support them with money and they'll generate new mission after that. They will honour you. Add your imagination. Even if you hostile for them, they still have faith in you and will give you a chance to restore your reputation.

 

[dxm55]

This game have a great potential, this will be a DEFINITIVE game, but the thing that he missed is a good story that involved your CMDR.
Not talking about the lore, that is a great public story for all CMDR.
I’m talking about a storyline of your pilot depending of your action. For example. When you unlock a rank of combat (or explore or trade) you get a special mission about a story, to complete before you reach the next rank (each rank have different kind of missions).
For example the first mission story for rank combat is to find the killer of a famous person killed in a station, resolving a puzzle, and then to kill them (or let alive, that can will change the storyline). The second mission there will be a mission to defend himself about an attack of “friends” of the killer... and go on...
This “story missions” can be different for other players (with 10 variants for each missions for example)
If don’t unlock the missions with the rank (because most of CMDR are already Élite) maybe you can find them in the mission board in a separate voice (like the community goal)

There actually is a story, scripted by FD themselves. The game even has a lore than runs back centuries.
It's just buried in the currently rather limited and bland mechanics of the game.

• CGs
• More Fetch-doggy-Fetch cargo missions
• Rooms-in-space CZs (complete with an all new 2019-model, slider bar completion meter!! Yay)
• Microsoft Excel BGS

Only recently did the stories really start to manifest themselves into the actual game. Go read up on Palin's narrow escape to Arque.

Other than that, you have adults talking to imaginary friends and making their own stories, all because... well maybe they can't feel the main story.
Can't blame them really. The game didn't deliver.

 

[Para Handy]

No, I want more spectacular missions, with different and miscellaneous things to do, with a "story" to evolve, enigmas, and cool things to find in remote planets...

Elite has no narrative, lead-you-by-the-hand, be the saviour of the galaxy stuff. You have to find it yourself. Like:

Canonn Research Group | Canonn Research Group

Also known as The Canonn - Canonn Research Group are the premier player group in Elite Dangerous for everyone interested in the mysteries of the galaxy.

canonn.science

 

[Samurai83ITA]

I'm already in a faction, and I get always the same mission: kill a pirate or trade same commodities... Are so repetitive and in long time are annoying... I like to make different mission with clues, enigmas, hidden things to discover... Something new, with a story behind...

 

[Deleted member 38366]

In a sense.... there's fragments of a Storyline once in a while (apart from the obvious). However, it hardly ever comes with a well-made teaser.

What is being presented is commonly limited to dry and short GALnet Text blocks. 1980's 8-bit era style, which just doesn't work well these days anymore.

What we'd need is Video elements made like this more often IMHO to catch people's interest and spark their curiosity (I really liked that one) :

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEQTj8dTOC0