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SigilFey

SigilFey
Not sure if anyone out there will appreciate this, but...

...I have just uninstalled X3 - Albion Prelude. That game has been on my hard drive since it was released all those moons ago. It was my staple. THE space game that I would focus on when I had the itch.

It has been replaced. Major kudos, Frontier Team!
 

Squashie

S
SigilFey said:
Not sure if anyone out there will appreciate this, but...

...I have just uninstalled X3 - Albion Prelude. That game has been on my hard drive since it was released all those moons ago. It was my staple. THE space game that I would focus on when I had the itch.

It has been replaced. Major kudos, Frontier Team!
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Still two completely different games. I love the trade and building the empire of that game.
Now if someone combined the 2
 

Taymar

Taymar
EgoSoft have been trying for many years, nine or ten if memory serves to make an online, persistent version of the X Series. There has been very little interest from publishers and crowd funding would appear to be the only remaining option open.

I have no malice to the X Series but I do hope that ED will fulfil on it's grand plans and become the go to space sim for those that aren't already heavily invested in Eve.
 

Vodkanelly

Vodkanelly
SigilFey said:
Not sure if anyone out there will appreciate this, but...

...I have just uninstalled X3 - Albion Prelude. That game has been on my hard drive since it was released all those moons ago. It was my staple. THE space game that I would focus on when I had the itch.

It has been replaced. Major kudos, Frontier Team!
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i know what you mean mate, my xbox one has gathered a thick layer of dust on it since I started playing Elite ;)
 

Tiamat

Tiamat
Taymar said:
EgoSoft have been trying for many years, nine or ten if memory serves to make an online, persistent version of the X Series. There has been very little interest from publishers and crowd funding would appear to be the only remaining option open.
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They also upset a lot of their non-US fans who walked away from the franchise for good just before X2 came out. Quite a few friends of mine had it on pre-order like I did after loving X/X-Tension. In the run-up to 2 they started teasing the persistent online but said that due to localisation the US would get it first and then other countries would get it 3 or more months later (and would not be specific about how long "or more" meant). So, in a persistent empire building game the US players would get a 3-? month head start? About a half dozen of us immediately cancelled the pre-order in disgust and to date I only know 1 person that bought it. I was just getting to the point of giving them another chance when 3 came out and this persistent online never arrived but then I read the reviews and saw what a mess it was. Maybe they will do better with 4?

I feared I would never get another decent space game until I heard about Star Citizen and then found out how long it was going to take before they released something resembling a proper game rather than a collection of modules and some very expensive looking trailers. Then I found out about ED :D
 

jadefriendly

jadefriendly
I've also not played any other games since installing Elite Dangerous.

X-BTF Albion Prelude - heavily modded - was great but suffered from some serious faults: no planets, sector based gameplay, the cheesy items & race names (Argon, Boron, etc. and bloody Stott Spices etc...) and the stockmarket should never have been brought in. Who wants to play a spreadsheet?

however, the range of ships, being able to hire pilots and control fleets, boarding & capturing, and of course, creating your own stations and trade empire: amazing.

i'd love it if Frontier renege on their "no player owned stations" promise, instead making it exceptionally long-winded & hard work to build your own station - a real long-term goal for people, get a lisence to claim an unused system (there's enough) and slowly buy in parts to start building an outpost...like, over a several months gameplay or even more. could make for a real future for the game...
 

MARPATdroid

MARPATdroid
I just spent an afternoon playing Diablo 3 with some of my real life friends, you know being social and such. The whole time I was thinking "I need to log into Elite, I have 14,000 ly to the galactic core, and my ship isn't going to fly itself!"


Definitely should have spent the afternoon exploring.
 

DefiledDragon

D
jadefriendly said:
I've also not played any other games since installing Elite Dangerous.

X-BTF Albion Prelude - heavily modded - was great but suffered from some serious faults: no planets, sector based gameplay, the cheesy items & race names (Argon, Boron, etc. and bloody Stott Spices etc...) and the stockmarket should never have been brought in. Who wants to play a spreadsheet?

however, the range of ships, being able to hire pilots and control fleets, boarding & capturing, and of course, creating your own stations and trade empire: amazing.

i'd love it if Frontier renege on their "no player owned stations" promise, instead making it exceptionally long-winded & hard work to build your own station - a real long-term goal for people, get a lisence to claim an unused system (there's enough) and slowly buy in parts to start building an outpost...like, over a several months gameplay or even more. could make for a real future for the game...
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That's a great idea, fingers crossed.
 

Commander Azriel

C
X games had the ability not only to build stations to produce your own goods, but more importantly you could buy freight ship to handle the menial trade routes, while you did something more interesting.

You didn't have to be space trucker all the time, unless you wanted to. This game would be much better if it allowed that. Being an insignificant, meaningless speck of dust in a huge universe may appeal to some, but I'd rather build an empire.
 

Joe Akeem

Joe Akeem
Ahh, yes, the X games. I opted out of the community after being severly burned and chased outta town dipped in oil and goosefeathers for wishing it was more Elite-ish; meaning less connected skyboxes in a flat space. A very high percentage had never even heard of Elite, which was odd in 2005 something...Well now they know. That being said, I enjoyed the closest thing to Elite for a while tho.

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Squashie

S
Tiamat said:
They also upset a lot of their non-US fans who walked away from the franchise for good just before X2 came out. Quite a few friends of mine had it on pre-order like I did after loving X/X-Tension. In the run-up to 2 they started teasing the persistent online but said that due to localisation the US would get it first and then other countries would get it 3 or more months later (and would not be specific about how long "or more" meant). So, in a persistent empire building game the US players would get a 3-? month head start? About a half dozen of us immediately cancelled the pre-order in disgust and to date I only know 1 person that bought it. I was just getting to the point of giving them another chance when 3 came out and this persistent online never arrived but then I read the reviews and saw what a mess it was. Maybe they will do better with 4?

I feared I would never get another decent space game until I heard about Star Citizen and then found out how long it was going to take before they released something resembling a proper game rather than a collection of modules and some very expensive looking trailers. Then I found out about ED :D
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Well you missed it. X3 got patched and is a GREAT GAME! Literally amazeballs. (Don't listen to dialog, the worst voice acting)
So now the 4th one came out. Called X Rebirth. Now that is a steaming pile of crap. One of the worst and stupidest games ever played. After installing that game I realised that guys that make it are codes with no sense of reason or logic. Game is riddled with poor decision making and god awful mini games. Oh and every character looks like an old grandmother.

ALSO. X reunion dhave station walking in first person and is a prime example of why I don't want planetary or station walking in space games.

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Riedquat said:
That's spooky, I just reinstalled X3 with Litcubes universe tonight :)
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What is that?

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Commander Azriel said:
X games had the ability not only to build stations to produce your own goods, but more importantly you could buy freight ship to handle the menial trade routes, while you did something more interesting.

You didn't have to be space trucker all the time, unless you wanted to. This game would be much better if it allowed that. Being an insignificant, meaningless speck of dust in a huge universe may appeal to some, but I'd rather build an empire.
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+1000000 even with so many faults, the sheer feel of freedom and opportunity is amazing! Spent alooot of time with that game.

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Joe Akeem said:
Ahh, yes, the X games. I opted out of the community after being severly burned and chased outta town dipped in oil and goosefeathers for wishing it was more Elite-ish; meaning less connected skyboxes in a flat space. A very high percentage had never even heard of Elite, which was odd in 2005 something...Well now they know. That being said, I enjoyed the closest thing to Elite for a while tho.

*numerous edits for being exhausted*
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Yeah. Elite has some ignorant fanboys. X series has the most oblivious zombie community of any ever seen.
 

Kadius

K
X3 is a completely different game from Elite.

This is like saying Battlefield is such a good game you uninstalled FIFA.
 

Perjoss

Perjoss
Albion Prelude was my first serious attempt at getting into the X series, after about 30 hours I think I' class the learning curve for that series somewhere in the middle of ED and EVE, it was pretty brutal, deffo what I would call an alt-tab game, you will have many, many questions and the internet has many answers :)
 

deMangler

deMangler
rukmerot said:
I have a steam library that has 35 games in it didnt touch em since i got this game
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I got an SSD since ED was released and re-installed everything, but I forgot to install steam and haven't missed it.
Mind you, since then I haven't installed or played any other game apart from Dwarf Fortress and I don't need windows for that. I think pretty much the only reason I have a windows install now is for ED.
 

Captain Breton

Captain Breton
SigilFey said:
Not sure if anyone out there will appreciate this, but...

...I have just uninstalled X3 - Albion Prelude. That game has been on my hard drive since it was released all those moons ago. It was my staple. THE space game that I would focus on when I had the itch.

It has been replaced. Major kudos, Frontier Team!
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Happy that you've found a game you really like, though ....uninstalling X3?
That's one of the few series that's kept the genre alive while Elite 4 (or what ended up being Elite Online) was on the drawing board for decades. :) I still very much love the X games, even though I've not played them nearly enough.

X are games I can play when I'm in places where cell-phone coverage is -really- bad. (and that happens quite often)
I shudder at the thought of spending 16 hours downloading a patch of only a few 100 Mb's again :(
 
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