I have spent over 4k+ on this game and eventually left because there is nothing out there! I understand the amazing feat of creating a 1:1 with over 400 billion stars, but what's the point of exploring if there is nothing out there that I haven't seen before. Another squiggly circle on the ground, more green space poop, spiky trees and weird cacti... I left this game over a year ago and disappointed exploring is STILL in the same state it is in. I literally lead an expedition and spent two months surveying a sector to walk away with several millions and made a black pixel a little bluer... Please, please, please add more lifeforms. Making it EXTREMELY rare, like 1:1000, but create them. Keep them simple like arachnids in the desert or furry quadrupeds on an ice planet or something. Even a green goo that follows you... something! I loved ED for years but left to play NMS because that was exciting even though it's outrageous and SC even though that train wreck will never be completed. Even enjoyed Starfield for about a month after I completed everything. I want to go back to ED, but I need to be incentivized to do so. "Make me an offer that I can't refuse!"
Add more ACTUAL lifeforms!
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I'm almost 100% sure you're referring to hours? But, if a monetary commodity, may I remind you it costs about $29.99 US and I see the Commander Premium Edition is $59.30 US but I've seen that, on sale, which happens every few months for like $25 US? And to that, I'd say I have many more ARX to purchase before matching you. (but I could see doing that!).
Anyways, lore-wise, in Elite (all games?) I'd imagine at most one other life form, and wouldn't expect any more than that. That's due to timelines, etc. so maybe not the place to seek that. I do hear there's a SW game coming soon if you're wanting a large variety of alien life forms. Wookies anyone? Whatever Yaddle is? Ithorians? Can not wait!
The offer you cant refuse is that ED isnt any of those games, long may that continue.
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This obviously isn't the game for you. Find one that you can enjoy for what it is. You're wasting valuable time complaining about what isn't.
Like the OP I would like more types of life forms however to have them make some sense we would need to be able to land in worlds with atmospheres at least as thick as Earths is at twice the height of Everest not the near vacuum we can land on now.
What would be nice as an intermediate step is the possibility of having two or more varieties of the same sort of life on the same world, for example both Fungoida Setisis up in the high steep places and Fungoida Gelata down in the foothills.
What would be nice as an intermediate step is the possibility of having two or more varieties of the same sort of life on the same world, for example both Fungoida Setisis up in the high steep places and Fungoida Gelata down in the foothills.
Yes, I already think the life-forms we can find now are biologically implausible. I really want to land on thicker-atmosphere planets (and ultimately ELW's) where abundant and varied life is reasonable.
...Even if the life-forms on different worlds are suspiciously similar. We already know of at least two spacefaring species, Thargoids and Guardians, that could have been responsible for carrying spores between worlds in the distant past.
Bit harsh. The lad is just making some suggestions--- you know, the purpose of this forum?
I happen to agree with him, though as we've visited barely 0.05% of the galaxy there is plenty of space to plop a new species or, dare I wish for it, a small little cluster of stars owned by a new species.
Baby steps, I know the constraints Frontier has with ££ and a 10 year old platform. However, any exciting innovations for us explorers would be absolutely brilliant.
Why not? The assumption that there are no other species able to, after 5 billion years, make it out of their planet's orbit is nuts.
Er not really, the Universe is approximately 14 Billion years old and currently in 2024 we have seen nobody yet
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But what are the odds that they manage it in 1500 year moment that we are around to see them, in that minute fraction of the galaxy we have seen and not been flattened by one or other of the lifeforms we know have been out and about?
For the science fiction purposes of ED we have managed it. So why not them? Whoever they are!!
Read that reasoning a lot. Fact is that this is the reality of life 1,300 or so years in the future - who is to say what might have visited us by then? But as I said, it can surely be reasonable to think that although we haven't presently been visited in our unremarkable Class G star there are not species that are able to leave their planet's orbit.Er not really, the Universe is approximately 14 Billion years old and currently in 2024 we have seen nobody yet
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Plus, and let's be honest here, this game is, although incredibly realistic and immersive, a science fiction simulator. Hence Thargoids.
I think we are missing the point here.
ED was developed from the original games, its a space ship exploration, combat, trading game, the Thargoids and Guardians are added as a mystery from far off systems, not ours.
Other games like Empyrion created procedurally generated worlds with pretty much the same life forms repeated, something that possibly could never happen.
EDs universe is based on planets which at the moment only support plant life, mainly because we don't have access to ELWs or WWs, the game at the time quiet rightly wasn't developed for this, other games do that and to be honest it gets boring.
As the great man once said (and it in my footer):
"I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”
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For those same science fiction purposes they probably have multiple times, the latest of them disappeared/died out/transcended in the Scutem Centaurus arm at approximately the time humans first took to the air, possibly.
Remember the galaxy is quite large and time is even bigger.
best quote period!
"I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”
"I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”
Hmm well thanks for that... one thing confuses me, other than you referring to me in a group noun rather than a singular.
You seem to think it is perfectly normal and realistic to have murderous bugs flying around in super advanced spacecraft in the year 3310, but not bipedal mammals or any other form of evolved life from any one of the other 399,999,999,000 or so star systems not inhabited by the Thargoids and us.
Just because we've not had that Independence Day moment yet doesn't mean that there are zero space capable/faring civs in the dim and distant reaches of the galaxy.
Another great man once said 'Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt'.
It has always been a point of intense curiosity to me why Americans are so fascinated with women's menstrual cycles with some of their slang.
You clearly didn't read my post, the Thargs and Guardians are not from our system.
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