Completely agree, Elite could have been a refreshing change to what is coming out at the moment. Instead, it seems that creativity is a thing of the past. I stopped playing at the release of engineers. Yes it is great to have customizable components and things, but they implemented it horrendously wrong.
Engineers should never had been about grinding for bits and components to craft them, you should have just been able to pay for the upgrades... But it is not that simple, for the engineer to upgrade modules for you, you need to work him, run missions for him, build up the trust and some of these missions could be against other engineers, so you have to stop and think and choose your friends wisely. It may mean, in some cases, going off to run missions for the engineers friend or something. Also major factions would come into it, with Federal aligned engineers just telling Imperial's to just get lost, the same for alliance and various independent systems.
Nope, what we get is crafting and hours of driving about over baron rocks looking for 1 ton of fart, for hours on end as some kind of immersive gameplay, as some would have you believe
Nope, can't have that, as many people would be crying that cant have there explorer FDL's with maxed weapons and engine upgrades, exploring the depths of space throwing teddies out the pram crying I want to play the game I want to play.... Whilst making the time developing explorer class ships completely pointless.
Once upon a time computer game design was about creating a piece of art, now it's just about pandering the modern ungrateful.
I do not know what you think your problem is. But what I am sure of is that its just your problem. You are the problem.
This has nothing to do with making this game World of Warcraft in space. However your strawman argument stating that everyone is asking for FDEV to turn it into WoW in space. So far you are the only one to jump to that conclusion and you are fighting your own overblown point while not listening to others. Again you are the problem.
We can tell that your only capable of spitting out vitriol and not capable of having an imagination. If you want a text based adventure you can still play Zork online. Its free in the internet archive.
There are already player groups. So you cant control that. Engineers suck and should never have been implemented with its current mechanics. Dont care if you like it or not. Nobody asked for Crafting, but FDEV seems to think people wanted it. We already have the equivalent of your hated Raid Boss in the form of capital ships. From all of your statements and child like conclusions I can only assume you play this game with blinders on. You are not capable of seeing that this game has had all of these things already implemented.
This thread wasn't started to address your complete moronic hatred of all things produced after 1975. It was started to address the fact that this game has no story. It has nothing but core mechanics and nothing to really do but earn credits. It is equivalent to any of your modern day Korean Grind based MMOs. The game is a grind for the sake of grinding.
You have somehow twisted that fact into trying to convince people that this thread is about turning ED into WoW in space. Just admit that you dont want anything to change in this game. Your attempt to hijack the thread has been noted and it is not needed. You can move on and go back to yelling at various inanimate objects in your house. Thats all I can imagine you are capable of offering the world.
