Agreed but I’m upset at the fact that it will most defiantly reduce the advanced player base
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But as people have said earlier, people like it easy and if the easy way is doing that and the hard is not having these new modules then people won’t want to play
Paige mentioned it was noted, and under consideration on a recent livestream.
Then don't think of them as people, think of them as slightly more advanced AIs (that maybe get stuck in the mailslot less often) ;-)
But keeping the player base is as much as a concern as it is to getting new onesSo what? It's their problem, not yours or mine. We all will benefit from it - FD will get new players = new money = further development of Elite. Win-win.
Haha it is true mail slots are the bane to my imperial cutter
All I’m saying is this new cruise assist is more likely to do harm that it will good
In your option perhaps. I disagree. I think anything that can keep players in the game for that first 15 hours without rage quitting is a good thing, so they can see the great gameplay behind the game. Not everyone in the world will have your patience/sense of amusement when they crash every time they try something, and there's nothing wrong with recognizing that and giving people time to learn new skills.
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I do not see why it should decline just because new players will use assists for some time or even forever. Personally, I do not care if someone uses docking computer or will be using SC assist. I will play the same way as I play now. With the added benefit of one or two free slots
Blaze your own trail, you know
PS: In your logic there should be no FA ON mode at all. Because it is too easy to fly with it and no one will. This is not true, obviously.
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my “logic” is that this play will become boring not about realism of flying in space and it may not effect you and that’s fine after all this is aimed a new players which is why I am concerned, creating a possibility of a fully automated R2D2 ship is unlikely to attract a new player base.I do not see why it should decline just because new players will use assists for some time or even forever. Personally, I do not care if someone uses docking computer or will be using SC assist. I will play the same way as I play now. With the added benefit of one or two free slots
Blaze your own trail, you know
PS: In your logic there should be no FA ON mode at all. Because it is too easy to fly with it and no one will. This is not true, obviously.
Of maybe 35 ships, only 2 or 3 have a DC because they are the only ships that are useless enough to fit them. A Hauler and an Adder I use for super cheap, long range tow around taxis. There's nothing else in them so why not. No guns, no cargo, no SRV and it's mildly entertaining watching the thing dock itself.
The other is a super light, novelty cargo Python for smuggling rep missions in Sothis / Ceos. I didn't care about the last cargo rack so it got a DC purely for [redacted] n giggles. All my other ships are so crammed with useful stuff I could really do with an extra slot or two for, guess what, MORE useful stuff!
How about you stop worrying about the lazy newbs and play your own game, your own way
Better still, don't make them modules at all, simply make them an on/off switch on the ship panel, like Lights or Night Vision. And like those, just because they're there doesn't mean you need to use them...
Excellent! I'll track it down in the last Livestream! It would be a good move IMHO!
Agreed.
Well, ED has a bit in common with the realism of space flight. The ship behaves more like a submarine or airship than a spacecraft. If you want realistic flight mechanics - welcome to aviasims like DCS\X-Plane\MSFS for the atmosphere or Space Flight Sim\Kerbal Space Program for the space.
I believe that significant amount of players appreciate ED for its beauty and a lot of other exciting things in it and care less about any kind of "realism" in flying non-existent spaceships contradicting laws of physics as we know it yet.
I understand your concerns, but cannot agree. Time will tell.
But but but then it won't be Dark Souls in Space anymore and I won't be awesome by proxy when I mention I play ED.
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You do realize "realism of flying in space" would imply humans wouldn't be allowed anywhere near the controls? We're getting there with self-driving cars beating human drivers and it's not 2020 yet. Fast forward an imaginary thousand years of AI development and I guarantee you WE are the performance bottleneck.
But since we're having this Han Solo space trucker fantasy, sure, let's allow players to do the interesting flying bits. The dead boring routine busywork? Good riddance I say.
youtube / April 11th around 19:00 mins
"Distant Worlds 2 and the April Update"
Just want to note, that in ED lore AI was banned after it became sentient. That is why we fly manually and AI Relics are illegal cargo.
Fair point, I stand corrected. You know why I didn't know that? Because I'm too busy staring at the ETA countdown to read the lore!