You are not creating a character, you are creating an image of yourself.
Jesus, how difficult can it be?
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Are we all just playing a video game about playing a video game in 3303?
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You are not creating a character, you are creating an image of yourself.
Jesus, how difficult can it be?
Do you know what'd make it SO much easier? All the people spamming the forum with virtually identical threads about the exact same gripes all just group up into a mega thread.
Then, hopefully, I can just ignore a whole thread.
All these posts basically boil down to 'not how imagined things even though the beta hasn't been released and I'm merely pontificating about hypotheticals that haven't even.been tested by players'
Ok. I'm still trying to figure out why there is an image of yourself creator... in-game.
Why bother being a pilot anyway? I mean, it's only what this game was apparently supposed to be about. Why let something as trivial as that stand in the way of needless, irrelevant, and excessive innovation?
Just play the game your way and don't let threads like this get in the way of your sensibilities.
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The pilots of the ships are flesh and blood people.
When other pilots join your ship remotely they are displayed on your bridge via holograms. At their end your ship's bridge and you are displayed to them with holograms, similar to the Star Trek's holodeck. Or maybe they put on a VR helmet, it has not been 100% explained and there are multiple ways to explain the precise mechanisms that are consistent with the lore and technology displayed in the setting.
If you don't like it I don't know what to tell you, it's in the lore and the technology behind it has been a part of the lore since 1984. You are free to pick and chose which parts of the lore you want to allow and which you want to disallow in your own personal head canon but then you are playing Arkadi's Elite Dangerous, not Elite Dangerous.
When other pilots join your ship remotely they are displayed on your bridge via holograms. At their end your ship's bridge and you are displayed to them with holograms, similar to the Star Trek's holodeck. Or maybe they put on a VR helmet, it has not been 100% explained and there are multiple ways to explain the precise mechanisms that are consistent with the lore and technology displayed in the setting.
If you don't like it I don't know what to tell you, it's in the lore and the technology behind it has been a part of the lore since 1984. You are free to pick and chose which parts of the lore you want to allow and which you want to disallow in your own personal head canon but then you are playing Arkadi's Elite Dangerous, not Elite Dangerous.
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I don't believe the two completely relate. Regardless, when I want to change my avatar (representation of myself), I do it through the Settings menu, not mid-conversation.
Well you can change it mid conversation, go change it now, it will be different when you next post.
Why do people say this. There are some of us that want to do stuff like this, but in a more coherent and consistent with game lore manner.
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Personally, I am quite capable of reading Terry Pratchett without having to believe that I'm living on a discworld supported by four elephants and the Great A'Tuin. Or that such a world even exists. ED is a game. Accept it for what it is. It isn't always internally consistent, but then neither is reality (if you think it is, you haven't looked hard enough). Sure, it is nice when a game makes sense according to its internal logic, but technological limitations, practicalities for gameplay, and constraints on just how much time developers can put into the project are all inevitable. The only games that can avoid such compromises as purely abstract ones (e.g. Tetris) which make no pretence to construct an imaginary world. If you want an imaginary world (or galaxy) you have to let your own imagination do some of the work.
I cannot believe we went with the We are all Holograms explanation. Seriously, this game is getting more ridiculous every day. Star Citizen does not have this problem at all. No other game in resent memory has this explanation. Just like OP I too have dropped WAY TO MUCH MONEY ON ELITE. I guess I will take the wait and see approach to all this.
LOL HOLOGRAMS IN SPACE.
LOL HOLOGRAMS IN SPACE.
The comment wasn't supposed to be about timing. Conversation (the "gameplay" of the forum) is not used to change my avatar. I use the Settings menu to change the representation of myself for when I engage in conversation.
I asked this why isn't it in the main menu options rather than the UI, and it was sold or fed or we were led to believe it was a commander creator.
Now we have something with a silly name tacked onto the UI, and in fact if all we are doing as someone points out is making an image of ourselves, but then if its an image of ourselves who are we truly, and is it not the same thing.
I like the look of it but it isn't what I thought was coming, nor is it in the place I would have thought it would be, sort of thing you think would be at the end of the games tutorials if not the beginning.
Like it or not holotech is in the original Elite.
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They didn't. You, the pilot of your ship, are not a hologram. Other people coming into your ship are represented as holograms.
Is this meant to be some kind of ironic social commentary about today's society that's just going way over my head or something? [blah]
Sorry, Frontier, but that isn't what I signed up for. More sci-fi spaceship commander/explorer goodness and less gamey gaminess, please.
Yeah well, that's what happens when, as a creator and world builder, you don't respect the delectable balance of Unobtanium, Technobabble and Handwavium
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Ok, so don't change it? But the option is there if you want to. The avatar system is part of the forum, it's a feature of the forum, chop and change your avatar as you see fit. It is not in the control panel of your computer because it only exists in the context of the forum.
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