Character building

theGunner76

theGunner76
No, Im not posting this in the Lore section because this is beyond bgs fun and the Lore.

Im just wondering. How much do you guys "dive" into your EDcharacter. If your a spacetrucker for instance, is that your mindset throughout the game? Does he take a vacation when fighting or exploring? Does your RL affect you in ED, or even...does your real life get affected by ED? Apart from negative comments from the missus... if you have one of course.
 

*Gladius*

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Not very much, TBH. Your “character” is such a small part of the game. He/She never really does anything other than drive ships. There is no character development - no skills to improve. I wish that Odyssey incorporated more role playing elements, instead of just FPS stuff. I think it’d be cool to be able to specialize your character into piloting, weapons, engineering, repairing, or navigation focuses.
 

VR StarLightPL

VR StarLightPL
The world of ED is too shallow for me to build a "deeper" character. Without meaningful interactions with NPCs there's nothing to build connection to the game. Am I inside the world while I'm playing? Yes absolutely. Do I care about my character and his background? Not in the slightest. The only thing that counts for me is the present, current mission, current target, current planet. This is different from, say, Fallout 3 where I was this carebear traveller, helping everyone on the way, or a Skyrim character roaming the world, taking it in with it's inhabitants and their joys and woes. Or from No Man's Sky, where you can build a base and call it a home.

Elite is neither an RPG for me, nor it has this rich lore-specific sections like Destiny 2 for example where while playing you learn about the world around you. It feels more like a set of disconnected missions (megaships logs, thargoid bases, guardian ruins etc.) which are fun and you can do them but they bear no real connection to the gameworld. There is a distinct lack of narrative by design, galaxy is sterile. Inclusion of Galnet in ships audio helps, but only if said galnet has anything interesting to say. There were times when the only Galnet "articles" were powerplay updates and no interesting stories behind.
 

VR StarLightPL

VR StarLightPL
Which reminds me, my RL was affected by ED when I was playing powerplay - all those before-tick-night-snipe sessions ;-) Was fun. Not so at work later ;-)
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
My CMDRs have a 'profession' and amoral stance which is fairly consistent in-game, even the 'honest' missions can be RP'ed away as a necessary for reputation advancement.

RL doesn't particularly impinge upon the game bar in the BST months when 23:17 on the ship's clock isn't... 😤
 

Chrystoph

Chrystoph
I used to write journals when I was actively exploring, but that had a lot more to do with making the screenies I was taking interesting than it did with RP. Yes, the character was always the same, and the stories were contiguous, but, even then, the best you could call most of them was, Slice of Life moments.


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I wouldn't call those "RP" in the classic sense since they are not in-game.
 

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99
Personally, not a lot really in terms of diving into RP, it’s a nice escape from the dreaded real world when I’m playing and allows me to play a character as I see fit. Possibilities that are not possible in the real world for example.

But I do switch off when I’m not playing, getting out for a nice stroll in the countryside I certainly am not thinking about earthtone99, I’m more worried about the mud!
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
theGunner76 said:
Does your RL affect you in ED, or even...does your real life get affected by ED?
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Actually, yes. What first got me interested in ED was the semi-realistic rendering of our Milky Way galaxy, and for a long time it was not uncommon for me to look up at the night sky IRL and see a star and say, "I want to go visit that star", or conversely I'd point to a star and tell my wife, "My starship is parked in that solar system!"

To this day I see the night sky very differently than I once did thanks to ED.
 

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos
I don't role-play really, I make no notes and an idea about my character does not drive my game play per-se, however, as someone who in real life spent a few years turning up to work, feeling thoroughly hollowed out from a hangover, to drive a dump truck, or shovel all day, I do rather get in the mindset of a space bum alcoholic when driving the SRV, gathering mats. I often imagine the person driving the SRV to be shabby, drunk, mildly obnoxious, drunk, hungover and drunk, wearing ill fitting clothes, drunk, overweight and unhealthy, doing a days work, drunk. hating the boss, hating 'the man',drunk sort of person.

Apart from the overweight bit, this is not a stretch in my imagination. (I also stopped real life drinking long ago so that part is also a fiction)

So when I am in an SRV, that sort of character comes over me. I drive the SRV hard, crashing and bumping, swearing and smoking. I almost never get this when I get back on board the ship, I don't give my 'character' a second thought. This is entirely aided by me listening to music through headphones whilst playing (Use the USB player in PS4 which you load with your fave tunes and plays in the background of the game running)

Space legs is going to do nothing to enhance this, I doubt also that it will change my SRV experience. It is possibly my favourite experience in the game.
 

theGunner76

theGunner76
Old Duck said:
Actually, yes. What first got me interested in ED was the semi-realistic rendering of our Milky Way galaxy, and for a long time it was not uncommon for me to look up at the night sky IRL and see a star and say, "I want to go visit that star", or conversely I'd point to a star and tell my wife, "My starship is parked in that solar system!"

To this day I see the night sky very differently than I once did thanks to ED.
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I can relate to this. Actually my first goal, when starting playing this game was getting a ship that could take me to VY Canis Majoris.

ahh those were the days.. so innocent of the horrors (and thrills) of the galaxy...
 

theGunner76

theGunner76
*Gladius* said:
Not very much, TBH. Your “character” is such a small part of the game. He/She never really does anything other than drive ships. There is no character development - no skills to improve. I wish that Odyssey incorporated more role playing elements, instead of just FPS stuff. I think it’d be cool to be able to specialize your character into piloting, weapons, engineering, repairing, or navigation focuses.
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I guess you're right. The game doesnt actually build your character, so its all going on inside of our precious minds... Which for some, might be too much in some way or another
 
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