My favourite activity is taking part in the ongoing Thargoid invasion. Most days I'll go into the dedicated Powerplay view for it and see what the Thargoids are upto and decide then what activity to undertake.
The other day I noticed the Thargoids were blockading a station in system Blib-Blob-123 and there was a task to evacuate people from the station there. So I went to the station a few times, of course have to leave supercruise far out from the station due to the blockade, and then having to "run the blockade" to get to the station and evacuate individuals. I did this with a Wing of friends, two of whom were offered combat cover to take some of the "heat off" me.
I also undertook missions to escort ships carrying people through an asteroid field. I appeared in a fighter at a capital ship and then I, and the three NPC wingmen I could give simply commands to, escorted the convoy through the asteroid field while comming under attack from Thargoid scouts. One of the convoy ships got damaged and we had to leave it, but on arriving at the final way-point (an Asteroid station) a task was offered to go back and defend that damaged ship while it was repaired. I undertook that, offering cover for about five minutes against the attacking Thargoid scouts while repairs ships shuttled in/out, until the passenger ship then was repair enough to fly through the asteroid field to the Asteroid Station.
In another system, I noticed reconnaissance missions were required, so I took my stealth ship there to investigate an asteroid field, to sneak in undetected via silent/cold running to scan a Thargoid asset. On the way out, I also managed to destroy a Thargoid Scout when they discoved me.
Today I plan on defending a platform under attact from Thargoids in system Blob-Blib-321. I'll holo-me into a fighter and along with a bunch of other CMDRs in fighters, try and defend that location against the Thargoid Scouts trying to damage the platform.
^ OH! I can't do anything like that after five years??? Guess I'll just go and collect materials through the same gameloops as the game has had for 3-5yrs, to upgrade my ship, so I can then go about doing the same gameloops as the game has had for 3-5yrs.
ie: FD have done precious little to create more involved and engaging gameplay and mechanics in ED over its 5 years history. Instead we've had shallow gameplay loops added, and/or given needless false worth (via Engineering). If only time and effort had instead been invested in making the gameplay itself more worthwhile, interesting and engaging!
Anyway, I'll now go and undertake that Powerplay task for my Power (in OPEN), offering orchestrated PvP fighter based gameplay against CMDRs from the opposing Power to decide the outcome in that system! DOH!
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