Just another disappointment. The FC interiors are a cool addition, but also expected more NPC abilities since update 11 was released in March 2022.
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Dear Frontier,
- Thread starter Einar Donarsson
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Just another disappointment. The FC interiors are a cool addition, but also expected more NPC abilities since update 11 was released in March 2022.
Good job there are many other good games for you to enjoy, I suppose, as that doesn't appear to be the case with this game. At least, not in its current iteration.
I do enjoy ED for the good parts. ED has a lot of potential and many people expect and hope for more improvements.
I suspect that anything FD added to the game would be loathed by some, loved by some and be wrong for others...
Dreams.txt is powerful stuff, it can even convince people that base building is the next added feature to the game - even when Frontier have mentioned in the recent past it wasn't planned (i.e. the last 3 years) Some people even believe a fantasy leak posted is gospel truth!
ETA: Did that fantasy include EDO? I don't remember it mentioning the bigest expansion to ED...
I would agree with that except for the word expect.
Unfortunately as you will have noticed there are some on the forums who seem to have the opposite view and delight in talking the game down.
Yes it's usually like that.
The space legs, FPS stuff (outfits, weapons), Concourse, Spires and NPC owned planetary bases are great additions. More could still be added for a full-fledged space legs experience. For example, EVA (in space), walking inside the ship (interiors), Thargoids on foot, player built settlements. The FPS combat could be tweaked to make it more fun and additional random events with NPCs. So there's a lot of potential.
The Fleet Carriers are cool, but it's a shame we can't fly the carrier towards a planet. It doesn't feel like a ship, because it's bolted in 1 spot except when hyper-jumping. The FC is more like a mobile station in space.
These are hopes and dreams of ED's future. I guess that's all we can do.
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They remind me of all the Capital Class ships (and when they arrive in a system the announcement of "Capital Class signature" confirms that) in that they just move between systems, we don't have to fly them 240KLs to park around a particular body (thank goodness) they just arrive there.
Much more could be added to EDO to flesh it out more, I agree, but the chances of anything big enough to be worthwhile (the combined hopes of many contains enough for a handful of EDO size expansions) being released, with EDO sales still being lacklustre, are very slim - development costs have to be recovered and profit made to fund the next...
I have only played EDO since its very rocky launch, have 5 accounts with it... But, in truth, there are too few with a similar enjoyment of EDO, even years later there are plenty of "waste of development time & money" comments toward it, but, who knows, it may just suddenly start selling very well - the current Thargoid content has certainly inspired many players to join in.
I wonder what follows? I seriously don't believe PP 2.0 is going to pull in lots of new blood, so something is needed.