You're on the money with point out that you're not in my 'we' and I'm glad you've done that, as it avoids a needless argument over the fact that 'we' doesn't mean everyone... apparently a favourite bit of Forum PvP I'm told? Anyway, I like infiltrating bases on foot, I'm not complaining about the added spaces we can go, or the way we go there, I'm complaining that in an update that took 3 years to develop and release (and the state of the release says it should have taken longer) there's actually no new space content at all. Some shiny effects sure, you can walk around inside stations (at very low FPS), but nothing else changed. New ships are always welcome, you don't have to buy them if you don't want them, but I see people talking ALL the time about new ships. They want a modern ship designed for AX for example, that isn't the T10... I mean who came up with that idea, then restricted AX weapons to 4 per ship... two different designers? Or a sadist!? New PvP ships that can match the Metas, upgrades via rebalancing that make some of the existing ones actually usable in PvP without being Quidd, or Rui, or Walking... Essentially, you put Rui in a Chieftain and me in an FDL, he's likely to win, reverse it and he's definitely gunna win, put me and another equal pilot in those ships and whoever is in the FDL is gunna win... that shouldn't be the case. As for SRV's, of course there are multiple uses for SRVs and there would be a point to having an SRV with far more weaponry and armour for example, or one that can mine on the surface, etc. Racing SRV's, I mean people are gunna race them Frontier... why not make some specifically for racing? Just do it, it aint gunna hurt anyone and it will make a lot of people very happy!
As for your recurrent comment, yes, there are a lot of people who do that, it's not what I'm doing. I wasn't in this from the kickstarter onwards, I came in with my money later and bought into the franchise because of the stuff that had been put on offer and the stuff that was teased for the future. I don't remember anyone saying there would be capture the flag in settlements with bullet sponge NPCs... do you? I don't remember anyone saying the stations would only have one room and they'd all be identical aside from a few ads, a bit of rubbish on the ground and the paint jobs, do you? I do remember reading about ship interiors, 'armstrong moments', EVA's, salvage, cities on planets... where's all of that? Currently Frontier says there are "No plans for ship interiors", "No plans for new ships", "No plans for new SRV's"... this isn't a case of me saying "Well what we actually wanted was this" or "but you promised x", it's a case of "You never even mentioned this, where's the stuff you did mention?".
I disagree, a heavy hauler that fits on a medium pad would be very useful, it doesn't exist. Various armoured versions of the current haulage ships would be useful too, like the T10 is the armoured version of the T9, with more armour, more firepower and more engine, where's the T8? We got the Keelback for the T6 obviously, but still... plenty more niches to fill, currently lots of ships are a huge compromise to make them fit their role, smaller compromises are entirely possible and I feel would be welcome. As for combat, there's tonnes of space for new ships. I've got 5 FDLs for a start, I'd much rather have 5 different 'meta level' ships, all with different paint jobs, ship kits, flight models, weapon loadouts, etc. that are competitive against each other. The ships to fill those gaps don't exist. And yes, the Drop ship should have been used instead of the Vulture, but also, we should be able to get into the dropship together as a team, not each individually go to Frontline and then each individually get an individual dropship there... they clearly built it that way in one build or another, because one of Arfs teaser vids actually showed the Player character inside the Vulture Dropship compartment, with other soldiers! What we actually got instead, was a total waste of interior ship space, in a ship that makes no sense as a drop ship! The Challenger would make a fairly perfect drop ship for the Alliance side too, yet it wasn't used and why don't the imperials even have one!? In space CZ's, if you're fighting for the Feds you're fighting alongside Vultures, FAS, FGS, FDS and Corvettes with the odd other ship thrown in, if you're fighting for the Imperials you're fighting alongside Cutters and Couriers and Clippers and Eagles, with the odd other ship thrown in, if you're fighting for the Alliance, you're fighting alongside Chieftains and Challis.... why is it, if you drop into a ground CZ for any side, you go there in a Core Dynamics built Vulture? There are literally tonnes of possibilities for ships, we want them. Anyone who doesn't, that's fine, don't buy them, but lots of us do want them.
Exactly! Some people cannot stand the Type 7 for example, while some people adore it, I know one guy who uses it for exploring for goodness sake! You can never have enough ships!
(plus I spent £300 on it - it's an immersion thing, lol). Also, I play NMS in VR so you have to use the touch controllers, which are ok (and great when walking / jetpacking about) but nothing like gripping my joystick and jerking it round to do a barrel roll)...
