@sallymorganmoore I really do like Thursdays, because we see so much information being shared, we see questions being answered, even if that answer is "I really can't say right now, but there's something coming". Unfortunately, for me and players like me (about 2,000 hours in game, almost triple Elite, billions in the bank, 40+ ships, mostly fully engineered, Guardian unlocks done, at least 2 Goids done, Fleet Carrier, etc.) I think Odyssey turned out to basically be more of the same, but with on foot gameplay mechanic added. Collect materials to unlock x, deliver y to z for small amount of credits, etc. What we wanted, was new ships, new weapons, ship interiors, thargoid ground combat, new SRVs, storyline side-quests (that aren't just, collect x number of y and deliver to z) that allow us to skip some of the grindier things in Elite, like shipbuilding for PvP. To build a new FDL from scratch, if I've got no engineered modules lying around to use, I have to spend 1 - 4 hours minimum gathering materials (assuming I use relog at JJ and HGE sites, obviously), then 1 - 4 hours minimum flying around engineers to apply experimental effects and engineer things I haven't pinned, to do one fight in a ship and realise it doesn't work, then I have to go back to mat gathering and engineer travelling to re-engineer it and try something new... that's painful! I mean, it was kinda fun the first couple of times I did it, the next 38 though... not so much! I did it, because I love PvP in this game, I love goid fights, I even enjoy the PvE combat when I'm winged up with my squadron trying to win a system, but the amount of grind (repetitive gameplay I don't enjoy) to enable me to do those things I do enjoy, is huge by comparison.
I guess my question is, are any of those features coming, is any of the grind going to be changed for the better, or am I better off giving up on the game now? I've bought Elite: Horizons 4 times on 2 platforms and 2 copies of Odyssey: Alpha access, that's a lot of money (none of them were at discount...) to spend on one franchise and I've played Odyssey for probably 5 hours since the Alpha finished? Was that worth £80? No, definitely not. I'd love to be furious, but I'm just downright sad, because I absolutely adore Elite, it's the only reason I bought an X52 Pro, but at this point, I genuinely don't think there's anything coming to Elite that's going to make me want to play again. Am I wrong? Please say I'm wrong.
