Yep, why does it always open in economical? Can't save preference? Or why not simply change that default preference. But that's a minor issue
Do you Powerplay?
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Yep, why does it always open in economical? Can't save preference? Or why not simply change that default preference. But that's a minor issue
That's finally fixed - I was quite excited about that. It's a manual fix, though.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=162764
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Yeah - when you really fail big time - be sure to double down.
They'd make great politicians.
The poll is meaningless unless we know how many actual players there are currently.
Does anyone know?
Besides, I think PP WOULD work if it wasn't for the hundreds of foolish people who are just after a quick payday and dump their merits at the closest or easiest place. I think someone else pointed this out already.
If players actually played PP the way the Devs no doubt envisioned, I'm certain it would work very well.
That being said, I'm 4kly out and accelerating towards the Right hand side of the Big Wheel, so you don't have to listen to what I have to say.
Does anyone know?
Besides, I think PP WOULD work if it wasn't for the hundreds of foolish people who are just after a quick payday and dump their merits at the closest or easiest place. I think someone else pointed this out already.
If players actually played PP the way the Devs no doubt envisioned, I'm certain it would work very well.
That being said, I'm 4kly out and accelerating towards the Right hand side of the Big Wheel, so you don't have to listen to what I have to say.
Yup im playing it. Have been for last 7 weeks. Staying at rank 4 no grind at all to stay there. Just a few hundred merits which i easy to do in 1 session leaving the rest of my play time to do what the hell i like. Really dont see where the grind comments are coming from? Biggest gripe is the solo grinders. Wouldnt be so bad if they joined the forum tedit or ts but hey ho. Certainly makes pvp more common too.
Check out this thread for the fix. I did it weeks ago, works fine.
Hell no I don't Powerplay. There is nothing about it that interests me in the least. Sorry Frontier, but I think it was a total waste of time and resources to develop.
Thanks for the link, I thought there was something bugging me about the map. Guess my in-game time is getting too thin to pin down issues like this anymore.
Too much "one or the other" for me.
I feel like I can either play Elite: Dangerous OR PowerPlay, but not both at the same time.
I feel like I can either play Elite: Dangerous OR PowerPlay, but not both at the same time.
Was pledged to Aisling, got bored with her activities and benefits, switched to Aryissa in days. Was with Aryissa for about four weeks before I realized trying to keep up my power play obligations each week was killing my desire to play the game and overall hurting my bottom line because it was representing time played in which I was earning fewer credits than I was losing on the activities. I did not play enough hours a week to both maintain rank and increase my overall earnings by an amount I found satisfactory. By the time I bailed I was too burnt out and actually haven't been actively logging in for two weeks now.
Plan to come back eventually but there is no doubt in my mind that Power Play drove me to my current hiatus.
Plan to come back eventually but there is no doubt in my mind that Power Play drove me to my current hiatus.
As a middle aged man, I appreciate that Elite doesn't follow modern game design so slavishly. I like the fact that I can pick up the game and there always be more randomly-generated missions to do, and that the game does stick to '80s and '90s design ideals. However, even I wouldn't touch PowerPlay with a bargepole.
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(*Edit* Oh, and to those saying 'the poll is meaningless as we don't know the numbers playing, well I'd still be concerned if I thought I'd come up with a killer feature, and 600+ out of 800 polled said they weren't interested, and 800 seems to be around 15-20% of the average number of players on steam, so a fraction of total sales, but possibly a sizable percentage of still active players).
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(*Edit2* The above edit is not correct - further use of brain (can haz Friday dumb?) gives the poll at about 0.8% of the active Steam player base over the past two weeks, based on around 98,000 unique players in that time).
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I decided to grind ALL the way up to Imperial Serf in case I might want a Clipper someday. I made it to Outsider and decided my Python is better than a Clipper (not as stylish, but I think I could pwn a Clipper at this point anyway).
I think PP sounds like this rank grind, on steroids.
Please add my voice to the ever-growing chorus of "Can we please have some interesting CONTENT? Thank you."
The engine, the shell, whatever you want to call it, is INCREDIBLE. I think there's less here than real space, however. I saw a thred somewhere where someone was suggesting all kinds of neat chained quests, something about "rescuing a guy from a planet, (or not), the guy has friends who never forgive, nor forget". He rattled off some really good ideas.
If the Devs or designers don't have any ideas, well, OK. HIRE SOMEONE WHO DOES. You're forgiven for not being authors, you built a really good game shell. Get somebody to FILL it please!
Edit: Please, for the love of Pete, please no "Bring me ten wolf pelts." zzzzzzzzz.
I think PP sounds like this rank grind, on steroids.
Please add my voice to the ever-growing chorus of "Can we please have some interesting CONTENT? Thank you."
The engine, the shell, whatever you want to call it, is INCREDIBLE. I think there's less here than real space, however. I saw a thred somewhere where someone was suggesting all kinds of neat chained quests, something about "rescuing a guy from a planet, (or not), the guy has friends who never forgive, nor forget". He rattled off some really good ideas.
If the Devs or designers don't have any ideas, well, OK. HIRE SOMEONE WHO DOES. You're forgiven for not being authors, you built a really good game shell. Get somebody to FILL it please!
Edit: Please, for the love of Pete, please no "Bring me ten wolf pelts." zzzzzzzzz.
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I wrote a similar thread - they need proper authors / creatives. No shame in that.
Cradle2Grave
Banned
Can't tell me that makers of a game these days, of this scope, wouldn't got them in from the start?
Good grief... 18% voted "Yes", with 467 votes in total?
Say I was in charge of a computer game project (and no, I'm not... not these days, anyway
Say I designed something that had never been suggested as potential popular content, put resources towards its development in secret, without community consultation, and brought it to release...
...and found it was this unpopular...
Holy cow.
Duly +1'd.
Sounds like every large organization I've ever worked for- cut me a check for my share of the party budget.
No. Theoretically could've been a nice addition, but as it stands it's an ill thought through grindfest.
The fact that people are reinforcing the same systems to a billion percent instead of spreading their efforts around kinda vindicates that view.
The fact that people are reinforcing the same systems to a billion percent instead of spreading their efforts around kinda vindicates that view.