Dump SC

[Druid]

Don't want it . Pointless waste of time . I do not want a speed up getting somewhere I just want to be there . OOO I need to slow down a bit and hit a button after 5 minutes of doing nothing. Let me click on where I want to be and let me be there . Ill happily fly to the actual station / ship content / planet or asteroid belt but I do not want to spend half my time messing about flying in a straight line keeping my speed at the right lvl. Intercept me if you like and stop me but after I have dealt with whatever that is let me carry on and just be there.

I know there are a few pilots who like making things "hard" for yourselves, you probably like to play flight sims in real time as well, but I don't . SC just puts me off the game completely . There is no skill and no enjoyment .

Elite was always about making credits and shooting stuff. Well not in frontier I couldn't hit anything in that. This hideous SC botch up is just terrible.

Therefore as you have finally managed to add a trade feature in the upcoming beta that should have actually been in the game from the beginning can we now add the feature where I can jump to a system click on where I want to be in that system , have a few whirly lights or something and be at the location 20k out or something . Sure knock me out if you like and get attacked , I don't care but come on gaming is supposed to be fun . Bounty hunting , track , they are in such and such a place, go there . Fight in the space station area, nav point, asteroid belt who cares just let us go there.

I shall await the go play another game comments . Well I am, planet coaster funnily enough and ghost recon . It is such a shame as Elite is one of my first loves but for me it is ruined by this stupid mechanic. I accept others may like it but I would imagine you are a minority. Why do I say this ? Because every one of my long term guild of 20 years who played ED from alpha have stopped , not only due to SC, but it is a major complaint.

As ever we wait for the game to evolve and I am sure it will but please do something about this ogre in the rough diamond.

PS. Tried ED while with guild mates while on a beer run with the guys at xmas on Oculas . Looks fantastic in VR but not in SC as it was still pointless, just wanted to get to the station to have a look around .

PPS I am 54 years old I have not got long let on this world and I cant afford to have 50% of my game time taken up with a pointless mechanic

Cheers with respect . Hope the new update works out let me know when SC has changed and we shall try again. [up]

 

[FrankMurphy]

Don't want it . Pointless waste of time . I do not want a speed up getting somewhere I just want to be there . OOO I need to slow down a bit and hit a button after 5 minutes of doing nothing. Let me click on where I want to be and let me be there . Ill happily fly to the actual station / ship content / planet or asteroid belt but I do not want to spend half my time messing about flying in a straight line keeping my speed at the right lvl. Intercept me if you like and stop me but after I have dealt with whatever that is let me carry on and just be there.

I know there are a few pilots who like making things "hard" for yourselves, you probably like to play flight sims in real time as well, but I don't . SC just puts me off the game completely . There is no skill and no enjoyment .

Elite was always about making credits and shooting stuff. Well not in frontier I couldn't hit anything in that. This hideous SC botch up is just terrible.

Therefore as you have finally managed to add a trade feature in the upcoming beta that should have actually been in the game from the beginning can we now add the feature where I can jump to a system click on where I want to be in that system , have a few whirly lights or something and be at the location 20k out or something . Sure knock me out if you like and get attacked , I don't care but come on gaming is supposed to be fun . Bounty hunting , track , they are in such and such a place, go there . Fight in the space station area, nav point, asteroid belt who cares just let us go there.

I shall await the go play another game comments . Well I am, planet coaster funnily enough and ghost recon . It is such a shame as Elite is one of my first loves but for me it is ruined by this stupid mechanic. I accept others may like it but I would imagine you are a minority. Why do I say this ? Because every one of my long term guild of 20 years who played ED from alpha have stopped , not only due to SC, but it is a major complaint.

As ever we wait for the game to evolve and I am sure it will but please do something about this ogre in the rough diamond.

PS. Tried ED while with guild mates while on a beer run with the guys at xmas on Oculas . Looks fantastic in VR but not in SC as it was still pointless, just wanted to get to the station to have a look around .

PPS I am 54 years old I have not got long let on this world and I cant afford to have 50% of my game time taken up with a pointless mechanic

Cheers with respect . Hope the new update works out let me know when SC has changed and we shall try again. [up]

Ok, thanks.

 

[Han Zulu]

Without SC you wouldn't have USS, interdiction, pirates, bounty hunting, ...

If we had instant jumping to where we would like to go, it would quicken things up, but then it would become like Mass Effect jumping, a simple loading screen between places. It wouldn't be a spaceship simulator anymore.

 

[varonica]

Without SC you wouldn't have USS, interdiction, pirates, bounty hunting, ...

If we had instant jumping to where we would like to go, it would quicken things up, but then it would become like Mass Effect jumping, a simple loading screen between places. It wouldn't be a spaceship simulator anymore.

Yeah, may as well forget bout the ship flying bit and allow me to buy and sell on the markets from wherever I am, oh wait, did someone mention this was space ship flying sim? Maybe I need to look for a new game!

 

[Nilt]

Yeah, may as well forget bout the ship flying bit and allow me to buy and sell on the markets from wherever I am, oh wait, did someone mention this was space ship flying sim? Maybe I need to look for a new game!

You can do almost that in Eve.

Seriously, though, getting rid of SC is a ' terrible idea.

 

[varonica]

You can do almost that in Eve.

Seriously, though, getting rid of SC is a ' terrible idea.

Sometimes I let my sarcasm get the better of me.

I purchased ED because it's a space ship flying game and nothing else. I looked at ED, EVE, NMS, Star Citizen but settled on ED because it was a) available (where NMS and Star citizen weren't) b) it had a decent sized and supposedly accurate galaxy, where EVE's is to small and NMS didn't even pretend to be accurate and c) I could fly spaceships!

Turning it into a point, click auto dock process would probably make me leave the game.

To the OP, sorry about my overflowing sarcasm earlier, but you aren't the first to come up with this idea by far, but the reason people play this game is to fly spaceships, the trading, mining, exploring and etc they are all just icing on the cake. Take away the spaceship flying bit and it loses all of it's desirability. It appears to not be the best game for you to play since the core mechanics don't suit you, I suggest looking at star citizen as a possible replacement or EVE if you want a game that is actually available now.

 

[Wyaston Hypatia]

I don't think dumping SC is a good idea. The OP however does highlight the issue, that there's a problem with SC being a bit on the dull side.

 

[lokvette]

I do miss the old time slip drive, but SC wont be going away.

 

[Raino]

the OP thinks the straight route is the fastest and complains about boring flying? and the speed?

well, while he is bored flying a straight route i already dock at station and send a cheers from pilots-bar

 

[Rubbernuke]

Here are my suggestions to improve SC

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/400043-Supercruise-ideas-to-add-more-layers-of-gameplay

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

Maybe we should just teleport from station to station and get rid of the flying your spaceship part.

 

[Anon Sin]

@OP; What you want sounds to much like 'fast travel' to me,to many games have this option,a few have integrated it well,Fable 2(?) had horse-drawn coaches to get from A to B but most don't and imo it just becomes a lazy game mechanic. I personally like the fact we have to travel in our space ships,it would seem a bit silly if we didn't.
Would it not just become a larger CQC type game if we did,as in; (Ship Computer Announcer) "Commander please select your ship,loadout,enemy type & location" and then get a 15 second countdown for the game to begin. (yeah i'm being a bit silly i know!) o7

 

[ebbrell]

Come on, sc is interdiction zone. Remove that nothing.
It take time to travel to objects, even old elite had something. It was worse you had time multipliers which didn't work.

Sc works OK, we don't want fast travel we want realisum

I and I guess most cmdrs like the fact the further the item the longer it takes to get there

We need personal narrative fsp mods, yes .... or maybe sc speed 0-60 times boost maybe, but we don't need to remove sc

 

[Iskariot]

Hope the new update works out let me know when SC has changed and we shall try again. [up]

I guess we will never hear of you again then.

I for one think Supercruise is an awesome addition to the game. It makes it possible to traverse huge distances in an acceptable timeframe and it makes you feel you are actually piloting a starship when you zoom past stars, planets, moons and asteroid rings.
I think it is one of the most beautiful spaceflight mechanics ever.

I would like a few improvements though.
For example I would like the HUD in supercruise to change, to get a different configuration, like when we approach planets.
I also would like a bit more piloty things to do in SC, perhaps by using pip control for different aspects.

Here are my suggestions to improve SC

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/400043-Supercruise-ideas-to-add-more-layers-of-gameplay

Love those ideas.

 

[ebbrell]

Yah pip to boost acceleration of sc would be a benifit . I love the way you sweep toward planets they cook stunning. And the deep base sounds are cool also

I love sc also...

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

I guess we will never hear of you again then.

I for one think Supercruise is an awesome addition to the game. It makes it possible to traverse huge distances in an acceptable timeframe and it makes you feel you are actually piloting a starship when you zoom past stars, planets, moons and asteroid rings.
I think it is one of the most beautiful spaceflight mechanics ever.

I would like a few improvements though.
For example I would like the HUD in supercruise to change, to get a different configuration, like when we approach planets.
I also would like a bit more piloty things to do in SC, perhaps by using pip control for different aspects.

I am in 100% agreement. While there could be more things you can do during SC, I really do not get bored. It helps if you avoid the long distance travel.

Also I never understand why people aim at the station and go in a straight line. I try to avoid gravity wells, and always scan ships, so I very rarely get bored in SC.

I also think that galnet will be more visible so it will give us something to read on the longer journeys.

 

[ebbrell]

If pips not affect acceleration, maybe engineering level of thrusters or fed does.

I also like to sweep in facing the station, trying avoid planet gravity.

 

[fu9ar]

I'm usually scanning contacts and watching my six in SC unless I'm hunting, then I'm scanning contacts and looking for targets.

It may help you to know that you can select various things and stuff by centering the view over them and pressing the correct button. I use mouselook and click, but that's all I have the mouse bound to in the game. This is a handy shortcut versus using the often cluttered Contacts panel all the way over yonder.

Druid, I need to know that you do realize that this is an insane trolley rant and not an actual suggestion.

 

[operant]

Sc works OK, we don't want fast travel we want realisum

This soooo funny. Nice one.

 

[barcode]

Don't want it . Pointless waste of time . I do not want a speed up getting somewhere I just want to be there . OOO I need to slow down a bit and hit a button after 5 minutes of doing nothing. Let me click on where I want to be and let me be there . Ill happily fly to the actual station / ship content / planet or asteroid belt but I do not want to spend half my time messing about flying in a straight line keeping my speed at the right lvl. Intercept me if you like and stop me but after I have dealt with whatever that is let me carry on and just be there.

I know there are a few pilots who like making things "hard" for yourselves, you probably like to play flight sims in real time as well, but I don't . SC just puts me off the game completely . There is no skill and no enjoyment .

Elite was always about making credits and shooting stuff. Well not in frontier I couldn't hit anything in that. This hideous SC botch up is just terrible.

Therefore as you have finally managed to add a trade feature in the upcoming beta that should have actually been in the game from the beginning can we now add the feature where I can jump to a system click on where I want to be in that system , have a few whirly lights or something and be at the location 20k out or something . Sure knock me out if you like and get attacked , I don't care but come on gaming is supposed to be fun . Bounty hunting , track , they are in such and such a place, go there . Fight in the space station area, nav point, asteroid belt who cares just let us go there.

I shall await the go play another game comments . Well I am, planet coaster funnily enough and ghost recon . It is such a shame as Elite is one of my first loves but for me it is ruined by this stupid mechanic. I accept others may like it but I would imagine you are a minority. Why do I say this ? Because every one of my long term guild of 20 years who played ED from alpha have stopped , not only due to SC, but it is a major complaint.

As ever we wait for the game to evolve and I am sure it will but please do something about this ogre in the rough diamond.

PS. Tried ED while with guild mates while on a beer run with the guys at xmas on Oculas . Looks fantastic in VR but not in SC as it was still pointless, just wanted to get to the station to have a look around .

PPS I am 54 years old I have not got long let on this world and I cant afford to have 50% of my game time taken up with a pointless mechanic

Cheers with respect . Hope the new update works out let me know when SC has changed and we shall try again. [up]

no.