The game world is fairly boring, at the moment. When ED is finished, it could one of best games ever made.
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The game world is fairly boring, at the moment. When ED is finished, it could one of best games ever made.
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come on...you are all just impatient
in a few months when the first content gets released we will all be amazed at the
great improvements. we supported FD to make this game and I am sure they will
come through........who else can do this? well???
We just hit a bit of a delay at an inopportune time and despite there being a point
to the state of things not being as it should be right now, they will be awesome
end of June!
in a few months when the first content gets released we will all be amazed at the
great improvements. we supported FD to make this game and I am sure they will
come through........who else can do this? well???
We just hit a bit of a delay at an inopportune time and despite there being a point
to the state of things not being as it should be right now, they will be awesome
end of June!
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400 billion stars and you think it's ALL mapped?
Next thing your gonna claim is you finished the internet and have it all bookmarked,,,,,
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Exactly. There's currently the major exploration event that's going to the far side of the Galaxy. It's not mapped out, nowhere close.400 billion stars and you think it's ALL mapped?
Next thing your gonna claim is you finished the internet and have it all bookmarked,,,,,
There's locations for all the stars, yes, but 99% of those stars don't have *ANY* data associated with them.
If there was data associated with them, then you wouldn't have to scan to find new crud, now would you?
The OP 16/01/2015, today 21/03/2016: The game is exactly the same, it just got bigger but empty room.
How funny is that? My prediction is the game will be exactly the same until december 2016 at least. Maybe seasson 3 will add true gameplay?
I bet if you turned it on for 60 seconds after he climbs in he would lose all further interest.
I'm not suggesting you do that though.
i have also been playing for about a week (10 days i think). after the first 2 days i went on steam and got horizons and told the devs to "shut up and take my money".
i have the complete opposite experience to you. there is so much to do. for starters i have not even touched power play, and im still deciding where i should move my ships to as a home base
so far ive got a t6 decked out for trading, vulture almost decked out for combat, and last night a cobra that is almost ready for exploring (cant afford an asp)
things i find fun:
i like to find my own trade routes, its a lot more satisfying than just plugging numbers into a trade finder website, then going to grind. yes you dont get as good credits per hour, but the discovery of a trade route is more fun than the grind. also i had to learn how the whole economy works. there is a reason the devs dont allow getting commodities info from their api.
for combat i could go for a conflict or a res site and grind, but again, grinding is the boring part. id rather be a bit of a merc and take up contracts from stations. it makes the gameplay a bit varied. sometimes you get missions to go to combat zones, other times for pirates, assassinations which i pay close attention to make sure they align with my goals and go on the hunt.
for my latest adventure i decided to get the cobra and go on a bit of an exploring run around the starter area. firstly to learn how the scanners work and figure out what type of planets have more valuable information. learn to land on a planet without a spaceport. fix the key bindings for the srv and get used to driving it. learn the little radar thing it has and how to gain materials. learn what i can synthesize with those materials.
tonights plan is to figure out what type of planets have what type of materials. test if the srv refuels after docking back with the ship. test if the ammo gets replenished after the srv docks with the ship. and actually synthesize something, learn how to find points of interest effectively.
note all things that wont earn me any money. the fun part is the learning of the mechanics and discovery of what the galaxy has to offer.
things left to do. actually go exploring after i feel confident enough that i can survive, find an earth like planet outside the civilized space, be a pirate, be a smuggler, be a miner, participate in community events (after i figure out where i can see them), join a power and figure out power play, find a star system to call home, visit sol, learn more about the lore, and my to do list goes on and on.
the thing is that its not a game that leads you anywhere, its up to you to set your goals and tasks. if your goal is to grind cash as fast as possible to get a bigger ship to grind more cash a bit faster, you will be stuck spending hours doing one thing, so its not suprising that youre bored, i would be too. i grind enough at work, i like to go and have fun in the game. like the guy that blew up the luxury trader, thats got to some people off
i have the complete opposite experience to you. there is so much to do. for starters i have not even touched power play, and im still deciding where i should move my ships to as a home base
so far ive got a t6 decked out for trading, vulture almost decked out for combat, and last night a cobra that is almost ready for exploring (cant afford an asp)
things i find fun:
i like to find my own trade routes, its a lot more satisfying than just plugging numbers into a trade finder website, then going to grind. yes you dont get as good credits per hour, but the discovery of a trade route is more fun than the grind. also i had to learn how the whole economy works. there is a reason the devs dont allow getting commodities info from their api.
for combat i could go for a conflict or a res site and grind, but again, grinding is the boring part. id rather be a bit of a merc and take up contracts from stations. it makes the gameplay a bit varied. sometimes you get missions to go to combat zones, other times for pirates, assassinations which i pay close attention to make sure they align with my goals and go on the hunt.
for my latest adventure i decided to get the cobra and go on a bit of an exploring run around the starter area. firstly to learn how the scanners work and figure out what type of planets have more valuable information. learn to land on a planet without a spaceport. fix the key bindings for the srv and get used to driving it. learn the little radar thing it has and how to gain materials. learn what i can synthesize with those materials.
tonights plan is to figure out what type of planets have what type of materials. test if the srv refuels after docking back with the ship. test if the ammo gets replenished after the srv docks with the ship. and actually synthesize something, learn how to find points of interest effectively.
note all things that wont earn me any money. the fun part is the learning of the mechanics and discovery of what the galaxy has to offer.
things left to do. actually go exploring after i feel confident enough that i can survive, find an earth like planet outside the civilized space, be a pirate, be a smuggler, be a miner, participate in community events (after i figure out where i can see them), join a power and figure out power play, find a star system to call home, visit sol, learn more about the lore, and my to do list goes on and on.
the thing is that its not a game that leads you anywhere, its up to you to set your goals and tasks. if your goal is to grind cash as fast as possible to get a bigger ship to grind more cash a bit faster, you will be stuck spending hours doing one thing, so its not suprising that youre bored, i would be too. i grind enough at work, i like to go and have fun in the game. like the guy that blew up the luxury trader, thats got to some people off
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i do know what you are saying and see where you are coming from. ED is not a game for everyone. other than the very slow paced story the devs are spinning, there is no real story, and right now the missions in the game are not that great at making you feel there is any point to doing them.
I am hoping this will change in 2.1.
That being said, ED is very much in the same vein as an original elite / frontier hybrid, hopefully as time moves on it will get closer to the content of 1st enounters and beyond.
As 777Driver said, VR adds so much to the game and that is where i spent most of my 750hrs in ED. in VR the simple act of flying an A B A B trade route is cool, albeit with a good audio book on.
A lot in ED is not that taxing, so it is something good to do to unwind, if you want to turn it up a bit then you can do combat. The thing to remember in ED however is that the price of destruction is often insanely high, so dont get to cocky as that is when it bites you on the ass
ultimately I DO agree it could offer more feeling of life and consequence in the game, but personally i do enjoy what we have. (I just hope for more
)I totally get why it may not be for you however and when i reccomend ED to people it is with a lot of smallprint.
when i 1st sold my DK2 back in december, i thought that was it for me until i got my CV1... however, despite it being a shadow of the game that it is in VR, i do still find myself wanting to play, albeit in smaller bouts than before.... so the game is not ALL about VR.
TLDR
before you give up, try doing community goals, possibly in open, you may get what you want there.... other than that, pick a minor faction in one of the systems, and decide to OWN that faction, make it your mission to get them to overthrow the major one in the game and try to get a station off them.... you may need help, just recently there was a concerted effort to do this to one of the NPC factions in wolfberg, and the SDC were crushed over the course of a couple of weeks... that was great fun and may also be the kind of thing you are looking for.
there is cool content in ED, however it is not always obvious how to get at it.... sometimes this is due to the game wanting you to figure out things for yourself... and sometimes it is because the game is not always logical and can be very clunky not always reacting how (you think) it should.
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Re: necro threads - If he wrote a new topic you would be upset "oh look another one" - its better to keep them in one place I think
Well, it's certainly up and running again now.
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"Calm down, Igor we've been through this before".
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In other words, apologetically boring... no wonder I never play.
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry to try to resurrect such an old thread, but this is THE BEST quote of the game I have ever read!!!! It sums it all up. I have put hundreds of hours into it, stuck with it through every update (except that 5 month dry period of no updates) since release (more than 1.5 years) and all the game got is increasingly boring.
2.1 was hyped up to revamp the mission system as well as introduce another big feature.
After playing for a few days: Still little to no immersion and the new feature (The Engineers) is another HUGE grind-fest.
This game should be called: So Much Potential: How would like grinding for years with nothing interesting happening?
Ian Phillips
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necro'd again..
closing this time.
closing this time.
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