I really don't know why you people care so much about ship interiors? Base building, planetary habs and atmospheres. Little towns like the American West on breathable worlds, more on foot missions, suits, ships, FLEET CARRIERS by size L, M, S! There are so many things that FDEV can expand this game into, why ship interiors? You folks got on foot stuff and everyone beefed FDEV how much it sucks(check the rating on STEAM). I personally LOVE LOVE LOVE on foot stuff. I just wish there was more!
Elite Dangerous Game Engine / Ship Interior question.
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The simplest way I can describe it is like this: Elite Dangerous at the moment is a game you play. Ship interiors, ie being able to walk from the cockpit chair through the ship to the exit and down the steps out onto a planet or station hanger, would transform the game into something you still play, but it would feel more like you are living the game and not just playing it.
The way it is at the moment, I feel like I am an A.I. controlling a ship. If I die, I get rebooted at a station in a rebuilt ship. I can beam myself across the galaxy to another A.I.'s ship, without being there personally. The Thargoids hate us because we're not organic, we're A.I. Ship interiors would make the game feel more like you are an organic commander and not an A.I. in my opinion.
This is something Star Citizen manages very well. X4 even manages this and it doesn't have full ship interiors, you teleport from an entrance to the bridge or an office.
Of course, not everyone will want ship interiors, and that's ok, but many of us feel the game is lacking without them.
Ain't gonna happen, most of the suggestions are regurgitating what is possible in other games... (or may one day be a game)
Just like the "Open Only" topics, "Interiors" will erupt like pustules on the face of the forum like acne...
im sure fdev can cook up some pngs, maybe even gifs
Jpegs is where it's at!im sure fdev can cook up some pngs, maybe even gifs
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A good argument stays a good argument, no matter how old.
Also some would continue to ask for new arguments until no new arguments could be provided and then they would just say that there is no reason for interiors because there are no new arguments why interiors should be implemented
im sure fdev can cook up some pngs, maybe even gifs
Really high resolution .bmps we need something to fill all those spare terabytes.
I guess it just shows how much this feature is wanted
Well, it's their engine so they can make it do whatever they want it to do!
If the game was single-player it would be easy. My feeling is that you don't want to be adding extra layers of complexity to the multi-player part of things unless you've got a REALLY good reason. And I'm guessing that accessible ship interiors adds a load more layers of complexity. Not just that it's hard to code, but that it's hard to even write down how you'd want it to work. There's a sea of "what happens if player X is going up in a lift in player Y's ship, while he's pressing for lift access, while his ship is upside down on top of player Z's ship while it's taking off" edge cases that you may never get to the end of.
To be honest, I think the thrill of having your own ship interiors would be short-lived, so I'd maybe start by having missions that start or end inside NPC ships (steal the plans from the Anaconda) and see if that leads you into full MP stuff.
So you compare us ( I want ship interiors too) to toddlers?
What do you expect? Do you want everyone who wants ship interiors to stay quiet, just because it annoyes you? You always have the option to ignore these posts.
Ship internals really wouldn't be accessible until the ship is not in motion (docked, landed etc).
As to gameplay with your own ships, there are a few possibilities.
But I think gameplay in crashed or derelict ships is where the gameplay is.
At the moment, legs gameplay is mainly available at the bases, there could be so much more if you could explore crashed ship interiors, it space walk over to a mostly intact ship in space and access it to discover what happened. All these could be mission objectives.
Plenty of gameplay there.
There’s a warning notification on at least one cockpit door that has words to that effect, saw it on one of the new ships while having a VR wander
Needs?
Just pointing out that looting and exploring wrecks doesn't necessarily mean ship interiors. It might just mean interiors of wrecked and crashed NPC ships, which might be a heck of a lot easier than actual ship interiors.