News Elite: Dangerous Powerplay 1.3 Beta Incoming (changelog)

[LOSBOT]

I want beta access. :-(

Any chance that those of us that showed up a little late to the party can get beta access?

 

[Shar]

It 100% is not the most unrealistic thing in the game, trust me You might feel it is, but maybe that's because you don't appreciate just how unrealistic other things are. That's not a criticism; we all only know what we know.

I'm in favour of more immersion, but not more immersion in a way that unfairly punishes those of us that love the game but are relatively time-poor. I also don't think this makes the game any harder. It just means i have to spend a lot more time doing repetitive tasks. Is that the definition of challenge? FDev should be thinking of ways to add interesting things to do with bigger ships once you get them, not making it harder to get and maintain them. I want the potential to earn epic rewards for epic risks, rather than just the opportunity to play it safe for a regular income.

It's not so much that it would effect me now - other than occasionally switching out my loadout for fun - it's more that it completely undermines my aspirations, which is probably worse. I was working towards a Python precisely because I could use it for all sorts of different things. I do a lot of combat right now, and I feel I've seen that side of the game. I was looking forward to trying a bit of everything. With this proposed change, I'm facing doing a lot more of what I'm doing now (grinding out credits) just so I can spend far less time trying out those different things.

I use ED shipyard, but people posting that whilst asking for realism makes me laugh. I mean, you want the game to be more realistic, but you're proposing alt-tabbing out of the game to visit a website to check potential configurations? That's not great for immersion.

I'm not against it getting harder. I'm not against more of a challenge. I'm just against increasing the grind. That is all this change will do. Either that, or it will force people to play more repetitively, and less flexibly. Both negative game-play changes.

You seem like a reasonable chap and i appreciate your concerns, im very sorry you don't have the time i struggle to get a few hour a week at the moment myself, i not the kind of player that can stand sitting in my chair for too long i hope to dey an hour in tonight. now the but i don't think our time restrictions should be the priority for the devs this is ELITE immersion must come first. so it will take me longer to get were im going well that too me is a positive not trying to get to philological about it but the harder it is to get what you want the more you will appreciate it. again immersion must come first at any cost i have about 130 games, im here for a reason, i like games that are drawn out have no end a long time is a positive to me. and yes i Alt-tab its fine for immersion just switching to another terminal in my ship, maybe frontier can give us a button in the cockpit. for me my computer is my spaceship.

I must comment on GRIND by grind you mean playing the game i assume you know you can grind fighting, grind trading or grind exploring i would replace the word grind with simulate.

 

[Michael Brookes]

Closing as there have been newer releases.

Michael