Yeah, exactly. So I'm playing a non-space game right now. Exploration is fun, new stuff to look at. There is cooperative group play, PVP, and single player questing. Numerous organizations to join. People to chat with. Just another MMO, basically. Maybe Elite Dangerous isn't for me...(for a few weeks). It's great being a hero.
Elite is a virtual 9-5
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Yeah, exactly. So I'm playing a non-space game right now. Exploration is fun, new stuff to look at. There is cooperative group play, PVP, and single player questing. Numerous organizations to join. People to chat with. Just another MMO, basically. Maybe Elite Dangerous isn't for me...(for a few weeks). It's great being a hero.
Eh, for me....
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Anytime I had printed a screen shot looking out my ship's canopy and posting it in my cubicle, I always jokingly referred to it as "The view from my other office window."
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There is truth to the op, now listen this is not a bash ED post what so ever so please do not take it that way. But rather a serious post on life as a laborer in whatever year it is in ED. That is all you can be is an employee and that's it. As I said before personally I just crave more. I can hire a fighter pilot right why can't I hire a freighter pilot yo fly my routes that I set with equal risk of course. Essentially start my own company. Or hire a few pilots to deliver data and start a courier company a "Spaceex" if you will l. Why can't i hire cruise ship pilots and start or hell even name my air ahem... spaceline? And you know what if you don't like these things well... don't do it. It's honestly that simple. These kind of things wouldn't affect progression because you still have to pay the pilot dynamic pricing change so you have to eye the market and you have yo buy the ships and cover insurance. It wouldn't affect anyone at all because well hell people playing in solo anyway. A game where you can do what ever you want! Truly. There is so much dropped, passed, and missed potential in ED it's just mind boggling it truly is. Absolutely insane the potential in this game. Why can't i buy a rich resource area on a planet and charge a fee for npcs or players to mine it. Trust me there are ebo8gh planets out there to avoid this...
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Posting from phone so sorry for punctuation/grammar/spelling.
I don't know so much more
Posting from phone so sorry for punctuation/grammar/spelling.
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This sums it up for me .....
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I wish I could get a 9-5 job that pays enough to let me aimlessly travel the world in a private 200 metre long ship.
But seriously, that's just not what Elite ever was. There are space games like X3 which let you build an empire for yourself, and they're fantastic. It's just that Elite's soul is in being a lone independent pilot making your way in a huge galaxy which doesn't really even notice you.
But seriously, that's just not what Elite ever was. There are space games like X3 which let you build an empire for yourself, and they're fantastic. It's just that Elite's soul is in being a lone independent pilot making your way in a huge galaxy which doesn't really even notice you.
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At first any mmo is like that whether it be war thunder, elite dangerous, or gta online. Its supposed to engage you heavily for 6 months to a year. I remember playing 9 to 5 to get that conda, but once you get caught up and rich you can get away from trading and do much shorter activities for fun. Problem is w payouts. Compared to trading everything underpays to a new player or takes literal hours to earn. Once you get over need a conda fever, you will play in shorter bursts. Sothis and ceos are still very good areas for new players. Even w old payouts adjusted, still very good pay time vs money.
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Much as I love the game, it aint any substitute for a living breathing female who hasn't taken out a restraining order....
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You and me have very different definitions of "progress", it seems.
I think you misunderstood. In merica a 9-5 is normally just a basic job most people have and this post is a hypothetical comparison that in game your space life is equivalent to a mundane 9-5 job today. So in essence in the ED future world we are all 9-5ers no way I'm playing a game from 9-5 lol.... my would be dead
Often times, yes. Though I am also quite partial to Imperial Eagle and the Viper. Not huge ships but still fun.
Man you guys really are not getting the comparison.
In elite you start at the bottom and stay at the bottom except you have more money. You can never become the leader, or the owner. You are always working for someone else. The equivalent of a dead end 9-5 job no where am I saying that I work a 9-5 dead end or am I saying that I or implying that anyone else is playing the game as a job or doing it 9 to 5pm Monday-friday. I'm using it as a comparison of your place in elite is and always will be bottom of the chain of command.
I hate this soundtrack, worse Startrek track ever.
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I see...so what about being your own commodities trader? This is how I made most of my money, by hauling precious metals and worthless humans on my own terms, no contracts or jobs.
Ever thought of expanding your business and getting a few employees, advertising, marketing? Or are you content with your 1 man operation with your limited hauling space?
Ever wanted to own a warehouse to store your goods and sell at the right time? Or specialize in specific products? Or manufacture your own personal brand?
Heck a lot of this can be solved buy selling warehouse spots at stations and with this you will now have a base of operations to run your business or just a place to call home.
I think you see my point and listen again I will say I AM NOT BASHING THE GAME. I love elite always have. Just wish there was more to it. How is such a complicated beautifully done game so simple?
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Where does that lead though? Sitting back in an executive's chair while your minions scurry about? We both know that isn't what the game is about, ultimately. I certainly don't want to become one of those ghastly faces on the mission board
I do have one employee...my NPC crew. She is pretty terrible at everything but pumping my bounty targets full of plasma...overpaid but valued at the same time
Where does that lead though? Sitting back in an executive's chair while your minions scurry about? We both know that isn't what the game is about, ultimately. I certainly don't want to become one of those ghastly faces on the mission board
I do have one employee...my NPC crew. She is pretty terrible at everything but pumping my bounty targets full of plasma...overpaid but valued at the same time
It just adds more options more things to do. It's just a matter of what makes the player happy. If this sort of thing doesn't please someone then they don't have to do it. If it does then the option is there. It leads to a sense of ownership and accomplishment.
And as far as your bounty hunting employee why can't a miner or a trader or even an explorer have an employee? I mean why not it takes absolutely nothing away from the game nor will it affect those who do not wish this. It will only appeal to a larger audience while adding a lot more content all at the same time. My proposal would be this is expensive as you are adding payroll and you have to manage your ships pay for gas and insurance if they are robbed.
The real question IMO why not?
And on the other side maybe you don't want to be those ghastly faces lol but someone does. And why shouldn't they?
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In a multiplayer online game, the idea that someone doesn't have to do something always leads to one group getting an advantage, generally forcing other players to use a feature if they want to stay competitive.
As far as the "employee" suggestion, a great deal of players would like to have NPC crew for more than flying the ship or fighter. The Multicrew feature might eventually lead to groups forming that regularly work together but you'll never sit in an office on a station and direct your "employees" to run your in-game company.
As to the question of "why not?", because this isn't that type of game. Games have to try to stick to the developer's original scope or they can get bogged down with feature creep. Allowing players to directly run factions would fundamentally alter the game for everyone else. I've never played EVE but from what I've read and seen these things you want to add to ED are in EVE. Since EVE already exists why should anyone want to make ED like EVE?