Elite Suggestions for Devs

Goshnodo

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Good Morning,

I purchased Elite back in 2015 and have been playing on and off since. I have recently fired the game back up and have managed to bring 3 friends back and through salesmanship managed to have 5 other friends purchase the game in the last 2 weeks and join us.

I understand Odyssey is coming soon and I do not fully know what that entails. Nonetheless here are a few suggestions we came up with recently for some simply things that could make a difference.

1) SRV Engineering
-Improved suspension at the cost of mass/slower speed
-Improved thruster capacity at the cost of power draw and mass/speed
-Larger SRV Cargo Bay at the cost of top speed and thruster capacity

2) The stations talk about ground crew/maintenance crews when you land. How about adding some animations with trucks/people/robots and some welding or sparks to add a little effect. Just to breathe a bit more life into the idea of repair.

3) Nav Beacons on all stars. Allow for travel to individual stars in a system that has more than 1 sun. If a system has 3 suns and I need to travel to planet A on star 2...I am forced to arrive on star 1 and travel for 5-10min for no real reason. Even in a simulator, if a beacon could be employed on 1 star, why not all the stars especially considering the current format, some of the "main" stars are smaller than their neighbors.

There are a few quick ideas we jotted down that would not take massive amounts of doing. Thanks!
 

Kaocraft

Kaocraft
Goshnodo said:
3) Nav Beacons on all stars. Allow for travel to individual stars in a system that has more than 1 sun. If a system has 3 suns and I need to travel to planet A on star 2...I am forced to arrive on star 1 and travel for 5-10min for no real reason. Even in a simulator, if a beacon could be employed on 1 star, why not all the stars especially considering the current format, some of the "main" stars are smaller than their neighbors.
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Not to take away from your main point about within-system jumps; but nav beacons aren't responsible for hyperspace jumps. They just provide information about the system they are in. You always jump to the most massive body in a given system, whether there's a nav beacon there or not (which is a good thing, since most systems don't have nav beacons and you wouldn't be able to jump to them otherwise.)
 

Florenus

Florenus
Goshnodo said:
3) Nav Beacons on all stars. Allow for travel to individual stars in a system that has more than 1 sun. If a system has 3 suns and I need to travel to planet A on star 2...I am forced to arrive on star 1 and travel for 5-10min for no real reason. Even in a simulator, if a beacon could be employed on 1 star, why not all the stars especially considering the current format, some of the "main" stars are smaller than their neighbors.
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After hyperjump, you arrive near the point of greatest mass. It's usually one of the stars, or some point between them. You don't travel to nav beacons - they just happen to be placed near the point where ships arrive to help them get info about the system.
(seems I was slightly too late with that)
 

molgrips

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To do that you would need to be able to open the system map before actually exploring the system, which seems rather backwards!
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Not really. All that exploration data that we sell - what do Universal Cartographics do with it? We should be able to access it even before we go to a system, for a fee, otherwise why are we being paid for it?
 
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