Okay, I was a backer for Elite Dangerous since the summer of 2014. The game had serious problems for a long time when it was being developed, but most of the technical stuff seems to have been ironed out. However, one of the things that has never been ironed out is the idiocy and unbelievable behavior of the people and everything else in the Elite Dangerous universe. There is something clearly wrong with the people at Frontier, who seemed to have decided that their universe was going to be filled with people and machines that all behaved as if they were psychotic. Here's an example of what I'm talking about, and then you can all insult me, call me names, tell me I'm an idiot, whatever. Do whatever makes you feel good. But, again, I think my point is valid, even if you don't like the way I'm expressing it.
Here's what happened: I go to Sanuma, and get a mission for a minor faction in Dunyach Gateway. They used to be in charge, but aren't anymore (I have no idea why... makes no sense at all), so I'm trying to help them regain control of the system. I get an influence mission from them to help out. It's a surface scan mission, where you have to get data from a data point, and the data point and the base where it's located just happen to be owned by this same minor faction, whom I am considered allied to. The mission is (of course) in another star system. So, I get there, and I fly towards the surface of the planet to land, I have to endure the ridiculous multiple rescannings and relocations of the base, and finally I land. I get out of the ship, and into my little SRV, and slowly and leisurely cruise the 600 meters to the base where the data link is. As I approach the base, I'm delighted to see that the base, and everything in it, shows up green on my display, because I am an ally of the faction who owns the base, and they gave me the mission to recover their data. "Easy peasy!", I'm thinking, and I continue to cruise on in towards the data point, which I can clearly see, figuring I'll scan, leave, and go back and collect my reward.
I pull up next to it, and... What's this? Security perimeter breach? I'm in big trouble. What's going on!? I was sent here by the people who own the place to scan the data link and recover their data. "What the...??!!", I'm now thinking, as the turrets and skimmers all open fire on my SRV. Well, I didn't even stick around to get destroyed or run away. I can't scan the data link now, because I'm under fire, so the mission is basically over, unless I want to pull away and try again, which I don't think should be necessary. So, I logged out, and, once again, I'm done with this ridiculously silly and laughable game for another 4 months, until I log in again someday, and see if Frontier finally decided not to program the behavior of things in this game as if the universe is run by a bunch of lying and crooked psychopaths.
This is a stupid game, friends. Face it. It's really, really stupid. The crime and punishment stuff gets stupider with every update, there isn't anything for players to look forward to, like building your own stations, or claiming your own system. It's almost totally empty of content, and what content there is is frustrating in a sort of sado-masochistic way, that really makes you feel like a moron for playing the game at all. The stuff in this game just wouldn't occur the way it does. The game itself, it's true, looks absolutely breathtaking, and it is really cool flying around between star systems and exploring, but the gameplay and the content is unbearably, insufferably stupid. What happened to me makes no sense whatsoever, and no amount of rationalization makes it suddenly seem sensible, despite the fanboy hostility that is often irrationally displayed in these forums whenever anyone dares to criticize this game. In any sort of universe that made sense, and not in Frontier's paranoid schizophrenic pretend universe, if you were sent to a company's data link by the company itself to recover their data, and you were an ALLY of theirs, YOU WOULD NOT BE ATTACKED BY THEIR DEFENSES AT THE BASE!
You would simply drive up, totally unmolested, do your scan, turn around and leave. Everything with Elite dangerous is a big stupid fight, a mind-numbingly improbable series of events, and a ridiculous scenario which would never occur in reality. And this game is supposed to be lauded and applauded because of its realism?
