Enough with the "3D printing"

Let us collectively assume fighter bays just put preassembled pieces together. Let's assume that ship transfer being instant (unless FD change their minds - please do) is just an out-of-character convenience thing just like refueling and loading cargo is instant, and not an actual in-character element.

And then if FD include anywhere the concept of 3D printing around the fighter bays, let us demand they change that to preassembled pieces.

Because if we go down this route and accept that in the Elite universe a you can actually 3D print entire spaceships in situ and within just a few minutes, everything falls apart: starting with how trading of anything but the most fundamental raw materials would be a waste of time and then everything would unravel where little remains that makes any sense at all.

(For the record, I am not says this level of 3D printing is not possible in 1000 years, I am saying if it is, civilization would be nothing at all like the one depicted in ED.)
 
The spaceships aren't 3D printed plastic. They are 3D printed alloys. So raw materials are still needed. If this is your only issue with it /thread.
 
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Agreed. What is the point of looking around various systems for "land mines" or whatever when you can conceivably just 3D print them in your ship?

I think this mechanic may need some further thought.
 
The spaceships aren't 3D printed plastic. They are 3D printed alloys. So raw materials are still needed. If this is your only issue with it /thread.

You did not even read my post properly. I even put in a disclaimer where I am saying that it is not the 3D printing of ships that is unrealistic in the year 3300, it is just incompatible with the very economy and civilization depicted in the game.
 
But you need to buy SRVs and Heat Sink Ammo!?
Sorry, but this is just another example of FD just making it up as they go with no semblance of internal consistency.

There's no reason for fighters to work any differently than SRVs.
You need a hangar, you stock it with fighters. Different class hangars can hold more fighters.
The end.
 
Fighters don't really work that different, with the exception that the fighters come flat packed. Has anyone considered that the prep time for "assembly" is a balance issue?
 
still need toner.

Also how does galnet work light-years away.

How can stations have wibly wobbly stormcloud FSD's which are limited by fuel and can jump half way across the galaxy.

and we have fsd's limited by ship mass and drive strength.

How do we die, and wake up in the exact copy of our ship (not just meta build, but even specially modded Engineer modules).


sorry, but some people have been fighting this suspension of disbelief since day1 - some can't stomach their own pilot death and start over, others are okay with it.
For some wierd reason the ship module, and ship transfer (being demanded since day1) just melted people brains.

Suddenly people getting what they wanted and had complained about it missing, was too much?
 
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Not to mention that insta-transfer of ships pretty much makes it so every shipyard should have every ship available all the time, any time...

Whether it is called 3d printing, or preassembled parts, functionally, the fighters are exactly the same as the SRV...a secondary extension vehicle operating independently of the mother ship...the only difference is on goes in space, the other goes on the ground...they should be treated the same in game.
 
The weird thing is,3D printing on that sort of scale,with a full tank of fuel and a steaming hot cup of brew is not only likely,it's inevitable.
People dislike a technology of the future in a futuristic game!
I bet FD didn't see that coming :eek:
 
Let us collectively assume fighter bays just put preassembled pieces together. Let's assume that ship transfer being instant (unless FD change their minds - please do) is just an out-of-character convenience thing just like refueling and loading cargo is instant, and not an actual in-character element.

And then if FD include anywhere the concept of 3D printing around the fighter bays, let us demand they change that to preassembled pieces.

Because if we go down this route and accept that in the Elite universe a you can actually 3D print entire spaceships in situ and within just a few minutes, everything falls apart: starting with how trading of anything but the most fundamental raw materials would be a waste of time and then everything would unravel where little remains that makes any sense at all.

(For the record, I am not says this level of 3D printing is not possible in 1000 years, I am saying if it is, civilization would be nothing at all like the one depicted in ED.)


Agree, Printing fighters is just another lazy idea from FD, they couldn't think of something more elaborate?

You know what, what about 3D printing module which we can fit in our ships to prints consumables like the chaffe, Heat sinks and others, in that way if you want unlimited stream of fighters then you have to sacrifice something instead!
 
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Hows about a "Star Gate" that can make one jump to the station you are docked at, but the ship has to use auto pilot because the jump is not safe for anything organic.
 
For immersion the game has to try enhance it too, thats the thing. Its getting a bit too much to ignore and pretend and all that to imagine this as some sort of believable Sci-fi world and the direction seems to be to put more in the lines of teleport stuff around in the game.
 
The weird thing is,3D printing on that sort of scale,with a full tank of fuel and a steaming hot cup of brew is not only likely,it's inevitable.
People dislike a technology of the future in a futuristic game!
I bet FD didn't see that coming :eek:

No, I don't dislike the idea of this technology, and actually strongly expect that in a 1000 years, it will have replaced absolutely any other form of manufacturing in reality. But this technology and the economy it produces would be vastly different from the one where we ship consumer goods and mining equipment from planet to planet.
 
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I am Ziggy Stardust and I do so aprove of this message.

They be killing me immersion. Softly. With 3d printing. And you can't 3d print immersion!
 
No, I don't dislike the idea of this technology, and actually strongly expect that in a 1000 years, it will have replaced absolutely any other form of manufacturing in reality. But this technology and the economy it produces would be vastly different from the one where we ship consumer goods and mining equipment from planet to planet.



Depends on the technology in place.
If you need 400 oz of gold to print a 400 oz gold bar how would that effect the economy?

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Thats the thing, only the A.I. pilot knows where the jump gates are located. lol


Ha,we're literally debating something we might possibly never actually see,just a line in the lore [haha]
 
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