Everybody's doing it...

[CMDR Mayhem]

I love the people that hate haters who love the game but hate it.

 

[Ca$hback]

OP has spoken everyone, we can all go home.

I am home. I feel like I've been here forever.

 

[TartanDragon]

I am home. I feel like I've been here forever.

Heading for Hutton Orbital then.

 

[4gui4]

I´m just a rabble Horizons account my opinion is worthless.

Btw could be a great game but it is not.

simple things don't work as they should as a player I can't do anything and I'm tired of

complaining about . [alien]

 

[Notwyn]

I haven't had an opinion since I got married.

Just play on...

 

[kofeyh]

I read the title and expected some sort of spoiler video of a commander and thargoid, uh, doing things that.. uh.. sort of happen when things, uh.. happen.. you know?

Sort of disappointed now. This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[obliterator]

...so I'm going to as well. Whine that is.

I'm getting sick and tired of the people that say "Elite could be a great game if only FD would do X"! (Substitute X for their personal peeve).

Well, I'm here to tell you people that you are entirely, totally and utterly wrong.

Elite is a great game and it's going to get better!

Just my opinion.

Player feedback and criticism is an important part of game development. Saying that the game is great doesn't help anything.

 

[MarkAusten]

Player feedback and criticism is an important part of game development. Saying that the game is great doesn't help anything.

Yes and no. However, I think you might have missed the tongue-in-cheek point.

Too many of the posts end saying nothing except "Elite could be great is only...". In response to those saying that the game is great is a perfect response. A nothing statement in opposition to nothing statements.

I popped in because I heard there might be a problem, but looking around I see that all's whine.

Indeed. cheered me up no end!

 

[MarkAusten]

"Everybody's doing it, that's a lot of people doing it... lot of people doing it, but only one can be the best" -Vincent Lauria, Color of Money

My opinion:

Some things are needlessly grindy, game seems to be made for 24hr a day folks.

Ships should be price based, not rank based. Grinding for rank is needless outside of permits and ships.

Donation missions for Cr are just a grind mechanism. You make money, they take it in a donation. You think it's going to reward you with rank or something, but it's just a grind.

Conflict zone ships all attack me as soon as I pick a side, and it seems there are no allies who do anything but watch. (yeah yeah, get gud engineers level 5 whatever)

The good old days when the exotic weapons were only plasma type thinggies. Then came prismatics and from there it became a kluge of chess type loadouts and now the battle front is just blue flashes and chaff starbursts left and right, my poor lasers are worthless as are my shields.

Cobra cannot jump if my Annie is next to it but somehow it can pull me out of FTL travel.

Res sites are largely empty

I hate to rely on re-instance for improved game play.

Station commodity prices don't make much sense (nor do supply levels). You're on the edge of a metal rich ring, station has no metals.

Commodities outside of the big 3 or 4 are only good for charity missions, now for engineers but those are never in supply. No one hauls food cartridges for anything meaningful outside of CG or some large payout mission.

Speed limits in and around stations are worthless in Solo. I've never come close to contact another ship and I go in and out under boost speeds.

Stations 40 real minutes away from the stars with nothing useful once you get there, only serve as targets for "gotcha" missions that you didn't check the galaxy map on before you accepted. "Hey, deliver stacked missions of food cartridges totaling several million for a 7LY jump? Sha!" "Oh great, 40 minutes of no longer playing the game. Great game mechanic.

Feels like (maybe wrongly so) that all the real money making opportunities turn out to be exploits or bugs and get nerfed. Go Go Gadget Grinder

You see? You're doing it as well. Just another "Elite could be great if ..." post. Now how about making that constructive criticism instead of destructive?

Don't do it here of course, this was a slightly sarcastic OP, you may not have noticed. The best place for constructive criticism is the suggestions forum.

Criticise by all means but make it constructive. A post such as yours is devoid of all substance except a whine.

Have a nice day.

OP has spoken everyone, we can all go home.

No! Don't do that. Keep posting these great replies, it has lightened my mood considerably.

We're getting dangerously close to there being more haters of haters of elite threads than there are haters of elite threads

Egad! I had to read that several time to get the gist. I think I missed a hater the first time round.

 

[Arindor]

Each to their own OP but, imo, I believe that ED has the potential to be a great game, but we're a long, long way off from that atm. I'm enjoying the bits I do like though: I've just started experimenting with RNGineered combat builds having taken a hiatus from exploring.

 

[Bran Tse Mallory]

...so I'm going to as well. Whine that is.

I'm getting sick and tired of the people that say "Elite could be a great game if only FD would do X"! (Substitute X for their personal peeve).

Well, I'm here to tell you people that you are entirely, totally and utterly wrong.

Elite is a great game and it's going to get better!

Just my opinion.

Fantastic use of 'totally' and 'utterly' which gets you some rep.

 

[Whiterose]

You can please some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time. Ask a thousand people what they want you will get a thousand different answers. Human nature I suppose.

 

[Schmack]

You see? You're doing it as well. Just another "Elite could be great if ..." post. Now how about making that constructive criticism instead of destructive?

Don't do it here of course, this was a slightly sarcastic OP, you may not have noticed. The best place for constructive criticism is the suggestions forum.

Criticise by all means but make it constructive. A post such as yours is devoid of all substance except a whine.

Have a nice day.

What makes you think I haven't done so?