Wasn't really in "response to Scott Manley" poor choice of title on my behalf. So I disagree with my thread being locked so have no choice but to repost it:
Fired the game up for the first time on a while to see what's cracking off at HIP17044 (as it turns out eff all, no cap ship....so just an email then), did some exploring on the way (as I'm an explorer at heart).....Here are two things that are NOT gameplay:
1) staring at this screen for ages as those numbers count down.
2) Only to be greated by the 2nd non gameplay element of staring at this until the scan completes...repeat AD NAUSEUM.
Gameplay for explorers downright sucks in Elite if I'm brutally honest, and that's shocking IMO. The potential is incredible if FD would stop with the Pew Pew and MP nonsense that just creates more and more work for them to balance and rebalance again and again. I can't explain how frustrated I am with the direction the game has gone. A LOT of people bough the game to explore this 1:1 Milky Way.....and we get landing on some planetoids, pulsars and some QOL improvements (appreciated) but that's about it, core gameplay mechanics left like this.
Ironic that I did both posts whilst "exploring" in the game.
a shame the thread was locked as there were quite a few good suggestion IMO. Unless that sort of thing is being repressed?
Fired the game up for the first time on a while to see what's cracking off at HIP17044 (as it turns out eff all, no cap ship....so just an email then), did some exploring on the way (as I'm an explorer at heart).....Here are two things that are NOT gameplay:
1) staring at this screen for ages as those numbers count down.
2) Only to be greated by the 2nd non gameplay element of staring at this until the scan completes...repeat AD NAUSEUM.
Gameplay for explorers downright sucks in Elite if I'm brutally honest, and that's shocking IMO. The potential is incredible if FD would stop with the Pew Pew and MP nonsense that just creates more and more work for them to balance and rebalance again and again. I can't explain how frustrated I am with the direction the game has gone. A LOT of people bough the game to explore this 1:1 Milky Way.....and we get landing on some planetoids, pulsars and some QOL improvements (appreciated) but that's about it, core gameplay mechanics left like this.
Ironic that I did both posts whilst "exploring" in the game.
a shame the thread was locked as there were quite a few good suggestion IMO. Unless that sort of thing is being repressed?
