And I never stated what you desperately try to make me say (being narcissic and playing as such).
Here's another thing I disagree with: unnecessary melodrama. "desperately" - really? As for your claim re:narcissism, what would you call using this as the raison d'etre for the game:
pimping your shiny spaceship to the core until you can buy an even more bling bling one
Sounds pretty narcissistic to me.
You appear to understand what you want to, aren't you? That goes along with your statement about devs coming domn to your argument. The last comment I read on that matter was stating that they were actually looking into it, with no ETA so far.
I don't think I am likely to convince them either way. I don't know about your thoughts. You may think that you are
that important, or that your arguments are
so novel and unassailable that the devs will ironically be forced to accept your POV. Who knows?
This feeling is reinforced by the fact that you can't see a good argument for that feature so far. There are plenty of good arguments from both sides. You just have to stop reading what you want to read.
I have read the arguments, but they all seem to boil down to "I really really want it" (not an argument), or "it will look cool to me" (again, not an argument), or "I paid for skins that I can't see" (better, except you saw them when you bought them, unless you bought them all sight unseen, in which case I dread to think what your wardrobe contains...)
Space sci-fi movies are essentially made of beauty shots
They also don't allow you to interact with anything. Games have a completely different set of criteria. Games like this are the antidote to all those games where the producers secretly want to be movie producers, that lead you on a linear path towards a conclusion, roll credits, put the game back on the shelf. Again, "it's not 1994 any more!", and CD-ROM interactive movies are long dead.
, and this is not about being narcissic. It's about giving something to dream on, something to be amazed at. Images, frames, impressions, you name them. Elite is by essence a very contemplative game, like many of its kind. I asked that before, but would you play with an untextured primitive polygon shape as a ship?
Again, I was looking for good arguments. This ridiculous hypothetical situation you present is not one. Besides, the original game's ships were quite primitive convex hulls, really:
(I know, not a real primitive, but the ships were a product of their engine, much like the ships today are. They weren't about to win many design trophies at the time unless there was such a thing as the "Paperweight Awards", or perhaps the 1984 "Fromage D'or". Still, I played that game for a loooong time.)
From the very first Elite to all the other space sim games ever, there was always a strong emphasis on giving shapes and design to the ships. Surely I don't have to explain to you why the sense of beauty and design is so important?
No, but you might have to explain to me why it should trump any other considerations, i.e. balanced gameplay and/or making sense within the reality the game tries to present.
