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Fleet Carriers to be indestructible
- Thread starter Globusdiablo
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They will be persistent. You cant rob them. Quote me on this.
They might be indestructible but depending on what the grindium fuel is, they could easily end up stranded.
The 500ly jump range opens up more extreme galactic edge exploration, so someone is going to get stuck and unable to jump back.
Carrier Fuel Rats?
The 500ly jump range opens up more extreme galactic edge exploration, so someone is going to get stuck and unable to jump back.
Carrier Fuel Rats?
I wonder if an indestructable mobile base that you can park just anywhere is really what the game needed. Starting to make a mockery of the galaxy simulation. The only way they can save this really is to make that jump grind significant.
Times like this that i remember those people who went to beagle in some 40ly bucket.
Times like this that i remember those people who went to beagle in some 40ly bucket.
Absolutely, people having fun is the death of this game. I dont agree about your only way to save the game though: adding more timers and endless pointless grind are also perfect ways to save this game from being an entertaining game to people.
Btw, LOL at your '40LY bucket'. True Scotsmen know why.
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Absolutely, people having fun is the death of this game. I dont agree about your only way to save the game though: adding more timers and endless pointless grind are also perfect ways to save this game from being an entertaining game to people.
There is a youtube somewhere with braben and others talking about the size of the galaxy "oh you are so small its all so big" The making of elite dangerous i think its called. They advertised heavily about the galaxy similation, made that a selling point. Got to assume the people who bought into this at the time thought that was fun.
Obsidian Ant and others have observed they will likely be persistent because other players can dock at them. Since they are not pilotable and will be stationary, this makes sense. Otherwise...you log off and then what? People already logged off on your carrier just 'disappear' and 'reappear' in normal space?
As for destructible...meh, I get why it is a request but I don't think these personal carriers are the right way to go about that. More importantly, I don't think that's Frontier's style to be honest. If you want ruthless gameplay (nothing wrong with it, by the by) I'm not sure Elite is the right game for it. EVE Online is great for that and built from the ground up to support it.
It also has less than a hundred thousand subscribers. 'Hardcore realism' just doesn't sell very well.
Gee, I wonder why.
As for destructible...meh, I get why it is a request but I don't think these personal carriers are the right way to go about that. More importantly, I don't think that's Frontier's style to be honest. If you want ruthless gameplay (nothing wrong with it, by the by) I'm not sure Elite is the right game for it. EVE Online is great for that and built from the ground up to support it.
It also has less than a hundred thousand subscribers. 'Hardcore realism' just doesn't sell very well.
Gee, I wonder why.
Absolutely, people having fun is the death of this game. I dont agree about your only way to save the game though: adding more timers and endless pointless grind are also perfect ways to save this game from being an entertaining game to people.
Are the chickens coming home to roost?
Sorry, I am a city boy so have no clue if that is a major diss or a compliment of sorts in the provence...
Y'all seemed like you gone done made a major pivot on grind, that all.
That's going to be an interesting Dynamic to balance.
For a stranded Carrier to always be salvageable, the 16 ships aboard a rescue Carrier would need to be able to carry enough fuel so that the rescue ship, itself, can be refuelled after a 500Ly jump to a stranded ship and enough fuel to re-fill a stranded Carrier so it can make a 500Ly jump as well.
We can probably narrow down the Grindium fuel possibilities.
- Manufactured commodities - unlikely, too limiting for exploration.
- Mined commodities - plausible but might be too role limited.
- Raw Materials - FD does love the grind - this seems quite likely.
- Fuel - new use for Scoops (gas giants?).
- New class of item - Radioactives? - bonus grind with ship damage like corrosives.
If they're persistent on top of being available for solo ownership they would need to be indestructible. Imagine players attacking an asset in an instance you can't access by mechanics or sheer luck given the P2P structure of the game.
