General Forced New Game for Odyssey. And important suggestions(which some ppl will hate)

[Andro]

I'd only be okay with starting from scratch for the alpha and/or beta tests. Even then I'll just see about wiping my own save for those, like a normal human.

 

[tafkabb]

Yes, it's hard to imagine a less popular suggestion than this one.

Except, maybe... permadeath if you get shot on foot in Odyssey? You have ne escape pod, after all. Bang, you're dead, save wiped, start a new character.

(note, I'm not actually recommending this)

And that still makes more logical sense than the original suggestion

 

[alexzk]

Please, make forced new game for Odyssey, so everyone will new start without gazillions of creds, fleets of carriers and 100500 ships.
This will make players enjoy new balance and give space for new additions, especially to economics.
For example, make fleet carriers cost much more(5 billions pff) and maintaining too. Let squadrons(only, for crowded, because of licence, for example) to buy and support fleet carriers financially, damatically reduce cargo space but increace fuel tank - this is carrier, not trading vessel.
This will make carriers be real tools for squadrons as base and center of operations and prevent them to be everywhere, reduce server issues, reduce money and community goals exploiting.
Everything you'll add in Odyssey will be fun for new players, but old ones for some reason will sit on golden hills and be confused about poor "endgame". Let them keep their gold on Horizon, but...
Just new game for Odyssey. And for everyone.

You can take my billions only from my dead body.

 

[Spacegamejunkie]

Can't wait for the next expansion "Elite Zombie"

 

[Chrystoph]

Please, make forced new game for Odyssey, so everyone will new start without gazillions of creds, fleets of carriers and 100500 ships.
This will make players enjoy new balance and give space for new additions, especially to economics.
For example, make fleet carriers cost much more(5 billions pff) and maintaining too. Let squadrons(only, for crowded, because of licence, for example) to buy and support fleet carriers financially, damatically reduce cargo space but increace fuel tank - this is carrier, not trading vessel.
This will make carriers be real tools for squadrons as base and center of operations and prevent them to be everywhere, reduce server issues, reduce money and community goals exploiting.
Everything you'll add in Odyssey will be fun for new players, but old ones for some reason will sit on golden hills and be confused about poor "endgame". Let them keep their gold on Horizon, but...
Just new game for Odyssey. And for everyone.

While you're at it, throw in a required trip to Beagle Point in the Startwinder.

 

[Vetinari]

I see your point OP as I thought about starting a separate Cmdr for Odyssey...still thinking about it but probably wont....never thought about making anyone else do it though. So as long as it remains optional I think I'm happy.

 

[Vetinari]

Little popular to me means a strong sign that he can't be completely off the mark. Besides, it's the popular mainstream demand that's spoiling this game, not the other way around that the devs wouldn't listen enough.

Dont worry too much, taken from a Polygon article in Sep 2020:

“I think Elite’s always been fairly unique in its execution,” he continued. “It’s found its own kind of identity. [...] I think if we look too hard at what others are doing, then really, we’re just starting to create a facsimile. And I’m not particularly interested in that. I like to be inspired by other people. That’s as far as it goes for me, I think. I like the fact that Elite has a unique identity, and I’m not really that interested in moving it closer to other games.”

Original in full here but jeez they have a lot of tracking cookies that arent easy to turn off.

New expansion for Elite Dangerous will add tens of thousands of locations to the game

First-person combat and exploration is just the beginning

www.polygon.com

 

[Brrokk]

"Clear save" is already available.