Frontier for the love of....
- Thread starter rdizz
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No.
How much would you like to pay per month?
How much would you like to pay per month?
I agree, Frontier can have my money for paint jobs now and again when I feel like it, not $20 a month
And they don't get the OPTIONAL paint jobs.
(Hopefully they up their game on this though)
Hey rdizz, sign up with a faction or group, that gives me a reason to play. Our faction have just had the aliens invade and have been fighting them off after they attacked our station that we own. Such good times! No stale game for us!
There's some meta progression stuff in the game that doesn't really make sense for my Commander as a character within the game context outside of the meta, so in this sense I wouldn't really mind buying access to and favor with some of the Engineers. I don't see that happening though. Just a bit of reflective irony on my part I suppose. I'm sure I have much fewer credits in the game than some, but still not all that much I need nor care to spend them on.
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They need to keep the lights on and paint jobs seem to do just that so i wouldn't hold out to much hope
No one would pay a monthly subscription for Elite and letting us use in-game credits to pay for the color "red" would not suddenly make a subscription fee necessary. Keep trying with the desperate excuses though.
Fly around to every station with factions asking for cash donations. Be the Robin Hood of the Milky Way..
If said subscription paid for a dedicated server, I'd be all over that. Would sub both my accounts in fact.
Why would you assume Frontier would put in a subscription model to add a few basic paintjobs to the game that can be bought with credits?
I'm sorry, I don't understand the link.
Edit: Merged my two threads. I don't like the way this forum doesn't merge threads. Post deletion would be nice, like on the Planet Zoo forum.
Paint is not the point here, ^This^ is.
We need something substancial to spend ingame money on.
Or even better, make credits an optional way to overcome unavoidable grind. For example, engineers have prerequisites, let us pay significant amount of credits to unlock them if we prefer, or go the conventional way to fulfill their demands.
Just a thought.
Really, you want pay to win to start creeping into the game? Hold on, I'm just going to get my popcorn.
I totally agree base colours should be included. All of my ships are yellow with green lasers so a simple colour scheme like this would be helpful for me.
The flip side of the coin is that with the large number of hours gameplay I have had from this game it equates to about a penny an hour to play, even including extras I've bought. I regard this as very good value indeed.
The flip side of the coin is that with the large number of hours gameplay I have had from this game it equates to about a penny an hour to play, even including extras I've bought. I regard this as very good value indeed.
"I" don't, i just suggested something that might help others. I pledged myself to nerdy engineers months ago, already.
There might be people with credits but no time. It can be an "option" for some who might seek an easy way, due to their RL commitments.
Oh, one last point; there's no "winning" in the game, it's all about the pleasure and joy you find in whichever activities you like doing. But i want to think you already know that.
when I first started playing Elite I found the painjobs in the store perplexing, in every other game I have played, there are the "pleb colours" and then the fancy skins you can purchase to stand out,
I would have much preferred to have been able to earn some base colours in game, like Red/Green/Blue. and have the more exotic colours be in game's cash store,
I mean if they wanted to be cagey about it they could have locked it behind gameplay, with Ship Paintjobs being locked to federal and imperial rank... or even Combat/Trade/Exploration rank,
As it stands the majority of the paintjobs in the game are incredibly low effort (Fdev literally move a hue slider and call it a new paint job or copy and paste a texture between ship models).
So for me, buying new painjobs has been a way of showing the dev support when good work and progress is shown in the product that's also why I buy platinum in Warframe as a show of support, with the recent missteps and bug ridden messes my ships have all stayed factory standard.
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In my opinion (and that's all it is, an opinion), Frontier need to take a page out of Digital Extremes (DE) book and be more open with their development, I'm drawing the following conclusions based on both games needing ongoing micro transactions for income, so its kinda related to paintjobs.
Fdev show us what you are working on, don't do dates or anything... like the ice planet stuff... it looked great, the mistake there was them saying that it was coming with 3.3. The game director at DE (Steve Sinclair) literally shows up to the Devstreams, and is like, check out this cool new lighting thing we're working on... its still early days but we hope to have it in the game sometime this year or early next year, no promises. Go look at Steve Sinclair's twitter and you'll see what I mean
DE will make a mistake, laugh at themselves with the community and fix it, they don't take themselves too seriously and are all there to give you the best game they can and their passion shows.... where Frontier feels very corporate, they try to be super professional and rigid, then make massive blunders and pretend like it didn't happen or don't see the humor in their misstep. It shows in their community managers engagement, everything feels rehearsed and too much like politician speak. it feels like there are unnecessarily strict gag orders and confidentiality agreements in place at Fdev
Take the last livestream for instance, where they said "we understand that the forum vote may not have been the best option, will will take that into consideration in future II's" beep boop, robotic. whereas a little bit of chilled humor would have been better for me. I would have said "so we see how well the forum vote was received, so... we've spoken to the devs and we are looking into moving more of the game to the forum, features you can look forward to is, forum based commodity markets, galaxy map route plotting via the issue tracker.... I joke, we hear you guys and will be working closely with the devs to make sure future II's are entirely held within the game, thanks for the feedback"
This post was way longer than I hoped and went way off the rails, thank you if you made it this far.
I would have much preferred to have been able to earn some base colours in game, like Red/Green/Blue. and have the more exotic colours be in game's cash store,
I mean if they wanted to be cagey about it they could have locked it behind gameplay, with Ship Paintjobs being locked to federal and imperial rank... or even Combat/Trade/Exploration rank,
As it stands the majority of the paintjobs in the game are incredibly low effort (Fdev literally move a hue slider and call it a new paint job or copy and paste a texture between ship models).
So for me, buying new painjobs has been a way of showing the dev support when good work and progress is shown in the product that's also why I buy platinum in Warframe as a show of support, with the recent missteps and bug ridden messes my ships have all stayed factory standard.
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In my opinion (and that's all it is, an opinion), Frontier need to take a page out of Digital Extremes (DE) book and be more open with their development, I'm drawing the following conclusions based on both games needing ongoing micro transactions for income, so its kinda related to paintjobs.
Fdev show us what you are working on, don't do dates or anything... like the ice planet stuff... it looked great, the mistake there was them saying that it was coming with 3.3. The game director at DE (Steve Sinclair) literally shows up to the Devstreams, and is like, check out this cool new lighting thing we're working on... its still early days but we hope to have it in the game sometime this year or early next year, no promises. Go look at Steve Sinclair's twitter and you'll see what I mean
DE will make a mistake, laugh at themselves with the community and fix it, they don't take themselves too seriously and are all there to give you the best game they can and their passion shows.... where Frontier feels very corporate, they try to be super professional and rigid, then make massive blunders and pretend like it didn't happen or don't see the humor in their misstep. It shows in their community managers engagement, everything feels rehearsed and too much like politician speak. it feels like there are unnecessarily strict gag orders and confidentiality agreements in place at Fdev
Take the last livestream for instance, where they said "we understand that the forum vote may not have been the best option, will will take that into consideration in future II's" beep boop, robotic. whereas a little bit of chilled humor would have been better for me. I would have said "so we see how well the forum vote was received, so... we've spoken to the devs and we are looking into moving more of the game to the forum, features you can look forward to is, forum based commodity markets, galaxy map route plotting via the issue tracker.... I joke, we hear you guys and will be working closely with the devs to make sure future II's are entirely held within the game, thanks for the feedback"
This post was way longer than I hoped and went way off the rails, thank you if you made it this far.
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