Grind improvement proposition.

CMDR EDGEL0RD · Apr 18, 2017

I want to make a point by bringing up one of the scariest grindfests humanity ever known - LA2.
Why it was (and still is, in fact) so popular? Alone you could get maybe to a B grade stuff, maximum some of A. You needed at least a small group of people which know what they are doing to achieve anything above most basic stuff.

Communication and how exactly it was required to do any progress is really what made this game shine among others.

My question - why not try and add to the next update some goals achievable only with wings/MC/heck even CQC activities?

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead · Apr 18, 2017

Egy Ace Fyke said:
I want to make a point by bringing up one of the scariest grindfests humanity ever known - LA2.
Why it was (and still is, in fact) so popular? Alone you could get maybe to a B grade stuff, maximum some of A. You needed at least a small group of people which know what they are doing to achieve anything above most basic stuff.

Communication and how exactly it was required to do any progress is really what made this game shine among others.

My question - why not try and add to the next update some goals achievable only with wings/MC/heck even CQC activities?

Because people would hate it. Lol
Not everyone enjoys playing with other people. (I do, but not all the time)
Locking content behind forced multiplayer, even if it's co-op, wouldn't go down too well.

My Question - What's LA2…?

CMDR EDGEL0RD · Apr 18, 2017

CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
Because people would hate it. Lol
Not everyone enjoys playing with other people. (I do, but not all the time)
Locking content behind forced multiplayer, even if it's co-op, wouldn't go down too well.

My Question - What's LA2…?

You better not know then.

Took away like 2 years of my life.

Im not saying all of the content - some. Otherwise features like those will keep popping up .

Ian Skippy · Apr 18, 2017

Because it would cause a massive uproar. ED is a game that at its core should be playable fully in Solo. Locking content behind coop mechanisms sounds off to me.

Ian Phillips · Apr 18, 2017

CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
My Question - What's LA2…?

No idea. Google gives a spanish TV channel.....

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead · Apr 18, 2017

Ian Phillips said:
No idea. Google gives a spanish TV channel.....

Could it be Lineage II?

It would be embarrassing if it was. I used to play it. Lol

IndigoWyrd · Apr 18, 2017

Isn't one Los Angles enough? How much smog can the world really take?

askavir · Apr 18, 2017

How come forcing people do to specific stuff improves the grind feeling in any way?

CMDR EDGEL0RD · Apr 18, 2017

askavir said:
How come forcing people do to specific stuff improves the grind feeling in any way?

By assembling and working a team to achieve the goal.

Hydrino · Apr 19, 2017

Ramsey Sparrow said:
I agree with the other posters, ED is by default a solo experience even though technically a MMO, so I'd be part of that community uproar. Or least I would have been if I gave two s about scoring ranks and maxed out ships, it was never what I wanted ED to be about. immurshn, depth, immurshhnnnn.

More stuff to do with friends drives many players. ED is not by default anything other than what FD makes it. "Play your way", Wings, Multi-crew, DB has mentioned they are looking at more ways for players to interact. So I would not bet against it, although for me it seems the P2P network code is a hurdle in the way of more stuff like this.

+1 to OP for a fair minded idea. He didn't say make stuff only multi-player, just to add a bit more stuff that would make multi-player more fun. Like a dungeon raid you cannot complete by yourself; don't want to do that OK there are thousands of solo things you can do as well.