I don’t get how people say they get bored in ED.

DukeIronHand

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Just got done with a quick hour of deep space salvage work in my T10 and, having to log off for some house/family stuff, quickly switched my Chieftain to a BH’er loadout - storing my anti-Thargoid modules for my next time online. While I had a minute I switched the T10 modules from salvage work to mining loadout. My point?

I don’t get how people say they get bored in this game. With RL I get about 10 hours a week with ED, unless I am on vacation, and never ever get to do all I want too. Sometimes a broken leg sounds like it may be a good deal. :) Thargoids, Missions, trading, mining, exploring, Guardian Ruins, SRV mat gathering, BH’ing, etc, etc, and etc!

This is not meant to be a snark but if you find yourself being bored try changing your playstyle up a bit - get a new ship or refit your old - and try something new. Hard to imagine anyone has done it all in this game. Have fun.
 

Red Martian

Red Martian
DukeIronHand said:
Just got done with a quick hour of deep space salvage work in my T10 and, having to log off for some house/family stuff, quickly switched my Chieftain to a BH’er loadout - storing my anti-Thargoid modules for my next time online. While I had a minute I switched the T10 modules from salvage work to mining loadout. My point?

I don’t get how people say they get bored in this game. With RL I get about 10 hours a week with ED, unless I am on vacation, and never ever get to do all I want too. Sometimes a broken leg sounds like it may be a good deal. :) Thargoids, Missions, trading, mining, exploring, Guardian Ruins, SRV mat gathering, BH’ing, etc, etc, and etc!

This is not meant to be a snark but if you find yourself being bored try changing your playstyle up a bit - get a new ship or refit your old - and try something new. Hard to imagine anyone has done it all in this game. Have fun.
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After a while, the repetitiveness becomes tedious. There's so little stimulation once you've seen the same basic stars, planets, and stations. There's no life in the galaxy. Then there's the Jump. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Animation sequence and loading screen. Arrive. Scan. Scoop. Turn. Jump. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Animation sequence and loading screen. Arrive. Scan. Scoop. Turn. Jump. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Animation sequence and loading screen. Arrive. ad nauseam.

The text is the same all over. Same basic templates. The people are the same all over. Same basic templates. Most things feel more like placeholders than actual game elements.

I have played every ship in the game. Some are fun, others a bit of a pain. As a simulator, the game does well. As a game with nuanced gameplay and enriching experience, that will vary for each person, I've seen it's offering and it's lacking. After playing the game for 675 hours, I have seen all of it, and I imagine in a couple of years it will look essentially the same, with more bolt on mechanics that will still somehow manage to keep the game from feeling like a fleshed out galaxy teeming with life and adventure. I want it to be so much better, and maybe it will, maybe it will, but for now, I think I've seen all it has to offer, and it's just not enough for what was promised, and what I paid for. It has begun to feel like work rather than play. For me, that is a grievous sin.
 
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jasonbarron

jasonbarron
DukeIronHand said:
Just got done with a quick hour of deep space salvage work in my T10 and, having to log off for some house/family stuff, quickly switched my Chieftain to a BH’er loadout - storing my anti-Thargoid modules for my next time online. While I had a minute I switched the T10 modules from salvage work to mining loadout. My point?

I don’t get how people say they get bored in this game. With RL I get about 10 hours a week with ED, unless I am on vacation, and never ever get to do all I want too. Sometimes a broken leg sounds like it may be a good deal. :) Thargoids, Missions, trading, mining, exploring, Guardian Ruins, SRV mat gathering, BH’ing, etc, etc, and etc!

This is not meant to be a snark but if you find yourself being bored try changing your playstyle up a bit - get a new ship or refit your old - and try something new. Hard to imagine anyone has done it all in this game. Have fun.
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I do agree with the advice. Whenever getting bored with the game, I think it's always a good strategy to buy a new ship, one that provides new opportunities or even better forces the pilot to learn new flight skills. I recently allowed myself to be talked into buying a Gunship, and now besides having to learn a new style of fighting, I also am having a lot of fun with all the SLF stuff. Just shaking things up. The thoughts on the SLF are to bring up a couple of Elite crew members for PvE, and then always have an Expert handy for the PvP stuff. Early impressions, anyway.
 
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Dbrn47

Dbrn47
Mads Duus Hansen said:
This basically. Gotta get that "endstuff" straight! I got 22weeks and 2 days playing this game, and I'm having a blast. Really don't understand why people need to finish a game within a marathon weekend
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Funny how people can have that much time invested and also don't need to finish a game in a weekend, yet see things quite differently. It's almost like people can have the exact same experience but have different opinions on it. Mind blowing stuff.
 

DocPossible

DocPossible
ED is a good game, but it's not so complex to keep me hooked for anything more than a few months at a time. There is a lot to do, but there's not a huge amount of variety in it. For me, the main strengths are the amazing graphics (in space if not on the planets), the music, the ships sounds, the flight model and generally biffing about in a space ship. In short, the things that the game did when I first bought back when Horizons came out. There've been some nice quality of life improvements since then, and although I think engineering has made a mess of combat it is moderately entertaining kitting out and engineering a new ship, especially with the new engineering mechanic and the materials trader.

However, much of the game is pretty repetitive. Putting it politely, you need a lot of patience to do a lot of the things in this game and if you don't get bored and need a break once in a while then, well, good for you I guess...
 

m0rl0ck

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Personally, i have never gotten bored with the game. What stops me, and the reason that i cleared two saves previous to the cmdr that i have now, is frustration with the engineers and the ridiculous RNG with the mats.
I have decided tho that rather than clear my save again i will jsut take long breaks and never give frontier any more money.

Thank goodness for the engineers tho, if it werent for the rage inducing easter egg hunt, i might never stop playing.
 

Red Martian

Red Martian
Dbrn47 said:
Funny how people can have that much time invested and also don't need to finish a game in a weekend, yet see things quite differently. It's almost like people can have the exact same experience but have different opinions on it. Mind blowing stuff.
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Indeed. It's not the destination, it's the journey, and right now the journey feels like this:

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For some people, that's stimulating, and enjoyable. There are people who feel that making 5,000 hyperjumps, and taking weeks to do it, is in-depth gameplay. I'm okay with that, it doesn't bother me that they enjoy it, more power to them! It just needs to be understood that not all brains work that way. If I wanted to zone off into space while repeating the same joystick button combinations over and over and over and over and over and over again, this is certainly the game for it. Otherwise, it's pure tedium, and a time sink with few appreciable results. As it stands, text in a window that says something awesome happened, or finding a canister which contains something I can't pick up or examine for myself, just isn't enough. To each their own, but for me it simply isn't enough.
 

DukeIronHand

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m0rl0ck said:
Personally, i have never gotten bored with the game. What stops me, and the reason that i cleared two saves previous to the cmdr that i have now, is frustration with the engineers and the ridiculous RNG with the mats.
I have decided tho that rather than clear my save again i will jsut take long breaks and never give frontier any more money.

Thank goodness for the engineers tho, if it werent for the rage inducing easter egg hunt, i might never stop playing.
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I clear saves pretty often. About 12 times since release. Haven’t done it in a long while though. Having much fun with the big ships. Never been Elite either in anything. Another goal!
 

Glock_N_Load

Glock_N_Load
DukeIronHand said:
Just got done with a quick hour of deep space salvage work in my T10 and, having to log off for some house/family stuff, quickly switched my Chieftain to a BH’er loadout - storing my anti-Thargoid modules for my next time online. While I had a minute I switched the T10 modules from salvage work to mining loadout. My point?

I don’t get how people say they get bored in this game. With RL I get about 10 hours a week with ED, unless I am on vacation, and never ever get to do all I want too. Sometimes a broken leg sounds like it may be a good deal. :) Thargoids, Missions, trading, mining, exploring, Guardian Ruins, SRV mat gathering, BH’ing, etc, etc, and etc!

This is not meant to be a snark but if you find yourself being bored try changing your playstyle up a bit - get a new ship or refit your old - and try something new. Hard to imagine anyone has done it all in this game. Have fun.
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I can see where the young ones might get bored but old farts like me still think indoor plumbing is awesome. Been at it for 4 years and still have a list of stuff to do. It's a journey not a race.
 

Stigbob

Stigbob
Gortron said:
One of the Lave radio guys put it the best I'd ever heard it explained..... 'Content locusts'. I personally think that is Nobel peace price worthy :D
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Content locust is inherently funny, but it doesn't really apply to the grinders. They actively avoid most of the content, they grind to the most grind capable ship then grind some more and one it's ground they say they've nothing to do. At no point do they ever actually play the game.

And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept for his eye's bled from all the pointless grinding.
 
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