I promise to "go away" (at least to the off-topic sub-forums) if the day comes when I decide I'm never coming back to the game. I haven't played it in awhile, and I probably won't for quite awhile more, but someday (likely when I get a Playstation 5) I'll be back.
I don’t get how people say they get bored in ED.
- Thread starter DukeIronHand
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So much this.
I sorta agree. I like the flight model and its pretty views, but Fdev has made some really terrible decisions, like relying on RNGesus to balance things for too long and making the game too grindy (I.E. No challenge, just doing the same easy thing over and over again). Plus, in response to everyone who thinks this game portrays scale very good, it doesn't convey scale very well as jumps feel like going from skybox A to skybox B, where even games like Outer Wilds which take place in a game 100km across portray the scale of space better through a miniature solar system. How does Outer Wilds do this? It lets you see yourself go from point A to point B, unlike Elite: Dangerous which hides everything behind a loading screen. SpaceEngine and KSP also do this in more realistic scales, allowing you to see the parallax of stars and planets without a blanket being put over your head. Not saying that ED's loading screens are bad but as I said, this is just a response to people who don't think scale could be portrayed better in this game. Oh, and the criminal system must've been made by a bunch of bonkers people as an NPC could have a picnic in the middle of a warzone and I'd get blamed for the NPC getting shot, ultimately leading to a useless bounty I don't want and don't need. In a ticket I made explaining the situation I got in, FSupport said 'everything is working as intended' which I believe to be a bunch of Can I say bull** on the forum? I meant Beluga Stuck, not Bull**.
On the other hand, it's feels great to learn to master the balance of the pips and get experience in things like combat and exploration. Being able to fly a warship through a CZ and decimate the opposing side can be fun, including the occasional close call to decimation. Exploring can be fun, provided you have a good jump range, no astrophobia and a love for the pretty views you can get around star remnants, nebula, stars and so on.
Overall, this game is mediocre. It has its ups (combat, pretty pics, flight model, so on) and downs (RNGesus deciding your fate, frustrating repetition of things to get credits, jobs paying less and less compared to your massive bank, so on), but it just balances out into a mix of chocolatey fudge and gross blended vegetables.
There does come a been-there-done-that point in time, when you've hunted all the bounties you want, hauled all the goods you want, mined all the resources you want, seen all the systems you want, squashed all the alien bugs you want, solved all the mysteries you want, bought and outfitted all the ships there are, where you find yourself going "I don't know what to do now...", and when it happens to me, and it does, I fire up another game for a while until I go "I want to play with Elite."
ED is fun to role play as a captain of a ship cruising through the universe, sometimes trading, fighting or just waiting, sitting in you SRV in a planet, doing nothing but looking at the stars. I love that feeling of calmness! Although, i would love if we can improve combat missions to resemble freespace 2 were fights included ships of many classes, ships that made you feel like an ant fighting a mammoth. A chaotic display of ships, lights, explosions, and missiles flying all over the place.
Bored?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.
I thought you quit.
Are EDF still a thing, or are GARD the only Feds worth killing these days?
Hey, I don't have a pinch of imagination either. It's not about that.
I like to look at shiny things, I like flying the spaceship, I like driving SRV and jumping over canyons. I think it you like these things, everything else in the game is there to help you achieve them and no imagination is necessary.