Hear hear, far too many people calling for faster travel ... I pray to god Frontier never listen to them. I'll never forget Buckyballing to Sag A and then realising that, at my normal rate of play, it would be months before I got back home again. I found the prospect both horrifying and thrilling.
I really like Elite Dangerous, and here's some of why... (please feel free to add your own)
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Hear hear, far too many people calling for faster travel ... I pray to god Frontier never listen to them. I'll never forget Buckyballing to Sag A and then realising that, at my normal rate of play, it would be months before I got back home again. I found the prospect both horrifying and thrilling.
I agree, having something truly vast and being able to just travel for day and weeks is really awesome.
I like how players can create their own concepts of fun. See fuel rats, speed racers, canyon racers, pvpers scheduling events. You really do have freedom to do whatever with your ship and even if we need some meaningful interactions with the game, players can always create content for other players.
I mean, the game is a literal dream come true so...
Just 'having' the option to try my hand at many different futuristic occupations. Been playing for IDK for how long and am back in the cockpit of my first ship purchased a MkII Eagle ''Starling'', When flying with my IRL twin Brother, Wingman callsign ''Tango 2'' .
The feeling of majesty as you navigate through a solar system, stellar bodies passing by your cockpit windows
The sense of galactic scale
The delicate balance between ED being a (sim) game and not a physics simulator
The sense of galactic scale
The delicate balance between ED being a (sim) game and not a physics simulator
This is what I was going to say. It is when you're going about your business and all of a sudden things conspire to make an amazing view you just weren't expecting
I love getting myself good and lost out there someplace, off the beaten track, and just flying into new systems and having a look.
At the current rate of expansion we're many thousands of years away from exploring the entire simulation, which means that the odds are good that many of the systems I've visited, or will visit, will never be seen by another player.
Sure, some of them seem a bit "samey" from time to time, and Im sure im anthropomorphising a simulated system far more than is probably sane, but I like to spend a bit of time just experiencing each system a little, spending some time in a space that in all likelihood will only ever have existed for me.
At the current rate of expansion we're many thousands of years away from exploring the entire simulation, which means that the odds are good that many of the systems I've visited, or will visit, will never be seen by another player.
Sure, some of them seem a bit "samey" from time to time, and Im sure im anthropomorphising a simulated system far more than is probably sane, but I like to spend a bit of time just experiencing each system a little, spending some time in a space that in all likelihood will only ever have existed for me.
It has been a month now that I have been playing ED in VR and it has been absolutely amazing. The attention to detail is jaw dropping, it's like playing a totally different game.