I'm all for it as long as your targeting computer would identify people that were using autopilot. For... reasons.
I want auto pilot
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When thinking of autopilots am I the only one to think of this fella
There is a video on Youtube that I am sure many men of a certain age now enjoyed watching in there youth when the auto pilot deflates
I want the auto pilot from airplane.
I mentioned that a few pages back. Wrong video.
One can only wonder if you read any of the postings above...
I am off this discussion now. It leads to nothing but bullying.
I think the issue is that everyone is only seeing one point of gameplay, myself included. Because all some see is solo play with no other players around and the rest only play in Open play. I can see the issue with solo and making a macro, leave then go to open play and selling what you have discovered. In my mind I think making solo play count towards open was not a good idea. You make a sandbox game and then say well let's protect those who want to carebear and not have to worry about other players. Yet still allow them to leave a mark on the world that others see. The only solution I can think of is making it so if you are in solo play discovering a planet doesn't count towards having your name as the first and the maps you acquire sale for less. It isn't really fair in my eyes to play a solo game but want to make money off other players or even have other players see what you've done. It's risk vs reward in my view.
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Wow there is alot of macho - Well i don't need auto pilot, i fly blind fold, naked and steer with no hands using only my manhood.
The OP made a good suggestion, and the mixed response suggests there are a number of people for which it would improve the experience. If that doesn't suit your play style then fine, don't use it, but kill the flame war.
The OP made a good suggestion, and the mixed response suggests there are a number of people for which it would improve the experience. If that doesn't suit your play style then fine, don't use it, but kill the flame war.
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Well, I admit I do sometimes fly naked and steer only with the rudder pedals at times, but blindfolded is too hardcore for me.
Anyway, I'd like an autopilot, but a nice complex one - airliner style with user defined waypoints etc. Something on the level of complexity like the DCS KA-50 navigation system for example. That way it would satisfy both the crowd that don't want autopilots since they wouldn't be able to understand how to use it and the people who do want autopilot could happily spend 2 hours sitting in the dock programming in their route to finally press the "Engage" button to sit back and watch their ship (hopefully) fly itself to it's destination. Chances of it happening are pretty close to zero I expect.
I haven't read most of this thread, because, well...it's 20 pages...but I did want to point out that there was an autopilot in Frontier First Encounters. It took care of almost everything, including the equivalent of super-cruise, disengaging...even automatically landed you on planet surfaces.
Personally I think it'd be cool to see one. It wouldn't save any time, only effort. You could still get interdicted, still get disconnected - presumably still have to engage FSD system-to-system jump manually (as was the case in First Encounters also). So yeah, why not.
Personally I think it'd be cool to see one. It wouldn't save any time, only effort. You could still get interdicted, still get disconnected - presumably still have to engage FSD system-to-system jump manually (as was the case in First Encounters also). So yeah, why not.
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I have to say that although I have posted in this thread saying I did not think an autopilot served any real purpose in ED, the number of posts harking back to the reality of the autopilot in previous incarnations has swayed my opinion.
This statement should be tempered with the understanding that my main memory of the auto-pillock from FFE was that it ignored planetary sized bodies in your flightpath and crashed you into them.
This statement should be tempered with the understanding that my main memory of the auto-pillock from FFE was that it ignored planetary sized bodies in your flightpath and crashed you into them.
It's possible FD protoyped auto-pilot during conceptual design and it destroyed itself running into the blackboard.
yes, read the first few pages, then, well, it was 19 pages long.
please do tell me if my message offended you in any way, but it is something that I can see happening if we get autopilot.
plus, if you don't want to fly, hire a timer monkey (which should prove that I read at least a little!)
please do tell me if my message offended you in any way, but it is something that I can see happening if we get autopilot.
plus, if you don't want to fly, hire a timer monkey (which should prove that I read at least a little!)
Please, FD, introduce an auto-pilot. I could do a brisk trade in the commodity known as 'AFK Tears' when they start getting interdicted and destroyed while watching the latest Spongebob episode instead of paying attention to what's around them.
Solo! ggwp
One can argue that many of us wanted a game that could be played OFFLINE so it would not have impacted the online game at all. Solo players like myself were not asked if we wanted to participate in a MMO based universe, we were forced into it by broken promises of an offline mode. Don't use this as an argument against those of us who didn't chose to be here on this server among other players, that's something you should take up with FD. If you want a server where the solo players don't have any effect on the online community, put pressure on FD to release an offline mode. Personally, I'd be quite happy to play the game without having to deal with lag, poor connections and dropouts due to my ISP's poor performance for online gamers. If FD won't release an offline mode, why should solo players be punished for it by having reduced incomes?
If this game had come out in offline mode only, it would have had autopilot, flight time distortion and many other things that we don't see here, similar to what the original Elite had. The fact that solo players have to play by the rules dictated by an online community is not our fault it is the fault of the company who made promises and then didn't keep to them.
you can't enforce open play. you can't... not with the current network model.
one mouseklick and i would be in solo play, even if i chose "open" in game.
you can not enforce my client to communicate with any other client. It's my network here... and i set the rules.
if i define traffic as "unwanted" or "less wanted" (reduced bandwidth, added latency, dropped packets), you can't do anything against it.
i just need the server, nothing else.
so cut solo play off from features and i'll make my own
Well, not gonna read the 20 pages.
So i get it, you're bored and want an auto-pilot... If you're bored, why you even play the game?
I'm sorry i'm from the old school, and i like to actually play the games instead of having regen hp, auto-pilot, aim-assist, quick-time events and all those crappy 'kids mode' (spidy psx reference for those that don't know) gameplay.
Please, for the love of all that is still good on this game, don't ask to dumb it down, and have it automate the game more for you.
So i get it, you're bored and want an auto-pilot... If you're bored, why you even play the game?
I'm sorry i'm from the old school, and i like to actually play the games instead of having regen hp, auto-pilot, aim-assist, quick-time events and all those crappy 'kids mode' (spidy psx reference for those that don't know) gameplay.
Please, for the love of all that is still good on this game, don't ask to dumb it down, and have it automate the game more for you.
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