Prologue: This isn't a serious "suggestion" for the devs. I have no hope this would ever be something they can do. But one can have an imagination.
I have a dream. A dream where dozens upon dozens of CMDRs organize and take the fights directly against their enemies, whether it being against other humans or the Thargoids.
If you are even remotely familiar with how the PVP aspects work in Elder Scrolls Online in Cyrodiil, in MY mind, I can picture Elite Dangerous acting in the same way.
MASSIVE wings (or squadrons) taking to a battlefield, capturing or destroying objectives from a star base, or a landable planet fortress.
This whole concept doesn't have to be PvP. All enemies could be AI. It would work just as well.
But imagine... having several wings all coordinated. One wing attacks the bases defenses. Another wing attacks the launchpads to prevent reinforcements. Another wing works their way toward the base's power grid. All working in coordinated efforts.
You can even have wings that are outfitted SPECIFICALLY with missiles or torpedoes for massive damage against structures. You can have other wings outfitted specifically for dogfighting and speed to take out defense forces.
Now THIS is how a squadron with a Fleet Carrier would be ideal. Be able to have a relatively close spawn point, and be able to re-arm when needed during the battle.
This could even work in on the defensive side! Wings specifically outfitted with repair drones to fix defenses, etc... Hell, I can even see traders running to get supplies for the base!
Just imagining this gives me goosebumps. I can clearly see these fights going on, how they progress, and how they would work!
In my opinion, this would be... almost like a separate game mode similar to Arena... in a way. If it would relatively hard to coordinate that many players to one area of space, unless it was truly worth the time and effort.
I would say maybe have it similar to Multi-Crew, where you can could "telepresence" to the battlefield. Though, I would argue we could use our own ships. Though I don't think having "pre-determined" ships and loadouts would be a disaster.
TL;DR: If Frontier ever decided to make a sequel of sorts to Elite
angerous, HUGE SPACE BATTLES would be something that would be INCREDIBLE if this was a feature. Alas, with this current game we have, I don't think it is built for, nor could be modified, to do this.
I have a dream. A dream where dozens upon dozens of CMDRs organize and take the fights directly against their enemies, whether it being against other humans or the Thargoids.
If you are even remotely familiar with how the PVP aspects work in Elder Scrolls Online in Cyrodiil, in MY mind, I can picture Elite Dangerous acting in the same way.
MASSIVE wings (or squadrons) taking to a battlefield, capturing or destroying objectives from a star base, or a landable planet fortress.
This whole concept doesn't have to be PvP. All enemies could be AI. It would work just as well.
But imagine... having several wings all coordinated. One wing attacks the bases defenses. Another wing attacks the launchpads to prevent reinforcements. Another wing works their way toward the base's power grid. All working in coordinated efforts.
You can even have wings that are outfitted SPECIFICALLY with missiles or torpedoes for massive damage against structures. You can have other wings outfitted specifically for dogfighting and speed to take out defense forces.
Now THIS is how a squadron with a Fleet Carrier would be ideal. Be able to have a relatively close spawn point, and be able to re-arm when needed during the battle.
This could even work in on the defensive side! Wings specifically outfitted with repair drones to fix defenses, etc... Hell, I can even see traders running to get supplies for the base!
Just imagining this gives me goosebumps. I can clearly see these fights going on, how they progress, and how they would work!
In my opinion, this would be... almost like a separate game mode similar to Arena... in a way. If it would relatively hard to coordinate that many players to one area of space, unless it was truly worth the time and effort.
I would say maybe have it similar to Multi-Crew, where you can could "telepresence" to the battlefield. Though, I would argue we could use our own ships. Though I don't think having "pre-determined" ships and loadouts would be a disaster.
TL;DR: If Frontier ever decided to make a sequel of sorts to Elite
angerous, HUGE SPACE BATTLES would be something that would be INCREDIBLE if this was a feature. Alas, with this current game we have, I don't think it is built for, nor could be modified, to do this.
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