Is this a moan ? ... Dunno !

Luniticisi · Jun 24, 2015

Those of you that know my posting history will know that I criticise, praise, come up with stupid badly thought out ideas as well as a few decent ones.

I've been here a while.

I have a real problem at the moment, and that is I cannot find any reason to start the game.

I have put in MANY hours and had fun doing so, but CG's, Wings, PP and now CQC (not got an X-Box but I am definitely not interested in that) have added nothing new to the game for me (apart from the new ships and fixes, I'm talking about the main content here)

So far the focus has been on the multi-player aspect and I can respect that, I'm fine with it.. but the 'lone wolf' or what I like to call 'Original Elite player' style of play really needs some attention.

I thought I was going to be getting a modern 'Elite', and in truth that's exactly what I got .. but it's really just a graphical modernisation ... I want the game to draw me in.

I want the stories that are being told through GalNet to come to life with what I see in the game world .. it just doesn't translate well .. I can fly to a system at war and the only indication that something is happening is a marker on my Nav-List ..

Please make 1.4 about the atmosphere of the game world, the meat and potatoes .. the furniture .. bring the world to life ..

Please stop bringing the players together and bring the Galaxy together ...

Right I'm off for some toast and tea*

*read - Beer

Riedquat · Jun 24, 2015

+1 for meat and potatoes.

The Librarian · Jun 24, 2015

+1 for beer.

azdour · Jun 24, 2015

I maybe wrong in thinking this but I like to see it this way. It's great that we have new platforms (Mac and Xbone) etc... as that hopefully will have raised more revenue to afford for them to work on the rest of the issues and growing scope of the game.

Cmdr Esteban · Jun 24, 2015

+1 for the furniture, which I would like to sit on while having toast and tea.

Dommarraa · Jun 24, 2015

Sir, I am afraid that deep meat and potatoes are off the menu, we only have broad meat and potatoes.

Roken · Jun 24, 2015

That's no moan, that's space demotivation

CMDR Flaxton · Jun 24, 2015

Agreed +1

Steve50 · Jun 24, 2015

Agreed

Kayweg · Jun 24, 2015

Not really a moan, but something that has been brought up (sometimes more, sometimes less eloquent) many times before.

The lucky ones may never reach the point you have, others have already reached it before you, myself included.

A break might be in order.

[VR] Mad Mike · Jun 24, 2015

There have been lots of threads abotu people hope to see next, which I have responded to... but have now come to the thing of, no matter WHAT 1.4 is going to bring us, I just want to get some info about it!

Januaryish we found out a rough roadmap of what 1.1 and 1.2 would bring. 1.3 was hinted at a month or so before beta, but personally I would like some snippets about 1.4 and 1.5 to take us through the summer months. (core content not paid stuff). I do not want them to reveal all their secrets, just give us something........................

shadragon · Jun 24, 2015

Luniticisi said:
Those of you that know my posting history will know that I criticise, praise, come up with stupid badly thought out ideas as well as a few decent ones.

Sounds like the average poster, myself included.

Luniticisi said:
Please make 1.4 about the atmosphere of the game world, the meat and potatoes .. the furniture .. bring the world to life ..

Please stop bringing the players together and bring the Galaxy together ...

Can't argue that.

1.4 - The Dynamic Galaxy.

Whiterose · Jun 24, 2015

I may be misquoting here, wouldnt be the first time, but I thought that ED was not solely a combat based game. Wings, Power Play and the next new thing Care Quality Commission aka CQC all seem to be based around PvP, fine if it is dont have a problem with that, but like the OP I am more of a lone wolf, will not form a wing, and would like something to fix (some would say its not broken) trading, exploring and mining. Give us true supply and demand economics, more variety in exploring and although 1.3 atte,pted to improve mining which it di to some extent, it still needs more.

steevaavoo · Jun 24, 2015

Roken said:
That's no moan, that's space demotivation

That's pure genius. I take off my hat sir.

Urbanski101 · Jun 24, 2015

Agreed.

Meat, potatoes, tea, toast, beer and furniture........ a potent combo that always ends with......a beer gut and a fat ***

Really though some personality and depth is whats required in ED, the mechanics of the game are mostly spot on, it just needs some context, some excitement and to feel alive!!

Jason S · Jun 24, 2015

Luniticisi said:
Those of you that know my posting history will know that I criticise, praise, come up with stupid badly thought out ideas as well as a few decent ones.

I've been here a while.

I have a real problem at the moment, and that is I cannot find any reason to start the game.

I have put in MANY hours and had fun doing so, but CG's, Wings, PP and now CQC (not got an X-Box but I am definitely not interested in that) have added nothing new to the game for me (apart from the new ships and fixes, I'm talking about the main content here)

So far the focus has been on the multi-player aspect and I can respect that, I'm fine with it.. but the 'lone wolf' or what I like to call 'Original Elite player' style of play really needs some attention.

I thought I was going to be getting a modern 'Elite', and in truth that's exactly what I got .. but it's really just a graphical modernisation ... I want the game to draw me in.

I want the stories that are being told through GalNet to come to life with what I see in the game world .. it just doesn't translate well .. I can fly to a system at war and the only indication that something is happening is a marker on my Nav-List ..

Please make 1.4 about the atmosphere of the game world, the meat and potatoes .. the furniture .. bring the world to life ..

Please stop bringing the players together and bring the Galaxy together ...

Right I'm off for some toast and tea*

*read - Beer

To do something more than the written galnet would make the game great.
But it takes a crazy bucket load of cash to do that.

Edit: Actually due to the game size it may not be possible with all the developers on the planet

Perhaps SC were on to something by having just a few hundred systems.

steevaavoo · Jun 24, 2015

Luniticisi said:
I've been here a while.

I have a real problem at the moment, and that is I cannot find any reason to start the game.

I have put in MANY hours and had fun doing so, but CG's, Wings, PP and now CQC (have got an X-Box but I am definitely not interested in that) have added nothing new to the game for me (apart from the new ships and fixes, I'm talking about the main content here)

So far the focus has been on the multi-player aspect and I can respect that, I'm fine with it.. but the 'lone wolf' or what I like to call 'Original Elite player' style of play really needs some attention.

I thought I was going to be getting a modern 'Elite', and in truth that's exactly what I got .. but it's really just a graphical modernisation ... I want the game to draw me in.

I want the stories that are being told through GalNet to come to life with what I see in the game world .. it just doesn't translate well .. I can fly to a system at war and the only indication that something is happening is a marker on my Nav-List ..

Please make 1.4 about the atmosphere of the game world, the meat and potatoes .. the furniture .. bring the world to life ..

Please stop bringing the players together and bring the Galaxy together ...

I have removed only the parts that don't match my situation exactly.

I walked (figuratively) away from Elite and into Witcher 3 last week and - quite sadly, to be frank - have not looked back.

Xzanron · Jun 24, 2015

+1 for echoing my views.

HurstLlama · Jun 24, 2015

I am a relatively new player (maybe about seven weeks) and there is a whole lot in the game that I have hardly touched yet much less grown bored with. I am wondering how long I might expect to get out of the game. So could I ask the OP and the other players here who have agreed with him roughly how many hours of play they put in before the game became stale for them?

As a comparator, if you want one, I had had enough of Skyrim after about 650 hours - though I did go back to a much modified version it earlier this year and put in another 300 hours or so.

[VR] Mad Mike · Jun 24, 2015

HurstLlama said:
I am a relatively new player (maybe about seven weeks) and there is a whole lot in the game that I have hardly touched yet much less grown bored with. I am wondering how long I might expect to get out of the game. So could I ask the OP and the other players here who have agreed with him roughly how many hours of play they put in before the game became stale for them?

As a comparator, if you want one, I had had enough of Skyrim after about 650 hours - though I did go back to a much modified version it earlier this year and put in another 300 hours or so.

over 500hrs in and STILL enjoying it. It does not mean I cant pine over the missing content from the DDF however (some of which was in the last 2 Elite games)
(but to be fair without VR I would probably not played as much)