Legs Activity: Survey

[-VR- Max Factor]

Options


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Pretty much this.

It should open more options available to you to play the game. New ways to get materials, new ways to get missions, new places to explore that you can't in your ship. Missions could actually feel like a mission or a mini quest of some kind with multiple parts to it instead of the usual one.

 

[Havvk]

Pretty much this.

It should open more options available to you to play the game. New ways to get materials, new ways to get missions, new places to explore that you can't in your ship. Missions could actually feel like a mission or a mini quest of some kind with multiple parts to it instead of the usual one.

Exactly. So there should be no "but I don't wanna be forced to get out of my chair to do missions" excuses or other B S I always see when space legs threads pop up. It's old, no duh people want to pretend that everybody is perma-paraplegic like WALL-E style, but that shouldn't mean that everyone else should suffer through the crap we currently go through in the game.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

Exactly. So there should be no "but I don't wanna be forced to get out of my chair to do missions" excuses or other B S I always see when space legs threads pop up. It's old, no duh people want to pretend that everybody is perma-paraplegic like WALL-E style, but that shouldn't mean that everyone else should suffer through the crap we currently go through in the game.

I could never understand those arguments either. When/if it releases it will be an optional expansion, so how it will force people to use their legs is beyond me. I also can't stand the "if I wanted COD in space" I would buy COD. For some bizarre reason some people seem to think that as soon as space legs gets implemented we will completely forget how to fly our ships and just mindlessly run around shooting stuff instead.

 

[Havvk]

I could never understand those arguments either. When/if it releases it will be an optional expansion, so how it will force people to use their legs is beyond me. I also can't stand the "if I wanted COD in space" I would buy COD. For some bizarre reason some people seem to think that as soon as space legs gets implemented we will completely forget how to fly our ships and just mindlessly run around shooting stuff instead.

 

[Darkfyre99]

Personally, I’m hoping that when Elite Feet is added, it’ll be a way to find “off the books” missions in the game, those that haven’t been scrubbed by the Pilots Federation in a way that removes most of the risk from accepting a mission. Sting operations, employer betrayal, proper smuggling, backroom deals, espionage... the Elite Universe was once borrowed heavily from the cyberpunk genre. It would be nice if the darker parts of this universe were available to play in.

 

[Teh Smoo]

1. Tie it into assassination missions, go to a system find out your target in X base, dock, hunt them down.
2. Those old generation ships have the data logs. You have to Eva and find a way inside to retrieve it.
3. The game starts you without a ship and you have to crew other cmdrs ships (npc or players) to start your career.
4. Ship repairs mid flight, would work like afmu but takes longer + some parts can randomly fail like in DCS
5. FSS is not accessed from the pilots seat you have to go to that terminal to use it.

Interesting. Making a full FPS would be hard for 1 and 2, though. That, and it would be an incredible amount of work and polygons to walk in stations and megaships. Probably even worse than when WoW allowed flying in Azeroth, for instance. And that kind of mega rebuilding effort, for minimal payout.

But- instanced walking around in player-owned carriers would be all new, potential multiplayer interaction, and not require rebuilding old stuff!

3 would not be optimal probably. That's screwing HARD with new player experience, and MOST people don't like to be beholden to others.

4 would be awesome- optional, useful, no twitch reflexes, you get to explore your ship, all wins. For ships that are bigger than a coffin, anyway. Sidewinder tiny.

5? Meh. Annoying.


Walking around to explore would be TERRIBLE, give me skimmers instead, plz.