Long-time space Sim fan leaving Elite:Dangerous after one month of game play

CMDR Reza Malin

CMDR Reza Malin
T.j said:
No need for the sarcasm folks.
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On these forums? You are joking right? Too many people round here that think they are cool. Always the same people popping up with childlike comment classics like "can i have your ship" (original) or "bye". Great community!

All in all, i have played since launch and i can relate to nearly all of the OP's points. As i am sure everyone else can. Whether they admit it or not, or whether it affects their own enjoyment of the game is a different matter.

However, the OP has only spoken truth. As an in cockpit space sim, its unbeatable. The immersion and feel are amazing. Just wish it went beyond that. In all honesty, i haven't logged on for days. I just want to shoot things in my asp. Unfortunately bounty hunting and combat can in no way pay the costs. So basically i bought a ship, yet to do what i bought it for, i have to keep stripping it for trade? It took every ounce of my willpower to farm that trade run for several hours to pay for the asp in the first place and it was only 1 jump distance.

I respect the viewpoint that "don't treat the game as a grind, just have fun", but that only works if you are in a viper or less, maybe a cobra. If you don't want anything bigger then that is all fine, but if you want an asp or higher, there is only one option. Tradegrind. Simple fact.

Some people may enjoy tedious repeat jumps and supercruise (dear god that supercruise...) between stations, over and over and over. I don't, and its clear the OP doesn't. Each to their own.
 
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kirelicnh said:
why is it someone posts why they dont enjoy the game, you lot jump straight down their throats, the op made some great points, but because you didnt like it you all attack him, GREAT community spirit there lads keep it up you will be the only ones left like you want at this rate, a vile community can kill a game faster then what a game can
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OP had already un-installed the game, then joined the forum just to post the wall of text. Others who quit and come here to tell us so, have stated that they are actively discouraging their friends from buying Elite. If you want to quit, quit. I have no issue with that, but going out of your way to sour anyone else on the game, well, maybe I just don't like that.
 

Muthax

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OP had already un-installed the game, then joined the forum just to post the wall of text. Others who quit and come here to tell us so, have stated that they are actively discouraging their friends from buying Elite. If you want to quit, quit. I have no issue with that, but going out of your way to sour anyone else on the game, well, maybe I just don't like that.
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It's actually trolling and flame-baiting, I really don't understand how mods leave this kind of threads polluting the forums
 

Abaddonuk

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Those that think ED won't change or evolve are kidding temselves.
This is not some indie game knocked up in someone's bedroom, it is a multi million pound commercial enterprise and as such needs to make money. It will grow / evolve and indeed change over time in order to attract new customers on new platforms.
 

kirelicnh

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so you attacking some one with a view is trolling or flaming, ok you think that, i pointed out this community can be vile to anyone who voices a view, yet you and another jumped at me for it, point proven,

yes the op had trouble but some of his points he voiced are what most feel, so have a conversation and not just sit blind to it and think everything is fine,
 

Muthax

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kirelicnh said:
so you attacking some one with a view is trolling or flaming, ok you think that, i pointed out this community can be vile to anyone who voices a view, yet you and another jumped at me for it, point proven,

yes the op had trouble but some of his points he voiced are what most feel, so have a conversation and not just sit blind to it and think everything is fine,
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There is no conversation: OP points are a mix of ignorance and worst. Thank god you people weren't in Beta!
 

philux

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OP gives some detailed feedback and, as many others, raises some valid concerns regarding the game's depth, variety and, hence, longevity. I hope FD registers constructive criticism like this,
 

Zvanya

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No worries OP, the game isn't going anywhere. Check back in 6 months or a year.

I suspect that many or most of the issues you raised will have been dealt with by then.

The game was released in an unfinished state and they acknowledge that. I suppose they could have called it "early access" for another year like some games and people would have felt better about it.
 

kirelicnh

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philux said:
OP gives some detailed feedback and, as many others, raises some valid concerns regarding the game's depth, variety and, hence, longevity. I hope FD registers constructive criticism like this,
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dont bother it seen as trolling and flame baiting by the diehards,
 

lefty1117

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I don't think he's wrong at all - just about everything he posted we've seen those complaints elsewhere. It's up to FD as to whether they want to address. In my opinion the biggest "bang for the buck" change that could be made to alleviate the grinding feeling would be to change how the supercruise dropout works. I personally think the drop-out range should be significantly farther, and the speed limit to drop out should be much higher. If you want to be "lore-y" about it, why is it that a ship can go from normal space to hyperspace in one go, without a gradual ramp-up in speed, but ship can't drop from supercruise to normal space without a long and tedious slowdown process? If a pilot's neck isn't snapped by going from 300m/s to thousands of times c, then I would think dropping out of SC at 1c or more would be fine.
 

Damot

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Abaddonuk said:
Those that think ED won't change or evolve are kidding temselves.
This is not some indie game knocked up in someone's bedroom, it is a multi million pound commercial enterprise and as such needs to make money. It will grow / evolve and indeed change over time in order to attract new customers on new platforms.
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LOL, I do have to keep reminding myself that - when I see how many bugs it has had and how unfinished it feels upon release. The whole project seems amateurish to me.
 

Muthax

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Abaddonuk said:
I guess after spending 30 years running Elite on a BBC people got rather stuck in their ways. Makes you wonder why they made the jump to ED on a PC in the first place.
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Because DB and FD PROMISED and DELIVERED the exact, same, upgraded experience
 

Angorak

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Madbeard said:
Then why does the entire game revolve around credits? You need credits for insurance. You need credits for fuel. You need credits for repairs. You need credits for ammo. You need credits to upgrade. You need credits for all the fines the game puts on you for really stupid game mechanics.
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Maybe because if they did it like other online games you would go through and finish a hard mission only to have something you can't use drop from the baddie which leaves you with the only option..SELL IT FOR CREDITS...oh my!!!.
 

Abaddonuk

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Damot said:
LOL, I do have to keep reminding myself that - when I see how many bugs it has had and how unfinished it feels upon release. The whole project seems amateurish to me.
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Yup, sadly I think that is a result of those same market forces. Have to have a revenue stream and until expansions become available that means shifting copies of the game.
 
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