Message to Frontier - ITS SO DAMN OBVIOUS!!
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I feel like you just covered the inside of my screen with foaming spittle.
Soon to be 11,999 active players OP?
Good intro, nice start hitting the design straight away without even say hi..
Making it personal after the first hit.. so passionate!
Uppercut to the render tech!
Going back again to the design!!!!
I don't remember posts so disrespectful, but this clearly was written in a weekend because there is no class I guess.
I have the feeling they first posts on youtube, but yamiks has so many comments upvoted already that they don't get visibility so they have to come here..
So - you make the massive grind in your game... because you think its the way to keep people playin for longer/coming back to play your game.
Lets look at the facts:
You have around 12,000 active players online at a time (might be wrong here but dont think its far off being next to nothing.. compared to some 'highly successful games' out there.. talking 70k active players; up to 500k active players.. you all know of the games im talkin about).
You have Steam review of 'MIXED' (says it all)
Your forums are FULL of people disgruntled with the current state of the game.
ITS SO DAMN OBVIOUS. REDUCE THE GRIND. MORE PLAYERS WILL PLAY YOUR GAME. YOU WILL MAKE MORE MONEY. YOU CAN USE TO THE MONEY DEVELOP THE GAME FROM:
"ITS GOT SO MUCH POTENTIAL BUT BASICALLY NOT VERY GOOD"
TO:
"OMG THIS GAME NOW BLOWS MY MIND BECAUSE I DONT HAVE TO SPEND 3 HOURS DOING THE SAME TASK OVER AND OVER TO EARN 2 MILLION CREDITS AND I CAN DO MORE VARIETY AND NOT GET SO BORED THAT MY EYELIDS GET STUCK OPEN FROM STARING AT THE SAME STUPID MISSION SCREEN FOR 32 HOURS A WEEK"
Sorry... but starting to lose my patience with these braindead and unempathetic devs.
p.s. One thing that I absolutely love about this game.. is the way the ship handles and flies. The way the engines and weapons sound and look. The combat in rez sites is amazing (for example). CAPITALIZE ON THIS. MAKE IT EXCITING/ENJOYABLE/A BUZZ TO PLAY!! (All the things that Elite currently isn't).
p.p.s. SORRY but I dont enjoy flying close to the ground on a planet for more than 30 minutes, or taking a screenshot of a distant planet (dont mind doin it once.. but that kinda sh*t isnt gameplay, or going on a 20,000LY trip with some other individuals where I just hit the 'j' key 2,000 times and watch the screen load over and over and over. THATS NOT FUN! its FLUFF!), I DONT WANT FLUFF I WANT A GAME!
Oh ye - and p.s. I personally dont care whether a planet looks 'redder/greener/more beige than it did before'. How many hours did you spend creating those 'new graphics' when you coulda been working on ACTUAL GODAMN GAMEPLAY? GET REAL.
Ok i feel better now
Right on CMDR... keep your head down.
The improved planet textures? (I can't think of anything else) that undid the galactic beigification? Totally worth the time.
I agree with the rest of your post, but I'm hoping the Beyond season will address most of the game's shortcomings. Or some of them. OK maybe a couple of them.
FWIW IMO:
C&P - tweaks aside it's on the right track, but it's just background/world/galaxy building stuff.
Powerplay/Fed/Imp/Alliance - this needs mashing together into something cohesive - when TV series start to struggle a good war usually sorts things out. We've got the Thargoids & Guardians too so plenty of scope for dodgy alliances etc.
I think that's it. Ultimately though I think we just need something to fight for that actually "matters".
Achilles7
Banned
And OP? Don't speak for us all! I'll have you know that I really enjoyed spending an hour this afternoon looking for Technetium...& finding none, but hundreds of Nickel & Iron (literally). I found plenty of others too...just not the one I actually wanted!
Oh & Frontier? Would you update your database for this mat from 1.5% to ZERO% - thaaaaaaanks!
Oh & Frontier? Would you update your database for this mat from 1.5% to ZERO% - thaaaaaaanks!
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I think he needs some cheese to go with that whine.
Completely agree with OP.
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Sorry i have to disagree strongly. The colorful planets were the only good thing in this patch for me. The attempts at gameplay completely missed the mark for how i play elite. At least with graphics improvements everyone gets to experience them.
So - you make the massive grind in your game... because you think its the way to keep people playin for longer/coming back to play your game.
Lets look at the facts:
You have around 12,000 active players online at a time (might be wrong here but dont think its far off being next to nothing.. compared to some 'highly successful games' out there.. talking 70k active players; up to 500k active players.. you all know of the games im talkin about).
You have Steam review of 'MIXED' (says it all)
Your forums are FULL of people disgruntled with the current state of the game.
ITS SO DAMN OBVIOUS. REDUCE THE GRIND. MORE PLAYERS WILL PLAY YOUR GAME. YOU WILL MAKE MORE MONEY. YOU CAN USE TO THE MONEY DEVELOP THE GAME FROM:
"ITS GOT SO MUCH POTENTIAL BUT BASICALLY NOT VERY GOOD"
TO:
"OMG THIS GAME NOW BLOWS MY MIND BECAUSE I DONT HAVE TO SPEND 3 HOURS DOING THE SAME TASK OVER AND OVER TO EARN 2 MILLION CREDITS AND I CAN DO MORE VARIETY AND NOT GET SO BORED THAT MY EYELIDS GET STUCK OPEN FROM STARING AT THE SAME STUPID MISSION SCREEN FOR 32 HOURS A WEEK"
Sorry... but starting to lose my patience with these braindead and unempathetic devs.
p.s. One thing that I absolutely love about this game.. is the way the ship handles and flies. The way the engines and weapons sound and look. The combat in rez sites is amazing (for example). CAPITALIZE ON THIS. MAKE IT EXCITING/ENJOYABLE/A BUZZ TO PLAY!! (All the things that Elite currently isn't).
p.p.s. SORRY but I dont enjoy flying close to the ground on a planet for more than 30 minutes, or taking a screenshot of a distant planet (dont mind doin it once.. but that isnt gameplay, or going on a 20,000LY trip with some other individuals where I just hit the 'j' key 2,000 times and watch the screen load over and over and over. THATS NOT FUN! its FLUFF!), I DONT WANT FLUFF I WANT A GAME!
Oh ye - and p.s. I personally dont care whether a planet looks 'redder/greener/more beige than it did before'. How many hours did you spend creating those 'new graphics' when you coulda been working on ACTUAL GODAMN GAMEPLAY? GET REAL.
Ok i feel better now
Have you thought of taking up a past time? Painting is said to be very relaxing and takes very little time to master.
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The people whose main issue with the game is the grind aren't the target audience. They aren't interested in the original vision or the core gameplay, fixing 'the grind' will only keep them on board until they're done grinding and then they'll move onto the next unlock-driven game.
Fixing the grind wont fix the shallow gameplay and it wont fix the internal consistency holes. Only time and effort will, and only if Frontier goes back on track to make the game they advertised during the KS, rather than the game the current overly goal-oriented base wants.
Fixing the grind wont fix the shallow gameplay and it wont fix the internal consistency holes. Only time and effort will, and only if Frontier goes back on track to make the game they advertised during the KS, rather than the game the current overly goal-oriented base wants.
Coukd you imagine the boring game we would have if these guys got there way? Welcome to elite ... here is your pimped out fully engineered corvette with 9999999999999999999999999999999999.99 credits. We have taken the liberty of adjusting the game code so you have god like powers and you can command a fleet of thargoid ships to lay waste to the galaxy. The missions complete themselves and when you are offline your ship automatically does a run to colonia for you doing advanced and surface scans. Good luck commander your not gonna need it...
Uno is not a grind! Reality based rng works fine too. Uno, uno out.