My Proposal For a Base Building Gameplay Mechanic
Aye exactly, a personal hub, a personal set down when you find a corner of the galaxy one wishes to simply call... home.
Not a bad idea, but how is this any different from storing all of your ships on a planetary installation and working the BGS for the faction that owns it?
Then again I have a space station with my Commander name on it so I don't really care
Then again I have a space station with my Commander name on it so I don't really care
Not a bad idea, but how is this any different from storing all of your ships on a planetary installation and working the BGS for the faction that owns it?
Then again I have a space station with my Commander name on it so I don't really care
It's no genuine difference at all, apart from the fact that you'd have designed it, so it's yours. I love the idea.
As already mentioned, FD already have the tech from Rollercoaster, so surely it can't be that hard to do.
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Once FDev has finished implementing all the flying-around-in-space bits of the game then they can focus on cosmetic stuff like base-building.
Totally agree re base building OP. Will help to give the sense that what we do has some impact on the game universe.
I can see this working as bases that require a group of players and activity to maintain, but player housing in MMOs is usually just an exercise in pointless Feng Shui hideaway noodling and micro-transactions (cf. SWTOR). They can quickly become a drain on development resources that are better applied to other aspects of the game.
Sounds good to me I would enjoy this . They could mix this in with squads and carriers
I can't say I'm not interested in it as a general concept. I've been playing Fallout 4 for a month now and haven't even gone to Diamond City yet, but all of my settlers are armed and armoured and most with walled and turreted fortress homes. Building stuff in games is cool. Having a place you've literally built from nothing is cool.
I'm not really keen on developing any business-mogul style enterprises here though; Elite for me should keep its larger focus on the spaceshipping part of the game, and leave the financial empire building to games that already do that part waaay better. I'm not interested in building a passive-income generator. A pirate base in an asteroid, sure. That's very spacepiloty, a place to return to with your ill-gotten gains and feed your spacefish. IDW the ill-gotten gains to be made by the game itself however, with no space piloting on my part involved.
In terms of PVP fitan, I think the "inflatable bases" concept would be much better than anything permanent. Keep them alive with a rudimentary maintenance arrangement so they retain their permanence as long as they retain their actual usage. If they were already considered a disposable asset, nobody will cry when they get blown away or abandoned because it wasn't their special home with their spacefish inside.
They could be deployed practically anywhere in space or dirtside (cause really we do have stupid amounts of physical space to work with), fought over and destroyed (with the appropriate amount of sensor and scanning mechanics applied) and be easily removed if they end up abandoned. Having deployable, destructable, disposable assets allows all the desired territorial cutthroat warring between factions without too much permanent clutter remaining once the dust settles. It also allows for out-bubble explorers to set up shop in the middle of nowhere if they really need to without it becoming a permanent gas station, so to speak. Maintaining a selection of deep-black inflatables should be a major game career if it were even possible, rather than a single deployment forever lessening the effort of everyone's journey.
I'm not really keen on developing any business-mogul style enterprises here though; Elite for me should keep its larger focus on the spaceshipping part of the game, and leave the financial empire building to games that already do that part waaay better. I'm not interested in building a passive-income generator. A pirate base in an asteroid, sure. That's very spacepiloty, a place to return to with your ill-gotten gains and feed your spacefish. IDW the ill-gotten gains to be made by the game itself however, with no space piloting on my part involved.
In terms of PVP fitan, I think the "inflatable bases" concept would be much better than anything permanent. Keep them alive with a rudimentary maintenance arrangement so they retain their permanence as long as they retain their actual usage. If they were already considered a disposable asset, nobody will cry when they get blown away or abandoned because it wasn't their special home with their spacefish inside.
They could be deployed practically anywhere in space or dirtside (cause really we do have stupid amounts of physical space to work with), fought over and destroyed (with the appropriate amount of sensor and scanning mechanics applied) and be easily removed if they end up abandoned. Having deployable, destructable, disposable assets allows all the desired territorial cutthroat warring between factions without too much permanent clutter remaining once the dust settles. It also allows for out-bubble explorers to set up shop in the middle of nowhere if they really need to without it becoming a permanent gas station, so to speak. Maintaining a selection of deep-black inflatables should be a major game career if it were even possible, rather than a single deployment forever lessening the effort of everyone's journey.
Doesn't really make sense for this game. Our ships are our bases, such as they are, and we are Commanders in the Pilots Federation, not settling pilgrims tied to common worldly concerns. We're "spacers" in this game.
I can understand that it's a thing some people want, but it doesn't seem like a fitting thing for this game for what this game is. Some of you may want to look into something like the game Space Engineers if that's the sort of game you're after.
Customizing our ship interiors and functions and being able to walk around them might be kind of cool though.
I can understand that it's a thing some people want, but it doesn't seem like a fitting thing for this game for what this game is. Some of you may want to look into something like the game Space Engineers if that's the sort of game you're after.
Customizing our ship interiors and functions and being able to walk around them might be kind of cool though.
That large puddle on the floor is the Game Extras store manager drooling at the prospect.
Yeah, but hopefully it wouldn't be limited to that sort of thing though. A guy can dream.
I think they can still technically store some assets and distribute them to players as needed. Might be a bit of a mess, but still technically doable. Whether viable or not is another issue.
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Nope. Imagine you build a base somewhere. How does it upload back to the galaxy model to download to other players so they can see it? And then anyone else who sees it needs to be in the same instance as yourself lest your base gets visited/attacked/raided by invisible 'ghost' ships.
It's not doable.
Of course it's doable.
How do you think all those planetary bases and fixed installations like Dav's Hope work?
It reminds me of another discussion some time ago where someone was claiming timed ship transfers weren't doable and that's why we had to have instant ship transfers. Apparently time stamps can be saved server-side and queried after all, much to that person's dismay.
The game obviously isn't pure headless P2P, but I think the P2P aspects of it might confuse some people.
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