2018 was a great year for elite dangerous and a lot of stuff has optimized or completly reworked. And honestly, most of the stuff imo was good.
But there are some things i would love to see coming in 2019:
1: more dynamic trading system
This would be quite nice to have. Currently with the void opal rush it shows a little bit the problem. Void Opals are expensive and you can make big money with it. Now i don't want to take away the gold-rush oportunities for other players. But what i would like to see are shifting goldrushes.
EG: Void Opals are the big thing. But as more opals player sell, the less they will be worth. Maybe on the standard Tuesday tick the bgs could check this and adjust prices. And maybe another thing would become the new goldrush thing while the old one goes down.
2: Clearer trading Tools
We have had an update at the beginning of 2018 and it was quite good. But it is still imo hard to learn and hard to read. I would like to have FD take a look at the trade computer extention MK2. This tool handles the whole trading route finding very well without cheating, because it lists what you have discovered about market prices and then you can check in on single screen what would be worth trading. Very easy to handle and very helpfull without making everything too easy.
3: Crime and punishment
Also we had an update here and it was quite good, especially the "special forces" that will try to hunt down notary killers. But this could be way better.
As a little idea: Ensurance packages. The basic is your personal escape pod that brings you back to the nearest station of your death. The second one is the rebuy ship option. Than there could be an "data ensurance". More expensive but your Data will be kept inside the escape pod computer. The last and most expensive is the full ensurance that will even cover your cargo.
This could help players a little bit with not alway loosing everything.
As an extension there could also be a punishment for "terrorists" or "mass murderers" as they could loose there ensurance for the time notory is up. So it will be very dangerous for them to attack others.
Also piracy should get an update. Currently pirating is not very usefull. It is complicated, hard and very dangerous. The outcome is low compared to the efford. So there should be more to do and more opportunities for pirates. Special Pirate bases which pay large amounts for special cargo you rob. Some kind of "Silver Train" in the universe that you can attack. Hard but with very expensive stuff onboard.
Also pirates need more special weapon-system to fight against other players. EMP to disable systems for example. Everything that makes robbing people more interesting and rewarding than killing them would be welcome.
As for paid dlc:
Athmospheric worlds
Would be great especialy with its own flight model and stuff. Would be nice to see it
But there are some things i would love to see coming in 2019:
1: more dynamic trading system
This would be quite nice to have. Currently with the void opal rush it shows a little bit the problem. Void Opals are expensive and you can make big money with it. Now i don't want to take away the gold-rush oportunities for other players. But what i would like to see are shifting goldrushes.
EG: Void Opals are the big thing. But as more opals player sell, the less they will be worth. Maybe on the standard Tuesday tick the bgs could check this and adjust prices. And maybe another thing would become the new goldrush thing while the old one goes down.
2: Clearer trading Tools
We have had an update at the beginning of 2018 and it was quite good. But it is still imo hard to learn and hard to read. I would like to have FD take a look at the trade computer extention MK2. This tool handles the whole trading route finding very well without cheating, because it lists what you have discovered about market prices and then you can check in on single screen what would be worth trading. Very easy to handle and very helpfull without making everything too easy.
3: Crime and punishment
Also we had an update here and it was quite good, especially the "special forces" that will try to hunt down notary killers. But this could be way better.
As a little idea: Ensurance packages. The basic is your personal escape pod that brings you back to the nearest station of your death. The second one is the rebuy ship option. Than there could be an "data ensurance". More expensive but your Data will be kept inside the escape pod computer. The last and most expensive is the full ensurance that will even cover your cargo.
This could help players a little bit with not alway loosing everything.
As an extension there could also be a punishment for "terrorists" or "mass murderers" as they could loose there ensurance for the time notory is up. So it will be very dangerous for them to attack others.
Also piracy should get an update. Currently pirating is not very usefull. It is complicated, hard and very dangerous. The outcome is low compared to the efford. So there should be more to do and more opportunities for pirates. Special Pirate bases which pay large amounts for special cargo you rob. Some kind of "Silver Train" in the universe that you can attack. Hard but with very expensive stuff onboard.
Also pirates need more special weapon-system to fight against other players. EMP to disable systems for example. Everything that makes robbing people more interesting and rewarding than killing them would be welcome.
As for paid dlc:
Athmospheric worlds
Would be great especialy with its own flight model and stuff. Would be nice to see it
