For those of us who thoroughly enjoy the dog fighting and wars of Elite Dangerous, and for those Developers who feel the same way I say this to improve our gameplay.
We truly love the environments the game currently has to offer for battle, but in truth, pickings are very slim. Basically we have three combat environments.
We need more environments to beef up the excitement and the challenge of difficult flight maneuvers in combat. This game tests a pilot's skill in a great many ways under the right circumstances. Sure one could say it takes a great deal of talent to become a good trader, explorer, or miner, and it certainly does. However when the most difficult gameplay comes down to it combat is the ultimate test.
In saying that I suggest this, and I hope many others will share their voices with me here.
My final suggestions include content for wings to engage in. As such currently Wings are mainly there to help new friends and players learn the game and help them out a little financially. Other than that however for skilled and well equipt pilots it is simply a financial loss. I would absolutely love to see new Wing based challenges, where going up against them solo would almost always mean certain death. It would be great to see things like;
Lastly please make content like this accessible to people, and do not make us spend hours trying to find one of these things only to uncover nothing. For those who wish to explore, do so. I for one love to rove around a planet for a while seeing what it has to offer, but for the sake of all of us who love war, give us the battle and glory that we seek.
We truly love the environments the game currently has to offer for battle, but in truth, pickings are very slim. Basically we have three combat environments.
- Empty Space
- Asteroid Belts
- Ground Combat
We need more environments to beef up the excitement and the challenge of difficult flight maneuvers in combat. This game tests a pilot's skill in a great many ways under the right circumstances. Sure one could say it takes a great deal of talent to become a good trader, explorer, or miner, and it certainly does. However when the most difficult gameplay comes down to it combat is the ultimate test.
In saying that I suggest this, and I hope many others will share their voices with me here.
- Create ship graveyards that attracts smugglers, pirates and salvage ships, and most or all of these suggestions should work like resource extraction sites in regards to ship spawns.
- Make derelict space stations that are so old and outdated the corporations or factions that owned them have completely abandoned them and let them fall into ruin.
- Design areas on planets that engage a player in intense dog fighting or ground combat that is steady, allowing the possibility of hot zones for pirates and other bad people to congregate. It would be wonderful to even see giant caves, huge valleys full of criminals going after each other for resources, and other areas that pull pilots to planets other than to rove around for minor resource nodes and exploration. The flight simulation on a planet is incredible, and you did an amazing job with it Frontier, now challenge us to fight there for riches and glory!
My final suggestions include content for wings to engage in. As such currently Wings are mainly there to help new friends and players learn the game and help them out a little financially. Other than that however for skilled and well equipt pilots it is simply a financial loss. I would absolutely love to see new Wing based challenges, where going up against them solo would almost always mean certain death. It would be great to see things like;
- Pirate capitol ships and other boss encounters that require us to actually destroy the ship and reap a large credit reward.
- Planetary pirate fortresses that have a hangar full of ships, drones, enemy SRVs and turrets that have a large cache of resources and bounty.
- Pirate space stations that work much like the planetary pirate base suggestions.
Lastly please make content like this accessible to people, and do not make us spend hours trying to find one of these things only to uncover nothing. For those who wish to explore, do so. I for one love to rove around a planet for a while seeing what it has to offer, but for the sake of all of us who love war, give us the battle and glory that we seek.
