I would be very, very hesistant to go the "there will be cool but secret and unannounced content" route
I don't think I did that.
Definitely nowhere did I say there "will" be anything. I said it was a guess. And "some game play loops other than what we have" includes simply a mission type that we don't have yet.
They've touched on those already, at least a couple. I'm unconvinced they've shared everything with us. They've been pretty open about not sharing everything. My
guess was there may be more mission types and "things we can do" (ie poi scenarios) that are unlike anything we do now. The rest of my point was to highlight the idea that fdev probably don't want to just tell us everything and that's going to limit what we get told about exploration in particular... Given exploration is pretty much ruined if we don't get to
explore it ourselves - that said, I think much of it will be poi driven anyway, not much for outside of the bubble and so I agree that we've probably seen most of what's to come regarding flora and I'm only marginally interested in that. But, as I said, there's more to the game than these two areas.
Given the likely fact that doing stuff "hands on and face to face" opens up a whole new method of world interaction you just can't do in a space ship, for the pure sake of trying to reassure the op and keep some semblance of balance here, I don't think my
guess is worthy of hesitancy. Less so considering I was pretty clear that there are reasons Odyssey probably will have a strong focus on combat game play.
I'm also not suggesting there will be many ultra cool features fdev keep from us by the time alpha launches. But... I'm not sure that's really necessary in an expansion that is adding an entire new scope to the game. If doing stuff on foot isn't interesting enough on its own, I can't imagine much "cool stuff" that'll interest the op anyway. I mean, isn't the ultra cool thing about Elite its scale anyway? What else if not that? And Odyssey is adding a big buffer to that. Being concerned there's nothing but combat seems a bit odd... Elite clearly has never only been about combat.
But sure, if hesitancy is required and feelings are on the line, my suggestion is to
not think about it at all and treat the subject with no concern. Which is, given the fact it's just a game, an equally valid approach.
But your "I wish a company would stop making a product they sold to people because I want other things!" statement isn't particularly interesting or useful to anyone. I just noticed the dude in the kebab store down the street is making a chicken durum for a customer, but I dont want a chicken durum myself. Think I should spread the news far and wide about how I wish the dude would ignore his customer and make me a pizza instead?
