Ok Lets Talk about crossplatform gaming

starman

starman
From the xbox group



Originally Posted by oflow (Source)
The biggest disappointment for me is that you have to use all kinds of outside resources to actually play the game effectively. Without out external sites and databases you wouldnt be able to do anything but the basics. Half the important stuff in the game isnt even explained at all in the actual game.

Its a serious design flaw. And I get that some people like the 'hardmode' of it all, but to me its just bad design. I shouldnt have to have multiple browser windows open just to chart a ABA trade route or find a commodity or a module, or try to find an actual POI with lat/long.
Now i totally agree with you on this one. I have to go to forums and install third party apps on my phone just to be effective in this game and make good money. It shouldnt have to be like this...


ED is not a casual game and is meta by design.
 

mp4x

mp4x
I completely disagree with the quoted comment.

I LIKE that this game encourages people to solve problems and riddles outside of the game, recruit out-of-game skills and tools. It takes me back to old school gaming whereby you needed to keep a pencil and paper by the PC, with notes pasted all over the place and graph paper to map out dungeons, that type of thing. It takes the scope of a game beyond the 4th wall.

I like lines to bleed.
 
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Vasea Azure

Vasea Azure
There is a good discussion going over here about players solving the alien mystery using external tools:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-audio-spectrograph-should-be-included-in-2-4

To me its ridiculous, we not talking about ester egg, this is main alien event and we are forced to alt tab from the game to decrypt the sounds in to images. If game present a puzzle to a player it should always offer a necessary tool to solve it.
Next are things like external tools for finding markets, outfit your ships and so on - to me its community doing what developer should have put in game in the first place.
And lets look at the Engineers blueprint system - you can pin only ONE blueprint. Any sane person will ignore this and go straight in to Inara external tool to look the materials up.
And trust me, it has NOTHING to do with so called "hand holding" (whatever this meme means), its just common sense those things should be in Elite already.
I have tremendous respect for ED third party tool makers and I`m grateful that you are providing us with all the goodies to make the game better.
 

Insomnia

Insomnia
Frontier is taking things for granted imo. They need to pull out their heads from their butts and see what's going on. The various sites containing trade routes and information about systems or commodities had to shut down just to get Frontier's attention.
Like Vasea is saying, you need to alt tab and go to the forums to read about main events in the game. That's a very bad design choice. Nothing else.
Elite Dangerous is severely lacking the social tools it needs.
 

verminstar

Banned
verminstar
It is entirely possible to play this game without so much as once leaving it to check external sources. If I play a game, any game that has such a thing as being unavoidable, I literally stop playing...ED hasnt quite reached that point yet although its close at times. Ignoring them doesnt make the game any easier, far from it but it is tolerable if one merely ignore those parts of the game that do require external sources, like the recent alien storylines and the rngeers. I ignore both entirely because one has to use out of game resources.

And yet I still enjoy the game...in bursts. Its certainly not impossible to play in such ways...depends on yer own expectations of what ye want. If ye want the storylines, ye have to go out of game to learn and progress...that alone makes it boring and unrealistic. Same as the voodoo rngeers...using in game resources only, one was left confused in the eetreme about what to do, where to go, how to dd this and that...none of that is explained ingame.

Others will disagree but thats my 2 pennies worth ^
 
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