It's a superpower. It can make you shrug away stress and gives you the power to enjoy things that take some time.
Patience is something most people lack, also because most of us live in a high speed waste-no-time society, which is, if you ask me (and not just me, but actually lots of really smart people as well), totally bonkers and unhealthy.
Back to the game at hand, and the topic of this post actually: Elite is about patience. Always was, meaning it's prequels. It's something I am absolutely grateful for, by the way. There are lots of fast paced games out there, so we have a lot of choice when it's just about fast progress and explosions. Actually the gaming industry specialized in giving people an illusion of progress while keeping whem occupied with collectibles and achievements to stretch gameplay. It's fast and pretty instant gratification. I like many of those games a lot and also enjoy blowing up things and slaughter hordes of enemies, but when firing up Elite I to that with a completely different mindset.
Elite is about space. And for me, space is utterly fascinating. The idea of what's out there while we are sitting on our very small ball of dust is absolutely great (and terrifying for some people). For us, space is static. There isn't much happening out there, it's a gigantic sleeping giant, as long as we don't speed up time and become aware of all the interesting stuff going on out there. When it's about space, time scales are so big, that the whole lifetime of our planet becomes less than an eyeblink long. The Universe is a very patient being. That's actually what Elite gives me: the feeling of getting out there and take in some of this calm void. I don't rush, I don't try to get everything on my list done as fast as possible. I have a list, but no time frame. No matter how little time to play I have. Some patience helps a lot with that, specifically because ED is designed for things to take time, and not for instant gratification.
Impatience on the other hand is comparable to hunger. You just want more and more and if you don't control it, you eat it all up at once. And the consequence is, that it wasn't even enjoyable. You'll feel stuffed and you'll hate food (until you're hungry again, that is). Sounds familiar?
Playing the game for years now I know there are a lot of people who think the same way, and play for similar reasons as I do, thanks to you guys and gals. Also thanks to Frontier, since I am at it, for so far not compromising the deep space feeling too much and not breaking under the pressure of modern gaming "culture". Keep patient and take your time, CMDRs and Devs. o7
TL;DR: Nope.
Patience is something most people lack, also because most of us live in a high speed waste-no-time society, which is, if you ask me (and not just me, but actually lots of really smart people as well), totally bonkers and unhealthy.
Back to the game at hand, and the topic of this post actually: Elite is about patience. Always was, meaning it's prequels. It's something I am absolutely grateful for, by the way. There are lots of fast paced games out there, so we have a lot of choice when it's just about fast progress and explosions. Actually the gaming industry specialized in giving people an illusion of progress while keeping whem occupied with collectibles and achievements to stretch gameplay. It's fast and pretty instant gratification. I like many of those games a lot and also enjoy blowing up things and slaughter hordes of enemies, but when firing up Elite I to that with a completely different mindset.
Elite is about space. And for me, space is utterly fascinating. The idea of what's out there while we are sitting on our very small ball of dust is absolutely great (and terrifying for some people). For us, space is static. There isn't much happening out there, it's a gigantic sleeping giant, as long as we don't speed up time and become aware of all the interesting stuff going on out there. When it's about space, time scales are so big, that the whole lifetime of our planet becomes less than an eyeblink long. The Universe is a very patient being. That's actually what Elite gives me: the feeling of getting out there and take in some of this calm void. I don't rush, I don't try to get everything on my list done as fast as possible. I have a list, but no time frame. No matter how little time to play I have. Some patience helps a lot with that, specifically because ED is designed for things to take time, and not for instant gratification.
Impatience on the other hand is comparable to hunger. You just want more and more and if you don't control it, you eat it all up at once. And the consequence is, that it wasn't even enjoyable. You'll feel stuffed and you'll hate food (until you're hungry again, that is). Sounds familiar?
Playing the game for years now I know there are a lot of people who think the same way, and play for similar reasons as I do, thanks to you guys and gals. Also thanks to Frontier, since I am at it, for so far not compromising the deep space feeling too much and not breaking under the pressure of modern gaming "culture". Keep patient and take your time, CMDRs and Devs. o7
TL;DR: Nope.
