Players need more to do than just fly around.

[Ajiro]

Loads of games are successful with only one thing to do, more things does not mean better game.

Extra content needs to be of high quality and I'd rather have less things that were more interesting than many things that were boring.

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[SAB380]

What I'm really hoping for is some house buying and decorating !

I know 'your ship is your home' but even so, I'd love to have an apartment in one of those space stations.

I like to float around the giant stations looking at those blocks of apartments.

David Braben's speech on the richer people will have apartments near the top with better gravity while the cheaper ones will be nearer the center with lower gravity intrigued me - I want an apartment near the top !

...and then be able to furnish it.
All pointless activities in reality but I enjoy those little extras in games like GTA, Sleeping Dogs, Skyrim, etc...
And you don't have to worry about game balance, breaking mechanics, etc....

Its just gives a reason to make and spend money on something other than the ship.

 

[Evenios]

you will be able to take on missions and do mining as well yeah it may not seem like a "lot" but i think it will be good enough .

 

[Adept]

Is there an influx from somewhere? A lot of first posts in this style now.

 

[Severian]

One look at Frontier's back catalogue of games will tell you they have a long history with deep experience of successfully making games with interesting gameplay.

I fully expect many of these elements to be folded into ED in the long run, but generally angled toward individual and cooperative play rather than guild/group/org/corp, etc.

 

[Herik]

What I mean by this is you can basically only do two things in ED, thats trade and killing NPCs for bounty.
Sure you can explore but it will take you ages of gameplay to get out of colonized space so you are still stuck with those two things and perhaps do some mining and some missions but that's about it.

We really need to be able to spend our hard earned credits on more things than just ship upgrades.

I would love to see some elements from X series in ED so we players have more things to do and look foward to than just grind to the next ship like it was in the old games.

Just a thought.

Well, its just a thought; but there will be special events, trading with each other as well as other systems. When planet landings come along (granted not at release), there will be planet content as well. Braben doesn't want us just land and take off.
Also the planets in the core systems; when there's planet landings of course there will be content which will involve us. With the ship and space station walking around, will come more content we can interact with.

Also I think with Hyperspace and the FSD we'll be out beyond colonized space before we know it. This is still very early in this game development process. But of course we are just small cogs in this vast game galaxy...(and were' not the X series).