Please remove the display of CQC rank from my panel

[Dagwit]

What's great about CQC is it's 100% PvP. Let it be. The main game has solo and PG.

If there had been bots in CQC, more people would have tried it. And some of them - not me, admittedly - would then have been tempted into PvP.

 

[Shadowdancer]

I have no interest in combat, so please remove combat rank too. Thanks.

 

[MUSKETEER]

If there had been bots in CQC, more people would have tried it. And some of them - not me, admittedly - would then have been tempted into PvP.

Sorry to say but I don't think you're being honest (politely putting it).
CQC is about PvP.. not shooting at the NPCs. So do PvP or don't do PvP. You have main game full of NPCs to shoot at.

 

[Frank]

an option to show/ hide the irrelevant CQC rank display would be very welcome!

Someone (or some people) in FD have got an emotional investment in CQC. ie: It was their choice to go ahead with it. It was their choice to invest time and effort into a stand alone fighter combat game, instead of using that effort within the core game (eg: actually adding fighter tours of duty as missions/CGs in the core game to offer viable combat scenarios and gameplay)...

I therefore suspect removing the CQC status from the core game would risk admitting how poorly that choice has worked out. So I doubt it will happen... I suspect it will therefore join a number of other questionable development choices basically collecting dust (for most CMDRs).

I guess a good solution would be to make the display of every rank optional. I do understand there are some people who get upset at untidiness, so I'm not going to say that I've no idea what all the fuss is about.

What I don't understand is the open hostility towards CQCC. Some people enjoy it, so let them have their fun. The idea that somehow, Frontier's love is finite, and if they spend time working on CQCC that this will mean the rest of development will grind to a halt is a little... incredulous

 

[MUSKETEER]

Another thing.. I don't think removing CQC rank from the panel would be fair on all those dedicated CQC Elite players (I'm not one of them).
They made so much effort to get it after all... and it's the hardest Elite rank to get by far.

 

[NeilF]

What I don't understand is the open hostility towards CQC.

I think it's the fact that obviously a sizeable lump of development went on a stand alone development, which could instead - had the desire been there - added some more involved gameplay in the core game.

It's three years, and we're only just getting Wing missions? Yet there was time to development a stand alone fighter game?

What if that effort had instead put fighter based combat gameplay in the core game? eg: Signing up for a tour of duty protecting/attack a location/asset. And if this had been offered with bots or indeed for PvP (in OPEN)?

We could right now be leveraging those assets to have fighter tours of duty trying to fight Thargoid scout ships etc while escorting convoys of civilians through asteroid fields to safety.

But instead? We have a lump of stand alone development effort collecting dust for the majority of the community.



I had great fun in CQC for a few weeks. But had it been in the core game, being used/leveraged in more and more ways, I'm certain I'd have got more out of that development effort, and ED would have been a more interesting experience now.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

I think they should add another one; just to make people even more irrationally angry.

Oooh, a mining rank!

I'd love that.

Top rank could be Arthur Scargil!

 

[MUSKETEER]

Adding CQC to main game wouldn't work and there is no reason to do that.
People wouldn't play it in the main game if it is not vs bots.

I think CQC as is it terms of gameplay is perfect and balanced. It's way more balanced PvP that the main game has, you basically rely on experience and skill. Ships are about the same.
What CQC players want is in-lobby chat/communication and fixing some minor bugs.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Adding CQC to main game wouldn't work and there is no reason to do that.
People wouldn't play it in the main game if it is not vs bots.

But everybody demands fair, balanced PvP! Those people will love CQC if it was more easily accessible!

 

[MUSKETEER]

Oooh, a mining rank!
I'd love that.

Haha.. there should be one.. I mined 500 tones purely to unlock Engineers... before that my mining was.. 0
Imagine forum discussion about best mining builds to grind mining Elite rank lol

But everybody demands fair, balanced PvP! Those people will love CQC if it was more easily accessible!

It is accessible... Main menu and click 'ARENA' for god's sake lol

 

[DanTheMan]

As much as I agree...I am fairly certain it will stay there as long as there is CQC.

Good Point!
Hey FD, get rid of that useless CQC rubbish completely.

 

[GraXXoR]

This feature isn't part of the main game. It is a rank that almost no one cares about. I have no interest in playing this external game mode. Please at least create an option to remove the display of my CQC rank. I have never once played CQC, and I have no interest whatsoever.

I care about it. Keep it.. Just make sure that we can get a game whenever we want to play.

 

[Aashenfox]

Sure thing, we all adapt, am a HOTAS and pedals users, I have no issues going up against a kb/m player, even though they are essentially in FP shooter mode with barely any skill required. My point was that is does matter in the context of pushing Arena to be a competition for real money ($100,000 top prize) that seemed to be the original plan, at least to drum up interest in the whole thing. It wouldn't work unless everyone used the same equipment, as mentioned, the arguments raged for a while, then the whole idea was cancelled.

The topic used to be pinned at the top of this forum.

I'm with you man, I'd be proud of whatever position I could achieve as a HOTAS user, I have no interest in flying a spaceship with a mouse.

 

[PiLhEaD]

I think they should add another one; just to make people even more irrationally angry.

Brilliant - I propose two new ranks to earn, 'Wing' and 'Crew' add these to the panel too ... better yet... pin them to the hud, right in the middle, 24 point sans serif, bold, flashing red, so there's no ignoring them. These at least have the 'benefit' of being actual in-game activities, as opposed to some final-score from a different game.

...errr... I may have had too many orange sweets and strong cups of coffee this morning, so my judgement may be a little 'off'... :x

 

[Speccy]

I agree with this, please remove the CQC rank (or make its display optional).

 

[Genus]

Me 43

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I'm with you man, I'd be proud of whatever position I could achieve as a HOTAS user, I have no interest in flying a spaceship with a mouse.

Interestingly, the vast majority of strong CQC pilots don't use the mouse. Usually some combination of joystick and other device ... occasionally something weird.

 

[A D]

That’s not true ! Why only today I looked at the RH panel and caught a glimpse of it and it chaffed my eye ball.

Flimley

+1 Hahahaha...ouch :O

Oh...and vote delete unless CQC in game.

 

[Winterwalker]

GIT GUD!

(lol)

 

[Moesis]

I think they should add another one; just to make people even more irrationally angry.

How about a Multi-Crew rank, that way there would be two completely independent ranks for flying fighter craft (I suppose you could be a gunner if you really wanted).

Adding CQC to main game wouldn't work and there is no reason to do that.

I'm not so sure about that, I don't mean "playing" CQC in the main game would be good but I do think adding access to queuing from the main game, so you had something to do while waiting for a match could be good. Might be some issues with disappearing ships, but that can of worms I guess has already been opened with how they did Multi-Crew.

I also know which I'd prefer to be able to access from the main game, and it isn't Multi-Crew.