Except in the case of the instant transfer poll, FDev sent an email regarding the poll to every single registered Elite: Dangerous account and the results were still around 70% no and 30% yes.
So there goes that hypothesis...
POLL: Should ED have an Auto Pilot?
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Except in the case of the instant transfer poll, FDev sent an email regarding the poll to every single registered Elite: Dangerous account and the results were still around 70% no and 30% yes.
So there goes that hypothesis...
How about instead of you playing the game, Frontier put in the option for you to press a button and be given all the ships, all the ranks, all the permits, explored every system in the galaxy and have 999,999,999,999 credits which never goes down. Also god mode so you can never die, and any ship attacking you instantly self destructs with no count down on their ship. All commodities are free. You have discovered every engineer and can get any modification you want, and you get all this at whatever station you happen to be at ... all for pressing a button marked "I Win", and it being optional, if you don't want to press this button, you don't have to, but those who want the game easier, can press it, I mean, it won't affect your game, will it?
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wasn't the poll about transfer times though, it wasn't do you want ship transfer yes/no
I agree that the transfer should not be inmediately, an autopilot is real time, will get you through a series of waypoints, thats all. I bet that if the option exists, the NO guys will switch to YES the option and using it inmediately
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Sure, but I still voted no, even though I might really be okay with it under some conditions. But then I'm selfish like that.
I'm quite happy with the state of Elite right now, so I'll stick around thank you very much. If FDev want to add some kind of auto-pilot feature, they will. Presently (and despite all of the threads crying for one) they haven't. Until they decide to add that feature (if at all) I suggest you suck it up and deal with it. After all, it's not like they're unaware that a very noisy minority want auto-pilot.
If you are indeed so unhappy with having to be present to get to any given destination, there are games out there that will allow you to walk away while they get you from point A to B with no input from the player. Both of the games you mention have that feature so maybe it's not me who should be playing them, but instead, you.
You are talking utter nonsense and you know it. It's an autopilot. Please keep on topic. We are not talking about some fictious God mode. We just want to remove some of the tedium!
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Nope. Nope. Nope.
Sure, supercruise is a bit tedious and travelling can be dull, but take that away from the game by having autopilot and you may as well just not play.
Sure, supercruise is a bit tedious and travelling can be dull, but take that away from the game by having autopilot and you may as well just not play.
I'd just worry about all the whine threads of how someone left there ship in autopilot to make a cup of tea or have a crap, only to come back to the re-buy screen ... Support would be inundated !!
It should be there - maybe only through systems already visited and still leaving you vulnerable to interdictions and you still have to stop to scoop. So you can't set AP then go shopping or summink.
Make it optional so that all those people who think repeatedly pointing their ship and pressing J is some great gameplay can still get their kicks.
Make it optional so that all those people who think repeatedly pointing their ship and pressing J is some great gameplay can still get their kicks.
Should be implemented as a module, like the standard docking computer, if the NO guys dont want it, dont buy it, simple! I will buy it inmediately even if the module is in real cash, like the paints and bobbleheads
The point was, people should stop demanding the game be easier. They never think it through. That's why we had such a debate on instant ship transfer.
If you seriously need an auto pilot to jump to system(s) then please, stop playing such a hard game like Elite Dangerous and play something easier like Tetris instead.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I wish people would stop trying to get the game changed to suit only them.
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And you missed the point.
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Errrr. No! What is it you do when your not in SC, and jumping from system to system? Oh yeah, the rest of the game!
Sorry you call ED hard game? ED is closer to arcade than many other games I played!.
I play DCS world, with modules that are closer to reality like Mirage 2000C, A-10, MIG-21, Ka-50 and others, make a try to these and you WILL SEE WHAT IS HARD GAME! And even the difficult of flight one of this modules using ILS, BVR combat, have to learn Basic/Advanced/Combat Flight Maneuvers/Dogfights in gravity with rough terrain if you want to survive in the MP arena!
Logically, we shouldn't be in the spaceship. Logically, we could fly it from a space station light years away. Logically, cargo could be given coordinates and fly itself to its destination. Autopilot highlights the uselessness of everything about the pilot. Yet we still have a game. Might as well sleep while the game plays itself and wake up with a bunch of extra money. If you have an NPC flying the ship for you, who's to say you can't give them simple instructions. Go to work, let the game play itself. Go to school, let the game play itself. An AI is far superior to humans with reflexes, response time, control and awareness so why not have them fight for you. It's only realistic. Log in once per day to check your status. "Am I elite yet?"
The game is quite capable of playing itself so imagine what it could do 1000 years from now.
Just turn it off if you don't want to use it? Water down the standards for everybody so that those who have achieved have their achievements devalued while Joe Sixpack watches the football game as his ship makes a 1000ly journey. He gets into the hall of fame too? BFingS. Watered down standards.
The game is quite capable of playing itself so imagine what it could do 1000 years from now.
Just turn it off if you don't want to use it? Water down the standards for everybody so that those who have achieved have their achievements devalued while Joe Sixpack watches the football game as his ship makes a 1000ly journey. He gets into the hall of fame too? BFingS. Watered down standards.
That's not a great reason for no AP - keep the game dull cos it's all there is going for it?
I don't call it a hard game. I'm not the one demanding the game be easier by "asking" for auto-pilot.
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Sigh. Nobody has mentioned any of the things you list here.
We already have a Docking Computer. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to use it. Other people having it has NO IMPACT on your gameplay.
If implemented well there's no problem imo with something that does multi-jumps for you - if you want it.
It should be slower than doing it yourself and possibly error prone in extreme gravity situations.
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