What is sad- apart from "its press to win" "its not elite" or "I don't like it you cant have it" "go play other game" I see very little reasonable arguments against AP - it happens every time the topic shows up. Before voting no maybe think a bit and see that it would not brake the game or make it "easier" in any way. If implemented correctly it would be absolutely ok if optional.
POLL: Should ED have an Auto Pilot?
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Well, you probably was sleeping during that time, or was watching NetFlix?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/5443-Elite-Dangerous-Hyperspace
https://www.elitedangerous.de/dokumente/ED-The-Beginning-2014.pdf
Check especially page 43
For those of you who don't want to actually fly... maybe you should reconsider your choice of game?
I don't consider staring on the screen and occasionally pressing jump button "flying" Commander. Dogfighting in the asteroid belt on the dark side of the planet - that is FLYING!
Hmm i might ask why you even play this game when your not even flying your own ship anymore ?
Why not just ask for a bot programm that does everything for you and when you have all the founds you buy the ship you want and go PvP ( because PvE seems nothing for you )?
The next thing would be since you did never fly your own ship you will suck at PvP and whining how overpowerd this and that is or use some other bot with scripts that even do PvP for you.
Really if you want the game do everything for you, whats the point of even playing ? You rankings would mean nothing since you did not archive em.
Might be better you go watch youtube or twich then.
People whining about the grind ( what grind btw ? ) and asking for a auto pilot are playing the wrong game. Elite is nothing for you, do yourself a favor play some other game mainly a pay 2 win will fit you well.
If you have no money for that find a game where you can cheat or use bot programms to finally archive nothing by your own and come to the conclusion that you suck at playing games.
Why not just ask for a bot programm that does everything for you and when you have all the founds you buy the ship you want and go PvP ( because PvE seems nothing for you )?
The next thing would be since you did never fly your own ship you will suck at PvP and whining how overpowerd this and that is or use some other bot with scripts that even do PvP for you.
Really if you want the game do everything for you, whats the point of even playing ? You rankings would mean nothing since you did not archive em.
Might be better you go watch youtube or twich then.
People whining about the grind ( what grind btw ? ) and asking for a auto pilot are playing the wrong game. Elite is nothing for you, do yourself a favor play some other game mainly a pay 2 win will fit you well.
If you have no money for that find a game where you can cheat or use bot programms to finally archive nothing by your own and come to the conclusion that you suck at playing games.
You might want to save your sanity and stop now!
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If you want to sit doing nothing, watching a ship fly from one System to another, then to another, then on to a Station, then land. Watch the steam broadcasts, it amount to the same thing. Of course, this is my opinion, but this time it is absolutely correct without question or without argument. Stupidest poll in the world...ever.
You missed the point of the OP - no one, not a single person here is asking for that. I suggest you at least brows the discussion before making ridiculous claims.
Bots exploitation is the big argument against I think. However (also a long term player and KS backer) there is a DEFINITE distinction between 'the game' playing itself and 'the ship', flying itself at times. The obvious one is, if you do get interdicted, you'll end up toasted if you're AFK. Personally I kind of prefer an 'auto-cruise' (in system) and my fear is, if you had both (insystem + interstellar) it does become exploitable (someone feel free explain how you could avoid that IF both forms of a-pilot existed).
So I have a pref. for in-system but some level of executive flight hand-off could be an alternate way to play the same game if handled right, and imo is very different, from ordering your ship to pick up commodity A and take it to B (a la Eve?). If there's no time saving and no particular advantage, I don't really see what the argument against can be (except for highlighting the risk of bot exploits).
Frontier are doing a good job I think of taking the original concept of Elite and FE2 and pushing the envelope with new features (SRV, fighters etc.) and for that reason, again stressing that it would need balancing, simply denying the idea an airing is a bad idea commercially, as it only goes to exclude the people who DID want instant ship transfer (I didn't, but quite a few, even though minority did vote for that).
This idea could be concessionary for one thing but as far as I can see, is nothing like instant transfer (and I'm a proper old duffer).
I would not like to see it used for system jumping but I would like it used for exploration when you need to travel to a distant planet in a system just to scan it.
But if you are interdicted (by NPC or Player) thats just bad luck if you are not watching the screen. This will stop people from setting and forgetting. Make it a module that you need to buy for the ship
that is not cheap.
But if you are interdicted (by NPC or Player) thats just bad luck if you are not watching the screen. This will stop people from setting and forgetting. Make it a module that you need to buy for the ship
that is not cheap.
LOL ok ok calm down and keep Britain Tidy.
Sorry, but it's not FD's game if they want people to keep buyingh it and if they have any sense, they'll take advice from people that have been playing games for years and know what they're talking about.
We've both agreed that FDev made bad decisions when it came to the things they implemented. It does you no good to remind us all they could be better.
This is a forum, it's where we come to discuss things. Nobody is demanding an AP, what is happening is people that don't want it can't put together a valid argument for not wanting it. No demnads are being made - stop blowing this out of proportion.
You do realise that without player input they had no passengers, right? That they simply didn't know where any good palces where so they desperately had to beg the players for input.
You do realise that when you tell us all that you "supported the game befiore kickstarter and you've been here years" that practically everyone here is going to dismiss that and know you're really saying, "I'm more importnant than you all here"
Well, you're not. And your bad arguments and faulty logic put you back even farther in making decisions about the game. If you can't provide a good argument against AP, then how can anyone take you seriously and you're going to let FD make their game however they want, even if they make it the worst game ever?
If you were on the titanic would you have just said nothing if you saw an iceberg? Oh well, I'm not going to bother the captain with the course he chooses to take...
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For those of you who don't want to actually fly... maybe you should reconsider your choice of game?
Can you please tell us all here how this is flying?
You make a good argument, in a thread full of ... irrationality.
You might want to save your sanity and stop now!
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hah I`m fine, just a little bit sad after reading all this.
Unfortunately could be seen as an exploit because you can both make money and put a permanent stamp on the game by hoovering up the first discovery / exploration of the galaxy. It's for this reason that I think there would have to be some kind of way point setting that proves you're human for any in-system cruise (which is a bit off topic in this thread ofc.). If it wasn't for that I'd agree with you .. what fun spending ten minutes touring a new solar system, with a beer/coffee in one hand, and one eye open for thargoids (in the other, sic.)
With Multi-crew on its way, the possibility of a Co-Pilot may make this moot, if the Co-Pilot can fly the ship.
If not, then this should be explored as an option.
If not, then this should be explored as an option.
Well, you probably was sleeping during that time, or was watching NetFlix?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/5443-Elite-Dangerous-Hyperspace
https://www.elitedangerous.de/dokumente/ED-The-Beginning
Check especially page 43
not Really
https://www.twitch.tv/nattehond/v/45924469
Just hope the sound advice was, well, sound, and will save you future frustration
Sounds good, in theory. But does this mean that when the exit point out of the system is behind the sun, it crashes into the sun? Or when you end up in a NS system, it might very well steer you straight into radiating death?
Because if that's the intention, the comedy value alone would be worth a go.
So you're agaisnt AI crew members too then however, here's the challenge that you and people that think like you have yet to meet.
Tell us how it is "flying"
This sounds like a job for ESS JAY Avory!!?
Because if that's the intention, the comedy value alone would be worth a go.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No .. it's dropping (too close!)
unreliable quotation; "Nobody said automated jumps were in any way fool proof .. or safe" ~ SJA
(ps. ofc not really but I can see it now?)
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Just hope the sound advice was, well, sound, and will save you future frustration
Sounds good, in theory. But does this mean that when the exit point out of the system is behind the sun, it crashes into the sun? Or when you end up in a NS system, it might very well steer you straight into radiating death?
Because if that's the intention, the comedy value alone would be worth a go.
See the demo in the video, that is how it works, simple and functional
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