Hi All,
Been playing ED for a few weeks now and for all I like spending time in the game, I think like a lot of people I find it really lacking especially when it comes to the multi player experience. I think for all the scale of the game is impressive it has made things difficult specially when it comes to player interaction and fleshing out gameplay.
For me a galaxy on that scale need's to be broken down a little, rather than just having billions of little dots on a map.
Say we had 50 or so capital systems for the factions, basically hub towns and cities.
These hubs could be networked via wormholes to make getting around a little bit less daunting and less time consuming for the average player.
Things like community goals could be centred around these places so.. having explorers look for new systems suitable for building and being given a finders fee by the selected faction. Then having the haulers move the materials in while the shipping lanes are protected by factions navy and bounty hunters. And rather than having haulers risk their own money on cargo, they could just pick it up at the cost of the faction and get a fee based on how much they are carrying and the route length. There could even have some sort of convoy option for groups. Also once the new outpost is completed it actually does become a benefit rather than just being lost in the wilderness never to be visited again.
Some of the hubs could be neutral or faction only, which would actually give factions some sort of identity and pirates a base of operation
Maybe have them so they can be fought over\destroyed\looted\rebuilt\factions overthrown etc to add to the dynamic nature of the galaxy and provide some larger group content. Although admittedly the 32 player instances would need an overhaul for that to work.
All this has probably been brought up before, but I think it would actually start binding things together and provide focal points for certain content rather than just having things spread out so much that people can't take part.
And for those who want a very traditional elite experience there are still 39 billion star systems which would be totally unaffected.
Been playing ED for a few weeks now and for all I like spending time in the game, I think like a lot of people I find it really lacking especially when it comes to the multi player experience. I think for all the scale of the game is impressive it has made things difficult specially when it comes to player interaction and fleshing out gameplay.
For me a galaxy on that scale need's to be broken down a little, rather than just having billions of little dots on a map.
Say we had 50 or so capital systems for the factions, basically hub towns and cities.
These hubs could be networked via wormholes to make getting around a little bit less daunting and less time consuming for the average player.
Things like community goals could be centred around these places so.. having explorers look for new systems suitable for building and being given a finders fee by the selected faction. Then having the haulers move the materials in while the shipping lanes are protected by factions navy and bounty hunters. And rather than having haulers risk their own money on cargo, they could just pick it up at the cost of the faction and get a fee based on how much they are carrying and the route length. There could even have some sort of convoy option for groups. Also once the new outpost is completed it actually does become a benefit rather than just being lost in the wilderness never to be visited again.
Some of the hubs could be neutral or faction only, which would actually give factions some sort of identity and pirates a base of operation
Maybe have them so they can be fought over\destroyed\looted\rebuilt\factions overthrown etc to add to the dynamic nature of the galaxy and provide some larger group content. Although admittedly the 32 player instances would need an overhaul for that to work.
All this has probably been brought up before, but I think it would actually start binding things together and provide focal points for certain content rather than just having things spread out so much that people can't take part.
And for those who want a very traditional elite experience there are still 39 billion star systems which would be totally unaffected.
