ANNOUNCEMENT Race to Elite Competition

Shepard

Shepard
Eleazyair said:
Promoting players to rush to "end game". Recent MMO history has shown this to be a bad business move....
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They do this to attract new players who'd want to grind through to elite but mostly to attract more players which means buying the game. I personally don't like this kind of 'advertisement'. I wish they tried to actually create a good game and attract people with game features instead of this kind of low publisher stunt of just giving some money prize away for rushing through ranks. A few more of these stunts and I'll completely lose any respect for FD. Its probably one of their sponsors idea to create some revenue for the game budget. I am sorry this just stinks...

Also they just encouraged people to use game exploits and all kind of cheating to get there first. I can already see people start planning how they are going to create new accounts multi-box and what not. Meh anyways, good luck whoever is going to do that but it's not a good idea FDs, but whatever. Instead of playing the game quite a few people will just go grind the dogfighting...
 
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Lucky Shaw

Lucky Shaw
Excellent idea and a one to be applauded. Those who want it will go for it. Those who don't need not cry about it as it has no impact on them anyway.

A great way to get more people into openplay and a brilliant incentive to bring more people in. And of course once Elite is reached it isn't the end. WHo knows what the future holds?

Great play FD...
 

Commodore Amigo

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Almost too simple. Think of the addicts! If someone dies from over playing I'm sure they'll think of your wise words and really kick themselves for not thinking of that ;p
 

Atinus

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TinyPwny said:
I'm not even gonna try, but awesome competition, FD!
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Me neither. I love the idea, but I know for a fact based on the number of decked out Asps and Anacondas I saw in Beta that there are those who simply have more time to play and will assuredly get there first. Therefore, not worth sacrificing the minimal progress I've made to date with my Cobra.

Good luck to everyone who opts to try, though! It does create a neat incentive to play in Open mode, and only Frontier knows how long (i.e. how many kills, how much trade profit, how many discovered objects) it potentially takes to achieve Elite ratings. This is a competition that could be going on for several months.
 

Akora

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Saw the thread title, knew there'd be gallons and gallons of grognard tears inside. I was not disappointed.

This is an awesome idea Frontier, and yet another example of your company being fan-centric. Cheers!
 

aftershox

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Sorry to burst your bubble the winners of these sorts of MMO "races", are usually A) unemployed or B) have a lot of time on their hands. Taking the path of least resistance doing the shortest, most boring trade runs imaginable.

By the way are the assassination missions fixed yet?
 

Raiko

Raiko
Ironman Mode?

@Edward/Michael:
Are you still planning to implement Ironman mode?

And is there any chance of running a similar competition for Ironman Open Play?

I've no chance of winning either competition, but I am considering clearing my save tonight just to see how far I get before the competition ends.

I'll definitely be restarting if and when Ironman mode is implemented though, and I'll be seriously impressed by anyone who makes it all the way to Elite purely playing Ironman in open play.
 
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Atinus

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Shepard said:
They do this to attract new players who'd want to grind through to elite but mostly to attract more players which means buying the game. I personally don't like this kind of 'advertisement'.
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Why? The more sales the game generates, the more support the game will receive.

Besides, the idea of an Elite competition is firmly grounded in tradition as reported at at https://www.kickstarter.com/project...book-a-30-year-history-of-elite/posts/1034661 .

Elite Rules the World

The Elite World Championship was held in London on the 6th of August 1987 and played off the winner of the USA Elite competition, Mr Fred Beyer, against the winner of the UK Elite competition, Mr Colin McClinton. The event was widely reported in gaming magazines at the time such as in the following article taken from the September 1987 issue of MICRO USER.

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And for those suggesting that somehow this diverts resources from development, that's really silly. All this promotion needs to generate is 325 sales to pay for itself. $4,500 for first prizes, plus $15,000 for the grand prize, equals $19,500 in prize money, divided by $60 sale price for the game, equals 325 sales needed to cover contest costs.

Everything on top of those 325 sales is butter. What's the worst thing that happens? A bunch of people buy the game? Why is that bad?
 

Antmax

Antmax
Lets hope this doesn't turn out like week long War Thunder challenges where teamwork and coop goes out the window and everyone just trys to kill one another, ignore mission goals, steal and team kill etc. It's really common in other online MMP vehicle combat games when these kinds of challenges come up :(
 
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