So when flying around I sometimes get a bit bored when flying somewhere because its quite a way away and I'm going as fast as I can go.
Then I remembered Fallout; when walking around for ages you can just switch on a radio, listen to some music or the news and have a bit more of an enjoyable journey.
This in Elite: Dangerous could work out really well! All the different factions can have their own news casts (admittedly there would need to be new ones recorded a lot), music may be a bit of an issue (some modern stuff would not really fit in).
OK...it may not the easiest to implement idea.
But my main reason for wanting to share my idea was for missions becoming available while in space. When in certain systems, one of the news casts might mention a galactic battle kicking off in whatever system around whatever planet.
And then boom, it's there, in your mission log waiting to be accepted and locked on. Imagine whole communities of players fighting against armies (or other players) in space, people you've never met joining your wing so you can work towards the goal! This in my opinion would be truly epic.
And the other idea I had was for the ability to intercept a pirate or criminals communications maybe? So there's a faint crackle on the radio (maybe you can manually tune to get a better signal) you hear a system name, you hear the words "steal cargo", again it appears in the mission log. You jump to the location and take out the criminals and save the day, or maybe let them do their business and perhaps steal the fruits of their labor afterwards.
Anyway, just some ideas I had after a little bit of playing. I'm sure I'll have a much faster ship soon and may not even have slow flying speeds anymore.
Then I remembered Fallout; when walking around for ages you can just switch on a radio, listen to some music or the news and have a bit more of an enjoyable journey.
This in Elite: Dangerous could work out really well! All the different factions can have their own news casts (admittedly there would need to be new ones recorded a lot), music may be a bit of an issue (some modern stuff would not really fit in).
OK...it may not the easiest to implement idea.
But my main reason for wanting to share my idea was for missions becoming available while in space. When in certain systems, one of the news casts might mention a galactic battle kicking off in whatever system around whatever planet.
And then boom, it's there, in your mission log waiting to be accepted and locked on. Imagine whole communities of players fighting against armies (or other players) in space, people you've never met joining your wing so you can work towards the goal! This in my opinion would be truly epic.
And the other idea I had was for the ability to intercept a pirate or criminals communications maybe? So there's a faint crackle on the radio (maybe you can manually tune to get a better signal) you hear a system name, you hear the words "steal cargo", again it appears in the mission log. You jump to the location and take out the criminals and save the day, or maybe let them do their business and perhaps steal the fruits of their labor afterwards.
Anyway, just some ideas I had after a little bit of playing. I'm sure I'll have a much faster ship soon and may not even have slow flying speeds anymore.