Severity
Minor
Frequency
Once (<1%)
Time of occurrence
20:35:00
Date of occurrence
3/1/2018
VR?
None / N/A
Location
Sothis
Ship/SRV?
N/A
Ship Type
Python
Commander Name
Finite Matter
Description
<rant>
Elite made me very angry tonight, and its not just because things went wrong for me, its because the design of the game is made in such a way as to facilitate unneeded artificial difficulty that only detracts from the gameplay value of the game.
I am an ensign in the Federation, working my way up. The new missions redesign is great, love being able to pick my reward and have a little less grind to get rank. However, getting a rank up mission is absolutely inexcusable. I had to board flip (Everyone does it, FD knows it and does nothing to stop it, so why not create a refresh button in the mission menu? there is no logical or reasonable argument against this idea other than artificially trying to keep players in the game because they know that despite the great things about elite, it lacks just enough content to keep players in the game, hence the artificial unnecessary grinds) over 14 times before I finally got a rank up mission, and then it was for a combat mission.
I am not geared up for combat, and currently am not interested in doing so.
It took another 89 flips before I finally got a non combat rank mission (not a joke, I kept count on paper) and once I got that mission it was a salvage mission for some rare artwork. I figured I was home free so I went to the mission target only to find that the items were moving so fast that it was impossible to scoop them up, even when trying to align myself to their movements an rotation. I bounced the item a couple times (making it even more impossible to scoop) only to find that the item got destroyed!
I am not about to board flip another 90 times to get a non combat rank mission (This was done in a federally controlled stations, in a boom system, with full allied status with the faction and superpower) so i dropped the mission only to find that my faction status dropped from allied down to casual!!!!!!!!
So now its like having to start completely over form the ground up.
For the love of God FD make a g refresh button and stop board flipping! Please make the rank up missions guaranteed once you hit 100% even if that means you make the grind 2-3 times longer!
Elite is now going back into hibernation for me, that pushed me right over the edge. I will refrain from saying anything else as I am so fed up with the STUPID design behind this game I cannot say anything good at the moment.
</rant>
Steps to Reproduce
try to rank up, get salvage mission when you FINALLY get a rank up salvage mission, then have fun trying to scoop the unscoopable tiems that end up breaking. Do this in a fed station, with full allied status with superpower and faction, then drop missions.
Additional files?
Minor
Frequency
Once (<1%)
Time of occurrence
20:35:00
Date of occurrence
3/1/2018
VR?
None / N/A
Location
Sothis
Ship/SRV?
N/A
Ship Type
Python
Commander Name
Finite Matter
Description
<rant>
Elite made me very angry tonight, and its not just because things went wrong for me, its because the design of the game is made in such a way as to facilitate unneeded artificial difficulty that only detracts from the gameplay value of the game.
I am an ensign in the Federation, working my way up. The new missions redesign is great, love being able to pick my reward and have a little less grind to get rank. However, getting a rank up mission is absolutely inexcusable. I had to board flip (Everyone does it, FD knows it and does nothing to stop it, so why not create a refresh button in the mission menu? there is no logical or reasonable argument against this idea other than artificially trying to keep players in the game because they know that despite the great things about elite, it lacks just enough content to keep players in the game, hence the artificial unnecessary grinds) over 14 times before I finally got a rank up mission, and then it was for a combat mission.
I am not geared up for combat, and currently am not interested in doing so.
It took another 89 flips before I finally got a non combat rank mission (not a joke, I kept count on paper) and once I got that mission it was a salvage mission for some rare artwork. I figured I was home free so I went to the mission target only to find that the items were moving so fast that it was impossible to scoop them up, even when trying to align myself to their movements an rotation. I bounced the item a couple times (making it even more impossible to scoop) only to find that the item got destroyed!
I am not about to board flip another 90 times to get a non combat rank mission (This was done in a federally controlled stations, in a boom system, with full allied status with the faction and superpower) so i dropped the mission only to find that my faction status dropped from allied down to casual!!!!!!!!
So now its like having to start completely over form the ground up.
For the love of God FD make a g refresh button and stop board flipping! Please make the rank up missions guaranteed once you hit 100% even if that means you make the grind 2-3 times longer!
Elite is now going back into hibernation for me, that pushed me right over the edge. I will refrain from saying anything else as I am so fed up with the STUPID design behind this game I cannot say anything good at the moment.
</rant>
Steps to Reproduce
try to rank up, get salvage mission when you FINALLY get a rank up salvage mission, then have fun trying to scoop the unscoopable tiems that end up breaking. Do this in a fed station, with full allied status with superpower and faction, then drop missions.
Additional files?