I currently have done 11,063 Hyperspace Jumps (using this as a reference later) in my journey in Elite Dangerous, but I feel that I wish there was more to the travelling system to make it more pleasant. I know that the system is extremely repetitive, but still another system would be very hard to imagine because the whole game is built upon this system. I do enjoy the system, but all this small time sinks here and there greatly slows down the game and im sure these doesn't require that much work.
In my opinion I think some kind of improvements to the travel system would be very appreciated among many players, especially explorers and people with limited time. When you think about it, we all are staring at bars filling up, countdown timers and tunnel animations all the time when we play. For me, I spent 165,945 seconds (~46 hours) watching the bar filling up, and I have watched the count down for 66,378 seconds (~18 hours) and the tunnel animation for 154,882 seconds (~43 hours), that gives a total of 387,205 seconds (~107 Hours) of just doing nothing, time that could have been spent on other things.
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Some ideas to make it more pleasant. (If option 3 is impossible due to technical aspects of connecting to servers then skip it)
1. The time it takes to charge the FSD is becomes really fast if there are no ships in range to disrupt or pulling you out from Super Cruise. Reducing it from 15 seconds to maybe 3 seconds.
2. Remove (or at least gives us the option to turn off the count down) the 5 second count down, just having the "engage animation" that is about 1 second. You are indestructible while the ship is counting down anyway but the game just let you wait, which is another time sink.
3. If possible, lower the animation duration when the ship is travelling through the tunnel, a 8-10 seconds animation at its fastest (if connecting to a server goes fast and smoothly) would be really good down from 14-15 seconds.
In my opinion I think some kind of improvements to the travel system would be very appreciated among many players, especially explorers and people with limited time. When you think about it, we all are staring at bars filling up, countdown timers and tunnel animations all the time when we play. For me, I spent 165,945 seconds (~46 hours) watching the bar filling up, and I have watched the count down for 66,378 seconds (~18 hours) and the tunnel animation for 154,882 seconds (~43 hours), that gives a total of 387,205 seconds (~107 Hours) of just doing nothing, time that could have been spent on other things.
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Some ideas to make it more pleasant. (If option 3 is impossible due to technical aspects of connecting to servers then skip it)
1. The time it takes to charge the FSD is becomes really fast if there are no ships in range to disrupt or pulling you out from Super Cruise. Reducing it from 15 seconds to maybe 3 seconds.
2. Remove (or at least gives us the option to turn off the count down) the 5 second count down, just having the "engage animation" that is about 1 second. You are indestructible while the ship is counting down anyway but the game just let you wait, which is another time sink.
3. If possible, lower the animation duration when the ship is travelling through the tunnel, a 8-10 seconds animation at its fastest (if connecting to a server goes fast and smoothly) would be really good down from 14-15 seconds.
