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Whiskey Galore

Whiskey Galore
Any chance Elite Dangerous can be split into pre-horizon and post-horizon and sold as two separate versions? I'd like to go back in time before landing on planets and before carriers and want no part of legs or third-person shooters. Also the guardian and thargoid stuff should also be removed as, let's face it, these additions suffered from deletions and lack of maintenance. I'd like to see powerplay getting more stuff in this alternate elite dangerous sim. Go back to the basics then improve the P2P connection code. Your code will not work with 4G ip address rotation. Not at all. I keep getting kicked every time my cell mast changes my IP. Watched CMDR PLATER and my heart sank with all the connection drops he got. He was forced to end his stream because of bad network code. Any chance we can all go back in time and have a re-think about priorities and where this game is going? I cannot get fibre where I live as BT refuses to bring fibre to my remote Welsh village so 4G is all we have here. 5G will be no different so will benefit you to invest in this area.
 
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Whiskey Galore

Whiskey Galore
Florenus said:
I think he wants to play alternate version without most of the changes introduced since Horizons.
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Exactly this. I already have a non-horizons version but I know Frontier are phasing that out.
Additionally I would like fighter variants to have one medium weapon and one small. Two small weapons are useless and we all would choose a cell bank or hull reinforcement over a fighter bay these days. This is another area which got forgotten about. It would at least breathe some much needed life back into the gunship. The gunship used to be a hull-tank until it got hit with the nerf bat but unfortunately there was no re-balancing, so it's about as useful as a starved tic on a dead shrimp.
If the corvette had a decent fighter perhaps it would become a useful combat ship. Right now it's a decent mining ship and a decent transport ship. It has no better use in the game.
 
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Whiskey Galore

Whiskey Galore
I'd be happy if I could play without landing on a planet and ignoring or avoiding the Thargoid rubbish. So if Frontier could make sure all things available on a planet could be made available on a space station then I'd be happy to go my own way.
 

Whiskey Galore

Whiskey Galore
Vahnkiljoy said:
If you think those 2 small weapons are weak then you have never seen the devastation a fighter can bring to a fight.
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I'll give fighters another go but I remember when the ship got destroyed the fighter pilot would leave and you'd lose all ranks making them pointless and useless. Perhaps something changed here I am not aware of.
Also combat pay put a stop on the usefulness of a shared bounty. Frontiers combat payout changes were half-hearted at best. All they are doing with horizons is making some changes to a config file. The code is not being changed at all and we all know why: Horizons has been put on ice.
 
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CMDR D Noize

CMDR D Noize
Whiskey Galore said:
Exactly this. I already have a non-horizons version but I know Frontier are phasing that out.
Additionally I would like fighter variants to have one medium weapon and one small. Two small weapons are useless and we all would choose a cell bank or hull reinforcement over a fighter bay these days. This is another area which got forgotten about. It would at least breathe some much needed life back into the gunship. The gunship used to be a hull-tank until it got hit with the nerf bat but unfortunately there was no re-balancing, so it's about as useful as a starved tic on a dead shrimp.
If the corvette had a decent fighter perhaps it would become a useful combat ship. Right now it's a decent mining ship and a decent transport ship. It has no better use in the game.
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Either you don’t know how to use an SLF or you haven’t trained up a decent NPC pilot to use it for you.

My Elite SLF pilot can happily takedown Thargoids Scouts by themself in an AX Taipan.

Whiskey Galore said:
I'd be happy if I could play without landing on a planet and ignoring or avoiding the Thargoid rubbish. So if Frontier could make sure all things available on a planet could be made available on a space station then I'd be happy to go my own way.
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So just don’t land on planets and stay away from Thargoids.
Content shouldn’t be removed or rolled back just because you aren’t keen on it.
 

Whiskey Galore

Whiskey Galore
CMDR D Noize said:
Content shouldn’t be removed or rolled back just because you aren’t keen on it.
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Content should not be deleted by Frontier just because they can't be bothered to maintain their game. It's not my fault I want no part of the guardian/Thargoid content. When you pour all that time into it I have and then one patch later discover core content has been deleted you, or at least I, loose interest in it.
 

CMDR D Noize

CMDR D Noize
Whiskey Galore said:
Content should not be deleted by Frontier just because they can't be bothered to maintain their game. It's not my fault I want no part of the guardian/Thargoid content. When you pour all that time into it I have and then one patch later discover core content has been deleted you, or at least I, loose interest in it.
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What content has been deleted?

FDev have literally just filled another nebula full of Thargoid Barnacles & NHSSs, there was a whole CG around it.
There’s new CGs and lore updates almost every week, there’s a load of new Megaships & Capital Ships floating about.
I also recently went and unlocked some Guardian SLFs so the all the Guardian stuff is still there.

Are you sure you’re playing ED?
 

aRJay

aRJay
Whiskey Galore said:
Exactly this. I already have a non-horizons version but I know Frontier are phasing that out.
Additionally I would like fighter variants to have one medium weapon and one small. Two small weapons are useless and we all would choose a cell bank or hull reinforcement over a fighter bay these days. This is another area which got forgotten about. It would at least breathe some much needed life back into the gunship. The gunship used to be a hull-tank until it got hit with the nerf bat but unfortunately there was no re-balancing, so it's about as useful as a starved tic on a dead shrimp.
If the corvette had a decent fighter perhaps it would become a useful combat ship. Right now it's a decent mining ship and a decent transport ship. It has no better use in the game.
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If you got your pre Horizons revert then your fighter issues would vanish as fighters came in much later.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Whiskey Galore said:
I'll give fighters another go but I remember when the ship got destroyed the fighter pilot would leave and you'd lose all ranks making them pointless and useless. Perhaps something changed here I am not aware of.
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Yes we got the option to ‘rebuy’ the fighter pilots nearly a year ago, there was a lot of comment and salt about it all over the forums.
 

Whiskey Galore

Whiskey Galore
FraggleRock said:
Dear devs,

Please write the game I have in my head not the one you already wrote.

Thanks
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Dear Forum Users,

Please don't leave suggestions in the Suggestion Forum.

Thanks

And while we nit-pick, as nit-picking seems to be your thing here, it should read "...you have already written."
 
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norlin

norlin
Whiskey Galore said:
Exactly this. I already have a non-horizons version but I know Frontier are phasing that out.
Additionally I would like fighter variants to have one medium weapon and one small. Two small weapons are useless and we all would choose a cell bank or hull reinforcement over a fighter bay these days. This is another area which got forgotten about. It would at least breathe some much needed life back into the gunship. The gunship used to be a hull-tank until it got hit with the nerf bat but unfortunately there was no re-balancing, so it's about as useful as a starved tic on a dead shrimp.
If the corvette had a decent fighter perhaps it would become a useful combat ship. Right now it's a decent mining ship and a decent transport ship. It has no better use in the game.
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You can always play no-horizons in a sidewinder with just 2 weapons.
Actually while setting up my alt account recently, I found that flying Sidewinder is much more fun than I expected
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Whiskey Galore said:
Additionally I would like fighter variants to have one medium weapon and one small. Two small weapons are useless and we all would choose a cell bank or hull reinforcement over a fighter bay these days.
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🤣

If you get up to a decent connection, I'll let you spar with my Dangerous NPC in her XG8 Javelin.

Regarding your IP switching 4G connection: I'd guess that would go for all other online services as well. Your IP is the address of your PC (router), if that is chnaged during an ongoing session, no server on the other end will be able to keep the connection open. Have you tried talking to FD support on this issue? Maybe they know of a trick or two for this case.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Gully_Foyle said:
@Whiskey Galore
Would this help? I am assuming you are tethering to a cell phone.

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I would guess that other VPN and VPN-like services could do something similar. But since ED also sometimes has problems with VPNs, my suggestion to talk to support first.
 
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