State of the Game

Does anybody EVER use voice? I've had my game set to "auto-accept" since forever, but have never had a chance to use it.
I never liked using voice chat in games.
For some unexplainable reason allegedly I sound like a condescending a**hole with imperative voice tone.
I checked this and must admit it's not an opinion I could falsify completely.

Must be some issue with digitalizing or compressing my obviously sympathetic and likeable manner of speaking 🤨
 
You weren't around for the great "Offlinegate", weren't you? :)
I'm absolutely an Offlinegater, but in hindsight, that's probably the best thing that ever happened to me regarding this game.

That p*ssed me off to to end, and I didn't even update the beta when it turned into launch. It's only 6 months later that I thought I'd pop in. By then, I had mourned my Elite 4 dream, and accepted that ED and that LEP would be prepaid random stuff, some of which I might enjoy. Since then, I take it at face value, and don't expect anything. Well, not true, I actually expect the most nonsensical additions/decisions, and here I'm rarely disappointed. So sometimes, that means I can just laugh when dreamers are in tears (CQC, PP, SRV scanner mining "gameplay", "volcanism", FSSgate...), and once a new moon I get an unexpected slam dunk (planetary surfaces, station interior relooking, plasma-gun-diplomacy...).

Set your standards low enough, and you'll rarely be disappointed. (y)
 
I'm absolutely an Offlinegater, but in hindsight, that's probably the best thing that ever happened to me regarding this game.
Funny, because I was the same way. Started off THIS close to dropping out of the Beta and demanding a refund, decided to hang around anyway when they introduced Solo as a band aid.

Then spent ages in Solo only because "Open was scary!" and, well, here I am... Who says you can't change? :)
 
I only play Solo when I'm doing HQ screen captures,
or want to grind mats etc faster, without time consuming interdictions interruptions.

Considering the latter, it's gonna take some time until I hit open again ;)
 
I only play Solo when I'm doing HQ screen captures,
or want to grind mats etc faster, without time consuming interdictions interruptions.
Completely agree. I feel that way sometimes myself. It's a game, we're supposed to have fun. And just because I'm now "Open (almost) only", doesn't mean that I have any opinions about which mode others prefer, other than that I hope they're having fun because, again, that's what it's all about, innit?
 
Dunno. On one hand, I hate their middle-of-the-road kind of design where there's something for everyone, but nobody's really satisfied.

On the other hand, it's pretty unique and chill. New players, or people that can't be bothered can get a PvE mode on-demand, and flip back the switch whenever they want. Sometimes, I can't be bothered high-waking out of Deciat 14 times in a row to try and engineer the FSD of a new piece of junk who took me 57 edge-of-my-seat stare-at-jump-screen-gameplay to even get there in the first place. I like the on-demand flip. 🤷‍♀️
Different servers for pve and pvp wouldn't change that. you would still have to log to menu to switch, it's still a shared universe. I'm not seeing how either way effects that. I think I'm missing something here 🤔
 
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Different serves for pve and pvp wouldn't change that you would still have to log to menu to switch, it's still a shared universe. I'm not seeing how either way effects that. I think I'm missing something here 🤔
Thought you meant PvE/PvP servers as in standard mmo definition, where you're stuck on one forever, unless you pay real money for a transfer. So you don't mean a different server, you mean an extra mode which would be Open with friendly fire disabled. But that still doesn't get you out of jail, as griefing can be hilariously creative, so you'd still deal with ramming, outpost-medium-pad-squatting, mailslot bumping/blocking, etc. Solo is addressing all that in a clean sweep, and PGs offer whatever you and your friends/community want. Honestly, I can't see how it could have been done better in terms of giving options to people.
 
Thought you meant PvE/PvP servers as in standard mmo definition, where you're stuck on one forever, unless you pay real money for a transfer. So you don't mean a different server, you mean an extra mode which would be Open with friendly fire disabled. But that still doesn't get you out of jail, as griefing can be hilariously creative, so you'd still deal with ramming, outpost-medium-pad-squatting, mailslot bumping/blocking, etc. Solo is addressing all that in a clean sweep, and PGs offer whatever you and your friends/community want. Honestly, I can't see how it could have been done better in terms of giving options to people.
Oh like ark? If the separate modes now cross over, I see no reason to segregate pve/pve by any more than that. It's seems, natural, I suppose
 
I ate a cookie once. I felt a lot better afterwards.

I say better... weirder... and a little spaced out... and hungry... and prone to sily bouts of giggling and staring off into infinity...
Yes, transcendental trips are intense, but they can become uneasy sometimes.

I mean, I could literally feel The Universe trembling from dismay and abhorrence in the moment I started becoming one with it.
I guess it needs some more time to prepare for this inevitable course of action.
 
Folks, we've been getting encrypted messages from Space in the side-band. This is but a selection.

As best my Morse can decode, Space says s-s-h-h.

Are they asking for quiet? Perhaps calm? Or... yes it must be code for... more cat memes!!!

Help Space (it's huge!) - get posting, for the love of all that's holy!

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Sorry... I couldn't find a cat meme, hopefully this Bush Baby will suffice.
 
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