The Odyssey alpha as well as Horizons has a bunch of good stuff in it. However I often think of a lot of quality improvements as well as additional content that FDEV should look into implementing into the game to improve the overall experience.
With Odyssey I loved the ability to walk around, just stepping outside of my ship on some frozen wasteland and turning around and seeing the scale of things is really, nice, and the addition of on foot activities will in my case add plenty of hours into a game I already have almost 1500 hours in. That being said, there is a lot I would like to see in elite, and with the upcoming release of Odyssey, I feel like posting on my thought on what can be added seems prudent.
- Social hubs (on foot zones) in fleet carriers, and when jumping carriers to new locations, you could just force spawn players into frontier combat solutions esque jump seats.
- Ship interiors (FDEV you've heard this 10,000 times, why it's not a greater priority to you I'll never understand).
- With Odyssey, add search and rescue/recover missions. I.E "NPC L. Jenkins last seen in "system name" then we have to track them down on some planet and take them on as crew inactive crew or passenger until we return them to the mission source station. We can also include ships drifting in space as well. or if they are DOA then recover them in a cargo bay and return them to their NPC families. (mission source system). the gameplay loop of search and rescue would be a fantastic addition. especially having to track them down.
- NPC Fuel rats for CMDRS who stay in solo. We have search and rescue ship NPCs, so expand on their capability. For OPEN CMDRS we should have a ingame built in fuel rat contacting option that works like those random mission pop up messages we get.
- And internal panel button for activating a ship ELT (emergency locator beacon) which works like a wing beacon for all in system CMDRS to access your location in normal space.
- A CMDR to CMDR messaging system making further use of the current mailbox. Why CMDRS can't send messages to offline CMDRS by now is beyond me.
- Extra chat options for local and system chat such as highlight (highlight certain CMDRS messages) or Mute/block. Chat reporting functions.
- The ability to Dump fuel from within your ship internals panel. If I'm in a cutter and I enter combat why am I still stuck with 64 Tons of fuel. Should have the option to dumb fuel by the ton. Planes can do this why can't space ships?
- On foot exploration should come with the same level of scientific data as the FSS does when scanned in on planets.
- Eventually develop landable planets with thicker atmos
- Fix The Cutter Staircase. Make is a platform that carts you to the top. Rich folk don't walk. that's for peasants.
- Explorers should run into a wider variety of planetary anomalies. I need more reasons to travel 65,000 LS to some planet and actually take the time to land and look around.
- Planets need cave systems, or on foot risk zones, where going on foot is risky, but worth it based on what we can find, say cave organisms that are data valuable, but there's space fauna that attacks you or something. some surface lava with neat biological rock fungi in the center, gotta jetpack over to it and not fall in the lava, or acid, or etc. its space, s dangerous.
- Wing pinging system, ping for when in danger, when targeting, super cruise ping locations, as well as the option for other wing members to accept the ping which auto targets the subject.
- Fleet carrier owners should be able to see their FC's at the top of the nav panel ALWAYS as well as see it down the list by distance. Same goes for in system bookmarks.
- IFF weapon mode that stops you from shooting clean ships. located in ship internal settings. (though smart rounds might be the equiv of this)
- Fix the accessibility of finding certain high grade engineer materials. I spent my entire weekend looking for Military Supercapacitors and found none. Needs to be a better way of gathering them.
- The ability to sell personal modules for fleet carrier owners. Say I engineered a G5 deep plating hull reinforcement, I should be able to sell that on my carrier market at any price I want.
- Powerplay NPCs who hunt you down and shoot you should become wanted. Why it's illegal to defend yourself is nonsense.
- You should be able to interdict shooting stars, and mine them for precious minerals. Like Core Roids found in super cruise.
- Increase server stability, I should not crash when entering or leaving super cruise as often as I do. Kinda game breaking.
- In outfitting I should be able to FAVORITE modules which adds a warning screen if I try to sell them.
- In outfitting I should have a junk option to mark a module as junk, then group sell them.
- For APEX taxi, you should implement a tiered service package where you pay weekly for : bronze, silver, gold, platinum, Ultra platinum packages where each one has a higher quality NPC ship, and each tier allows you to book farther I.E (25,50,100,200,250) Ly trips. and better and better ships as the NPC taxi, (Adder, Hauler, Dolphin, Orca, Beluga). and you should implement the better ships with actual rooms to walk around in while we wait. Or at least a seat from within a passenger cabin to look out a window (or the option to switch between the current view and that view). the higher the package we subscribe to, the better the room interior. Would be more immersive than the current system.
- Same outline as the above for module storage. The ability to store more modules should come as a weekly expense for people storing above certain levels.
- the ability to switch between Odyssey and classic views of both the galaxy maps and the outfitting screen.
- A Ship System warning that pops up when you depart with mining lasers equipped but no limpets detected in your cargo.
- A quick option for FC owners to plot the FC to their current system.
- The ability to transfer tritium from the carrier MGMT view without having to be at the carrier. What else do I pay those people for.
- NPC crew should be visible from inside the ship when active.
- APEX taxi makes audio calls when requesting to dock, why can't we hear our own CMDRS -- have some voices to pick from --- enable disable this option.
- When in Queue to land or depart from a station, your queue number should be visible, in Aviation tower tells you you are #3 for RWY 02, etc. Elite should be the same.
- Add the ability to pair a music streaming service to the in game media player.
- White Dwarves should come with a COVAS warning when dropping out of hyperspace. This will help CMDRS identify them apart from neutron stars.
- More Alien stuff Planetside. Esp since we are on foot now.
- Squadrons should have the ability to MARK CMDRS as enemies. AKA if CMDR IMDUMB is ganking a new member a lot, that CMDR can MARK them, so when scanned by another SQ member, they'll be listed as a squadron enemy. Once their ship is destroyed this mark is cleared.
- FC outfitting should have more customization. I.E if I just wanna sell one kinda scanner why do I need to waste space carrying the other types.
- For APEX there should be a hotlist of stations that we have our ships stored at. As this will likely be common travel destinations.
- Add the ability to EJECT from your ship. Then add an NPC S&R ship coming to pick you up before FTB. each ship should have a unique escape pod animation.
- Player created bounties on other CMDR. I don't like CMDR IMDUMB and will pay 100 CR to anyone who can take him out, these bounties can be found posted at stations. I need to pay a % fee to post these marks. This way 1,000,000,000,000 CR bounties would be discouraged. Bounty reward must be handed into station upfront. Cancellation costs credits.
- Dedicated Servers. end the instancing nightmare. Also Server Stability needs improvement.
ok. That's a good start, take your pic FDEV. Thanks for Odyssey. Looking forward to release. Don't stop adding quality stuff to Elite.
--07 CMDR Archangel1253
With Odyssey I loved the ability to walk around, just stepping outside of my ship on some frozen wasteland and turning around and seeing the scale of things is really, nice, and the addition of on foot activities will in my case add plenty of hours into a game I already have almost 1500 hours in. That being said, there is a lot I would like to see in elite, and with the upcoming release of Odyssey, I feel like posting on my thought on what can be added seems prudent.
- Social hubs (on foot zones) in fleet carriers, and when jumping carriers to new locations, you could just force spawn players into frontier combat solutions esque jump seats.
- Ship interiors (FDEV you've heard this 10,000 times, why it's not a greater priority to you I'll never understand).
- With Odyssey, add search and rescue/recover missions. I.E "NPC L. Jenkins last seen in "system name" then we have to track them down on some planet and take them on as crew inactive crew or passenger until we return them to the mission source station. We can also include ships drifting in space as well. or if they are DOA then recover them in a cargo bay and return them to their NPC families. (mission source system). the gameplay loop of search and rescue would be a fantastic addition. especially having to track them down.
- NPC Fuel rats for CMDRS who stay in solo. We have search and rescue ship NPCs, so expand on their capability. For OPEN CMDRS we should have a ingame built in fuel rat contacting option that works like those random mission pop up messages we get.
- And internal panel button for activating a ship ELT (emergency locator beacon) which works like a wing beacon for all in system CMDRS to access your location in normal space.
- A CMDR to CMDR messaging system making further use of the current mailbox. Why CMDRS can't send messages to offline CMDRS by now is beyond me.
- Extra chat options for local and system chat such as highlight (highlight certain CMDRS messages) or Mute/block. Chat reporting functions.
- The ability to Dump fuel from within your ship internals panel. If I'm in a cutter and I enter combat why am I still stuck with 64 Tons of fuel. Should have the option to dumb fuel by the ton. Planes can do this why can't space ships?
- On foot exploration should come with the same level of scientific data as the FSS does when scanned in on planets.
- Eventually develop landable planets with thicker atmos
- Fix The Cutter Staircase. Make is a platform that carts you to the top. Rich folk don't walk. that's for peasants.
- Explorers should run into a wider variety of planetary anomalies. I need more reasons to travel 65,000 LS to some planet and actually take the time to land and look around.
- Planets need cave systems, or on foot risk zones, where going on foot is risky, but worth it based on what we can find, say cave organisms that are data valuable, but there's space fauna that attacks you or something. some surface lava with neat biological rock fungi in the center, gotta jetpack over to it and not fall in the lava, or acid, or etc. its space, s dangerous.
- Wing pinging system, ping for when in danger, when targeting, super cruise ping locations, as well as the option for other wing members to accept the ping which auto targets the subject.
- Fleet carrier owners should be able to see their FC's at the top of the nav panel ALWAYS as well as see it down the list by distance. Same goes for in system bookmarks.
- IFF weapon mode that stops you from shooting clean ships. located in ship internal settings. (though smart rounds might be the equiv of this)
- Fix the accessibility of finding certain high grade engineer materials. I spent my entire weekend looking for Military Supercapacitors and found none. Needs to be a better way of gathering them.
- The ability to sell personal modules for fleet carrier owners. Say I engineered a G5 deep plating hull reinforcement, I should be able to sell that on my carrier market at any price I want.
- Powerplay NPCs who hunt you down and shoot you should become wanted. Why it's illegal to defend yourself is nonsense.
- You should be able to interdict shooting stars, and mine them for precious minerals. Like Core Roids found in super cruise.
- Increase server stability, I should not crash when entering or leaving super cruise as often as I do. Kinda game breaking.
- In outfitting I should be able to FAVORITE modules which adds a warning screen if I try to sell them.
- In outfitting I should have a junk option to mark a module as junk, then group sell them.
- For APEX taxi, you should implement a tiered service package where you pay weekly for : bronze, silver, gold, platinum, Ultra platinum packages where each one has a higher quality NPC ship, and each tier allows you to book farther I.E (25,50,100,200,250) Ly trips. and better and better ships as the NPC taxi, (Adder, Hauler, Dolphin, Orca, Beluga). and you should implement the better ships with actual rooms to walk around in while we wait. Or at least a seat from within a passenger cabin to look out a window (or the option to switch between the current view and that view). the higher the package we subscribe to, the better the room interior. Would be more immersive than the current system.
- Same outline as the above for module storage. The ability to store more modules should come as a weekly expense for people storing above certain levels.
- the ability to switch between Odyssey and classic views of both the galaxy maps and the outfitting screen.
- A Ship System warning that pops up when you depart with mining lasers equipped but no limpets detected in your cargo.
- A quick option for FC owners to plot the FC to their current system.
- The ability to transfer tritium from the carrier MGMT view without having to be at the carrier. What else do I pay those people for.
- NPC crew should be visible from inside the ship when active.
- APEX taxi makes audio calls when requesting to dock, why can't we hear our own CMDRS -- have some voices to pick from --- enable disable this option.
- When in Queue to land or depart from a station, your queue number should be visible, in Aviation tower tells you you are #3 for RWY 02, etc. Elite should be the same.
- Add the ability to pair a music streaming service to the in game media player.
- White Dwarves should come with a COVAS warning when dropping out of hyperspace. This will help CMDRS identify them apart from neutron stars.
- More Alien stuff Planetside. Esp since we are on foot now.
- Squadrons should have the ability to MARK CMDRS as enemies. AKA if CMDR IMDUMB is ganking a new member a lot, that CMDR can MARK them, so when scanned by another SQ member, they'll be listed as a squadron enemy. Once their ship is destroyed this mark is cleared.
- FC outfitting should have more customization. I.E if I just wanna sell one kinda scanner why do I need to waste space carrying the other types.
- For APEX there should be a hotlist of stations that we have our ships stored at. As this will likely be common travel destinations.
- Add the ability to EJECT from your ship. Then add an NPC S&R ship coming to pick you up before FTB. each ship should have a unique escape pod animation.
- Player created bounties on other CMDR. I don't like CMDR IMDUMB and will pay 100 CR to anyone who can take him out, these bounties can be found posted at stations. I need to pay a % fee to post these marks. This way 1,000,000,000,000 CR bounties would be discouraged. Bounty reward must be handed into station upfront. Cancellation costs credits.
- Dedicated Servers. end the instancing nightmare. Also Server Stability needs improvement.
ok. That's a good start, take your pic FDEV. Thanks for Odyssey. Looking forward to release. Don't stop adding quality stuff to Elite.
--07 CMDR Archangel1253
