The Azimuth Saga: The Story So Far
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Thank you for the summary. Content like this is awesome and one of my favourite aspects of the elite experience 
There is an irony in that when the game was relatively stable, we lacked content (the great Galnet Famine / Drought), and now that everything is unstable and bugged and lots of people are not playing, we're getting all sorts of stories and narrative. If you had a time machine, you could send your writers back in the past one year and then everything would be perfect 
ps - I'm not being mean! I'm just pointing out "unfortunate timing", that's all.
ps - I'm not being mean! I'm just pointing out "unfortunate timing", that's all.
There is an irony in that when the game was relatively stable, we lacked content (the great Galnet Famine / Drought), and now that everything is unstable and bugged and lots of people are not playing, we're getting all sorts of stories and narrative. If you had a time machine, you could send your writers back in the past one year and then everything would be perfect
ps - I'm not being mean! I'm just pointing out "unfortunate timing", that's all.
The link in the first post with the sound file was posted in october 2020. So i guess the writers has already been started to be teleported.
This whole thing is a waste of time. The last time I was involved in this I was scanning systems for days, just to read a few days later in the forums that the Hersperus was hidden in an asteroid belt in a system that I had scanned a few days ago without noticing anything.
I am not doing this again just to read a few days later that the dredger was hiding behind something and that I missed it again.
And I am pretty sure that we have missing or false information like last time we did this, so there is no chance to find the darn thing without being a member of special group of players to whom frontier is talking and giving them hints.
Thanks that was usefull because I missed a few parts of the story !
The real question the community should be asking is why Salvation needed the Alexandria and what it promises to the Scriveners clan to salvage the Alexandria after they stole the mega-ship. When Salvation finally does reveal itself... The disappearance of Alexandria will finally be answered.
Great story. I wish I'd be able to play through it.
O7 for an excellent write up.
It is however such a pity that FDev again fail to utilise the power of story telling to boost interest in the game, involve Cmdrs or to suck them in to these storylines.
Yet again Galnet operates like some mid County FM radio station, blurting out the odd headline; if you’re not aware of the story - it simply passes you by.
In game there is nothing to make you aware of such story lines, except Galnet. It’s all reliant on third party content, anything in game is arbitrary and has to be found, and when it is, it’s vague and incomplete or out of date.
I’ve been playing ED since day one, and still I have to put in the effort to find content, usually via third party media (social media); this is just lazy content development (no disrespect).
From the initial development stages FDEV had plans for Galnet to be a live stream - ticker-tape element, which would broadcast news constantly in the background of the general menus / information hubs.
This was also to be Interspersed with the activity of actual players, such as Cmdr does x etc, with special celebratory monickers, such as Cmdr X Savour of the Botany Bay… this never came to pass.
This in my opinion was an excellent idea, as it was a step towards an immersive galaxy where the news was thrust upon you, or gelled everything together.
We also have an added Achilles heel, in that much of the Galnet content is / was pure hogwash, which was counterintuitive seeing as Galnet original purpose was to broadcast actual news, and identify real points of interest for players to visit.
All in all it’s left myself at least, biased against ED storyline; in the respect that I neither trust it’s veracity nor care about its outcome; as it goes out of date so quickly (in that clues are / were leaked to certain players groups ahead of everyone else; or that various dedicated players would resolve the outcome very quickly).
Alas even such detailed storylines such as this; however interesting, for the majority stop being content, and simply become easy listening.
Where am I going with this hangover induced rant?
In game; FDEV could have really exploited how Galnet, and indepth stories all played out, especially in Odyssey. Adding much needed life to the game.
1: Main storyline content audio - piped into social hub areas; as part of the background music ‘breaking news’.
2: Display screens broadcast headlines.
3: NPCs discuss (either via voice activity or text) these storylines in their everyday gossip.
4: NPCs and contacts offer up arbitrary missions which push the players towards this content (I need someone to get 6 scientists to the Hesperus to conduct some research; whilst your there you might want to check this out’.
5: All content is actual and occurrent in game, not fluff.
You get the drift, apologies if some of this is already in game, I know not, because I’m undertaking a personal break from ED until Odyssey has been correctly patched and optimised.
A great thread though; keep up the Stella work.
“especially in so troublesome a season; to leave that shore unsaluted from which you may see to the island where she dwelleth; to leave those steps unkissed wherein Urania printed the farewell of all beauty”.
It is however such a pity that FDev again fail to utilise the power of story telling to boost interest in the game, involve Cmdrs or to suck them in to these storylines.
Yet again Galnet operates like some mid County FM radio station, blurting out the odd headline; if you’re not aware of the story - it simply passes you by.
In game there is nothing to make you aware of such story lines, except Galnet. It’s all reliant on third party content, anything in game is arbitrary and has to be found, and when it is, it’s vague and incomplete or out of date.
I’ve been playing ED since day one, and still I have to put in the effort to find content, usually via third party media (social media); this is just lazy content development (no disrespect).
From the initial development stages FDEV had plans for Galnet to be a live stream - ticker-tape element, which would broadcast news constantly in the background of the general menus / information hubs.
This was also to be Interspersed with the activity of actual players, such as Cmdr does x etc, with special celebratory monickers, such as Cmdr X Savour of the Botany Bay… this never came to pass.
This in my opinion was an excellent idea, as it was a step towards an immersive galaxy where the news was thrust upon you, or gelled everything together.
We also have an added Achilles heel, in that much of the Galnet content is / was pure hogwash, which was counterintuitive seeing as Galnet original purpose was to broadcast actual news, and identify real points of interest for players to visit.
All in all it’s left myself at least, biased against ED storyline; in the respect that I neither trust it’s veracity nor care about its outcome; as it goes out of date so quickly (in that clues are / were leaked to certain players groups ahead of everyone else; or that various dedicated players would resolve the outcome very quickly).
Alas even such detailed storylines such as this; however interesting, for the majority stop being content, and simply become easy listening.
Where am I going with this hangover induced rant?
In game; FDEV could have really exploited how Galnet, and indepth stories all played out, especially in Odyssey. Adding much needed life to the game.
1: Main storyline content audio - piped into social hub areas; as part of the background music ‘breaking news’.
2: Display screens broadcast headlines.
3: NPCs discuss (either via voice activity or text) these storylines in their everyday gossip.
4: NPCs and contacts offer up arbitrary missions which push the players towards this content (I need someone to get 6 scientists to the Hesperus to conduct some research; whilst your there you might want to check this out’.
5: All content is actual and occurrent in game, not fluff.
You get the drift, apologies if some of this is already in game, I know not, because I’m undertaking a personal break from ED until Odyssey has been correctly patched and optimised.
A great thread though; keep up the Stella work.
“especially in so troublesome a season; to leave that shore unsaluted from which you may see to the island where she dwelleth; to leave those steps unkissed wherein Urania printed the farewell of all beauty”.
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I feel the same about just regular missions. I sometimes get ambitious and load up on missions but then adulting happens. By the time I manage to get back to the game sometimes I've already failed several missions, enough to upset some factions. It is unfortunate as I like playing, but I don't like the pressure to need to play for maintenance (looking at my expensive carrier right now).
Thank you @Bruce G , this is brilliant and exactly what we need, but it's needed in-game, not just in forums that a subset of CMDRs look at. I for one would never think to look in the forums as a first, second or even tenth resort to find out what lore / stories are ongoing. The Codex should have a regularly-updated entry for each storyline like this and there should be a way to highlight / link to Codex entries from Galnet articles.
Great story, fascinating to see where it goes. The only thing is, none of this is game development, like new ships or new weapons or new aliens. Fascinating as it is, all I see are rumors, modified old weapons and thargoids changing systems periodically. So I find it's more enjoyable to play other games and just read about this one.
the story is very good, I made a suggestion a while ago:
a large-scale thargoid incursion
both on the ground and by air and off the planet, as if they were trying to destroy something (it could be the facilities of the SERAFIN project), many like the idea of getting off the ship and fighting on foot, but if it is against beings other than the NPCs, it would be fantastic! Can you imagine a large scale thargoid raid, commanders who like ground battle, defending settlements, pilots fighting relentlessly for air against scouts and fighting off planet in various zones AX,
other players who transport npc troops or pilots, players who use Apex taxis to go to battle from different parts of the bubble and who do not have ships with much jump !, a battle promoted in all stations that want to fight in the ground against Thargoid soldiers, with hybrid guardian / human weapons? semi-engineered, everyone would have the opportunity, not only those with a lot of credits to design their ships at ease, but also newcomer pilots, this would attract a lot of players! All against an unknown organic being! Thargoids are key in this simulator, and I know that no other simulator of this type has beings like thargoids and guardians! it's just a suggestion! But it would be a goal! midfield if events on this scale included everyone, not to mention it would be great to add introductory videos when the game starts every time you start a new community goal in the style of "THE CHRONICLES OF THE COMMANDERS",
thus attracting The attention of the masses, is what happens with COD warzone for example, every time one enters to play, sees a new intro every time there is an event, it draws a lot of attention, many would appreciate it! I include myself.
I calculate that it would be a good thing for the community, many commanders are dedicating themselves to this
Bruce G
Senior Community Manager
Hey everyone!
I've updated the post with more recent events. Apologies this wasn't done sooner as a fair amount has happened (I'll try to do this more frequently as time goes on).
As a point of information, some of the events from ACT II are now considered to fall within the first part of ACT III and have been marked appropriately. With today's activity, we're at the beginning of ACT IV.
I've updated the post with more recent events. Apologies this wasn't done sooner as a fair amount has happened (I'll try to do this more frequently as time goes on).
As a point of information, some of the events from ACT II are now considered to fall within the first part of ACT III and have been marked appropriately. With today's activity, we're at the beginning of ACT IV.
We never had this trouble with Arthur. ;-)
