Firstly; I love Elite Dangerous in all its forms, and as it develops I'm sure it will only get better. But a subject I'd like to bring up is the damage and collision models.
We all love our shiny ships - be they chuffing great battle wagons to a sneaky Sidewinder. They are the stars of the game - so why don't they show their hard earned scars?
Currently, using hundreds of tons of unshielded metal as a battering ram and being hit by massive explosive shells results in..... a slightly degraded paint job and a cracked windscreen. And when, after repeated combat, your beloved rust buckethas been reduced to a 2 percent scrap heap, everything still works? No failed thrusters making it fly like a brick, weapons sheared of their mounts, cargo holds trailing debris from massive rends in the hull, undercarriage hanging limp with hydraulic fluid spewing into space…..you get the picture.
And just as importantly, every time these wrecked hulks manage to crawl into some far flung, pirate operated outpost with a ‘repair’ facilty on 2% hull – they have all the bits to fix every piece of exotic machinery ever produced, every time. No new unpainted panels, no cannon hole patches, no components destroyed and need rebuying elsewhere….. (I know 3D printers are good now, but if they could replicate all the spares by having the plans in ED, they should also be able to sell all the new modules, n’est pas?
) Not to mention fully repainting something the size of a 747 should be a bit more than a button click and carried out for free!!
So come on Frontier; we want these lumps to feel like the Millennium Falcon on a bad day - to really live and breathe.
Baby, hold together!
We all love our shiny ships - be they chuffing great battle wagons to a sneaky Sidewinder. They are the stars of the game - so why don't they show their hard earned scars?
Currently, using hundreds of tons of unshielded metal as a battering ram and being hit by massive explosive shells results in..... a slightly degraded paint job and a cracked windscreen. And when, after repeated combat, your beloved rust buckethas been reduced to a 2 percent scrap heap, everything still works? No failed thrusters making it fly like a brick, weapons sheared of their mounts, cargo holds trailing debris from massive rends in the hull, undercarriage hanging limp with hydraulic fluid spewing into space…..you get the picture.
And just as importantly, every time these wrecked hulks manage to crawl into some far flung, pirate operated outpost with a ‘repair’ facilty on 2% hull – they have all the bits to fix every piece of exotic machinery ever produced, every time. No new unpainted panels, no cannon hole patches, no components destroyed and need rebuying elsewhere….. (I know 3D printers are good now, but if they could replicate all the spares by having the plans in ED, they should also be able to sell all the new modules, n’est pas?
) Not to mention fully repainting something the size of a 747 should be a bit more than a button click and carried out for free!!So come on Frontier; we want these lumps to feel like the Millennium Falcon on a bad day - to really live and breathe.
Baby, hold together!
