The Little Things

shadragon

shadragon
Was coming in for a landing last night at my home base, an Alliance orbital. As I descended towards the pad, I looked ahead and saw six narrow beam searchlights come together to form the Alliance logo.

This is why I play Elite. The attention to detail for the little things that really don't matter. The swirling black background behind messages and alerts on the hud to make them legible in bright light environments. The subtle differences in sounds my ship makes when damaged. The clouds of fine dust thrown up by my ship when landing on a moon. It shows the level of attention the devs put into everything they do and when encountered, well, it just makes me smile.

That's all. We now return to our regularly scheduled series of moaning, chest beating and baseless demands from the unwashed masses.
 

John Stoutbeard

John Stoutbeard
No, I refuse to go back to moaning.

Instead I'll tell you about the strange little sound you can hear when you refuel.
Next time, with sound settings in nite-mode and you refuel at the nearest star.
Try to stay there around 80-90% heat - as you slowly head up & out, moving away from the star; Listen to the sound that sounds like a alien saucer when you fly away and you cool off.

Super-cool :D
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
This could be a great post with others adding to the little things:

Owning a large ship stored but flying a small one landing at the home base. The player will always get assigned a large pad in case they want to fly out with the large one.
 

Cliché

Cliché
One thing that is kind of disturbing is the sound the refinery (or limpet?) makes sometimes while mining - sounds like some evil villain laughing in the background (spooky).

PS. seeing a Sidey sitting on a large pad is kind of awesome - the scale of things.
 

mono

mono
Find a supergiant and refuel, same sound effect, goes on for ages, love it.

Panzertard said:
No, I refuse to go back to moaning.

Instead I'll tell you about the strange little sound you can hear when you refuel.
Next time, with sound settings in nite-mode and you refuel at the nearest star.
Try to stay there around 80-90% heat - as you slowly head up & out, moving away from the star; Listen to the sound that sounds like a alien saucer when you fly away and you cool off.

Super-cool :D
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drzdeano

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shadragon said:
Was coming in for a landing last night at my home base, an Alliance orbital. As I descended towards the pad, I looked ahead and saw six narrow beam searchlights come together to form the Alliance logo.

This is why I play Elite. The attention to detail for the little things that really don't matter. The swirling black background behind messages and alerts on the hud to make them legible in bright light environments. The subtle differences in sounds my ship makes when damaged. The clouds of fine dust thrown up by my ship when landing on a moon. It shows the level of attention the devs put into everything they do and when encountered, well, it just makes me smile.

That's all. We now return to our regularly scheduled series of moaning, chest beating and baseless demands from the unwashed masses.
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I know what you mean, those little details really make the difference!

Stonger together!
 

DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
Fixed in 2.3

Thanks Obama, er I mean Frontier:
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VR Lucian Arkright

VR Lucian Arkright
The creaking and groaning of the superstructure when in Glide Mode.
The different alarm noises when your ship overheats, I'm pretty sure when of them is from a smoke alarm I used to own!
The way the landing gears all deploy have different little quirks.
 

Loskene

L
Hooplah said:
This could be a great post with others adding to the little things:

Owning a large ship stored but flying a small one landing at the home base. The player will always get assigned a large pad in case they want to fly out with the large one.
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Are you sure about that? I keep all my ships in one port but no matter what I'm flying I always get the pad that suits it. You only get assigned a larger pad if there are no smaller ones available.
 

Lobstris

Lobstris
shadragon said:
Was coming in for a landing last night at my home base, an Alliance orbital. As I descended towards the pad, I looked ahead and saw six narrow beam searchlights come together to form the Alliance logo.
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The Alliance has a logo? They actually managed to get their act together enough to agree on a logo? Well, I'll be darned...! :D
 

Hellakitty

Hellakitty
I recently discovered the little arrows that point to where the entrance is on Coriolis-type stations. Very helpful when running the slightly less legal goods, and general orientation for approaching those types of starports.

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ShimEnki

ShimEnki
Yup, very much agreed. My eye catches something of exquisite detail almost each and every time I arrive at a port. The lighting shades at a window, kinda drawing you to wonder if anyone is working at that office tonight...In those extraction ports, the detailed imagery in those corridors. Frankly I'm mesmerized and drawn out of my ship every time.

Its these details that brings one to expect that, this attention to detail will at some point insert themselves in the other core aspects such as missions etc...
 
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