There needs to be more to do on stations

peteuplink

peteuplink
This has probably been mentioned before, but there needs to be more interaction on stations. I know, I know, the game isn't finished and they're going to add more things in when we can walk around the stations, and so on... But at the moment stations always seem to be pretty dead and are just places to stop at to get your ship serviced, choose missions or sell goods. There is the news feed to look at, but it updates quite slowly... How about a station intercom/chatroom system that you can log into and talk to other commanders while docked? At least as a temporary thing until we get the ability to get out of our ships and interact with each other. It might help give the game more of a sense of everything being part of an intergalactic community rather than several lost souls supercruising from one empty station to another.
 

Sanderson

Sanderson
I've posted a few threads over the months that there needs to be a station/platform "chat" (voice and text" bar at stations so we can socialize and exchange information at stations. Would be so much better IMO.
 

Y2K

Y2K
its been said over and over that Elite is missing the basic in game social tools, i hope FD have taken note because this needs to come before anything else.
 

Tethys

Tethys
I am pretty sure that I have seen interviews where the developers are talking about their desire to allow for movement around ships and stations. Also they have identified the need to make the getting and turning-in of missions more involved.

I suspect that station interaction would form part of that.
 

Whiterose

Whiterose
Dock, enter hangar, go to the bar, start an argument....fist fight using keybaord keys W,A,S,D and space for an uppercut. Pay barman damages, back to hangar launch, get arrested by police for violent conduct.
 

Stein

Stein
Moving around (by foot, presumably) on ships and stations would create a more variable framework, but it wouldn't be more content which is what the game sorely needs. If you had to disembark your ship on every station, walk around in procedurally generated surroundings just to end up with a computer terminal that displays the same random quests as now, it would be more of a time consuming nuisance than a boon imho.
I would much rather have more interesting / unique / variable options in the station interface panel, player-player communication being one of them.
 
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