I tend to agree with most of your points. Personally, I would like to see the economy in Elite be more realistic. For example, the mission boards spew out 'kill 96 ships', but destroying 96 ships should have a material effect on the local areas economy (i.e. demand for whatever materials are required to replace those lost ships make prices go up etc.). I realise what a mammoth undertaking creating such an economy would be, but at least the missions on offer would affect economies in a more 'realistic' way. Just food for thought, and I'm sure there are many reasons why it's not possible.
This game is pretty stale...
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I think that is clear that you did not find anything what may offer you longtime interests in this game. It's imo ok, Elite games never were saying to player what they should do and they had repetitive patterns which differed in "details". Some people simply have no fun with these things, or want something different which is not in the game. In ED are tons of processes hidden behind the scenes and they are called The background simulation (mostly called as the BGS). This is something what can change look on this game fundamentally for a player, because this is a moment where, previously insignificant, details will start to be important and players can change, to a certain degree, how this game locally works ... I'm giving it here just as exemple of longtime interests which this game offers.
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It's just you.
Not as many as for developing a boring game.How many poor electrons have been sacrificed for such a wall of whining text?
Statement like this makes no sense because measurement of entertainment is based just on personal opinions and tastes of every player. For some may the same game offer tons of fun for a long time, for some decent amount of fun for limited time and for some it is boring like a hell right on start. Some may repeatebly return because for example likes flight mechanics and simply enjo flying of ship itself, some because found a group of people with similar interests and like playing together (various goals), ... and somone will try, then will leave and never will look back.
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And certainly not as many as some spend posting boringly about a game they don't like, but hang around with anyway ...
Fdev gave us an infinite universe to explore, more than any of us could do in a lifetime, there's mining/trading/combat/Powerplay/BGS not to mention the CGs which you can chose to take part in.
There's a massive amount of lore with many folks 'searching for stuff', player made goals and adventures, to be fair there is more here than any other game ive ever played (and im old).
If its boring its either not the game for you or you lack the imagination to immerse yourself in this environment (no disrespect intended).
Personally i dont think i will ever achieve my Elite bucket list but i will have fun trying.
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Meh, same can be said for pretty much any open-ended game. I get bored doing one thing there's a whole slew of other activities to do to keep things interesting. But I'm easy to amuse. I've spent countless hours doing absolutely nothing but flying around and enjoying the sights in ED and NMS with absolutely nothing accomplished in that time.
Indeed, this is pretty much the order of the day. For me, I'm constantly noticing where it desperately needs improvement, the Arx store is one such area, I find. They could make varieties of weapon meshes, rather than splitting up all the colours of the rainbow and putting individual price tags on them. That is so unimaginative, but hey ho.
I strongly agree. I understand the necessity of the store and completely support it, but they gotta give us more than just odd color schemes and junk flare for our ships that makes it look like post-apocalyptic raiders live on top of it. I'm even all for a subscription based service that gives us perks like a certain amount of Arx per month among other things. Nothing pay-to-win, of course. I'm just all for anything to help keep this game going and give this game the attention it deserves. For us as fans.
I think you vastly overstimate the effect the loss of 96 ships would have on a system with dozens of stations and several billion population, in fact the actions of players have a massively magnified effect on the game considering the size of the inhabited galaxy and the number of players. Granted in a system with one station and a few thousand population yes it would have an effect, but creating a realistic economy would actually relegate the majority of player activity to a level infinitesimally small in the grand scheme of the galaxy.
Be that as it may, it doesn't address the OP's concern that it has become stale for him, and the problem here is a personal one, not a game one, it has become stale for him doesn't mean it has become stale for everyone. Also not that just because it hasn't become stale for, say, myself, doesn't mean I don't want to see extra content in the game and am opposed to change, these things are not the same.
Games get stale for people, the answer is not to demand the game change to your personal desires, it isn't going to do that, and suggesting players who find the game getting stale for them take a break for a while and maybe play another game and see how they feel after a few months also isn't a negative pov or attack on the player, sometimes you do indeed need to move on.
personally I think if you haven't bounced along a low g moon like neil Armstrong(getting the bounce timing right and the following is the essential requirement btw) with walking on the moon by the Police playing in the background then stepped on an eruption and used control burst to descend and a medikit at point of impact you have not explored this game fully just in my opinion that is ideally a triple timed and executed bounce before the geezer full height achived and survival upon return gets the full 10 card
ideally a triple timed and executed bounce before the geezer full height achived and survival upon return gets the full 10 card
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