This time next year (hopefully)

I'd like visible NPC crew. I don't want them to give bonuses, power creep is bad enough in this game. I just want them to fill the empty chair(s) as a cosmetic and RP improvement. I think it's a patronizing and needlessly limiting way of persuading people to use multicrew. I think this is an easy request and therefore possible even if unlikely.
I think a new SRV is well overdue as well.

What I'd really like to see is an entire revamp of many of the systems, which I consider more like filling the placeholders:
-Manual cargo loading by hiring a team on the station or having a crew of swampers.
-Shelling out for auto-loaders, the tradeoff being cost and internal space for expediency.
-Mandatory crew requirements and mandatory crew upkeep (quarters, facilities and pay). The large ships should require substantial crews. Medium ships 2 or 3 minimum.
-click and drag 3D schematic grid instead of logarithmic bay sizes with symmetry and balance being up to the player and important for ship performance
-engineering being about tradeoffs instead of "tradeoffs" with overall power creep. Engineering should make something specialized for a specific purpose but worse overall
-Fuel being expensive and important. Noticeable fuel cost when boosting, noticeable fuel cost when the FSD struggles with a gravity well (SLOW DOWN) etc.
-General wear and tear on most parts, especially if used a lot.
-More power management (start and warm up reactor, increase/decrease output to save fuel, manage reactor pressure and risk damage at high output etc.)
-Erase telepresence from the lore and let us fly our fighters.
-New SRV types.
-Reboot the profit creep and provide more believable rewards for missions. Doesn't have to be realistic but 6 million for 120t of palladium going 19LY is ridiculous.
 
"Someone boarded my Cutter, shot me, and then flew off and nicked my ship! Seriously Frontier, how can you let this happen??!?"

"Who is shooting my Fleet Carrier??!?!"

"There's some nasty Commanders who won't let me into the Crew Lounge - will they leave if I play in Solo mode?"

"I went for a space walk and some nutter in a FDL shot me in the head with long range super penetrator rail-guns from 5km away - WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??!?!"

"Can I engineer myself with Grade 5 Dirty Drives? Commanders are chasing me through the station! ......I may owe them credits, but still."

"Walked all over my T9, damn she's a big ship."

"Where's the bathroom on my Asp Scout? Has anyone mapped out this ship yet? .....yes, I own one.......stop laughing!"

😀
Or...
“I tried to steal this persons Cutter but the game won’t let me, it says the player doesn’t have the new expansion and he just keeps sitting in the pilot seat!”

“I’m shooting this FC and it doesn’t take any damage? Frontier fix this!!”

“Why can’t I shoot players on the ground with ship weapons? Apparently my ship weapons can’t damage other players on the ground because of balancing? Who thought this is a good idea!”

“Why can’t I stand ob my ship? I just magically bounce off like my SRV.”

“Why does my Asp only have one small room? I swear it looks much bigger from the outside!!!”

Happy holidays! 😉
 
whenever youre daydreaming about what the "big" update will be, ask yourself: but will it run on a base ps4/xbox?
The base ,Xbox and PS4 is weak sauce.... But imo there is nothing it could not do for ED so if that was an excuse to not release some features it would be lame. The consoles have a decent amount of ram, every other hardware limitation could be sorted by lowering graphic detail imo.
 
whenever youre daydreaming about what the "big" update will be, ask yourself: but will it run on a base ps4/xbox?

I think New Era is based mostly on PS5 and Xbox Project Scarlett when it comes to Consoles but who knows I may be wrong but the release dates for the consoles and New Era are at the same time especially for PS5 🙂
 
I think New Era is based mostly on PS5 and Xbox Project Scarlett when it comes to Consoles but who knows I may be wrong but the release dates for the consoles and New Era are at the same time especially for PS5 🙂
Yes "New Era" will undoubtedly exploit the possibilities of the new consoles but will remain retro-compatible with the previous ones undoubtedly.

It would be commercial madness otherwise.
 
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