Those funeral ships...

[smiths121]

Perhaps if someone has taken a kill x civilians missions, they might be useful do you not think?

Simon

Just another thing about this game which doesn't make sense. Its a time sink with zero reward, I don't even know why they're in the game if they are absolutely useless other than a way to have RNG screw you over.

 

[Schmack]

USS were one reason why I quit playing the game to begin with. The mission objectives were already obscure and poorly explained to begin with. On top of that, I had to deal with stupid stuff like the above. But now it sounds like they added more useless fluff. I don't get it...whats the point of making a design to impede players like this? It's not even something based off of a gear check, skill check, achievement check, or anything. It's a roadblock in the game based off of RNG which does nothing but frustrate people.

I don't get it. Whats the point of having stuff like this in the game? If I get sent to kill 2 civilians, 2 pirates, 2 cops, whatever, I shouldn't have difficulty because I keep getting screwed by RNG. I should have difficulty because those two civis, pirates, cops are better equipped, more skillful, etc. If I'm running a mission, I'm playing against the clock. On top of that, I have to deal with things completely outside of my control from entirely a design perspective...

I learned by using nav sites to get those missions done, but still. Just the whole thing doesn't make sense. I hate to bash a game so, but its seriously just one thing after another that leaves me scratching my head. Its really as if any game design theory inbetween 1984-2014 was tossed out the window.

I see your point, but I look at it a bit differently. To me, the galaxy exists and I'm just a very small part of it. In reality it's a video game that caters to the end user, but the immersion of the game is that it doesn't do that, and things that cause me to go out of my way to search for a needle in a haystack (finding one ship in a solar system would be basically impossible, especially if you were at light speed and it was stationary) add to the notion that I can't just drop to a nav beacon, hit 30km/min and drop out to the first USS site for the target. Often you can though. The funeral ships are pretty cool to me, I drop in, see them.. take off my hat as they pass by (least I can do since I killed the guy) and make my exit.