Time of various activities

[Royerrulz]

Hi all,

Having just invested in a new RTX 2080, I decided to go through the library and fire up some of these beautys (and yes, its buttery smooth at ultra everything + VR), and I realized why I don't spend more time in ED, despite how philosophically beautiful I find it.....

the TIME it takes to do UNINTERESTING things needs to be fixed. In the hour I spent in the game, it consisted of a good 10 minutes checking out new missions, and then 50 minutes traveling to mission destination, which mostly meant wait for launch sequence, SLOWLY leave station, then a reasonably acceptable boost to space and fly between planets... then EPIC amount of time to dock at a station, including the ridiculous slowdown to phase shift.

I get that its part of the whole 'sim' atmosphere, but whats dumb about it is it just prevented me from having TIME to do all kinds of other stuff, like stop and mine for a bit, or land on a planet and tool around a bit, nope - would have to dedicate another hour just to make that happen.

There are too many arbitrary barriers when it comes to this - for example, when initiating phase shift why do I have to slow down so much? Why not let it lock at any speed - if I am more skilled I can land at absurdly high speeds. Now you've just introduced a new element to the game.

Sorry to say, but I would dedicate 90+% of my game time to ED and I imagine any lingering complaints about *content* would disappear as finally everyone would actually get to experience CONTENT as opposed to the timesink of moving from A to B.

 

[Misty_Dark]

Hi all,

Having just invested in a new RTX 2080, I decided to go through the library and fire up some of these beautys (and yes, its buttery smooth at ultra everything + VR), and I realized why I don't spend more time in ED, despite how philosophically beautiful I find it.....

the TIME it takes to do UNINTERESTING things needs to be fixed. In the hour I spent in the game, it consisted of a good 10 minutes checking out new missions, and then 50 minutes traveling to mission destination, which mostly meant wait for launch sequence, SLOWLY leave station, then a reasonably acceptable boost to space and fly between planets... then EPIC amount of time to dock at a station, including the ridiculous slowdown to phase shift.

I get that its part of the whole 'sim' atmosphere, but whats dumb about it is it just prevented me from having TIME to do all kinds of other stuff, like stop and mine for a bit, or land on a planet and tool around a bit, nope - would have to dedicate another hour just to make that happen.

There are too many arbitrary barriers when it comes to this - for example, when initiating phase shift why do I have to slow down so much? Why not let it lock at any speed - if I am more skilled I can land at absurdly high speeds. Now you've just introduced a new element to the game.

Sorry to say, but I would dedicate 90+% of my game time to ED and I imagine any lingering complaints about *content* would disappear as finally everyone would actually get to experience CONTENT as opposed to the time sink of moving from A to B.

Reason for the slow down to leave and dock at stations is because of other players, that abused the stations abused the system to grief other players, so that is why there is a speed limit of 100, but there is nothing to stopping you to go faster, I do regularly fly recklessly fast through the mail slot at speed at 300+ it is fine as along as you do not hit another ship, or have any griefers around to take advantage of this.


And I guess the phaseshift you are talking about is the change from super cruise to normal space, even this have skill and can be done faster and in more engaging ways, here you most of the time have to choose if you want to line up to the mail slot or get out of super cruise faster, but have to spend more time flying around to the mail slot also flying directly at the station is most of the time not the fastest way, only the shortest way, so there is definitely skill involved and there can be a significant different in time from entering the system to when you dock depending on your choices.