It's cool that there's a VR update don't get me wrong i'll definitely be pulling out my DK2 to mess around again, but...(And I know there's probably a different team working on these things)
!. Powerplay Is still broken, and the faction rewards are awful. By Broken i mean there's no way for players to vote away a bad system prep, It'll cost you 50 mil in prepping or Fortification to get to rating 5. So Undermining is still the easiest way to maintain Rating 5. The placing system makes no sense and there's no documentation on how it works. For example Archon according to the raw data was at one point the second or third most productive power having the least wasted Merits, and having never hit turmoil(while being gunned for by 4 factions.) but sat miserably between 8 and 10th place, while other factions were sitting in the top 5 folding in on themselves.
2. We still haven't gotten the bookmarking system for the map like we were told we were going to get in the stream Horizons launched with, and again in the Christmas Stream.
3. While the ship UI is beautifully neat, the outfitting UI is a disaster, it's said when a webbased thing like Coriolis functions better than the Outfitting UI, this is embarassing.
4. There needs to be a way to search for Components and Commodities within 15-30ly of your current position. If you have missions sending you to other systems in that range clearly there's some sort of communication, ect at that range. Just because we can go to a website and check something doesn't mean we should have to, leaving the game to get information that should be readily avaiable is not a feature it's ridiculous.
5. Piracy is still entirely unproffitable, so much so that people just prefer player-killing instead to force the person into a rebuy. The time put in to profit ratio is poor compared to even mining, and we won't talk about it compared to Trading or Bounty Hunting.
6. Instancing is absolutely terrible and has been for 3 months. So much so that as a PvP player I can't play because if I can actually find someone, I'll usually be unknowlingly engaging a wing of 3 players, one or two of which i can't actually see.
7. There is outright NOTHING interesting to do on planets right now. So that leaves people with Powerplay which as said above is kind of broken and hasn't gotten fixed in a year now, or go to Community Goals which as i said above rely on instancing working as intended.
All that being said i'm still in love with Elite, but i've been taking a pretty long break because of these problems, and while I understand the patchnotes are for a VR update it's very disappointing to me to come and see that things like "Xbox Commanders can be seen on the top bounties now". Why? We can't play with them, No one bounty hunts players because the game is so freaking big it's damn near impossible. The bounty board is useless. We need updates to the Outfitting UI, we need Powerplay updates.
