Is this a thing?
Walking around in fleet carriers?
- Thread starter Cmdr Jim S Walter
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I feel ripped off
Buyers remorse on a dlc that isn't available for several months yet?
Get over yourself.
Walk around in FC's. That's funny.
I'm still wondering: what do people want to do while walking around?
When people play games, they go to extreme measure to walk around as little as possible. Once they've explored something a couple times, anyway. Isn't walking around ships going to become a skipped step if possible, and busywork if it's required each time?
When people play games, they go to extreme measure to walk around as little as possible. Once they've explored something a couple times, anyway. Isn't walking around ships going to become a skipped step if possible, and busywork if it's required each time?
One of the things I have always wondered as regards waling around in ships. What happens if you go for a walk in your Conda to the lower observation deck, the one we all know about, and the ship gets attacked? I mean sure you can say, well we can have AI in control of the ship while we are walking, but a good player with an engineered ship will torch your Conda piloted by AI in less than a minute whereas if you were a the controls you could probably survive and maybe even win.
The Conda is huge, getting from the lower observation deck to the command deck is going to take 10 or 15 minutes. At the moment if you are doing other stuff, if FSS, you just get popped back at the controls, I don't see that being acceptable to the community if you are walking around a long way from the command deck, legs comes with some drawbacks, I could maybe see it work on a small ship with a porta-potty out the back, but not large ships with a lot of room.
People keep saying if they could walk around in their ships FDEV could introduce mini-games like module repair, but that would either only be done at a station or risk being destroyed while you are away from the controls, and if you are at a station who is going to wander around repairing modules manually where there's a repair all button on the menu?
So any thoughts?
Immersion...
That it will...what people always neglect to mention is the fact that experiences wear thin after a while. Walking around a ship is going to feel cool and immersive the first few times. But eventually the novelty wears thin, becomes filler activity, and you're just gonna want to skip it and get on with the gameplay that actually matters.
It will become a thing once stations themselves become walkable - carriers are virtually stations UI-wise and operation wise.
If and when that happens then the stories and plots we used to hear/read in Galnet have the potential to become much more real instead of seeing the same old 2D NPC faces and text dialogue.
So, stations & FCs first then ships. Because ships are harder and FD usually tackles the easier core stuff first - knowing them i mean.
Well, the truth is you wouldn't be repairing it at a station since the station, being the fixed base operator would do that for you anyway. The repairs you do in the ship would only be a partial fix. Full repairs would be done at the station by the maintenance crew. And having to fix something while in combat is entirely on you. And yeah, 15 minutes just to get to the damn flight deck or cockpit would be a painful experience. Why people want to have to do this, every damn time just because they want to feel "immersed" is beyond me.
It makes me smiling because yesterday I replied in another thread wondering why is no one asking if we will be able to walk around in our FC in Odyssey.
When FC was released and many people asked for a bridge view I clearly remember many speculations about being able to walk around in FC and a bridge when "The Next Era" would have been released.
How many other evidences do people need to realize that FDEV is not taking seriously the community feedbacks?
Check here how many long standing QoL requests have never been implemented in the game:
List of long standing (small) requests
When FC was released and many people asked for a bridge view I clearly remember many speculations about being able to walk around in FC and a bridge when "The Next Era" would have been released.
How many other evidences do people need to realize that FDEV is not taking seriously the community feedbacks?
Check here how many long standing QoL requests have never been implemented in the game:
List of long standing (small) requests
And yeah, 15 minutes just to get to the damn flight deck or cockpit would be a painful experience. Why people want to have to do this, every damn time just because they want to feel "immersed" is beyond me.
If we get interiors for ships like a Conda or Beluga I think it's simply going to be a "legs" menu option, go to lower observation deck and we'll just appear there like we do in the SRV, it will be explained away as some for of Turbo Lift type mechanism AKA star Trek and you'll be able to walk around there, then access the Turbo Lift to get back to the Command Center.
I just hope it doesn't turn into some sort of debacle like WiS in EVE.
One idea is "player housing" that several other MMOs have. Mostly vanity stuff, different themes (explorer, trader, bounty hunter...) and cosmetics. This only really beginns to appeal IF you can invite fellow Commanders over for a visit, showing off with unique trophies and furniture, mounted
But other than that, I agree with you that there is little actual gameplay need for walking (floating!) in ships in Elite. I'm not interested in Boarding PVP/PVE gameplay in the slighest and all other actions can be done faster and with less clicks from the commander's chair on the bridge.
Lol, you realize you're still playing Elite? Where you have to press 'J' and watch a loading screen every 30 seconds if you want to go somewhere?
As for "what even to do on foot?" feel free to read any of the 391,853 answers to that question on this forum. Writing a reply each time gets exhausting after the first couple of thousand times.