1. I wouldn't want ED to be this arcade.
2. I repeat #1.
Consider almost every game you ever played. You almost always face lots of weak enemies that are easily dispatched until you face a boss battle or tougher enemy. Think of movies. The hero beats up lots of weak characters before facing the ultimate challenging villain. In the Matrix movies Neo takes out a bunch of nameless agents before finally facing Agent Smith.
But in Elite you just have combat against enemies that take a lot of effort to defeat. If you face two or three at once you usually won't survive. This makes the options for combat missions rather limited and repetitive.
I suggest adding some weak defense drones. It only make sense that drones would be used in the future to defend installations. We already have skimmers which are drones defending planetary bases. Why not have drones in space defending space installations and planetary installations? This would make for a far more interesting mix of missions where the difficulty is easily scaled by changing the number of enemies.
I also would like to see weak Thargoid drone fighters.
What do you think?
skip to the 6 minute mark for a space base defended by drones
[video=youtube;AtwguutQiws]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtwguutQiws[/video]
2. I repeat #1.
Consider almost every game you ever played. You almost always face lots of weak enemies that are easily dispatched until you face a boss battle or tougher enemy. Think of movies. The hero beats up lots of weak characters before facing the ultimate challenging villain. In the Matrix movies Neo takes out a bunch of nameless agents before finally facing Agent Smith.
But in Elite you just have combat against enemies that take a lot of effort to defeat. If you face two or three at once you usually won't survive. This makes the options for combat missions rather limited and repetitive.
I suggest adding some weak defense drones. It only make sense that drones would be used in the future to defend installations. We already have skimmers which are drones defending planetary bases. Why not have drones in space defending space installations and planetary installations? This would make for a far more interesting mix of missions where the difficulty is easily scaled by changing the number of enemies.
I also would like to see weak Thargoid drone fighters.
What do you think?
skip to the 6 minute mark for a space base defended by drones
[video=youtube;AtwguutQiws]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtwguutQiws[/video]
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