No! Every single MMO does this and it's totally impractical for the hours I work and the free time that I have.
What is the 'endgame'?
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No! Every single MMO does this and it's totally impractical for the hours I work and the free time that I have.
I can categorically state there is no endgame. No finish line. No winner's trophy. That's not what this game is about.
After a year of play I'm not yet ranked Elite on trade, combat or exploration. I'll get there when I get there. I just play.
Currently I have eighteen of the twenty ships available and around 30M CR in the bank - although normally I just have three; a trade Anaconda, a combat Python and an Asp explorer.
At the weekend I traded metal to Antal (a hostile faction system) for the Community Goal got a 4M CR "thank you" and then took an Imperial Clipper and went mining in the rings of DISCI 1.
Tonight I'll probably take my Python for some combat. As the mood takes me. I do what I want, when I feel like it. That, in my opinion, is the point of the game.
After a year of play I'm not yet ranked Elite on trade, combat or exploration. I'll get there when I get there. I just play.
Currently I have eighteen of the twenty ships available and around 30M CR in the bank - although normally I just have three; a trade Anaconda, a combat Python and an Asp explorer.
At the weekend I traded metal to Antal (a hostile faction system) for the Community Goal got a 4M CR "thank you" and then took an Imperial Clipper and went mining in the rings of DISCI 1.
Tonight I'll probably take my Python for some combat. As the mood takes me. I do what I want, when I feel like it. That, in my opinion, is the point of the game.
When you reach triple elite status, top out the CQC leaderboard and pledge to the 'correct' power, your occulus rift mindmelds to your brain and your transmogrification into your Cmdr is completed. You plunge further into the ED galaxy turmoil to live out the rest of your days hooked on Onionhead and never able to return to planet Earth in the time period 2015.
Wellington
Banned
You are doing it right now...........I cannot speak for anyone else BUT there is a growing trend of people finding the forums more engaging than the game
I'm really tired of the grind, being told to "use my imagination"......If that was my wont I would read a book And to be honest it would be BETTER! PP holds no interest for me, maybe for the completionists or RPers out there, but not for me. I would like quest-chains, a less clinical feel to the game....I dunno, just SOMETHING to grab me!The endgame is when your ship smacks into the brickwall at the end of the universe...or restaurant, either way is fine.
Wellington
Banned
ED is NOT an MMO........ I wish people would STOP trying to label it a such. It is a space-fight-trade-sim at its core and lacks ANY resemblance to an MMO. Is BF4 an MMO? Is world of tanks an MMO? The answer is NO and neither is ED
Its multiplayer at best, with at most 20-30-ish players per shard.........I suppose its easier to swallow, the MMO line, its easier to excuse the development "hiccups" and lack of content....kreuzbichler
Banned
Wellington
Banned
So much this. I had been neglecting combat so have been concentrating on it for the last couple of weeks. Great fun, I quite often scare myself fartless when the canopy cracks. Docking with less than a minute of oxygen left (I thank the devs for making the inside of stations an oxygen area, otherwise I may not have made it).
Amount of money made: irrelevant
Amount of enjoyment: immeasurable
If you are bored go and do something else like exploring, trading, missions, powerplay oe even dare i say it mining.
The game is open-ended. There is no "end game".
There is no final destination, not "You have won!" video at the end: The journey is the game. Where you you want to go next?
You are the Commander & pilot of your own starship.
The year is 3301.
The place is the Milky Way galaxy.
The rest is up to you.
There is no final destination, not "You have won!" video at the end: The journey is the game. Where you you want to go next?
You are the Commander & pilot of your own starship.
The year is 3301.
The place is the Milky Way galaxy.
The rest is up to you.
Personally I think Elite should really mean Elite in the AI realm. They should be few in number, but terrible foes. And a wing of such pilots should be an incredible challenge (especially if tackled alone). They should be something you seriously consider running away from rather than fight unless you're sure of your abilities.
But saying "only end gamers can kill" suggests a scenario that only occurs once you've reached a certain "level" and that I don't care for unless it's mission based. Within the open universe things shouldn't "scale" based on your ability.
Ideally I'd like to see a persistent universe where major NPCs above a certain rank don't just spawn/despawn but have "lives" not unlike how Skyrim is handled (ie a major trader NPC has a predictable route, a major pirate has a home base and range he hunts out to, etc... ) But for now I'd just settle for a realistic spread of pilot ability out there.
Sorry, I just had to.
*Sigh*
I hope i am not the only one.... no, i am certain ! I am not the only one here.
For me/us its not about endgame or mid game/whatever-part-game at all.
We are here because we like the idea of living in space and traveling to other worlds. Discovering interesting worlds, phenomenons, life forms.
It is this deep down urge to be really free. To go wherever we feel like. To live adventurous life.
But what we have got, is something, that is more like our boring lives.
We are not here for the game. We want this for real.
Yeah we get it. It is not possible.
So we went and searched for the "next best thing."
It started with made up stories that were told, then came alphabet and we were writing books.
And here we are today - Games.
And right now for us it is ED.
So you see asking us about endgame is like asking:
"what kind of coffin would you like to have at your funeral?"
What we are asking from FD is ....well lets face it: Impossible (at least today)
But it is ok we can be happy with that "next best thing"..... however this "next best" so far, is not good enough.
(there are older titles that were better)
But we will wait and perhaps help to make this "next best thing"
One day.....
I hope i am not the only one.... no, i am certain ! I am not the only one here.
For me/us its not about endgame or mid game/whatever-part-game at all.
We are here because we like the idea of living in space and traveling to other worlds. Discovering interesting worlds, phenomenons, life forms.
It is this deep down urge to be really free. To go wherever we feel like. To live adventurous life.
But what we have got, is something, that is more like our boring lives.
We are not here for the game. We want this for real.
Yeah we get it. It is not possible.
So we went and searched for the "next best thing."
It started with made up stories that were told, then came alphabet and we were writing books.
And here we are today - Games.
And right now for us it is ED.
So you see asking us about endgame is like asking:
"what kind of coffin would you like to have at your funeral?"
What we are asking from FD is ....well lets face it: Impossible (at least today)
But it is ok we can be happy with that "next best thing"..... however this "next best" so far, is not good enough.
(there are older titles that were better)
But we will wait and perhaps help to make this "next best thing"
One day.....
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There is no endgame in sandbox game
You will find endgame in themepark games
You will find endgame in themepark games
Without "toys" with which to do things, isn't any undeveloped framework eligible to be called a sandbox by that definition?
A C# compiler is a sandbox if you really want to be tricky.
If we go all philosophical, an empty box is a sandbox that is just waiting for sand. And a box with a grain of sand is also a sandbox. (both apply to ED, depending of how positive or negative you feel respectively
)And does the sandbox exists when we are not looking at it?
*mind blown*