Fair enough as I respect you Mengy, my opinion is I don't want building or any mechanics to do with it in Elite. It's about flying space ships around and shooting some stuff. I used Minecraft because fundamentally that's the easiest way to describe it, sorry for mentioning it for the 11th time
Don't think about player base building in Elite as anything super detailed, like a SimCity or such. Think of it more like a new way to introduce new opportunities to support flying our ships. The game should always be focused on the space ships and playing the game via them, and the greatest thing player built bases can accomplish is new and emergent ways to do just that. Like fleet carrier ships, which hopefully will allow player groups to fly their ships out of these large mobile bases. Player built bases would just be smaller, stationary, customizable versions of the fleet carriers we are getting this year. They wouldn't be a focus of any major gameplay but they would be a great new source for gameplay with the ships in the game.
I think too many people are focused on the bases themselves without realizing the great potential for ship based gameplay bases can bring to the game.
