May I quote meself? There is no need to automate all of it. And we're not really asking for total automation neither, like some would like to paint those who constructively criticise.
Why does my 34th century spaceship have no autopilot OR how do you accept the hyperjump grind?
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May I quote meself? There is no need to automate all of it. And we're not really asking for total automation neither, like some would like to paint those who constructively criticise.
Yeah...but not the same stone over and over and over and over again, surely?
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And why do we have to have the stone in the first place? I mean, just because life has crappy crap in it doesnt mean our entertainment should too?
Who would have thought this thread would devolve into a battle between those who like dull repetitive gameplay and those who don't? Nobody is changing their mind. I already pointed out this is a taboo subject. People who cannot differentiate activity from accomplishment or entertainment from fulfillment will fight to the death to protect their Ill conceived ideas. Go forth and ruminate on how you despise those forum "trolls" who dare disagree with you.
Having us steer our ship through hyperspace tunnels and have us avoiding massive gravitational objects would be a neat little addition instead of the same loading screen over and over (the hyperspace animation is awesome, I just feel more could be done with the concept of hyperspace to enrich gameplay and add more depth).
Also, have sectors of space that are shorter hyperspace routes but they're more risky. As in you run the chance of your FSD becoming unstable and you get thrown out at a random location (this should be a risk regardless to be honest, especially with lower class drives), or you actually get stranded within hyperspace.
I don't know, things need to be added to make hyperspace feel "real" and not just a loading screen that never changes.
Also, have sectors of space that are shorter hyperspace routes but they're more risky. As in you run the chance of your FSD becoming unstable and you get thrown out at a random location (this should be a risk regardless to be honest, especially with lower class drives), or you actually get stranded within hyperspace.
I don't know, things need to be added to make hyperspace feel "real" and not just a loading screen that never changes.
But one man's crappy crap is another's cherished gold.
But I am suspecting troll bait.... the OP said the game drove him away more than 18 months ago. Why haunt message boards for a game you dislike? I stopped attacking Daikatana YEARS ago.
Since when do you need to make thousands of jumps to do anything?
If you don't want to make thousands of jumps, go exploring in a nearby system. Problem solved.
having to repeatedly stab at the "jump" button is already a choice.
If you don't want to do it, you don't have to.
Lol, would you like some alternate game suggestions ?.
Is it too much to ask that hyperspace travel take on a form something like a revamped version of the interdiction mini game with nebula and asteroid fields you need to navigate through at great peril? A game so dull it requires a second monitor for Netflix is pretty sad. Especially since I'm reasonably confident space is full of things incomprehensibly dangerous.
Why are you so reluctant to consider an entirely optional autopilot?
As you say, 'If you don't want to do it, you don't have to.'
That sounds like a truly terrible idea.
Well if FDev are genuinely making gameplay decisions on the basis of the opinion of a handful of cranks fair enough but I'm not convinced that they are - I assumed it was as much an issue of prioritising dev resources and so on as giving in to the needs of the lunatic fringe.
I'm no lover of excessive jumping myself - I've been 40K LY out from Sol exploring and yet I nearly pulled my eyeballs out doing 26 jumps back from the California nebula recently after a CG, the reason being that I hardly ever do 26 jumps without stopping to check something out when I'm exploring.
Suppose I want to go to Colonia. Why would you be so incredibly opposed to people doing just that without pressing the 'J' but an ungodly number of times? You can keep doing whatever you like as it is now, if you prefer.
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Because playing the same minigame 1,000 times is much more interesting than the mechanism we have now?
Also, nebulae are HUGE. You're highly unlikely to be jumping PAST them, unless you're using Neutron Star boosting.
A lot of the time, you're not even jumping PAST stars.
Space is full of absolutely nothing - that's kinda why they call it 'space'.
IIRC the dev quote on not having autopilots were along the lines of "we want people to play the game".
As an argument, 'if you don't want to do it you don't have to' rarely has any real merit.
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No ! It will give FD ideas as to what they can offer for premium content