I love the game so far, in the past month I am sure I have played over 100 hours. Keep up the good work!
There are a couple of quality of life improvements that I would love to see in this game though.
In terms of navigation
- I would like to be able to create and manage folders for my POI bookmarks. This way I can designate resources, or commodities, or just a leg on a deep space drive without having to try to manipulate or scan dozens of previous bookmarks which may still be relevant.
- I would like to be able to select maybe 5 of my bookmarks to be accessible without loading the galaxy map. This slows down the game and also impacts immersion for me as it is a rather hard take. My commander doesn't take any hands off to hit a button, they don't turn and look at a screen that then pops up. It just locks me out of any controls for 5-10 seconds as it buffers the data then pops up a totally different screen.
- I would love to share my destination or bookmarks with friends or wing members. This could be implemented similar to the wing up system where a message gets sent to the targeted player or members of a wing asking if they would like to join me at "System X" or "Station Y" whichever is being targeted. This could make group exploration a real treat as people with variously capable ships could head to the same location through different ways.
In terms of social, I would like to see some way of creating a permanent private social group. Something like a guild or squadron or union. This could allow players to not have to swell their friends list as much and inspire players to not spend as much time in their private parties. This could be incentivized by tying boosts to trade dividends, mission sharing, or exploration rewards as well as listing these groups as part of an expedition to allow the association to be listed as the Discoverer of worlds.
My experience has been one where other players can somewhat impact your game, but due to the sheer size of the galaxy you have to seek out player contact. It is effectively a single player game sharing space with other players. Sure multicrew is fun, for a bit. But it doesn't have the payoff to make people want to park their ship and sit in someone's copilot's chair or fighter bay. Winging up temporarily is fun too, but it requires a lot of coordination through voice and not everyone likes doing that. Sending coordinates through messages then having players have to manually search, slows the progress towards fun.
It is just my 2 bits here, but these would significantly help sustain your console player base.
There are a couple of quality of life improvements that I would love to see in this game though.
In terms of navigation
- I would like to be able to create and manage folders for my POI bookmarks. This way I can designate resources, or commodities, or just a leg on a deep space drive without having to try to manipulate or scan dozens of previous bookmarks which may still be relevant.
- I would like to be able to select maybe 5 of my bookmarks to be accessible without loading the galaxy map. This slows down the game and also impacts immersion for me as it is a rather hard take. My commander doesn't take any hands off to hit a button, they don't turn and look at a screen that then pops up. It just locks me out of any controls for 5-10 seconds as it buffers the data then pops up a totally different screen.
- I would love to share my destination or bookmarks with friends or wing members. This could be implemented similar to the wing up system where a message gets sent to the targeted player or members of a wing asking if they would like to join me at "System X" or "Station Y" whichever is being targeted. This could make group exploration a real treat as people with variously capable ships could head to the same location through different ways.
In terms of social, I would like to see some way of creating a permanent private social group. Something like a guild or squadron or union. This could allow players to not have to swell their friends list as much and inspire players to not spend as much time in their private parties. This could be incentivized by tying boosts to trade dividends, mission sharing, or exploration rewards as well as listing these groups as part of an expedition to allow the association to be listed as the Discoverer of worlds.
My experience has been one where other players can somewhat impact your game, but due to the sheer size of the galaxy you have to seek out player contact. It is effectively a single player game sharing space with other players. Sure multicrew is fun, for a bit. But it doesn't have the payoff to make people want to park their ship and sit in someone's copilot's chair or fighter bay. Winging up temporarily is fun too, but it requires a lot of coordination through voice and not everyone likes doing that. Sending coordinates through messages then having players have to manually search, slows the progress towards fun.
It is just my 2 bits here, but these would significantly help sustain your console player base.