I understand, but it's kind of weird for me to play one game for two. It's also weird for me to pick up items with relogs, get killed in a sidewinder for fast movement, and such, I guess I'm too weird.
With Jump Ranges for ships nearing 400ly, carriers need a buff (video evidence)
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Not weird, just how the game suits you.
Less need for relogs with the increased spawn/mission reward rates, so that "helps" you.
What is worse, getting killed for fast movement or "iron man" mode? Fast movement is preferred for me.....
I wonder though, if the designers were not allowed to make any new ship except the cobra for 2 years, would we instead have gotten a game with deep mechanics and missions and more to do, instead of just more ships.
Yeah, I get it. It's just that when I play, I imagine myself commanding a ship in this one galaxy. And with a dual account, it's like schizophrenia.
Essentially my second account can just sit on my own FC (crazy house) and just pump fuel as needed.
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Something tells me that ships and missions are different teams, probably even different departments inside FDev. Thus it's never "instead", it's always "and".would we instead have gotten a game with deep mechanics and missions and more to do, instead of just more ships.
Also, IMO, ships department does very, very good. Instead of...
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Some people using around ten alts sitting on one's FC in their T9s full of trit. AFAIK that mass is not counted toward jump range nor takes any storage, thus they have like 7-8K tons of additional tritium that occupies no volume nor having any mass.
Just a bit of role-play. As with most games, my main is a (mostly) law abiding character - not so easy with this game - while my alt is a bit of a rogue. I play each one depending on my mood.
It’s a little more consistent than having an upstanding Federal citizen Who’s a blood thirsty pirate at the weekend.
Alternatively, those two games, being single player games, allow you to ramp up the difficulty once you master the basics. In Survival games like Minecraft, I often set my difficulty to the equivalent of Ironman (death is permanent) and in the case of Minecraft I turn off health regeneration. My goal is to see how far I can get in the game before dying.
I pretty much switched to BGS manipulation once I owned a Cobra Mark III, which was during the Gamma. It was then I realized my roleplaying of a “struggling Commander fighting a one woman war against the Evil Galactic Federation” was starting to have real effects in the game, and started studying how my actions related to them.
Then I decided to help the brave freedom fighters in Lugh throw off the yoke of their oppressors.
My philosophy towards this game has always been “Winning a war will cost you most of your gold, losing it will cast you all of it.” So I’d always been a philanthropist where BGS manipulation was concerned. Before reward inflation really began accelerating (around the Passengers update IMO), it was an interesting struggle balancing my generosity while still making a profit, especially once I became aware of Buckyball Racing.
There’s a world of difference between maintaining one ship, and owning a collection of highly specialized ships. So the biggest impact that level of reward inflation had on my game was my sense of verisimilitude. “You could by your own ship for what you’re offering. What do you need me for?” That hobby was a welcome credit sink, but even then my need for credits fell behind my ability to generate them, which meant I wasn’t being tempted out of my comfort zone as often.
Which is a bad thing in my book. Failure can be fun, in my opinion, and it’s outside my comfort zone where failure lives.
For a while, the exchange between reputation, influence, and faction states still pushed me out of my comfort zone from time to time. But then Frontier changed the BGS faction states from singular to being on a spectrum (good), and killed criminal missions having a “negative” (aka nuanced) impact on the mission giver, transforming BGS manipulation from a byzantine-like exercise in political gamesmanship into a straight up influence grind.
Then I left with Distant Worlds 2, after I learned that the FSS can be used to explore a system via parallax like in the early days, and stayed in the Black until Odyssey gave me a reason to the Bubble.
In another thread, I realized I can estimate how many credits I've donated over the years by looking at my PowerPlay 2.0 strategy. It's a rough estimate, but in terms of raw credits, it's around 20 billion, enough to buy a fleet carrier and maintain it into perpetuity. And that's just raw credits. If I'd focused solely on earning credits, I could've probably made ten times that amount.
But then the game wouldn't have been nearly as much fun, so I consider that the best 20 billion credits I'd ever spent in the game. As opposed to a Fleet Carrier, whose only purpose would be as a monument to my character's ability to make credits, in a game where credits are ridiculously easy to acquire.
All too true.
Most of my aviation friends have tried Elite, and given up on it.You'll have a better chance of convincing those friends who enjoy flight simulations/ ship or tank simulations and even mecha simulation games.
Even if your FPS friends start out with Oddysey, they eventually have to handle a ship. And that's a non-starter for most of the FPS crowd.
They probably won't even like the FC's
The mission boards.I wonder though, if the designers were not allowed to make any new ship except the cobra for 2 years, would we instead have gotten a game with deep mechanics and missions and more to do, instead of just more ships.
Would not have been surprised if many did but that most did is a bit of a shocker
Was there any common denominator?
The lack of cupholders.
That is an issue for car drivers.