Your favourite design proposals

[Andrew Sayers]

Frontier have put a lot of detail about the game in the design discussion archive. Which proposals did you most look forward to? Which ones talked about the part of the game you most want to play?

For sake of discussion, here are six broad categories and the major proposals associated with them:

• Combat - sensors, shields, damage and death
• Universe - NPCs, newsfeeds, background simulation and galaxy map
• Multiplayer - groups and communication
• Roles - trader, pirate, bounty hunter, smuggler, explorer and miner
• Ships - naming them, managing them and owning several of them
• Travel - hyperspace

(you can also read my informal summary of in-system travel, which hasn't hit the archive yet)

I've had to cut loads of great threads to make this list - please post your favourite if it's not in here!

 

[Cody]

The 'smugglers' thread was of most interest - but I do wish Sandro hadn't called us the Han Solos of the galaxy!

 

[PacalB]

Gotta be the "living, breathing universe" for me.

 

[Nagual]

Going to be boring here and say just about all of them. It's how they all gel together that's the key though. Taken on their own each one has merits and all that, but once you start clicking them all together the overall map of what's coming our way is immense.

I've loved reading about how ships subsystems will be implemented, which will in turn directly how we pilot and fight etc. Trading, smuggling and exploring are right up there with pirating and bounty hunting, plenty of meat on those posts. They way the background simulation integrates itself in to the game and effects us the players as we also effect it.

Often it's not so much the initial proposal that's good but the various comments that follow, especially when a dev contributes something else in to the mix.

 

[OneViGOR]

I know I've been bigging myself up a lot as a big lover of PvP, but as much as this is the case, I've always been a sucker for customisation in games. Even more so when it's for a space ship.

I love to feel a close connection to my ship, especially as it is basically my character. I remember getting really very attached to ships in Pirate Galaxy a while back, never wanting to upgrade when I really needed to. I hope that much carries over the E: D, and from what I've seen, it will.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Going to be boring here and say just about all of them.

+1 with me. All these topics are exciting and certainly very well developed by Frontier. I like Elite Dangerous for everything he has to offer

 

[Jean-Marc Cipullo]

I'm going to choose MULTIPLAYER simply because that's half the reason why I'm buying the game. Relive my childhood but this time, share the experience.

And I love certain multiplayer games for the unpredictability.

 

[OneViGOR]

I like Elite Dangerous for everything he has to offer

Are we sure the game will be male? I wasn't even aware games had genders at all!

 

[Slawkenbergius]

I loved the 'universe' topics, as that's the most interesting technical challenge to me, and could be very exciting. It's no longer a case of doing tasks only for fun/grind, but instead missions are generated based on actual needs.

 

[Jenner]

I like the thread titles. They're creative!

 

[PacalB]

I loved the 'universe' topics, as that's the most interesting technical challenge to me, and could be very exciting. It's no longer a case of doing tasks only for fun/grind, but instead missions are generated based on actual needs.

Agreed totally, the "Universe" is really the base foundation that everything else goes on top of. You don't get that right the rest of it doesn't last long at all. A living breathing universe is key to it all, thus that proposal.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Are we sure the game will be male? I wasn't even aware games had genders at all!

I like ED for all that it has to offer. Is it more correct? ------ "Merci pour votre tolérance envers mon faible niveau de langage outre manche. Il est vrai que de temps à autre, pour ne pas dire souvent, certains mots trompent ma vigilance, surtout lorsque je suis distrait. Je souhaite ardemment de ne point vous avoir offensé en écorchant ce que je suppose être votre langue maternelle."

 

[OneViGOR]

I like dangerous elite for everything it has to offer. Is it more correct? ------ "Merci pour votre tolérance envers mon faible niveau de langage outre manche. Il est vrai que de temps à autre, pour ne pas dire souvent, certains mots trompent ma vigilance, surtout lorsque je suis distrait. Je souhaite ardemment de ne point vous avoir offensé en écorchant ce que je suppose être votre langue maternelle."

Had to Google Translate that . I didn't realise English wasn't your primary language. If I offended you, I do apologise.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Had to Google Translate that . I didn't realise English wasn't your primary language. If I offended you, I do apologise.

No problem of course. I am a French cousin ... on the other side of the English Channel ...

 

[jabokai]

Had to Google Translate that .

I think that was the point!

 

[Oss133]

No problem of course. I am a French cousin ... on the other side of the English Channel ...

It is usually clear when someone's first language is not English and I applaud anyone that can speak more than one. If that person does not say where they are from then I try and guess. I had not got you as french at all! This is a fun game but I suck at it, it turns out.

Welcome, my French cousin.

 

[jabokai]

I thought he was Russian for some reason!

 

[Patrick_68000]

It is usually clear when someone's first language is not English and I applaud anyone that can speak more than one. If that person does not say where they are from then I try and guess. I had not got you as french at all! This is a fun game but I suck at it, it turns out.

Welcome, my French cousin.

Elite Dangerous is a great family, and I'm happy like many others here, of the hospitality and the very good atmosphere in the forums

 

[Patrick_68000]

I thought he was Russian for some reason!

You said Russian?

 

[Kerrash]

Has to be the FSD/travel proposal.
If for no other reason but for the fact that Frontier took on all our comments and came up with something awesome.