KurakilPikkuMikaI tried that game,compared to ed. Its like watching how grass grows or paint dries.
To me, ED is like that too. A lot of time consumed with very little to show for it.
Light-HawkThe engineering grind is probably the only thing I can think of that really makes ED feel this way.
Light-Hawk The engineering grind is probably the only thing I can think of that really makes ED feel this way.
Yuna SakashiroLight-HawkThe engineering grind is probably the only thing I can think of that really makes ED feel this way.
I agree. And this would be so easy to solve. Either make materials tradable, or make it so that engineering modifications can be dismantled to get the materials back, or make it so that each modification needs to be unlocked with materials only once and then can be purchased, just like Guardian modules.
KurakilLight-Hawk The engineering grind is probably the only thing I can think of that really makes ED feel this way.
And even it its current iteration it is far better than it was. It went from "why bother" to "at least its not a total waste".
Light-HawkOutside of PvP then yeah, engineering isn't required at all.
EpisparhOk, my CG FSDs from Colonia arrived. I can confirm that you can apply experimental mod to them
Light-HawkEpisparhOk, my CG FSDs from Colonia arrived. I can confirm that you can apply experimental mod to them
Dang. Now I wish I had been able to get in on that CG. I work a weird schedule so was basically at work the whole time.
Iwao KishiroI'm not playing EVE Online, because I can't afford anything else but Series S.
Edit: It's like asking me why I play X-Wing with five small models, and not WH40K despite being "superior" and "bigger" figurine game. The answer will always be money. Do I have less fun? Absolutely not.
Yuna SakashiroPermadeath/permaloss is an interesting gameplay mechanic, but its downside is that it prevents normal people (i.e. those with a life outside gaming, e.g. a job, a relationship, kids etc.) from playing the game. The result is a player base consisting of unemployed basement dwellers and sociopaths on a diet of pizza & Coke, with no life but unlimited time on their hands. It might have worked in pre-Horizons ED where all you needed to replace a ship was credits, but with the grind introduced by engineers, it has become impractical. If you had to re-engineer your ship from scratch after a rebuy, most people would just call it quits.
But no doubt all the masochists staying would pride themselves on being the toughest gaming community ever.
It seems that I am that unemployed sociopath basement dweller.Iwao KishiroAlso, insulting people just because they like permadeath/permaloss is a very low behavior. I know people who play EVE Online and similar games with high risk mechanic and still have a healthy family life. Not that you basically pictured the image made by most dumb media that tried to lessen the role of video games by presenting gamers as people with no life... the image that has been severely outdated by at least a decade now, I guess. Hell, I thought that image has been dead for a while!
I feel insulted in addition, because I am an unemployed person not by my choice but by the stuff that has been happening all around -- and ED, at this point, is one of very, very few things that keeps me from going mentally ill during the endless begging for anyone to hire me for three years straight.
But what I would know? It seems that I am that unemployed sociopath basement dweller.
So no worries, it was more a resigned remark if anything. We all are strained by this pandemic to the extremes so barely anyone's mental state can be considered as "entirely healthy".Yuna SakashiroDon't worry, those drives will become available through tech brokers soon.
