Elite: Game talk

Martind Forlon
19 Dec 2017, 12:29pm
Marra Morgan
Martind Forlon
Imo it's more FD issue, they should predict that this situation will happen and do something against it. Like automatically move ship to "rear" hangar if not active for more as 2 minutes and similar. Also there is weird that such huge evac ship have only ONE landing pad for big ship ... that not make much sense.



File a bug report.
it is not a bug, it is a design failure imo (there are already multiple reports). And I do not believe that they are not aware about this, when theirs own QA gives advice sw to solo when is docking pad blocked. Working like intended. So imo they do not want alter this system or can't (for some reason(s)).
User1355
19 Dec 2017, 12:40pm
Oh well.
Scubadog
19 Dec 2017, 2:32pm
I don't really see it as a bug. I mean, in "reality", you very could have a commander land some place (pull to the side of the road, so to speak) and take a nap. So, art imitates life. But I could easily walk up to an improperly parked vehicle, bang on the window and wake the person up and say "move along, find a better spot". Not so in this game. What would be kind of funny, though, would be an automated system that checks for inactivity and, after a time, automatically "ejects" the ship to float away from the station. Imagine "waking up" to realize your ship is floating aimlessly in a system.

Either that, or just let me blow them off the pad.
Draxxa Kireth
19 Dec 2017, 2:45pm
i would consider that as well a real life situation...i could crash-land on a pilot like that
Scubadog
19 Dec 2017, 2:55pm
LOL. I did watch that happen last night. I was at Dervish with three other ships trying to offload but some cretin was afk on the pad. One of the commanders decide to "key" the guy's ship before jumping out of the system. Hilarious.
User23543
19 Dec 2017, 2:55pm
Fly a medium or small sized ship?
Scubadog
19 Dec 2017, 4:02pm
It just so happened that everyone was in Pythons.
User23543
19 Dec 2017, 4:10pm
Haha, nice.

This is why I've been helping at Liman's Legacy - little to no Commander traffic!
Calteru
19 Dec 2017, 4:26pm
I'm bored and looking for ideas to keep me playing. I don't like combat. I do like exploring and trading but I feel like I've already accomplished all there is to accomplish with regard to those two facets. I've learned the BGS to the point that I flipped control in two systems solo and got one to expand without hardly even trying. Is there anything left? It doesn't look like anyone does SRV racing which is too bad because I'd probably be into that.
James Hussar
19 Dec 2017, 4:30pm
Oh, sure, everyone complains about instancing keeping players from seeing each other, but when some joker strokes out while on a pad, everyone suddenly hates being in the same instance.
Phelbore
19 Dec 2017, 5:13pm
CalteruI'm bored and looking for ideas to keep me playing. I don't like combat. I do like exploring and trading but I feel like I've already accomplished all there is to accomplish with regard to those two facets. I've learned the BGS to the point that I flipped control in two systems solo and got one to expand without hardly even trying. Is there anything left? It doesn't look like anyone does SRV racing which is too bad because I'd probably be into that.


https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteRacers/ or run your own club. Hire yourself out as a BGS expert. Wipe your save and start from scratch. Take a shitwinder to the roof and floor...
Calteru
19 Dec 2017, 5:26pm
Phelbore
CalteruI'm bored and looking for ideas to keep me playing. I don't like combat. I do like exploring and trading but I feel like I've already accomplished all there is to accomplish with regard to those two facets. I've learned the BGS to the point that I flipped control in two systems solo and got one to expand without hardly even trying. Is there anything left? It doesn't look like anyone does SRV racing which is too bad because I'd probably be into that.



https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteRacers/ or run your own club. Hire yourself out as a BGS expert. Wipe your save and start from scratch. Take a shitwinder to the roof and floor...


So in other words I'm at endgame after 2w playtime. Awesome. In other sandbox games this is where I would start building things for other players to find and maybe write a storyline to go with those things but that's not happening here. I put in an inquiry with the racers already but it seems they haven't done anything since the summer and I can understand why after having run a few racing leagues in other games myself. Without good prizes interest wanes. I'd offer microtrans stuff or IGC but neither are viable options here. I'd have loved to have hired myself out as a tour guide but taking palladium as payment is too much of a pain to make it profitable. Hell, I'd really like to just be a highwayman robbing tourists but I'd need too much cargo space to make it fun. I could do a lot if there were even simple P2P trading.
User23543
19 Dec 2017, 5:34pm
Why don't you like combat?
Draxxa Kireth
19 Dec 2017, 5:36pm
Go thargoid hunting, knwo ins and outs of every ship in every role, wait for the new ships....go CIF hunting at bases , CQC, get good at FA-Off, take on convoy-pirating...
Calteru
19 Dec 2017, 5:44pm
NFC PhistoWhy don't you like combat?


It's not that I don't like it. It's that I've done it for 20+ years and it'd be nice to do something else. Combat here's something like Evochron Legacy but a bit simpler. It's all right but I'd like to break out of the mold.

Draxxa KirethGo thargoid hunting, knwo ins and outs of every ship in every role, wait for the new ships....go CIF hunting at bases , CQC, get good at FA-Off, take on convoy-pirating...


I don't want to shoot the aliens! I like aliens! Pirating would be fun but it was more fun on EvE because I could just get paid directly instead of having to waste cargo space that was better used for holding more ammo. I'd have to have 100+t of cargo space which means I'd be nerfing my ship fightwise. Can I trade data with players? It might be worth the effort to be a hacker for hire.

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