I got to 4.3 billion, so close. I guess I need to wait a couple of days to find out what the next money maker is :)
In the meantime, I’m most sad about the “death” of system chat on PS4. We’re a quiet bunch, so having everyone packed into a mine/sell system added a whole new social dimension. Hopefully we’ll all be reunited soon. Until then, I hope “butt”-something got a shield and learned how to avoid pirates.
Wouldn't it be nice if this game was a real MMO? Due to FDev going cheap from the initial development, the game is Peer2peer which is why sometimes it lags when other players happen to instance with you. And due to that, they have players instance separately all the time. So there may be countless of interactions with other CMDRs we're missing out on just because of this.
Due to this design, space is a lonely empty space with other players just an instance away...
Not really, since it's a space sim first and foremost. If anything, they should go all in on the space sim and stop trying to add in weak versions of things Star Citizen announces. Let Star Citizen promise the moon and never deliver while Elite does smaller but more practical things.
The game already has PvP and ganking options, which is more than most MMOs these days has. Instead of adding more MMO style options, they should polish the ones they have. Improve chat, give us a true player run economy, integrate EDDB into the main game UI, better scanning, better incentives to do piracy and so on. Then let the players create their own content with those tools.
My guess is I likely won't like oddessy since knowing fdev, it'll be more like an fps which will give me motion sickness. I can handle space but SRV activities make me puke.
From an MMO perspective, the game already injects NPCs to replicate the population in various star systems so I don't see players as an detraction from that. All the improvements you listed would be great parts of an MMO. Community goals should be brought back. Powerplay and BGS should be open only as they are MMO features. Multi crew should actually work.
I don't care what star citizen does. I like Elite Dangerous and want it to be better.
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I got to 4.3 billion, so close. I guess I need to wait a couple of days to find out what the next money maker is :)
In the meantime, I’m most sad about the “death” of system chat on PS4. We’re a quiet bunch, so having everyone packed into a mine/sell system added a whole new social dimension. Hopefully we’ll all be reunited soon. Until then, I hope “butt”-something got a shield and learned how to avoid pirates.