What's the learning curve for someone who is a complete noob to the Elite series?
I finally bought the Fer DeLance and got it nearly all A-Class (except Life Support). I have been highly successful at RES farming thanks to the A4 Plasma Accelerator, destroying the Power Plant on an Anaconda in two easy shots.
It would be a completely different game if they removed solo play. Trading would become non-viable.
No it wouldn't. It would just encourage people to do it in wings.
It would also mean your big expensive ship with all sorts of hardpoints and better shields now has suddenly more value to you other than how much more cargo space it has..
This is really the problem with this game. You grind and grind and grind just so you can get a "bigger gun" and... do the exact same thing. The game gets progressively easier, there is no difficulty scaling or change in content.
What you do in your sidewinder, you still do in the ship you spent 100s of hours working for. It just becomes easier. Games are supposed to get progressively harder, this one gets progressively easier..
There are lots of ways they can fix this so hopefully they do.
They also need to dump that solo mode or simply make it a separate save.
Trading in solo has zero risk and of all the ways to earn money it has the highest reward vs. time. It's imbalanced.
Requiring a wing would be a good thing and help balance that. It would not be hard to find escorts and/or other traders in those known good trade routes. It would make your ship choice more important, which brings in my other comment. More cargo space or more defense/offence. Risk vs. reward.
As I said before, it could simply be a separate save.
Trading in solo has zero risk and of all the ways to earn money it has the highest reward vs. time. It's imbalanced.
Requiring a wing would be a good thing and help balance that. It would not be hard to find escorts and/or other traders in those known good trade routes. It would make your ship choice more important, which brings in my other comment. More cargo space or more defense/offence. Risk vs. reward.
As I said before, it could simply be a separate save.
Also, this game does not get easier. Having good aim with an A4 Plasma Accelerator takes skill and is something a noob will not be able to use effectively.
Once you get a Vulture no NPC or SSS can kill you if you are half decent. Bounty hunting becomes trivial and of no danger at all. The combat game becomes way easier.
Trading scales significantly, you earn more credits per hour with the same level of "difficulty" as when you first started. It's become easier now to earn a large amount of credits in the same amount of time.
To say a game doesn't get easier because a noob may not be able to do something makes no sense. As the players skill and power increases so should the content.
I'm not saying I don't like the game, I do and got many hours of enjoyment of it. It just needs some work to keep more players interested in it in the long run.
The game is $60? Otherwise I think more than half the playerbase is actually not steam. IIRC they said they have over 500k people that own the game and I don't think only 7k of 500k would be online.The $70 price tag is killing this game, today on Steam it just peaked at 7,073 concurrent players, that's kind of pitiful.
I don't know what the non Steam numbers are but I would imagine a majority shifted to Steam for ease of access.
Bring that price down to a base of $40 an you have more players, $70 is ridiculous considering what I could buy with that money now.
That depends on your playstyle. I was doing the same thing and burned out after ~2 weeks, but now that I'm not looking at it as a linear progression it is a lot more fun.I regret buying this game, it's pretty much eurotruck simulator in space
The $70 price tag is killing this game, today on Steam it just peaked at 7,073 concurrent players, that's kind of pitiful.
I don't know what the non Steam numbers are but I would imagine a majority shifted to Steam for ease of access.
Bring that price down to a base of $40 an you have more players, $70 is ridiculous considering what I could buy with that money now.
All i can say is get used to numbers like this
7,000 will probably be a high number for this game
the fact is games like Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous peaked in 2013-2014 and are already on the downswing, its just how PC gaming is these days
All i can say is get used to numbers like this
7,000 will probably be a high number for this game
the fact is games like Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous peaked in 2013-2014 and are already on the downswing, its just how PC gaming is these days
Elite is a procedurally generated MMO style game that is failing under the weight of its own blandness. Star Citizen will be a hand sculpted predominantly single player game in the spirit of Wing Commander that isn't even out yet. The "fact" that they are both space sim is the only consistent similarity. This is a case where players are judging the value of a particular title and isn't some sort of overriding marker to describe the health of PC gaming in general.
The next time you decide to use the word "fact" to describe an opinion on the overall state of PC gaming, the least you could do is provide actual evidence to back up said "fact" and also try to pick a more widespread title to use as the focus. Elite is a niche title that accounts for a very small subset of the overall PC gaming population base; therefore, any success or lack thereof is only a marker of its own quality.
Many of us believe that Elite should have never have been developed as an online title, which could account for the waning interest. I played it for about two weeks before losing interest completely and I have a HOTAS and head tracking system. Once you get past the cool flight dynamics, the game is incredibly thin. I'm still ecstatic about Star Citizen though.