Elite: Dangerous (continued)

Oldman · Post by **Oldman** » Mon, 23. Jan 17, 20:37

Hi folks

I haven't played Elite Dangerous for a while. Just booted up the game again today and noticed that the Passenger Lounge is now only 'Horizons content'!

When did this change?....does this mean that if you've only got the basic Elite Dangerous game, passenger missions are now off the menu?

Oldman

Post by **Aken_Bosch** » Tue, 24. Jan 17, 01:15

Did a bit of checking loading the non-Horizons client, passengers mission are still there. Unless you find yourself at a moment were only missions requiring planet landings or VIP cabins are available, you should have them as usual.

Oldman · Post by **Oldman** » Tue, 24. Jan 17, 18:09

Aken_Bosch wrote:Did a bit of checking loading the non-Horizons client, passengers mission are still there. Unless you find yourself at a moment were only missions requiring planet landings or VIP cabins are available, you should have them as usual.

Thanks for the reply

It must have been the station I was at the time

....yep, docked at another station and the passenger missions are available.

so I presume there were no passenger missions at the previous station.
I maybe also mistook the 'Crew lounge' for the passenger lounge.
I could of course be going senile

....

Oldman

Redvers Ganderpoke · Post by **Redvers Ganderpoke** » Wed, 25. Jan 17, 16:18

I'm a bit sad at how the storyline is progressing it seems that FD got a bit wrong footed by someone finding the alien ruins before they should by using the skybox in the trailer to find the planet. Either the clues they have planted are very hard to find or discover or the community is being incredible dense we haven't been able to find clues to "other" ruins locations. FD threw a bone in the shape pf a a two week Community Goal (CG) to collect data from the known ruins to help locate the other ruins. The CG was finished in a few days and we've been told what systems the ruins are in. Only problem is that's all we have and the only way to find the new ruins is to search manually using eyeball mk1.

Oldman · Post by **Oldman** » Sun, 5. Feb 17, 23:36

Redvers Ganderpoke wrote:I'm a bit sad at how the storyline is progressing ....

I agree, but looking back on the games development and how and when it was released it's fairly apparent now to see why.
Although it has been stated that an Elite '4' was always on the books, so to speak, by Frontier, it's also obvious 'now' that only certain aspects of the game were thought about in any great detail before release.
Combat was always going to be one of the main features of the game initially, as was trading. Exploration was going to be a given feature as well, so the play area had to be as good, if not better than previous games.

Frontier excelled at the size and intricate nature and complexity of the background play area, when talking of the mechanics of the galaxy itself, but it could be argued that it's still not much better in game detail than the last galaxy (Frontier First Encounters).
My own personal opinion is that in many ways the game was/is lacking many features that should have been present at the release date. It's obvious 'now' why some of these features are thin on the ground with game content, and it's because of this that many parts of the game have, and will suffer in the near future. Storyline/s just being one of the casualties in a list of several others I think.

This is hard for me to explain, but I'll try, and put it this way....
You open a book, you read the first page or two, you start to become engrossed in the story. Characters in the story start to take on personalities that you can become familiar with and understand. People, and just as important places they frequent start to come alive in ones imagination.
Just let me stop here....
People and places. Frontier have 'Places'...Space Stations. Are there people there, and if so what kind of reaction/interaction do we have with those people?
Is, or does the interaction with those people have any bearing in the game in anyway with any background stories?
Are 'Places' in the game relevant with any background stories, by this I mean are they places that are pivotal or create a hub of activity for any storylines and characters that might feature in the game.

At the moment due to the nature of development it seems like I'm reading a book where the previous chapters I've read are constantly being rewritten.
Some pages have no text, places in the book have no structure or meaning, and characters have no real substance.
For example, Earth is just a place name for a ball in space. The Galaxy is almost devoid of alien life forms, and.....well, you get the drift.

One day perhaps in Elite's future there will be characters (npc's) that we meet that will appear 'real', and lead players on to quests or missions in places that will be rich in storyline content, and experiences, visually and otherwise. Maybe online players in open and solo will figure to some extent in these storylines, which in some present situations they do, but at the moment there isn't the right structure and content in the game to allow this to happen in the way that perhaps David Braben imagines?

I think that at the moment it's a case of the cart before the horse to some extent. The 'Thargoids' are making an appearance, for example....but we can't land our ships on Earth or Mars?...and alien lifeforms are starting to be found (only) on some airless planets?...it's all a bit confusing. I would imagine it hampers the progression of storylines as well. I guess it will all come together at some time in the future...hopefully, but it strikes me that Frontier haven't made it easy for themselves to integrate storylines into the game at present, or perhaps in the near future, so I'm not too surprised at how any storylines in the game seem a bit lacking in structure and content at the moment.

Oldman

BigBANGtheory · Post by **BigBANGtheory** » Sun, 5. Feb 17, 23:43

Redvers Ganderpoke wrote:I'm a bit sad at how the storyline is progressing it seems that FD got a bit wrong footed by someone finding the alien ruins before they should by using the skybox in the trailer to find the planet. Either the clues they have planted are very hard to find or discover or the community is being incredible dense we haven't been able to find clues to "other" ruins locations. FD threw a bone in the shape pf a a two week Community Goal (CG) to collect data from the known ruins to help locate the other ruins. The CG was finished in a few days and we've been told what systems the ruins are in. Only problem is that's all we have and the only way to find the new ruins is to search manually using eyeball mk1.

ya its a problem for ED, no way to dress it up otherwise. I think they are finding their way tbh but yes it could have been handled better.

Post by **Terre** » Mon, 6. Feb 17, 09:31

Yesterday evening all the mission offers stopped being generated, I tried about four different stations, but nothing, I'm on neutral terms with them. Anybody else had this happen to them?

BigBANGtheory · Post by **BigBANGtheory** » Mon, 6. Feb 17, 11:26

damn those prismatic shields are expensive, stocking up on a few of each has set me back nearly a billion credits

Dupin · Post by **Dupin** » Tue, 14. Feb 17, 23:04

Huzzah!
On the Horizon - 2.3 The Commanders Beta Livestream Part 1

Dupin · Post by **Dupin** » Thu, 16. Feb 17, 20:47

On the Horizon - 2.3 The Commanders Beta Livestream, Part 2

felter · Post by **felter** » Fri, 7. Jul 17, 21:57

can't believe there has not been a post made on here since February.

Been playing it again myself haven't actually played it for some time, just landed on my first planet, spent most of my time trying to figure out what the hell was happening and how to find things still haven't found anything. Want to go and look at some of the alien crash sites that's my current target.

Anyway I had some time to burn earlier on and I ended up on the ED store and I noticed some freebies so I thought I would post them here.

Powerplay Decal Pack

Military Flight Suit Pack

Don't know how long they have been free or if anyone is interested, but I thought I would post them anyway, just because they are free.

Oldman · Post by **Oldman** » Sun, 9. Jul 17, 20:27

felter wrote:can't believe there has not been a post made on here since February.

Hi

Haven't really played the game in months, I boot it up occasionally just to keep the game updated (I've only got the base game).
Pretty much lost interest in the game as a whole, for various reasons. I did a couple of missions (trade/courier) just a few minutes ago, but I didn't have that much interest to be honest.
I'll wait until they get some atmospheric planets to land on, then I'll probably buy horizons....or whatever the atmospheric versions going to be called. That might be a long time coming I think.

Question....I'm a bit out of touch with the current build....is the Dolphin ship only available in 'Horizons?

Oldman

BigBANGtheory · Post by **BigBANGtheory** » Mon, 10. Jul 17, 10:00

Yes Dolphin requires you to own Horizons, and atmospheric planetary landing is imho unlikely to be ever included with Horizons it is more likely Frontier will include that in their future paid content plans.

Redvers Ganderpoke · Post by **Redvers Ganderpoke** » Mon, 10. Jul 17, 10:00

Interesting stuff going on out at the Pleiades (Maia). Unknown Settlements (US) have been found - at the "active" sites CMDrs can interact with the them and find other USs in other systems. Most have been found . I'm chugging back from Eta Carina Nebula after visiting the "Ruins" out there.
My second CMDR (Waldovenison Smeare) has been to a US and it's quite spooky and well done.

@Oldman - Horizons only though.

Sinxar · Post by **Sinxar** » Mon, 10. Jul 17, 10:11

BigBANGtheory wrote:it is more likely Frontier will include that in their future paid content plans.

I *think* that is the plan for that. Im in the same boat as Redvers Ganderpoke, I have been playing since release and just get bored of it, play it for a month or so and put it way for like 6 months. Not really finding their story very interesting personally.

I tried pirating people not to long ago in my viper but it didn't work out too well. The majority of people I caught just alt+f4 (yes even cutters and vettes I caught bounty hunting in haz rez sites =/), everyone else just jumped away. I wish there was some meaningful player to player interaction.

birdtable · Post by **birdtable** » Mon, 10. Jul 17, 12:11

Well Sinxar you are doing better than me... Load it up, do a quick run through of the tutorial just to refresh memory as I have a well kitted out Asp and prefer not to dent it getting out the garage .... play through tutorial and exit game,, Been there looked at that, bought ..sold ... just not enough to do other than explore and once you have seen a few suns/stations you have seen them all... shame really because the flight experience is the Bees Knees.

Redvers Ganderpoke · Post by **Redvers Ganderpoke** » Mon, 10. Jul 17, 13:04

There's been a buff to exploration data prices - quite easy to get a few million just by snagging a few ELW and WW. Someone's even posted a list of planets around the bubble that you you follow to get to Elite Exploration quickly - although I don't agree with this method - I did it the the hard way (15k+ jumps and 500kly+ and 2+ years).

Things have come on a bit with the 2.3 update and things seem to be getting better - I haven't been playing as much as I am joining an expedition to circumnavigate the galaxy and planning to construct a ship (haven't decided which (ASPX, DBX, Dolphin, Orca or Python - depends whether I want lots of room or range (I don't want an Anaconda.)) - all I know it will be called the "Dark Ocean" (and you can name your ship's in game no as well!)

felter · Post by **felter** » Mon, 10. Jul 17, 17:03

The Return

matthewfarmery · Post by **matthewfarmery** » Mon, 10. Jul 17, 17:15

That was an awesome fan made video. not got the game, but that video was really well done.

thrangar · Post by **thrangar** » Tue, 11. Jul 17, 18:07

felter wrote:The Return

Well that shed some light, thanks for the linky.

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Elite: Dangerous (continued)