Elite: Dangerous

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Originally Posted by Tradesonred [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anyone playing this?

Bought it 2 days ago, only regret it slightly, although i paid 80$

My main gripe so far is that it seems like online was put as a DRM measure as the economic system doesnt seem to be anywhere near the interactivity you get from Eve online. Also would like more depth with the cartographics as so far ive seen just a grind in putting the buyer for the stuff you gather info at an arbitrary 20 LY away from where it was gathered. Im sure down the line itll have its use but seems kinda meh forcing people to go online with what seems at first glance as a pretty shallow experience (trading and cartographics commerce)

It also means that people cant mod the fuck out of it since the small company is probably gonna move with content at a snails pace.

I love how you fly though, but im already seeing myself getting bored out of that soon unfortunately if they dont add more depth.

I played Eve for 6 Months. The learning curve was the worst I've seen in a game in a long time, but it was a really fun game.

I joined the UK forums for Elite Dangerous and watched MANY MANY videos before release. I read a lot in the forums and decided it's not the game for me due to the time sink.

It looks like a great game and has a TON of potential but at release there was limited things you can do, imo.

They had a lot of Online issues at release because supposedly there are 'instances', so if you join up with someone and are in their instance, finding them was very difficult even if you were in the same place (exact spot in space). I don't know if they fixed that.

The commerce seemed pretty cool and but again the time sink running around was stupid. Literally flying from one space station, to another sector and docking in another space station takes anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour (Maybe that is round trip).

At any rate the graphics are amazing and it looks like it's very fun. You can actually have an effect on the environment (Local governments, commerce, cause civil uprisings/unrest) and keep moving on. There are thousands of star systems and more.

Star Citizen looks like it's going to be better, in a way.