Originally Posted by
Wyzak
Fair enough, but the problem I have with that is again that I am forced to play a recipe or forced to play in a specific manner. In a proper open world game that shouldn't be the case, there should be multiple ways of playing the game and having a good time doing them. Why is it necessary for me to exploit the game to get a proper experience?
In this short discussion the following things have already come to light:
1) Use third party apps to find cargo - even though this functionality is also available in game to an extent, but apparently it's not good enough or the third party apps wouldn't exist.
2) Exploit to avoid npc interdiction
3) Almost Exploit to find USS (you will get one, and then go in, it will take you 30 seconds to find out what's going on around you and to scan all the other ships for bounties, then you hop out. How long after hopping out is it before you see the next USS?) In my case it could take several minutes between USS and if I have a bad run I can easily get up to 10 dud USS which means that I've wasted almost an hour?
I think my biggest problem with Elite is that I simply expected more. I had such fond memories of the original one and I couldn't wait to back this one when it went to Kickstarter for funding, and I'm just not happy with the outcome.