Elite Dangerous | Frontier Unlocked Highlight | System Colonisation

[@fcsuper]

Two points of interest for me. 1) Doing all this work to set these things up would necessitate my naming rights for new stations and settlements as system architect. 2) Give system architects a special restricted access room in the main station within the system from which they can manage the system, similar to what we get on fleet carriers, but perhaps a bit more functional. The whole concept of colonization is definitely amazing and unique. I look forward to Beta-testing!

[@short_yeti2058]

Naming rights is a big deal for me personally. So much opportunity for some cool stuff.

[@Profane_Pagan]

I think Helldivers 2 developed a neat system for naming your spaceships which doesn't let people troll the system but at the same time doesn't require the devs to moderate everything: you have a wide variety of words from which you can build up the name of your vessel.

[@ShinigamiAnger]

​@@Profane_Pagannot the only game with that system, and I agree it would be a good solution

[@bitflipped]

I agree with the idea of being able to choose by combining preapproved words/names. You only have to look at the names of fleet carriers to realise that we'd end up with terrible system names if players could name them freely.

[@DavidUtau]

And I really hope that the founder should get passive income by doing this, otherwise what's the point?

[@WinchesterDelta1]

Please make it so that I can colonize a planet in the middle of nowhere outside of the bubble. Without other players knowing where my planet is. So I can silently build a empire and come invade the bubble. Or other colonies that I can find.

[@MiZtErNiCe420]

you sound like the kind of player i would like to learn from.

[@anakinjovanus1135]

See I hope not because it would be too combat orientated if you could invade, which not all player want

[@FabioPisa-kj5jw]

​@@anakinjovanus1135ahahaha .....if soneone invade y must defend yourself ...wtf 😂😂😂😅

[@tacticalmattress]

Eve online moment

[@CountofSerenno]

I have a few such systems ready hehe

[@rich9987]

You guys are doing good stuff.

[@winnythekahuna8073]

All these improvements to the game sound good and respecting the player's time as a point of importance is great to hear. I now can only play occasionally and use HOTAS sticks, but every time I start it up after long breaks, I tend to forget which button does what. I only wish the old in-game pre-flight checks get expanded to include most, if not all the relevant button presses required to run the spaceship's system, including targeting and peripheral functions like chaff, silent running, etc. It would be great for returning players and newbies.

[@mikesmith123]

Thank you Fdev! Keep up the good work on our favourite game of all time =)

[@CountofSerenno]

I was hoping a Cmdr would only be able to colonize a system if they were first to discover every body in that system.

[@markusvalentini438]

They really need to nail down the rewards for building and owning a space station, and please not only credits or some powerplay shenanigans

[@Ikaros473]

One thing that may be beneficial is adding a system where the system architect can actually lose control of a system if they don't login for a long time. To prevent people from making a bunch of low quality systems everywhere then abandoning them. Maybe after say 3 months of not logging in the system can be claimed by someone else or something

[@bunker1213]

Logging in is no guarantee that the player will continue to feed the system with goods and whatnot to add more station, ports etc. If it is indeed a monumental task to get one station going, I predict that most new systems will only have the primary station.

[@alecturner07]

Sounds excellent and I adore that we will indeed be able to have full control over planetary base placement and orientation. One small plea if I may. When you performed the "bake in" process used to automatically place all the Odyssey settlements you included a rule that no two settlements could be closer than 250km. One of my favourite places in legacy Horizons was Wasat A 2 e where two planet ports were just 50km apart which meant we could race SRVs from one to the other. By including that rule you inadvertently prevented that kind of thing from happening. If you must have a minimum distance for surface placement during colonisation could you please reduce it significantly (maybe 10km or even less).

[@RikkiNakesone]

This was actually better than i was expecting in the slightest. I thought we'd simply just get to choose where a station went and that was it.

[@raymobula]

So thrilled for this.

[@robilotte11]

please let us build small stations! it makes way more sense to make roads out of those

[@SteeLHorseNomad22]

Small stations would be cool for players that prefer solo, maybe needing less mats to build and not a whole squadron of help.....

[@rougehawk]

Very excited for this!!!

[@kranik11]

Ok... colonisation, building stations, developing the place and stuff is cool. But what then? Do i get anything out of this effort aside from the system being colonised and in place? Can i control it somehow once the process is finished? Earn credits or materials from it existing? Have any kind of anything that will make it different from any other system...? Usually in games you do get some kind of a reward. Especially for something as grand as this...

[@hagenisse]

No, we don't get anything out of personally. The benefit is having an expanded bubble to interact with, for better or for worse. Honestly I feel it's very much a nothingburger feature.

[@kranik11]

@@hagenisse If it is just making the bubble bigger, then... i think it will feel rather bland after one system is done...? So maaaaaybe it won't be just that. Maybe. *Looks at all the previous features in the game that starts out nicely, and then suddenly stop doing anything at a weird point* Huuuuh....

[@Libluini]

I get you, but this question is a bit like asking what you get out of building cities in Sim City. The act of building itself, and the fun derived from it, is the goal. The end result is a job well done.

[@kranik11]

​@@Libluini See, i actually DID think about this. I do love playing Civ, Stellaris, EU IV and also games like Rimworld, Satisfactory, Dyson Space Program - i do get the "i am building this cuz it's cool and it will look amazing" part. I do also love Minecraft and Terraria - again, love building things. And building things gives joy. It's not like Minecraft gives me money when i build a cool looking house. Nor does it give rewards or levels. What you build IS the reward and the game. But will this update give us so many options that we will be able to build something awesome? In all the games above you have A LOT of details, little things, mechanics and tools to go wild. If we do get that in Elite - then sure, we don't need anything else. But will we? I asked about what we get out of colonising a system, because i am not sure i can believe the colonisation system itself will be that fun. A good reason/incentive to do stuff would help.

[@HCforLife1]

You are the architect of the system. The whole selection of thing to place and where to place, what powerplat power will get there - you get more than just credits you can make. I think for more role-play gamers like me this is amazing feature. On the other hand they could implement things like some perks (discounts within system, small passive income from established structures) Doesn't have to be a lot but it would be nice to get back from holiday to the game and found out how much our system earned for us 😊

[@kimaryob265]

this is truly a game worth following up on

[@Fovulonkiin]

Really looking forward to this, thanks for doing a Beta again: Testing is soo important with these new features! Sure the initial 10 ly range restriction and only starting from the OG human bubble is a bit meh, but I'm sure things will get adjusted accordingly and this has potenial to really shape the future of ED in the long term. Particularily excited about that free placement of ground facilities! So many cool vistas incoming! See you out there o7

[@fatmork834]

Hey, I love all of this, thanks so much for not abandoning the game and coming up with new stuff to do. The only thing I would suggest is that you rethink the 10 yl range please, my hauling ship can do 20 easy. Thanks again

[@HCforLife1]

Yup. 20 would counter the situation to fill in the gaps. There are systems in the bubble with first non-populated system being further than 10 ly

[@k_continium6556]

Time) Make it so that it takes less time and effort. This is after all just a game and real time is spent on it. As a citizen of Ukraine, I assure you that time is the only treasure in our life!

[@StMargorach]

10 ly is just way to low... So many systems are without a planet within 10ly.... Including my 1 player faction which surrounded by bigger player factions and I'm at the top of the bubble....

[@HCforLife1]

This is actually a valid argument. I think that the distance should be set on a similar level to the distance from farther star from edge of the bubble so we will avoid that situation

[@StMargorach]

@HCforLife1 I suggest the ante distance as a fc or half of it, seeing as the colony ship is about twice the size

[@whiskeysk]

it will be a long way to Colonia 2 with 10ly max distance limit...

[@bunker1213]

Especially since the station won't be activated until the Thursday server-tick, so just one step per week. That's around 2200 weeks, or 40+ years.

[@deeplerg7913]

@@bunker1213 good point, haven't thought of that one. let's hope the devs realise this

[@MrGrownman455]

Can you please give players the ability to place a small independent on any planet in the Galaxy???

[@Zethraxxur]

I think, if executed well, colonization sounds so cool! I haven't touched Elite in over a year because I feel the game is stale and old but the new PP 2.0 caught my interest and colonization will most likely make me want to give Elite another go

[@Eaze1077]

Great time to get back into the game. The thargoids are finally heading for Sol.

[@grot777]

​@Eaze1077 seems like from other commentators it's a lot if work to get outfitted for that, is it?

[@nathandi_maggio8297]

will this beable to be done by a single cmdr? simple question for the dumb and thick cmdrs against us

[@HCforLife1]

I hope so. It would be crazy bad otherwise

[@andrewparkin4036]

This is a very interesting concept, i cant wait to actively try it out. Thanks guys

[@robilotte11]

also, please let us now build more tourist beacons!!!

[@SkyCaptainITA]

I'm expecting a very interesting ObsidianAnt video tomorrow.

[@tacticalmattress]

Please give this game the love it deserves!

[@JBReefer45]

Thanks for what you guys are doing and I'm hoping one day you will allow us to walk around our ship in the future.

[@shugularity]

As long as this gives us a reason to want to colonise, and as long as this, and other elements, don't require me to take up Elite as another part-time side gig. Please innovate and bring new things to the game to flesh out the experience. Please show us the kickstarter vision for the game.

[@williamputaansuu3465]

So colonization won’t be available to expand Colonia when it starts?

[@HCforLife1]

Yup. The reason why I am moving back to the bubble

[@Josephkerr101]

At 10 lys distance per week 52 weeks in a year it will take 125 years of perfect success in a straight line (impossible) to get to beagle point. in one year we will have expended the shell of the bubble only 520 lys... Where as if it was 500 ly per week it would take a year to connect to colonia. PLEASE take that into consideration.

[@dr_science09]

Do you realistically think that a divided humanity could colonize their way across the solar system in a year? I mean it's possible but that is a tall order.

[@Josephkerr101]

@@dr_science09 I usually add the disclaimer of "optimistically" but I just wanted to lay out the numbers on their face to show the insanity of how crummy 10 ly would be. mini bubbles like they mention, or tendrils... those would NEVER happen even if we all got along.

[@leeebbrell9]

The upkeep will be massive, this is where squardons should be used. Carriers and systems upkeep should have the option for squardons members to transfer funds to contribute to upkeep Some will say that's not fair, they arent in a squardon, oh well join one. The solo player shouldn't mean squardons should suffer. No point in each squardon member paying for individual assets, and when someone cannot play as much other squardon members can help.

[@RikkiNakesone]

This is fantastic. Better than I expected. Now please... Social features next, yeah?

[@The_Erithian]

I really believe that removing the light year limit would be a far better option for Colonization. I would very much love to just build an entirely new micro bubble out in the black of space, without having to worry about daisy chaining. Getting to where I want to build through daisy chaining would take longer than I will be alive to accomplish.

[@HCforLife1]

I think that the perfect option would be to set up the limit to let's say 100-500 ly. The cost of colonisation would be based on number inhabited systems within set radius from potential colony - let's say the radius would be 300-600 ly. This would be cool as if we setup new colony - it would be very difficult to setup next ones further away if there are no many other systems in the radius. Which would be nearly impossible and would force more realistic expansion accounting for "supply rating". It would be realistic that you would need to have some supply chain to make sure that your colony can survive and grow

[@raysstlyn6346]

I'm defending that Titan, let humanity burn! 👽

[@TonyPaulazzo]

When are you going to introduce new planet types to land on?

[@Stellarisium]

wait new planets are going to be added?

[@StMargorach]

​@@Stellarisiumno, he just wants to land on full atmosphere planets and water worlds and such. We want water and full biomes with forests and animals etc

[@Stellarisium]

@@StMargorach Yes Like Earth like planets or habitable planets you mean? What if we all sent feedback and they listen?

[@StMargorach]

@@Stellarisium this has been 1 of the most requested things since forever. No worries, they already know. But it's a lot harder to do than colonization. So we will probably have to wait another 8 years :p

[@Stellarisium]

@@StMargorach Aww man, But who knows tho It might be added. also yk what would be cool? where u enter in ur ship and u can freely open door and enter there and sleep and stuff instead of black screen and sit and fly would be cool! also Space walking too

[@tdot8280]

What is the thought behind in the very limited claim range? Facing the massive range of carriers (and possibly the colonisation ships) i dont understand the 10ly

[@MegaRussian12]

Increase the colonization range from 10ly to 50ly or perhaps close to FC jump range

[@HCforLife1]

I would dare to say even 20. 10 is very restrictive. 20 would be more reasonable if they want to stick with bubble expansion mostly

[@MoHax01]

I don’t want to work day and night to build a station, give me the opportunity to quickly build small outposts. The construction of the station should be the last stage of colonization.

[@alecturner07]

They did talk about being able to add any station type (some costing more than others) so I assume outposts are included, and probably a good way to start unless you have a big player group behind you.

[@aaron_poppie]

I will be really interested to see how resource types will be looped into this system. Will planets and moons have specific resource compositions that will allow us to strategically place settlements that will produce a certain mix or type of commodities? I really hope that we can start building player guided supply chains and industry that are linked together. Would really like to see squadrons be able to build cooperatively in some way as well. Thanks for all the new updates! I have been playing off and on since the beginning of 2015 and all the new content is really bringing me back to the game now that I can actually shape the galaxy in meaningful ways.

[@nethervvoid]

Is there a cliff's notes? I don't play the game, so just looking to see if I want to start playing. Bought it back in beta.

[@travisj2370]

something that would bring me back to ED is flyable capital ships i dont want some majorly expensive carrier that ill never be able to even control besides to tell it where to jump to thats just seriously silly to me would be amazing to explore the galaxy with some massive corvette even if its half the size of the carrier the way you would dock with stations would be by a shuttle like launch your anaconda or sidewinder or whatever you normally fly to the station and put in orders for goods to be transported to or from the vessel to or from the station

[@OtsoCafe]

That’s an entirely different game. I don’t want to control a big slow carrier.

[@travisj2370]

@@OtsoCafe it would be very endgame content but many do want the big ships you see floating around space

[@jarelvt5015]

​@@travisj2370 I think the biggest ship I want to fly would be a tier above the Corvette and Cutter. Like the Imperial Explorer or Boa Mk 2

[@bunker1213]

Dear Frontier. If you are going to continue to have Thargoid combat, could you please take a look at how much time and more important, repetitiveness that has to go into the guardian (weapon) unlocking? I think it's a dividing wall keeping those of us not strongly hooked on the Thargoid content from trying out that part of the game.

[@zobie7144]

Since powerplay 2 down engineering for ground stuff has been broken, when yall gonna work on that?

[@JudgingNug]

Now, how much is the starting fees? Whats the weekly upkeep cost? Can i, as a solo player, own one?

[@mariotomazzoni6523]

all that containers and the cranes to lift them remind me of one thing: there is now ship in the game to let the player move them. But hey, the generic space port need some containers, with no game play attached.

[@Cetegus79]

Hey Frontier, Have you thought about enabling players to properly cooperate? I assume you'll need lots of credits for the claim and lots of cargo shipment capacity to build up the system (ergo, carriers will be essential, I guess). To this day there is no way to transfer credits or pool credits in a squadron collection pot. That will hamper this group activity as the big expenses and the claim itself have to be centred around one Commander ... I wish you would address that too empowering communities and not just players who have the resources on their own. Thank you!

[@Techigai]

It's a big feature that'll bring in some interest again. But what'll it cost to buy and maintain? Fleet Carriers already proved that feature wasn't for everyone.

[@leeebbrell9]

Thinking about it squardon members should be able to contribute to other same squardon members carriers

[@sicitydonmo3016]

i mean if you want a whole star system okey, i get the grind. But for me and lot of others more casual players it would be neat if we can get at least a simpler not so grindy version of it. Maybe being able to build just smaller outposts on a planet and then from there we can expand it. If its built in a system of another player maybe add a 5% profit fee or something

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

So, the obvious question is. Are they going to bring back offering Sqn Factions?

[@dj-slt-ukmusikhousestudios3003]

I don’t want to travel back from Jacques station and the bubble there too colonise an area where 24/7 players with cover the area rapidly - please allow Colonia bubble to also colonise

[@mariotomazzoni6523]

so how many ARX will that claim cost?

[@danceswithglowstix22]

fdev 'we value players time' also fdev - 'if you want to take an on foot mission you need to leave the ship, walk to the lift, wait for the lift to travel, walk to board, walk back to lift, wait for lift to travel, walk back to the ship' Granted this is not the most helpfully phrased, but consider this by 10 on foot missions 20-30 minitues of this play time is spent just walking to the terminal. It's not great gameplay, which is a shame as the on foot is fun to do. I understand some like the immersion quality of this, but could it be optional to disembark directly to the concourse for those of us that have less time to burn?

[@Desirsar]

I'll poke at the beta for my own purposes, but I won't touch it on the live server until I can reasonably make a road to Xibalba in my lifetime.

[@Motoboo_Marine]

Hopefully we get the ability to make our own bases

[@mariotomazzoni6523]

Yeah nice but how about some low hanging Quality of life improvements easy to implement? 1: Buff the Eagle with the same hardpoints and power plant as the Imperial Eagle. Make an Imperial Eagle Ship kit. Increase the power plant of the Viper MK III to 4. Increase the power coupling of the Viper MK IV to 4. 2: replace the grey dots in Odyssey gun sights with red or green ones (there is a good reason real world red dot sights use high contrast red instead low contrast grey) 3: add the advanced docking computer to the supercruise module 4: Make the autopilot already in the game for Apex Interstellar and Frontline Solution Shuttles an expensive ship module that also functions as advanced docking computer & supercruise assistent. 5: use the NPC Crew Avatars for Apex Interstellar and Frontline Solution Pilots to put the already existing NPC crew in the empty cockpit seats on player ships. 6: allow the removal of unwanted mods from Odyssey space suits and handheld weapons 7: allow the upgrading and modding on the flight suit so players can add improved sprint and night vision 8: allow players in telepresence multicrew to leave the ship for on foot gameplay. Spawn them back at their ships location after the multicrew session ends. 9: add diverse types of player fleetcarriers to the game. Some cheaper ones with less hangar bays and cargo (wells class carrier / rescue carrier / bulk freighter), some with less hangars and higher jump range (science / survey vessel), some with facilities to refine ores & scrap or create food. Use the megaships already in the game for that: Agricultural Vessel, Bulk Cargo Ship, Dredger, Science Vessel, Survey Vessel, Tanker, Tourist Ship. 10: use the fleet carrier as rescue ship instead the rescue ship megaship to increase the number of docking bays at rescue ship POIs 11: resize the Type 7 to make it a medium landing pad ship 12: add an instant action mode to the game that allows players to drop into a space conflict zone directly from a main menue server browser into open gamemode with a prebuild ship. This would make PVP much easier by removing travel and engineer grind and increasing player numbers for pvp. Use a tier system to unlock prebuild ships and a ticket system that increases the pain of loss for high value prebuild ships. Use the same or analog prebuilds as used for NPC ships.

[@MRodic]

I'm new to the game, and I'm wondering why we have modes like Open Live, Solo, and others. Why not simply separate offline and online gameplay? The game is fantastic, but this setup really breaks the immersion. Sorry to go off-topic, but I genuinely don’t understand why anyone would choose to play in Open mode. What’s the benefit?

[@Echo-dw2qi]

10ly is WAY too low. Give us 1,000ly. Make little bubbles pop up everywhere. How the hell is someone gonna make a new colonia if youre only able to colonize TEN lightyears from an already populated system?!

[@cmdrgogen3203]

That mug on a sofa is unsettling. Reminds me of what would happen to me or my cat if we spill it over. We're trained to never ever do this.

[@grot777]

Fdev needs to do something about this. Could easily put a coffee table in there. Even though I fully realize it doesn't add game play.

[@thecavemandynamic2685]

So epic! 🙌 Please bring back support to the Xbox platform Elite Dangerous Team!

[@casperandthebeast5780]

Please make it so I can manage to do colonies as a single player. I'm not a fan of there being a time limit on the delivery of construction items for the creation of the star port. Some of us work long hours but want to colonise a system of our own, putting time limits on this will stop us getting any use or enjoyment of setting up a colony of our own. Also 10ly is nothing, I have a system I have completely discovered and mapped (with an earth like) and would love to colonise that but it's 500ly away.

[@davidgman420]

When will they update ps5 instead of everything going to PC updates

[@Windrake101]

100-500lys range. Anything less is ridiculous! Players are going to use their carriers for transporting materials.

[@gamingguruoz]

should have done this at the start

[@KuroJOZY]

I'm just scared people will colonise popular material gathering systems and make it hard for others to enter. Either via powerplay or gankers

[@mannyonaleash2222]

Powerplay wouldn't really stop you at all, and you can use solo or private to bypass gankers.

[@mic8300]

Why only 10Ly???

[@IRMentat]

it's not "grind" that's the issue The issue is RNG material gains, with RNG based "node salting" with only one specific use for each resource type (trade, ship-craft, engineering, rep) and it all feels just so disconnected/unreal. also the bigger-bore projectile weapons (cannons, rockets, missile) have abysmal ammo counts for a dominantly PvE (RNG-reset "RAS" until you find a node you like, zero point in travelling as a combat flier unless there's a community invasion event for the tag n bag of bounties) plus for some reason out ranks, bank accounts, clone? selves and space-legs aspects are perpetual but bounties are for some reason lost with your ship so one bad encounter and vast amounts of bounties simply disappear when they already have a limit on which area they can be handed in (so you shelve the combat ship for an explorer to hand in mainline bounties, then go back to the chosen rng-grind-spot and repeat the same scenarios over and over an dover again as outside of asteroids/cap-ships there's not really any space-objects to fight around no pirate asteroid bases, no scan-beacon ambushes, not even a lowly damaged-station attack/defend). Also the pre-order people get an easy to access one stop, decently priced shop for EVERY ship and module while everyone else has to go to third party apps to build out a ship piece by piece while the only "storage" available are parked-ships so changing a build is a PITA for presumably the majority of the player base at this point. Mitigating that somewhat would go a long way towards removing a P2W-feeling aspect of the game, the march to elite-rank is a remarkably slow one so a piecemeal unlocking per-rank would also be a viable/helpful option giving at least some sense of progression outside of mission availability (the worst way to make resources/credits verus simply reset-farming known high-pop spots)

[@bloodprinzessin]

You know you can access Stronghold carrier which exactly almost the same as Jameson Memorial (the one that sells every ship and modules). It has almost the same stock and modules. There may be some ships like you cannot buy Imperial Ships from a Federation-aligned Powerplay Stronghold and vice-versa. Not sure if Stronghold Carrier contains Technology Brokers and Material Traders but if they do, it will also offer some AX modules - I am just guessing here since I haven't encountered one yet since I only base at one Stronghold Carrier.

[@igabodkrain4005]

Have they made the walking about bit of the game in VR yet I would definitely come back to the game if they did that Especially with all these new updates in fact I would probably offer up my firstborn as a sacrifice to the thyroids if they made the transition thing to walking about in VR it'll be at 100% game can you just imagine wondering around your ship and then out in a buggy and then inside a massive battle or seamless that would make it the best game of all time of ALL TIME

[@brandonsmith6770]

Any chance of supporting consoles again?

[@tomcat3070]

consoles were what stopped elite from being developed, time to get your big boy pants on.

[@GeekyDolphin46]

pick up support for consoles again please, weve had a whole generation, and new hardware to work with.

[@mariotomazzoni6523]

as expected: recyling assets alead in the game from Odyssey and Horizions to add new gameplay loops. Not a bad, idea, but why so late? Much of that stuff is in the game since Horizions.

[@short_yeti2058]

I really dislike the mission gating for PP2.0 speaking of being midnful of time. I get it gives a spread of mission types for new players to experiment but Im Elite and i dont want ro do rare goods fetch quests.

[@mannyonaleash2222]

what mission gating? you have the 5 initial ones to do, after that you do what you want. The 5 weekly ones only give you a bonus to your merits. Otherwise you can just do things in system of your power or in system your power is fighting for to get your merits. You don't HAVE to do the weekly ones.

[@short_yeti2058]

@mannyonaleash2222 that's exactly what I mean. I don't want to do a basic tutorial to enter Power Play. I've already been doing it for years and it's what's put me off from starting it. Again, it's fine for new players to experience variety but I don't want to do a fetch quest to start a rank chain for the one module I don't own yet and it's not even a good module y'know?

[@mickbohannon1104]

Crying in my console corner. My disappointment in ED is unmatched...

[@zXBlackFire]

o7 Commander

[@MistaGeezy90]

Can you guys please give console players some new content and ships? There's still a huge player base on console. Being able to take on a titan in Sol would be a nice start just saying 🤔

[@lioraja9951]

"ship interior is not important" ... we all remember

[@maciejlazur4966]

Personally, I do not care for ship interiors. It would be fun, yes, but Elite offers so much more than that..

[@short_yeti2058]

I would love to do manual repairs inside a ship that doesn't cannibalize other modules. It would be fun in multi crew chaos too. Having a full crew on a large ship and the turret gunner being an engineer that can fix stuff or do temp buffs and more.

[@maciejlazur4966]

@@short_yeti2058 love the idea! micromanaging in Elite is one of it's best features, it would be cool to expand it even further like you said :D

[@short_yeti2058]

@@maciejlazur4966 Personal taste can be said for a lot of optional game mechanics. I have a fleet carrier and I don't care for using it as a trading vessel, yet that has a whole system to track profit and you can manage buy/sell orders etc. Power Play is another example. There are deep systems and gameplay loops that have more of a reach to achieve. At least interiors with basic loops would be significantly more approachable. You can always bypass and load into your seat. Running across a large landing pad to enter a ship is already here so it's not like it's new to traverse distances if desired. Next level would be like a class 5 exobiology lab you can enter or access its systems from the cockpit menu. You get the physical experience if needed without it being mandatory.

[@eurobeat_enjoyer]

​@@maciejlazur4966imo ship interiors are useless if it won't come with some extra interactions. It will end up being just extra space you have to run through everytime you want to get in/leave the ship.

[@davidjackman3468]

Fix the suit upgrade it's not working

[@Vevvev8]

You mean the fact it splits the stolen and legally acquired goods together in the inventory, but not in the store UI, leading you not able to upgrade the suit despite having the items to upgrade the suit? If so, yeah it's annoying... I've stopped stealing stuff now because it makes inventory management a mess

[@Techigai]

I've never had enough goods to do personal upgrades so I didn't know it splits it. That's kind of horrible really.

[@Vevvev8]

@@Techigai It is... If you ever bite the bullet I recommend finding a good star port, and go down its list of missions only showing the materials given. Missions will give you all the ground materials you'll need for engineering your gear.

[@garethde-witt6433]

I love what you guys do but colonisation doesn’t interest me. Give us more plants maybe random animals, random wandering comets, asteroids or general space junk to check out would be good too

[@the4thj]

Wow so sophisticated a great man mechanic, but still no way to walk on to a ship...huh!

[@mannyonaleash2222]

hmmm, walking on a ship, fun for an hour..then back to the actual game. And who wants to stuff around having to walk through your damn ship all the time to do things. waste of time.

[@visionlandmusic]

The players will eventually destroy the whole thing, just the same as reality. The end.

[@HCforLife1]

It's like saying that customers will destroy the restaurant, not the menu. Don't worry - game will be great after the update

[@kosmikinteractivestudio]

o7

[@thelastprothean2437]

How much will it cost you to release a patch so that you can walk on PS5? You are a bunch of scammers.

[@lioraja9951]

and another grinder .... imagine collecting 1 million ton of indite

[@Crusina]

Shut up and go post in OA comments troll nobody asked

[@Angeluzito08]

Dead Game 😂😂

[@reactionmonkeys]

Can we get something like a small survey/scout skimmer drone or ship pulse wave utilities for exobio exploration? Would be much nicer and faster than doing it just by foot or blind looking with the ship or SRV and/or potentially harmful third party software

[@Kaijudomage]

o7