I’m familiar with the emptiness. But now apparently the design is a mess!
It didn’t really get bad, it just, for me, took a while to realize just how…devoid of actual gameplay the game is. It’s a great take-off and docking simulator…everything in between? Meh…
Well the critiques upthread are all about balance and SP/MP confusion.
I already knew E:D was empty, but I love the combat model and the feel of the ships and have been planning to go back at some point.
OH god that too. WHY DO WINGS NEVER WORK? Gawd.
6yrs + $166m @ 18% complete =
So if Pareto’s law holds true, then this 20% they’ve done has taken 805 of the time, and the remaining 80% should be done soonish?
So 2020 for a full game?
Where does Star Raiders fit into this rubric?
Oh man, I’m being audacious to talk about it here but if you want a MMO, try Vendetta Online. It’s not at all a perfect game but it’s my favorite. One of the big things it gets right over E:D is the inventory system. Another is that you are playing in the same space as everyone else (hello blockades). You can conquer stations, manufacture capital ships…
The graphics are nowhere near what I’ve seen from Star Citizen, but at least there is a real game there, even more so than in Elite in some ways.
In just about every say save graphics and flight modeling. VO has better missions, a more realistic economy and actual…gameplay.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but flying around shooting at other spaceships once was considered ‘gameplay’ in its own right.
Star Raiders was so awesome on the Atari 800… on the 2600, not so much :)
Hmm… where have I heard of that before…
Oh yes, Greed Monger.
Lol yeah, and they’re not even really selling any land… it’s a device that will allow players to claim land once the game/feature launches! :P
Holy shit. Can I buy some land and put a monorail on it?
I’m glad I held off on the DERPSPACE early access… Star Citizen is so superior
Oh Lord. The dude in the video with the beard and the baseball hat at 30:25 is really annoying.
Buying land might seem kind of amazing if you couldn’t already do this in Ascent: The Space Game.
Oh, and IIRC, you can build planetary bases in Evochron…so…yeah…
You can purchase a picture of a construction spaceship which comes with a bullet point that it will include a land based fabrication vehicle which comes with a throw away line from a developer in a video that they plan on supporting all kinds of planetary travel which comes with a reddit post about how it would be awesome if there were hyperloop style tubes in the universe which comes with an upvoted comment from someone with questionable spelling ability who says that their Org is going to focus on monorail construction.