Its a truly great game but the grind to buy the better ships is now beyond ridiculous.
Not if you put a bit of effort and thought into how you're doing it.
It will not be something you can buy in just a few days of work, but then neither is a Bugatti Veyron...
It took me weeks, but after a bit of searching, thinking and a touch of dedication, I went out and dropped a stack of cash on a nicely kitted combat Python!
This also gives me much higher trading capacity, which means I can earn monies much faster and grind less, buying bigger ships and making even more money, etc etc...
By contrast, a friend who only started playing in June and does far fewer hours than me has very rapidly built himself many millions from just trades and exploration in an Adder and then a Diamondback. He's only started combat in the past two weeks!
I don't know what's wrong with them but I believe Frontier decided not to go the "power to the player way" just because of that.
Around that time Eve was explained to me, by several long-term Eve players as basically: "Spreadsheets in space. No point in starting playing any more, because everyone is so much bigger than you and you MUST join a big corporation if you want to get even one step further".
This was apparently because players had been allowed to get SO powerful that they controlled everything... and people are, by nature, very selfish. Both Frontier and CIG/RSI are adamant on keeping overall control of their game universes and directing them where THEY want, rather than what a bunch of players think is fun for the immediate forseeable.
I mean, what the serious frack is wrong with them?
Nothing is wrong with them.
Players don't know what the devs have in mind and players will do stupid things with the stuff they own, often in ways that greatly inhibit gameplay for other players, which just isn't fair or conducive to decent gameplay. Kills the longevity of the game, creates serious elitism, excludes new players, encourages bad form and is a nightmare for devs to design new stuff around.
So, faithful to the playerbase my arse.
Eve and Elite (and Star Citizen) are vastly different games, with vastly different perspectives. The Elites wanted a new Elite, not an Eve rip-off. If you want the features of Eve, go play Eve.
I would like to see a universe or system wide chat channel, however much it breaks immersion. It can be very lonely out there.
1 - Come chat with me - I'll keep ya company, even if you're light years away!
2 - There are many thousands of players out there. You give them universe-wide chat, it will be like Ch19 on CB all over again, but worse!! It's already like that in other games, to the point where many often disable such things. Last thing I want is a thousand Noobs blasting my Comms window with peurile pre-teen crap-chat!
You attempt to follow the trader but can't as you don't have the expansion.
Chances are, if that's the case, you won't even be placed in the same instance as that player as you'd have incompatible game versions anyway, so it's a non-issue. That's what I'd expect, anyway.
