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Bad design decisions regarding docked state
I'm playing in SOLO mode as I learn the game. I love most every aspect of this reboot of the classic so far. However, I've come across some questionable design choices. Most you learn to live with, such as the online connection and progress save, else you cannot play the game, it seems. I've seen this in the server downtimes when I've been been unable to play.
Today though, I encountered a very frustrating situation regarding the station docked condition. I just got through purchasing my first new ship, and had outfitted it with some upgrades. I selected LAUNCH from the hanger, but then paused the game in order to change a few keybindings. During what I thought was a traditional paused state as I reconfigured the controls, somehow my ship was blown up.
I had to repurchase my new ship and the upgrades using the insuarance option, leaving me in debt to some creditor. Given there is no manual save system, there is no way to recover the mistake. Now, a lot of these mechanics are not made very clear, such as that the game appears never to actually be paused, and so this was totally unexpected in Solo play. I expect for Open play this system is to prevent people hogging the launch pad.
That's understandable, but surely a system to automatically impound your ship and issue a fine like in most other infractions would be reasonable enough? How is blowing you up on the launch pad a reasonable way to deal with a delay in launching? Surely it's better just to return you to the hanger and issue a fine if they must?
Today though, I encountered a very frustrating situation regarding the station docked condition. I just got through purchasing my first new ship, and had outfitted it with some upgrades. I selected LAUNCH from the hanger, but then paused the game in order to change a few keybindings. During what I thought was a traditional paused state as I reconfigured the controls, somehow my ship was blown up.
I had to repurchase my new ship and the upgrades using the insuarance option, leaving me in debt to some creditor. Given there is no manual save system, there is no way to recover the mistake. Now, a lot of these mechanics are not made very clear, such as that the game appears never to actually be paused, and so this was totally unexpected in Solo play. I expect for Open play this system is to prevent people hogging the launch pad.
That's understandable, but surely a system to automatically impound your ship and issue a fine like in most other infractions would be reasonable enough? How is blowing you up on the launch pad a reasonable way to deal with a delay in launching? Surely it's better just to return you to the hanger and issue a fine if they must?
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2015年4月11日 4時07分
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That's fair enough. I would to, I just didn't realise being in the game settings would be a akin to being AFK. Going to have to research if there are any such other rules, as I don't want to lose more ships like that!
"totally unexpected in Solo play. " -- agree.
Blowing up your ship was probably due to "no loitering" rule which still is a tad too much given the circumstances in Solo.
Easy mistake though, when you're used to the original game. You actually have more game time than me, even though i'm a KS backer. I've not got around to trying it out yet, other than checking out the controls. I do read the forums occasionally though.
It's best to make as many silly mistakes as possible while you're in the free sidewinder.
Now you've learnt this important lesson, I doubt you'll let it happen again.
Fine and towed away? I think having it crushed on site would be regarded as overkill in any country!
The game is still not paused if you exit to the menu, unless you mean the main menu (logging off).
And to the origianl poster, I feel for you and agree that it should be possible to pause if you play in solo mode.
Many old 'backers' (people who funded the development of the game) are very upset at this, since earliler you could play in offline mode completely. Just before release it was announced that you needed to be online wether you played in multiplayer mode or solo mode, which kind of seems like a very bad way to pay back the people who sponsored them.
All 400,000 of us :)
I don't think you read the posts properly. I said solo play, but also said why not have the dock remove your ship and impound it after the time limit expires.
Blowing it up for a misdemenour is a ridiculous punishment, which should only be reserved if you become a hostile threat, like opening fire in the station.
Give the space docks a tractor beam to deal with offenders by throwing them out and banning them from re-entering for 24 hours!
Also, Solo should have a proper pause function.
Tractor beams don't exist and won't likely exist in the Elite universe, perhaps they could send a 'droid to drag you into an impound somewhere perhaps. One big reason to stop loitering has little really to do with crime and punishment (although that is woven in), rather more to do with preventing online players camping the docking area to prevent people from coming and going.
Solo play is the same as open without any form of match making with other players.
It is a design decision that is one of the better parts of the game. Its persitant, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
At least you know now not to launch and then look at menus. I usually launch, and then thrust up and away from the dock and zero my speed out if I need to do anything. Usually I set my next destination right from within the hanger and am ready to go though.