Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000::Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is releasing a ship bundle for its controversial space simulator that costs an eye-watering $48,000.

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I like elite dangerous but I don’t like that you have to spend hundreds of hours grinding just to accomplish even the most minor gameplay advancement. No Man’s Sky and Starfield are more playable space games that that grindfest. I wish someone would just remake elite dangerous for normal people.

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      11 months ago

      I want someone to make Elite dangerous but with single player progression. You get to pew pew in a bunch of increasingly fancy ships and at the end you fight an alien ship or something. 200 hours to complete and then go play something else with a nice experience.

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              11 months ago

              That’s the toughest balance to strike:

              Make me feel like I’ve gained a skill to become a competent pilot/trader/whatever in a complex world…

              …But also in a way that feels rewarding in the context of having a real mortal life to live, because in the end it’s still a videogame.

              Tangent example: I hate how badly I want to try and grokk Dwarf Fortress, but I can’t make more time from nowhere lol.

              But thankfully Rimworld is really cool. :)

              Just wish we could have an eighth day of the week nobody else was allowed to know about!

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            11 months ago

            200 hours to complete… you never finish an x game. I generally finish when my computer can’t keep up anymore.

            One of the best economic systems in a single player space game that I have come across.

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        11 months ago

        Evochron, Dark Star One,X series (you may bounce off a few times but they’re extremely unique and deep games), older Elite titles, Freelancer!

        To a lesser extent and a bit more survival crafty: Space Engineers or Empyrion with mods. Both have some additional community made content that adds stations/factions to progress against or for and are pretty good if a little janky.

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      11 months ago

      It really depends on what you want from your game. I happily spent hours in my lil hauler playing space trucker, and the only real thing that’s changed since then is I have access to bigger space trucks. I’ve been on a big exploration run for the last 80 or so hours of playtime and I’m enjoying being able to just relax and exist in my lil virtual spaceship. I don’t need to feel like a number goes up every session, but I’m a weirdo.

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        11 months ago

        I can’t overstate how disappointed I am in Frontier for completely abandoning Elite in the name of making more zoo simulators. Such a fucking cop out and I hate it.