Landing on planets?

[Niall]

Can we or not?

[havlentia]

Anchoring to a planet has a fairly steep fee. middle-click the planet to bring up the anchor.

[Niall]

I haven't bought the game yet. As advertised this game is deep. Shallow games like X where you cannot land on planets bore me. I like to indulge my planetary side like in Elite 2 etc. Can we land on planets and fly across the surface?

[danijel]

Originally posted by Necronaught:

I haven't bought the game yet. As advertised this game is deep. Shallow games like X where you cannot land on planets bore me. I like to indulge my planetary side like in Elite 2 etc. Can we land on planets and fly across the surface?

Sorry to disappoint you Necronaught. You cannot fly over grasslands, fields, mountains and some such. You CAN land on planets, but not fly over the surface like you would with I dunno, an airplane. That is simply out of our scope for now. :(

[Niall]

The landing on planets is a sale for me then :) Games like this it is important. Some games offer great scope but fail to immerse me with out the planet feature. Looking forward to this one.

[danijel]

Originally posted by Necronaught:

The landing on planets is a sale for me then :) Games like this it is important. Some games offer great scope but fail to immerse me with out the planet feature. Looking forward to this one.

So very glad you approve :)

[Raell]

Originally posted by Necronaught:

I haven't bought the game yet. As advertised this game is deep. Shallow games like X where you cannot land on planets bore me. I like to indulge my planetary side like in Elite 2 etc. Can we land on planets and fly across the surface?

You're looking for Star Wars Galaxies then. Unfortunately they shut that down a while back.

Adding the option to land on planets and do whatever it is you want to do would be very demanding and push back a release date well beyond what this developer had in mind.

Not even big budget games have done that since SWG.

[Киндаа Ебошики,О]

'Shallow games like X' shallow? you kidding right?

[Niall]

Originally posted by Stalin's Mo:

'Shallow games like X' shallow? you kidding right?

I'm being utterly, most serious.

[Dbrn]

Originally posted by Necronaught:

Originally posted by Stalin's Mo:

'Shallow games like X' shallow? you kidding right?

I'm being utterly, most serious.

Your opinion is valid until you call X shallow. X is a pretty deep game, deep in ways that a lot of sims/space games aren't. There's simply no reason to land on planets in X, lore wise or mechanically. Missing one feature that a lot of these space games are missing does not make it shallow. It's simply missing a feature that you'd like to see. You're using the wrong word here.

[Niall]

I own all the X games, except the new one. I found them compelling but I really wanted that planet landing gameplay I enjoyed as a teenager with frontier Elite 2

[cmcm]

Frontier Elite 2. Fun game. I never understood why other X games did not follow up with similiar features.

[Hairy Goober]

Evochron Mercenary has planetary landings, you can go exploring in a mech now too, or stick with flying your ship around the surface.

[Mithril]

Originally posted by Necronaught:

Originally posted by Stalin's Mo:

'Shallow games like X' shallow? you kidding right?

I'm being utterly, most serious.

X shallow??? You can't possibly have been playing that game for more than mere minutes.

[Fat Boo Bear]

Games that cant allow you to land and fly over the surface of planets is shallow. I agree.

[Mantaray]

i'm sorry but calling X shallow just because you cant take a vaccume designed spacecraft into an atmospheric environment is daft. thats like saying The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim is shallow because you cant build your own keep or hold.