OMG the taxi in this game.

[bigd]

I wanted to travel to my mission site with-in the same system. Boy its going on 30 min. like wow!!! Please shorten the time since we can't currently use our ships. This makes me not want to play. 30 min of waste of time when I can be playing another game and get more accomplished.

[jmp470]

It definitely is a taxi simulator and that's ok, IMO, as we are testing out the game for further launch.

So far, the autopilot has been rock solid, no major issues for me. It even rocks the glide well, whereas, I have been known to screw that up significantly!

Remember we will have our main ships when this goes live.

[Xenon-M]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

I find it strange they chose a system with such far flung stations for the alpha.

Perhaps next time they will choose Alpha Centauri! Everyone loves a run to Hutton Orbital!

NO!

[Mr Robert House]

sounds like it’s just a terrible system that’s chosen for the testing. also if the ai is doing what auto throttle does and staying in the blue zone that will make it worse.

[Landstander]

lmao this post is cancer. you want a space sim or a damn loading screen? a taxi movign youa round faster than your ship is stupid. get off here with this

[Ylion]

people forget we will soon have ships and apex will be optional.
if you don´t want to test come back in phase 2

[slingshot5]

Originally posted by Space_Cat_9:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

I find it strange they chose a system with such far flung stations for the alpha.

Perhaps next time they will choose Alpha Centauri! Everyone loves a run to Hutton Orbital!

NO!

braben yes :33333

[CRNilsen]

Well, after counting the landing sites, I can see why they chose the system.
There is 9 stations and 100 downports.

[Warden]

Originally posted by bigd:

I wanted to travel to my mission site with-in the same system. Boy its going on 30 min. like wow!!! Please shorten the time since we can't currently use our ships. This makes me not want to play. 30 min of waste of time when I can be playing another game and get more accomplished.

you do know having youre own ship will not make it any faster ?????

hahahahaha people having youre own ship is just as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slow as taking a taxi wake up people god some people are stupid

[Myrmidon]

Originally posted by Warden:

Originally posted by bigd:

I wanted to travel to my mission site with-in the same system. Boy its going on 30 min. like wow!!! Please shorten the time since we can't currently use our ships. This makes me not want to play. 30 min of waste of time when I can be playing another game and get more accomplished.

you do know having youre own ship will not make it any faster ?????

hahahahaha people having youre own ship is just as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slow as taking a taxi wake up people god some people are stupid

Actually having your own ship would make it faster in many circumstances. We can orientate ourselves with the orbits and gravity wells more efficiently than the taxi drivers.

Also imagine you're on a station 100,000ls from the main star in the system and you want to get to a station 75ls from it. A taxi will fly you 100,000ls in supercruise, whereas you can simply high wake somewhere, jump back, immediately be at that main star and enjoy a short 75ls jaunt to the destination. Lots of little things like this. It'll definitely be much quicker.

[Sighman]

Put it this way, if I absolutely had to get to Hutton I'd pick the taxi option every time. Then I'd AFK and do useful stuff.

[luZk]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2202836485

[Elenoe]

Originally posted by slingshot5:

The taxis are fine, it's just that FD picked the worst system to test this in because of the 150k ls travel distance

that's exactly why it's a good system to test.

The distance is however on player. I basically only pick the missions around the same star I currently am. So taxi never takes that long.

[Erei]

Originally posted by Landstander:

lmao this post is cancer. you want a space sim or a damn loading screen? a taxi movign youa round faster than your ship is stupid. get off here with this

The irony is so rich with this post. Yes, people want a space sim and not a loading screen. Right now, the taxis are a glorified loading screen, a fancy one, but that's it.
In both cases, you have no interactions with the game, and can go afk/alt tabbing it won't change a thing.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by Space_Cat_9:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

I find it strange they chose a system with such far flung stations for the alpha.

Perhaps next time they will choose Alpha Centauri! Everyone loves a run to Hutton Orbital!

NO!

Spoilsport!

[luZk]

Originally posted by Erei:

Originally posted by Landstander:

lmao this post is cancer. you want a space sim or a damn loading screen? a taxi movign youa round faster than your ship is stupid. get off here with this

The irony is so rich with this post. Yes, people want a space sim and not a loading screen. Right now, the taxis are a glorified loading screen, a fancy one, but that's it.
In both cases, you have no interactions with the game, and can go afk/alt tabbing it won't change a thing.

You must admit its pretty cool you can play this whole game now without ever flying yourself.