Please end the "Thargoid War" - it is making Elite: Dangerous unplayable!

[Wulfraed]

Dear Frontier, Thank you for your positive work in bringing back the classic game "Elite", and making it up-to-date with "Elite: Dangerous", and adding in first-person combat in "Elite: Odyssey". HOWEVER, as a new player (as many are), I am finding the "Thargoid War" is taking over more and more of the travel routes and making the game unplayable, especially for new players who have to travel long distances to get even basic supplies for upgrades to ships and suits. PLEASE TAKE THE "THARGOID WAR" OUT - and return it to a specialised sectors which are easily avoided like in the classic game. Otherwise I can see your customer base going to other space-combat games like "Star Citizen", "No Mans Sky" and "Starfield" which don't have their travel routes blocked by these OP and undefeatable Thargoid nuisances. Many thanks in advance for TAKING THE "THARGOID WAR" out and saving the "Elite: Dangerous" franchise. Yours sincerely, Elite: Dangerous Odyssey customer.

[EJR]

Posting your complaints here won't do anything, no Frontier dev reads anything here

[Sighman]

The thargoid war is on the western side of the bubble. The guardians, meta alloys, etc, are to the east of the bubble.

Unless you're using the entire bubble like a roundabout, the thargoids shouldn't be anywhere close to being in your way.

[martin77]

400 billion stars and not enough space for doing what u want?!
i never understand this. same is why people play 3.8 for the same reasons..

[Planewalker]

引用自 Sighman：

The thargoid war is on the western side of the bubble. The guardians, meta alloys, etc, are to the east of the bubble.

Unless you're using the entire bubble like a roundabout, the thargoids shouldn't be anywhere close to being in your way.

I'd say thargoids are at the south of the bubble unless you mean something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_coordinate_system



OP thargoids are the main antagonist in elite since '84 and it also does not prevent you from playing the game whatsoever. TBQF it sounds like OP is just looking for an excuse to leave.

[ShelLuser]

What "travel routes"? Considering the rather huge size of the bubble I can't help wonder... are you by any chance using 3rd party websites to look for "easy" trading routes to get rich quickly?

Because that would easily explain your problem. Not to mention that you probably got the war to thank for the existence of those routes in the first place!

Trading routes aren't rocket science: check economies, some economies will always have certain exports while others will always have certain needs. Easy... refinery? You can expect the export of metals. Industrial? You can expect those to need those metals.

While I also couldn't care less about the whole invasion angle ... it never bothered me. And I probably travel way more than you, I even actively do passenger tours, from different starting points as well. No issues though.

[luntacarsus]

Oh look, somebody who speaks for the entire playerbase. Thanks, OP, for saving the many thousands of other players the time and effort required to vocalise what they are all most definitely thinking.

[UNBREAKABLE]

The game at no point tries to hide which systems are being invaded. Just don't go there, everything you need can be found outside of the war zone.

[Airatome]

Thargoids?
Seems to be a non issue.
I got hyperdicted once for cruising too close to a system. Curious little Thargoid wanted to scan my vessel after checking out a crash site.

No issues here if you pay attention to the galaxy map though. Of the 8 systems with portals to Thargoid space, there's no reason to venture anywhere near them that you can't find elsewhere.

[funkynutz]

Don't want to fight Thargoids, stay away from Thargoid war systems... It's not rocket science... Making the game "unplayable"? That's a load of moo

[McGargoyle]

引用自 Wulfraed：

Otherwise I can see your customer base going to other space-combat games like "Star Citizen", "No Mans Sky" and "Starfield" which don't have their travel routes blocked by these OP and undefeatable Thargoid nuisances.

Seriously?
Because you can't manage in this space-sim, everyone will switch to a tech-demo, a planetary survival game with arcade-y space bits or an RPG set in space?
Egocentric much?

[malorob]

i have not seen a thargoid in legacy yet

[wolf]

引用自 Sighman：

The thargoid war is on the western side of the bubble. The guardians ...are to the east of the bubble.

引用自 Planewalker：

I'd say thargoids are at the south of the bubble

Which side is up? West? Or north? I'm very cofused now

[Planewalker]

引用自 wolf：

Which side is up? West? Or north? I'm very cofused now

Check the wiki link to learn about galactic north.
(i surmise sighman made a typo, so it was a small jest ;)

[funkynutz]

引用自 wolf：

引用自 Sighman：

The thargoid war is on the western side of the bubble. The guardians ...are to the east of the bubble.

引用自 Planewalker：

I'd say thargoids are at the south of the bubble

Which side is up? West? Or north? I'm very cofused now

Valid point, but for ease of navigating across the entire galaxy...

"Up" is anything in the direction going above the galactic plane as you see it in the Galaxy map.

As for the other bit: Draw a line across the galaxy, that passes through Sol and Sagittarius A*. We're to the South. The other way, expanding past the galactic core is North.

Thargoids are mainly down, and to the southern side of the bubble. They're also spread across quite a wide front that goes east and west.

[Sighman]

引用自 Planewalker：

引用自 wolf：

Which side is up? West? Or north? I'm very cofused now

Check the wiki link to learn about galactic north.
(i surmise sighman made a typo, so it was a small jest ;)

West and East of the direction my commander happened to be facing at the time.

As we all know, Elite Dangerous is all about the individual.