u/ImperialParrot

So I play on console and took a long break so numerous updates have come out that I didn't immediately jump into (machine age, cosmic storms, astral planes etc) and so I've been getting the hang of a few of these things since I started playing again and if I'm honest.... it's kinda a lot 😅 like I'm used to the early to mid game being relatively chill for the most part and not until the late-mid to end game all the bigger complicated stuff really starts kicking in but now I'm almost bogged down in stuff and it's not even 2300 yet. Like I shouldn't complain because more content is pretty much universally always good but gawd damn chill! I'm almost immediately swamped in space fauna stuff, cosmic storms & astral rifts to the point I can barely focus on just developing my planets & expanding my territory. Any anomalies I discover are almost immediately forgotten about because I got so much to do.

Is there any way I can just tone down some of this stuff so it's not so overwhelming? I like the content but maybe not all at once? Haha

So I've been out of Elite for many years (basically since the Odyssey launch which nukes the console platforms) and I've finally to start playing again as I'll hopefully be hoping over to PC version soon as budget allows (need a PC😅) so I've been checking up on the state of the game currently. Clearly a lot has happened, many things have changed and certainly a lot of new ships have been added. I don't want to get into the whole "Pay2Win" side of the discussion as I'm sure it's been done to death but some parts do seem rather clear that the legacy ships, or least decent chunk of them, are rather redundant/obsolete now (especially since the Lynx Liner is just being given out for free for some bizarre reason 🤷).

It got me thinking about game balancing & longevity because eventually you fall into the "one upsman" situation of always trying to out do yourself with each new ship but it also got me thinking in a different way in terms of classic cars. Has anyone considered the possibility of a legacy ships community in the nearish future being formed? Because eventually if all the old ships are made redundant and everyone gravitates towards the newer ships off the bat then I'd imagine veteran players such as myself may lean more favourably into using our legacy ships almost for nostalgic reasons. Forming communities around them as I suspect newer CMDRs will simply never form a bond with them for the as said above reasons.

I thought it was an interesting concept so wanted to pose it to the ED community.