@osan0 said:
Very impressive from a technical standpoint. I wish the rest of the AAA sector showed some of the same ambition.
What concerns me with the scale though is populating it with fun things to do and keeping the player engaged. This is especially true for players on a ship that are not a pilot.
I mean if you and a few buddies are on a long trip and someone else is piloting the ship...what does everyone else do? With the commuting train in the demo...what can you do when in transit between cities?
I'm still rooting for the whole endeavour though (more SQ42). I really really hope they do release something and it basically gives the AAA sector a kick in the arse.
FTL travel (between planets, stations, etc) is not that long. Maybe a few minutes tops. It's long by casual gamer standards, sure, but quite short by simulation standards. Compare it to something like Elite: Dangerous where you spend literal real-time days getting from point A to point B, or a flight sim like DCS World where [on mp servers] you can't speed up time and just sit in the cockpit flying to your navpoint.
As for what to do? Well...you talk. Tell jokes. I mean, what do you do when travelling in a car? On a train? Or on a plane? You pass the time however you see fit. The game is meant to be played differently as a sim than it is something more arcade or casual-like; you're not always doing something exciting, there's not always something taking up 100% of your attention. That's not a flaw, that's just the nature of the genre.
I do share your concerns and can appreciate your questions, it's nice to hear from a skeptic that is still rooting for the game to take off (we don't lose anything by hoping for the best, after all!) but the game is better and better with each update. There's turrets to sit in and fight off enemies, salvaging and mining to do cooperatively, and more.
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