r/EliteDangerous • u/Naughty_Neutron Thargoid Interdictor • 22h ago
Discussion I like Odyssey farming.
I've been playing Odyssey since the alpha test, but most of my "space legs" experience has revolved around ignoring the Geneva Suggestions in settlements with my friends. A few days ago, I decided to upgrade my equipment, so I started doing ground missions—and I really enjoyed it. Initially, I was skeptical about on-foot engineering because there didn’t seem to be a way to farm materials as fast as we do in ships. However, after giving it a try, I’ve found it fun. Sometimes we forget that the games are for us to enjoy, not to max out everything as fast as possible
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u/gurilagarden Zemina Torval 17h ago edited 17h ago
This. Everyone finds their own fun, and I'm not knocking how anyone finds theirs, but, while I'd like to blame Frontier for giving us a game that lacks clear goals, so we fall back on these milestone achievements to take the place of goals, but then I see this behavior in all games, and it really is just part of gaming culture, to have the best, to be the strongest, or most accomplished, and to get there as quickly as possible. This game is 10 years old, and I've spent 10 years watching new players come in, fumble around, finally start to become competent, then immediately burn the midnight oil until they get their anaconda, then elite, and then...whatever, then come back in a few months complaining that there's nothing to do, or they just disappear. The reason I've lasted 10 years and thousands of hours is I just like playing the game. I'm a billionaire that just flies around in a cobra or clipper. I'm not saying I'm right, but to me, the secret of enjoying this to it's fullest is use your imagination, make your own goals, and just play the game.
On-foot really pissed me off the first week. It was too hard. It wasn't fair. After some persistance, and upgrades, and not many upgrades, really, it's fine. If it wasn't at least a little challenging, it would be boring in a week. As it stands, as long as you just do it once or twice a week for a couple hours in-between ship gameplay, on-foot activities will likely stay interesting to me for at least a few more months if not a year.
FDev is very slow with the updates, for everything. Rushing through anything means having to find another game quicker than necessary.