So after playing ED for a while, I start to make some comparison between ED and real life like any sci-fi geek. So here are some shower thoughts:
1) Weapon range in this game is amazingly awful. 2-3K meters is laughable bad range, and there is no evidence they do significant more damage than their 19th or 20th century counter parts. I think some of the cannons Napoleon had made better range than a high caliber multi-cannon.
2) Radar/sensors are both amazing and suckage. I mean, you can now scan an entire planet :O, but then you are still using 1960s UIs. Also, you can also detect ships travel in another time/space bubble, and communicate with them.
2B) Anyone can have secure communication with you from anywhere in the galaxy, but yet you still fly around as a intergalactic mail man.
3) Even though your sensors are on your dashboard/helm UI, shooting your cockpit glass out you lose them.
4) Apparently running out of air means you instantly eject from the ship in a blazing inferno, but your life boat/suit apparently have all the air you need to wait for rescue, in deep space, millions of light years from anyone.
5) Gold is still expensive as fuck in the 31st century, even though we are now finding minerals all over the galaxy.
6) People really willing to gun you down for a 30 years old woman's centerfold.
6B) And yet you would pay for the privilege's to deliver said centerfolds.
7) There really need more ships, Combat vessels for the Empire and civilian vessels for the Federation. You can't tell me both side rely on 3rd party ships for their weak points (Trade/Fed, Fight/Empire).
8) And some of these ships are antique as fuck. They are literally flying designs hundreds of years old, and yet here in America no one is gonna drive a car model that is 10 years old.
9) People don't realize every ship they are flying is actually an weapon of mass destruction….just go to superspeed, reach highest Cs speed, turn off safety (mind you, not in game) and dive at a planet. Boom instant extinction event with something like a Sidewinder.
10) Also gun ownership went into a 180, for some reason countries on earth that would be high on gun control (communism, dictatorship), and yet in elite world is opposite. Or maybe it is just Americans are too American and this game is made by the Brits.
