02-14-2013, 12:12 PM
There's one thing I don't understand about forums. If you start a thread about something that there's already a thread about you are an idiot for not searching for the original thread first. If you do a search an find an old thread on the topic you were looking for you're frowned upon for necromancy if you post in it. There's simply no pleasing anybody.
Anyhow, on to the topic I wanted to talk about. This is a copy paste of my post in this thread: http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=86665 which was closed just after I posted in it:
Anyhow, on to the topic I wanted to talk about. This is a copy paste of my post in this thread: http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=86665 which was closed just after I posted in it:
Quote:Hello. I'm new to this forum and to your server. Here's my two cents on this topic:
I've been on your server for about two or three days and I've been doing some lucrative trading in order to get a starting capital so that I can afford a decent fighter in the near future. As a trader when you are not buying and selling goods at a station this is how you go about your day:
1. Select next waypoint.
2. Dock.
3. Stare at screen for 30 seconds.
4. Repeat.
(This will hereby be called "the loop of boredom".)
It's incredibly tedious. You have so little to do that you get bored out of your mind and the time that you are not doing anything isn't long enough to focus on something else. Even if you use a quick docking technique, which cuts total travel time and require more work, it's still too intermittent.
This game is in serious need of an autopilot. I'm not saying that there should be an autotrader like what the OP created. It's definitly cheating if the computer does the trading for you, but having an autopilot that can follow waypoints would be a blessing. Then you could focus on the actual trading part that is buying and selling commodities and planning a route without having to go through the loop of boredom fifty times between each station. You could read a book or something until you hear shots being fired or the "tradelane disrupted" warning.
I don't see how this would ruin roleplay. It's not like much happens during those trips anyway. it's just a continous iteration of the loop of boredom. If you are afraid that people on autopilot are going to miss what people write in the chat you could perhaps implement a sound signal each time someone writes something.
I assure you that an autopilot would increase the enjoyment of playing this game.