• StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Because it’s in a genre that has no good alternatives?

    EVE is spreadsheet simulator, Elite Dangerous is space-truck simulator, NMS is all planets not space, StarField is StarField.

    The only viable alternative I found was X4. Even that is slightly different from what Star Citizen promises (it’s more empire management than solo flying in the endgame, vanilla balance is also questionable: you can “luke skywalker” a destroyer with a scout with pure dogfighting skills)

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      2 days ago

      Honest question, what does it give that eve doesn’t? If X4 is a good alternative why is eve really so lacking? Give it a try, do a level 1 security mission in a merlin, it’s very similar to X4

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        • I can’t simultaneously play a third MMO (already got FFXI and FFXIV)
        • X4 custom start allows me to jump to the parts I want to play instantly, no matter if it’s starting wars, flooding the market, dogfighting, etc
        • My X4 save is a gzip file: no need to worry about latency after moving to another country etc (my EVE account is locked to a region halfway across the world)
        • I don’t have to wait for irl people to do something fun in X4
        • The gziped save file is in xml format. If something breaks I can just fix it
        • X4 has a huge modding scene for whatever features you want
        • X4’s modding tools are super easy to learn: it’s all xml and lua. Took me only 2 hours to figure out how to modify the UI from scratch.