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I love to see more Mini Games on Stations.

Post by StoneLegionYT » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 15:53

Not those Mini Games but fun little side activities like Black Jack, clean some rats up, trash, just small silly stuff around the stations you see in MMORPG's at times. Something more at stations then going there to talk to a NPC.

I'm not sure if X4 will offer things like this but even mod wise it be kind fun to add the immersion.

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Re: I love to see more Mini Games on Stations.

Post by mr.WHO » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 16:00

Sorry, but these don't add anything constructive to the core gameplay, especially after horror of X-Rebirth mini-games.
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Re: I love to see more Mini Games on Stations.

Post by Alan Phipps » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 16:00

Prepares for the flood of posts from the 'I don't want ever to have to set foot in a station' brigade. :lol:
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Re: I love to see more Mini Games on Stations.

Post by Player » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 16:14

Kane Hart wrote:
Sun, 7. Oct 18, 15:53
Not those Mini Games but fun little side activities like Black Jack, clean some rats up, trash, just small silly stuff around the stations you see in MMORPG's at times. Something more at stations then going there to talk to a NPC.

I'm not sure if X4 will offer things like this but even mod wise it be kind fun to add the immersion.
+1 for this. I love XR just like any other game in the X series. The only thing I did not like about the XR was being able to fly only with a single ship.

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Re: I love to see more Mini Games on Stations.

Post by Karvat » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 16:17

Add custom uniforms for our employees and voice commands instead

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Post by StoneLegionYT » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 16:27

Keep in mind these are not forced elements, etc just extra's for those who enjoy exploring stations and doing things on stations.

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Post by spacecoyote99 » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 16:30

The thing I really wanted in Rebirth was for those Ugh arcade machines to be playable :D

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Re: I love to see more Mini Games on Stations.

Post by Falcrack » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 16:45

100% optional minigames might be fine, but not XR's idea of minigames, such as the conversation minigame, or crawling through crawlspaces to open lootboxes. Or in space, not they dodge ships in highways minigame, or the fly up within arms length of stations to scan them for discounts minigame.

But arcade machine to be playable could be nice.

My favorite idea for a minigame on a station would be a combat simulator. Basically, it would be a way to test out any combat scenario and ship type you like, where you choose from custom combat scenarios, or generate your own, from small engagements to massive fleet battles. That's actually something I would love to see in a DLC, since putting it together might actually take quite a bit of work. But I would be willing personally to pay >$30 for just this one feature.

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Post by Alan Phipps » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 17:06

@ Falcrack: Yes I've seen your simulator idea posed in a few threads.

The issue for this thread's purposes is that your simulator (for loadout testing) really needs to be standalone rather than in-game. I say that because you would have to run two real-time X4 universes side by side; the cut down combat simulation one and the real universe containing the station you are in and everything else going on. Also what happens if your real game assets get attacked while you are in the simulation - all your trial set up could be lost if you bugged out of it to teleport etc.
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Re: I love to see more Mini Games on Stations.

Post by segmentationfault » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 17:24

Some kind of card game like Gwent could be pretty fun.

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Post by DaMuncha » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 17:44

Show me your wares please.
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Post by Geek » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 19:50

Oh no... I can not believe we are going through this again.
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Re: I love to see more Mini Games on Stations.

Post by mr.WHO » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 19:52

If you need to put a game into your game then it means you're not doing your game good enought in the first place!
This is not an MMO, it doesn't have wating room for server connection, so why would I waste my time to play card game or any other mini game?
I'd rather spend my time in the RTS map leading my fleet or running my economy.

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Post by Karvat » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 19:56

Yea, stop asking these useless things, nobody wants minigames if the main game is done well

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Post by csaba » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 20:02

IF the minigames are kept I rather have something more interactive than the slider. I'm part of the group that likes X:R but that slider is just a brain cancer, repetitive, non-intelligent design. Not to mention if a Xenon I decides to jump in while you do your 4-5* hacking challenge the slider can derp and fail even on a monster computer.


Hacking in EVE where it was similar to minesweeper, in Fallout 4 where you had to follow some logic to guess the word were way more engaging and less boring.

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Re: I love to see more Mini Games on Stations.

Post by Fedora01 » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 20:11

So no-one has considered that space casinos are a thing in the X universe? would be great for immersion to find various casinos scattered throughout the sectors, ranging from legal high end ones found near major centers to questionable underhanded places deep within pirate territory. Just my 2 cents on the subject.
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Post by Zetoss » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 20:20

mr.WHO wrote:
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If you need to put a game into your game then it means you're not doing your game good enought in the first place!
Are you serious or are you exaggerating wildly and making a weird statement just to protest putting fun little details in a game because you fear it will impact the quality of something more important?

I honestly see no reason NOT to always try putting more fun pointless things to do in games once the core gameplay is solid. When I'm waiting for a delivery of metal so my new personal ship can be built I'd MUCH rather linger on a platform and engage in something silly and funny than try to squeeze every last second of combat out of the game by going out in an S fighter and taking on a group of raiders just to refuse standing still and taking it easy for a couple of minutes.

Isn't the whole point of the X games FREEDOM for players to go with their own styles? Have we really become petty enough that as soon as someone wants to do anything in a station the thread almost always gets jumped by people hating on adding an OPTION to the game? I've almost stopped using the forum the past half year or so because of this behavior, I'm fed up with it and more than that I'm fed up with trying not to react to it because much of this behavior utterly disgusts me and makes it incredibly hard for me to remain calm and collected. As long as ES knows that an excessively vocal minority has chased away some of the fans from the forum and that a lot of the stuff posted here should be taken with an asteroid sized grain of salt then it's no disaster at least, in the end what really matters is that the game doesn't suffer.

While I was typing Fedora01 posted, I'm strongly inclined to agree that casinos (of both the legal and questionable type mentioned) would add something interesting and potentially fun, I'll give a +1 to that.

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Post by mr.WHO » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 20:36

Something like Casino would fit well with gameplay (e.g. Pirate and crime organizations), but this is not GTA V, EVE not Star Citize - Egosoft doesn't have endless resources to spare and X4 already seems to me most massive of all X-games.

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Post by StoneLegionYT » Sun, 7. Oct 18, 20:40

mr.WHO wrote:
Sun, 7. Oct 18, 20:36
Something like Casino would fit well with gameplay (e.g. Pirate and crime organizations), but this is not GTA V, EVE not Star Citize - Egosoft doesn't have endless resources to spare and X4 already seems to me most massive of all X-games.
Could you stop telling people who someone else has and does not have time for. This not just pointed to the developers of the game but also mod makers who like to do things like create Blackjack for Rebirth. You be amazed how things like this ends up becoming even a fun side project at home for one the developers who enjoy making mods on the side, etc.

But please stop telling people what someone else has time, budget, etc, for. You actually have no clue what they have time for in the future and it's really rude speaking on their behalf.

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Post by ishmaeltheforsaken » Mon, 8. Oct 18, 00:14

Kane Hart wrote:
Sun, 7. Oct 18, 20:40
mr.WHO wrote:
Sun, 7. Oct 18, 20:36
Something like Casino would fit well with gameplay (e.g. Pirate and crime organizations), but this is not GTA V, EVE not Star Citize - Egosoft doesn't have endless resources to spare and X4 already seems to me most massive of all X-games.
Could you stop telling people who someone else has and does not have time for. This not just pointed to the developers of the game but also mod makers who like to do things like create Blackjack for Rebirth. You be amazed how things like this ends up becoming even a fun side project at home for one the developers who enjoy making mods on the side, etc.

But please stop telling people what someone else has time, budget, etc, for. You actually have no clue what they have time for in the future and it's really rude speaking on their behalf.
Saying that Egosoft don't have "endless resources to spare" is a far cry from telling anyone what anyone does or doesn't have time for, and calling it rude is absurd. It is a fact that they don't have infinite time and money, and that means they're going to make choices about what they do and do not include in the game. Speculating on what those choices might be is an exciting thing for us fans to do, because we're all excited for the game. But it's not "rude" to speculate in a way that differs from your preferences.

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