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Waiting 10 whole minutes to get your ship back is the devs not respecting the player's time.
I know why they do it though, they want people to buy more ships so that they have one ready while the original is in a cool down period. This is also a similar tactic used by shitty mobile phone games.
Disagree. The intention is for SC to be a space sim sandbox, so I'm surprised they're only making you wait 10m.
When you take your car into the shop and have to wait a few hours for it to be repaired, you don't think "the solution they want me to go with is to buy a second car for this moment", right? But that's the argument you're making here. If this is the lens you see all games through, then it's impossible for anyone to make a game that's just literally normal life.
Conversely, I could argue that mobile games are built around instant dopamine rushes. Any 10m wait is explicitly accompanied with an option to pay the wait away immediately. Afaik, that's not an option here, if you're a new player, you have to wait that 10m no matter what. Correct me if I'm wrong. But that's not a very good job at capitalizing on the wait time.
What value do timegates add to video games? How does the user experience improve or degrade if the wait is, say five minutes? One minute? None? Is the point of the simulation to wait for everything? What’s the difference between acceleration humans can’t survive and wait times? What’s the line we can’t cross to suspend disbelief?
I personally think it’s all made up so making me twiddle my thumbs for 10m is fucking stupid. If I wanted a waiting simulator I’d play “kickstarting Star Citizen” or a less punishing game like Desert Bus.
Time is the one thing we all suffer through equally.
It doesn't matter if you're a whale gamer with 100 ships or a normal person with 1 or 2.
Those 10 minutes pass the same for us all. And it's that consequence upon death that gives real weight, meaning and purpose to your choices.
It's what's meant to keep you from going, "hurr durr guns go brrrr" and shooting everyone you see on sight like a neanderthal.
The only thing I don't agree with is the current durations given the state of the game.
Often your ship explodes through no fault of your own. They should incrementally increase wait times as the game stabilizes more on my opinion.
But in a game where death is not permanent like real life time is one of the few things that weighs on us all the same.
And yes, ofc owning more ships b/c you're wealthier than other players does give you an advantage over other players, doesn't invalidate my point.
If anything that's making it more realistic, and some day 200 years from now when they implement "Death of a Spaceman" there will be harsher penalties to death that you can't whale your way out of, forcing you to prize your life and take action accordingly.
It's not meant to appeal to everyone. Nothing is meant to appeal to everyone.
If you don't like it, that's fine, don't play, no one is forcing you.
If you disagree with the game mechanics, that's fine, don't play. No one is forcing you.
If the devs need to do x, y, and z to appease you as an individual or you're going to quit, that's fine, don't play. No one is forcing you.