ELITE Dangerous : Le RoadMap

Saison 1 – Space

Saison 2 – Horizons – Airless Planets

• Features as already announced
• Basic Crafting – e.g. adjusting weapons stats
• Inc. Thargoids incursions into normal space

Saison 3 – Space Legs

• In Ship & Dock areas
• Personal Hanger
• First person combat
• Exploring derelicts etc
• also Player managed ‘powers’
• Multiple characters allowed

Saison 4 – Atmospheres

• Flying in atmospheres / Landing on atmospheric worlds without life or cities
  • inc worlds mid terraforming with associated infrastructure
• Flying through and around clouds
• ‘Cloud Cities’ in gas giants
• Space Elevators
• Atmospheric flight only ships
• More realistic sun corona
  • Solar research ship that can get closer to stars
• Mining clouds
• Weather / Lightning / Aurora
• Also – new procedural / customisable ship designs

Saison 5 – Planet Life

• Landing on planets with life but no landing near or entering large cities
• Full range of life
• Varied procedural Biomes based on science and environment
  • e.g. takes account of micro climate at that location
• Hunting, Trading and Collecting life
• Collect personal cabin Pets! (inc trumbles!)
• Conservation (Eco terrorist attacks on hunters / miners)
• Exploration
  • Science Missions
  • Reward for discovery (al a No Mans Sky)
• Some non-technology native intelligent species
  • think Ewoks!
  • Basic barter system with natives
  • Trading collected indigenous artefacts
• also Fully Explorable Stations
• Owning cabin in stations

Saison – Cities!

• Fully Explorable Cities on planets
• Faction Territories/Countries on planets
  • Wars/conflict between these factions
• Owning and managing stations
• Building depots / outposts in space and on land

Saison – Species

• Introduces a couple of PLAYABLE species!
• Also New economy. Everything fully self craftable / tradable including auction house
• also Head up display improvements (option to view the universe in various non-visible light)
  • e.g. in radio spectrum. This will make space a lot prettier without breaking realism

Saison – Subterranean

• Caves, surface mining
• Improved ‘geology’
  • Scan for sub surface minerals
  • Then mining them
• Full Realistic Mining
  • Landscape deforms based on quantities of materials removed.
  • Size and density of Asteroid fields reduce with mining
  • Open cast and deep mines
• Sub-surface cities
  • research stations
  • geo-thermal energy
  • military bases
• Settlements in the sides of canyons, mountains and craters
• Ability to for our character to ‘climb’ when exploring first person on surfaces

Saison 9 – Underwater

• Underwater Life / Cities / Ships etc
• More life to survey / hunt / collect etc
• also Mega Structures such as orbital rings

Saison 10 – Witch Space (Thargoids)

• Playable Thargoids!
• A whole new domain of sub-space
• Thargoid mega structures / cities in witch space
• I put this last as I’d rather see the normal domains of the galaxy complete before they invent new ones.

Saison 11 – Ring World civilisations discovered in far corner of galaxy 🙂

• fully explorable ring-worlds
• part of a Large scale invasion of an advanced species from Andromeda

Saison 12 – Full moding of your own galaxy content

• FD starts selling the raw galaxy engine (the stellar forge) for use in other games such as Star Wars, Star Trek and Star Gate
• Also we take the fight back to Andromeda having reverse engineered their technology.

Saison 14 – ED Universe. Player owned galaxies 😉

• This is should be really easy to do btw.
• All we need is the Galactic Hyperdrive back and the a new ‘seed’ for each galaxy.