u/Jamespg614

Had an idea (inspired by someone else, no idea who though) to create a planet base that's essentially just a massive tower, multiple floors, lots of room, almost like a corporate headquarters in terms of visuals.

Being the laziest person in the world, the idea of having 33 floors of stairs absolutely HORRIFIES me, so I'm now looking at building an elevator for it. Thinking of going for a rotor based on as the piston stack for 33 floors of large grid blocks would extend halfway to the planet's core when retracted, but that's not the point of the question.

In order to properly move the elevator to another floor, I'd need to send a command to a scripting block, and that then moves the elevator to the relevant floor. The problem I have is that without having 33 individual buttons inside the elevator, I can't think of a way to quickly select what floor to go to. Ideally, I'd like an in game number pad type deal, but can't find anything even remotely close to that existing at the moment.

I'd like to avoid having the up, select and down that I can see as an option from the three button panel, but honestly, if its got to be that then that's what it is.

Any ideas, or anyone tackled a similar problem in the past?

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u/Jamespg614 — 8 days ago

Hey they commanders. I used to play ED a lot a few years ago on my PS5, but ended up stopping when the great universe schism took place. I’ll be honest, I felt a bit disappointed and betrayed that FDev were dropping so many of their players like that, and I know it was supposedly because of technical limitations, but it still sucked. Used to have an amazing time flying around as part of the fuel rats, and it gave me a real sense of purpose at a time when my life wasn’t going so great.

I got a new gaming laptop for Christmas, and I’ve been slowing revisiting everything on my steam account. Suddenly, I’ve remembered Elite, checked the listing and hey, that’s not too expensive.

What’s the feeling of the PC community these days? Is it worth picking the game back up after all this time (admittedly on a new for me platform, so starting from scratch)? I’ve been loosely following since the “breakup”, and some of the decisions have seemed a bit pay-to-win, which I’m not a huge fan of, but like I said, I’ve only been loosely following and don’t want to offend anyone if that’s not been the case.

Appreciate your thoughts. O7

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u/Jamespg614 — 12 days ago