Elite : Dangerous .... Space is big

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I've been following the video's Scott Manley has been putting out and that has sparked my interest. My only reservations about the game is the sandbox component seems to be MP only, dinky space station entrances, when the general release is going to be (not paying $150) and how feature complete it will be at that time. Also I wonder if/when they add planetary landings, if it'll be a guided decent or if you can roam around the planet a bit. The latter I've no doubt would be a bit resource intensive though. But exploratory portions of these games are the biggest draw for me and I'm interested on how it pans out.

 

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The sandbox aspect of it is everywhere. There are no planned over all missions. There will be online on going story line arcs, such as a planet moving into a war and trying to take over it's neighbour.

Sorry, you're going to have to explain that one to me. My complaint was the sandbox aspect of the game seems to be multiplayer only and singleplayer seems to be on single stand alone missions only. If I understood your post correctly, the sandbox spect will be single player also, but story arcs are going to be multiplayer/online only. This correct?