Yeah. There's close to 10,000 people playing Farming Simulator right now. We need to grow potato crops to feed our soldiers. But you guys are thinking too small.
Minecraft has hundreds of thousands of people playing. We should add mining and base building to the game. Every time a map resets the players should have to survey the map to find where the building materials are, then obtain them, then refine the ore, then build aircraft components and bases, then work the assembly line to build their airplane, then paint it, then fly it. That sounds like all kinds of fun!
Wait, better yet! Combine that with something like Kerbal Space Program where you have to design your airplane to be able to fly it, and if the design's not right it won't work! More different types of gameplay can't be bad right?
It's a good thing Elite Dangerous was mentioned. Why should we limit the game to one planet? Clearly they need to implement at least the solar system so we can have more variety of gameplay!
Or better yet, World of Warcraft has millions of players! Let's get some orc and dwarf action in here! Melee combat and fantasy setting! Hooray for diversity!
Or maybe, just maybe they could improve the core aspects of the game to make it great in its niche instead of tacking on a bunch of other half assed systems to attempt to appeal to every gamer type on earth?
Wiley.