Such dramatism
Engaging with the current narrative and feeling insulted?
Then stop doing it. You and the many, many MANY others that think likewise...
Oh stop white knighting this conversation.
That was only criticism over the fact that Orthrus spawn rates are abysmal, and it makes clearing out alert systems not anywhere more meaningful than sticking to combating systems in invasion. If there is a more meaningful impact to do something right, the updates for Experimental Weapon stabilizers or the introduction of Caustics, is something the community has been applauding the work done by Frontier. Even the arrival of Update 14, many players who've been starved of content has been giving a purpose, a purpose to establish a defensive force to pushback the Thargoids, has generally been a positive update.
Subjectively, some players orienting in combat may say, "this update is the best update that Elite Dangerous has offered," and have explorers and traders that don't like combat might say, "this update sucks because it doesn't add to the narrative of trading or exploration". But pulling out a "dramatism" card means you don't like it when people are criticizing a game that you like it in its current phase and that is the root problem of how you are counterarguing our feedback.
The reason why there is such a feedback in the first place is that people are not happy with how "little" the balancing act has actually impacted systems in alert.
Will there be a small group who's enjoying the narrative looking and finding Orthrus? Absolutely. Am I discrediting their work which can help with the war? I certainly don't care how they'll waste their time in the game, but I'm not ignorant of their attempt to help with the war effort. Most players don't have hours upon hours as those who live rent free unemployed or those who are retired and therefore it makes hunting the Orthrus, simply put, not worth their time in comparison to a player with tons of tons of hours to waste in this game.
Nothing is insulting.
I'm one of the CMDRs that racked thousands of kills fighting back the Thargoids and i'm not feeling that i'm being insulted by the current narrative
So you should not make blanket statements regarding what other CMDRs should feel about the game.
Anyway, if you do feel like that, my only suggestion would be to take a step back from the current narrative or from Elite in its entirety.
And FDev rarely did any handholding for the narrative developments in the game.
It is expected the players will figure things out but this may take time.
If you really want any handholding, maybe you should be playing something else. Maybe a game with a more or less linear narrative and with a precise engame.
You see, "we" refer to those who have been coordinating with other people since the start of the war. The scientists and researchers behind looking into the mechanics of the Thargoid War update, who've put their man hours outside of IRL priorities, to find something that works for most players involved in the frontlines.
Although I and many others who found that the recent small update has been meaningless, its criticism to the fact that,
IF Frontier is suggesting / pleading that we start looking into alert systems, they will need to do better. Orthrus spawn rates are abysmal and players don't want to spend countless hours finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, (Happy St. Patrick's Day) and then in the end only have found a few. Its not worth it and most of the defense force, guaranteed, will not pour their time into doing alert system for the sake of the narrative. Frontier is notorious for acknowledging demanding feedback and this is why the post was made.
The suggestion of looking into Alert systems have been noted
three times already. Once in stream, once through a Forums page, and once through a Galnet article. Its clearly indicating that Frontier recommends searching in those systems. When Derin came to the livestream, he had discussed little scenarios that were put into place for us to discover, although they do little for the progression, subjectively some people felt that those QoL provides a backstory to the situation while others couldn't care less.
The point was at least there was content in that update and that is something the recent update didn't do so well in. They upped the pay of the Orthrus and expect us to do better. The audacity to change the payout value in hopes to rebalance and allowing CMDRs to look into Alert systems is insulting.
