Where are my ARXs?

SergMx

SergMx
I'm old of course and don't remember a lot of things, but I somehow missed getting ARXs this year :(
I remember well that under the new year we were given ARXs just for logging in every day. In the beginning it was 100, I think it went up to 400 a day.
And this year I forgot all about it and missed that invent :(
 

Kzak

Kzak
I haven't done this myself, but I have seen it mentioned that if you play on Horizon Legacy servers, you can earn ARX there also in addition to the ARX you can earn on the Live servers.
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
I think they skipped on it this year because we had a round of Titan bashing in December and you got ‘free’ ARX for shooting it.

I would find that a bit meh because I don’t/didn’t shoot at Titans (if my guess/assumption is correct), but it is what it is now.
 

aRJay

aRJay
SergMx said:
I'm old of course and don't remember a lot of things, but I somehow missed getting ARXs this year :(
I remember well that under the new year we were given ARXs just for logging in every day. In the beginning it was 100, I think it went up to 400 a day.
And this year I forgot all about it and missed that invent :(
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Surprisingly you even missed a lot of posts and even IIRC a thread about was the Arx giveaway going to happen and had people missed it.
There was speculation it didn't happen because Arx were going to be given for doing something in PP2.
 

Riverside

Riverside
Kzak said:
I haven't done this myself, but I have seen it mentioned that if you play on Horizon Legacy servers, you can earn ARX there also in addition to the ARX you can earn on the Live servers.
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Correct, I earn 800 ARX every week by playing both Legacy & Live, it all goes into the same pot.

The Christmas Countdown only ever applied to live though & was given out for logging into the game (not just the menu) each day from December 13th to the 25th inclusive.



I thought it was a shame the Christmas countdown wasn't done this year, perhaps they just forgot about it 🤷‍♂️
It costs them virtually nothing & creates some goodwill & community engagement.
 

vanFace

V
SergMx said:
Hmm. Am I correct in understanding that the next step is to lower the maximum ARXs threshold per week?
And after that will be the abolition of ARXs per game?
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This would indeed be a sane business strategy now that ARX are central to the P2W features like pre-build ships and early-access. Only by slowly phasing out the "natural" gathering of this currency, and instead focusing on paid or "reward" gathering, FDEV can ensure that people pay regularly to stay on top of the tide.

Personally, I would very welcome this change, but only if it comes hand in hand with new early-access ships and more options (like e.g. exotic mats bundles, functional ship-kits, FC vouchers, merit booster, etc.) as well as new narrative content. If they just do it to milk the player base, it would of course be a disappointment. That said, FDEV demonstrated that they are capable of establishing a reasonable form of P2W, so I believe that they will continue along that path in a similar fashion.
 

DJ

DJ
Riverside said:
Correct, I earn 800 ARX every week by playing both Legacy & Live, it all goes into the same pot.

The Christmas Countdown only ever applied to live though & was given out for logging into the game (not just the menu) each day from December 13th to the 25th inclusive.



I thought it was a shame the Christmas countdown wasn't done this year, perhaps they just forgot about it 🤷‍♂️
It costs them virtually nothing & creates some goodwill & community engagement.
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Yes, a half-pj bonus was a welcome gift each xmas. I'll go for forgot too!📅

Stripping out Odysey activites, do you find visual and network performance to be the same in both Live/Legacy?
 

Riverside

Riverside
DJ said:
Yes, a half-pj bonus was a welcome gift each xmas. I'll go for forgot too!📅

Stripping out Odysey activites, do you find visual and network performance to be the same in both Live/Legacy?
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I'm not interested in playing a kb/m FPS combat game, I've barely touched the on-foot content except for exobio which is my main activity in Odyssey now. The framerate, network delays & CTDs are far worse in Live than legacy where I spend most of my time maintaining the local region around my systems in the bubble, generally in Haz RESs collecting bounties.

In Live selling bio data to vista genomics on my carrier 22ARX per plant (it's also 22ARX per system so I sell each sample individually) is by far the most effective way to earn the free stuff & I have a bit of a buffer built up of data to sell during weeks where I don't play much.
In Legacy it's more effective to do my maintenance more regularly so I tend to play every other day earning around 100ARX per session. During quiet times reaching the 400ARX cap can be my main motivation to keep playing although usually I have more to do & quickly reach the cap and I've bought several cosmetics and two of the recent ships (Python2 and the fantastic Cobra MkV) using only the free ARX earned in-game.
 

Nowski

Nowski
Riverside said:
22ARX per plant
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Kicking myself for not noticing this months ago!

Do you have any advice on Arx earning in Legacy? Compared to on-foot combat in Odyssey (where one or two hours' play in a high CZ can easily max out the 400 Arx cap) it seems much slower. The most efficient earner I've found is Universal Cartographics turn-ins. PvE combat seems even slower than that (maybe because I'm not great at it).

I'm aware trading mats and doing engineering can earn Arx but generally only do those when required.
 

vanFace

V
Kimosabe_X said:
"Exotic mats bundles" and "Merit boosters"... herre gud, NO !! :eek:

That sounds like any random f2p game shop tactics... And what's next then ? Premium ammo ? Happy hour for Arx ?
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Why not? It adds options for those players that don't have time to do the grind, but want to experience all of the content, too. The extra money fuels development of even more content for all the players. Of course it gets sour the moment they introduce insane grind in order to "sell the solution", but there I give them the benefit of a doubt. Merit boosters might be tricky to implement on that note, as it should not influence the power points in a tug of war, just the personal payout. Premium ammo and mats go hand in hand, so once you're accepting currency to get virtual currency to get "currency" (mats) to get ammo, that ship has sailed as well.
P2W is here to stay, and it is a good thing IMHO. At least in the way FDEV currently lives it.
 

Riverside

Riverside
Nowski said:
Kicking myself for not noticing this months ago!

Do you have any advice on Arx earning in Legacy? Compared to on-foot combat in Odyssey (where one or two hours' play in a high CZ can easily max out the 400 Arx cap) it seems much slower. The most efficient earner I've found is Universal Cartographics turn-ins. PvE combat seems even slower than that (maybe because I'm not great at it).

I'm aware trading mats and doing engineering can earn Arx but generally only do those when required.
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Earning ARX is definitely easier in Live yes.

I think you answered your own question though, do whatever you like doing that earns you the most. I don't play cynically to earn ARX I just play the game & pay attention :) I would imagine setting up an AFK turret boat in a High RES would be the /easiest/ way to get lots of bounties depending on the spawn you get.

I've never worked it out but it might be cheaper to just buy the ARX than to pay for the electricity to run the game just to earn free stuff ;)
 
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