I merely described the principle and the primary target audience.
Please point out by using appropriate quotes of my posts where I accused you or anyone else here specifically.
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Please point out by using appropriate quotes of my posts where I accused you or anyone else here specifically.
Go on then?
It used to be like this, and Frontier I think balanced it reasonably well even with the weekly Arx. Until they decided to inflate prices to the extent they did last year.
On top of that something seems to have changed with the earning rates. I really struggle to obtain the 400 these days through regular gameplay (missions, buying and selling stuff, trading mats, etc), I used to hit them within a couple of days and my playstyle didn't really change that much.
Maybe I just don't play the game how I'm supposed to these days, not that the 400 still matter anyways when even single skins reach up to 10k now.
Comedy. The lulz. Doing a funny.
I dunno, I don't have a problem understanding it. I know perfectly well what it means. Decent reading comprehension, a stray thought or two to make with the laughs makes no difference.
What don't you understand about it? I am expressing a perfectly understandable thought.
Go with you faux confusion elsewhere and don't insult people who understand analogies.
But where will you live after?
Your point I highlighted was about the mismatch, and the mismatch is easily addressed with a few weeks/months of gameplay Arx.
And unless anyone else wants to chime in with some data that I'm not aware of, there's been no recent change to gameplay Arx. It's always been a trickle rather than a flood for most activities, but some really 'engage' what the system is looking for so a minor change in what you're doing can make a big difference. I haven't seen any threads suggesting that FDev are maliciously making it more of a grind.
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I've not noticed any difference myself:
- engineering up a new ship is one ARX per roll so adds up really fast even with the reduced number of rolls needed nowadays
- high ground CZs give a ridiculous amount (presumably because it's balanced around space CZ bond payouts) so a few of those hits the cap almost immediately
- exploration data hand-in isn't worth a lot individually but if you come back from a big trip it adds up fast
If I do any of those in a particular week (and usually I don't) I'll probably hit 400 by the weekend ... if I don't, I'll probably finish the week somewhere in the 100-200 region. It's been like that from the beginning, for me at least.
It was considered by Frontier as a possibility (it was on a preview screenshot) but they seem to have decided against it by the time it reached the live release. Some of the powerplay activities will give Arx in their own right because the underlying activity does, but not any more specifically because you're doing it for that reason.
Not that i'm into conspiracies or anything but brain worm keeps suggesting that the horrible grind of colonisation was intentional so that we punters have been trained to jump at any chance to reduce it somewhat (yay panther sales) rather than release the ship at beginning of colonisation in Feb. Yes, yes I've been waiting for the Panther since early days of ED along with everyone else and frankly the eae worm should shut up already.
Utter rubbish, i imagine that ED has a much more mature player base than most games, I'm semi retired, have my own small consultancy business, work part time for a major national charity, in my time I've handled festival budgets that would make your eyes water.
I know some of the folks on this forum IRL, many have very professional jobs, I'm pretty sure we can decide what to spend our own disposable income on.
Lets face it we arnt deciding on whether to buy the latest sports car, these ships cost less than a round of drinks or a Macky dees for two.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that the only reason they are continuing with the game is not for the game itself (the original love/vision of it), but to simply sell cosmetics and other microtransactions. Everything done or released now is towards that goal. Very similar to a mobile game.
Yet, if one decides to not part with their money, after a short wait the very same items being sold for cash become available in-game, for in-game credits, which are easily earned.
As I don't actually play mobile games (it is a phone, not a games console) I have no idea if the same happens with their games, perhaps you are familiar with the practise?
I hear they are popular under the bridges.
I’m talking about cosmetics and microtransactions overall so I’m not sure why you decide to just focus on pre-release ships which are a very tiny portion of their overall DLC store. Yes, those do become available for credits, but I wasn’t even talking about them. My reply was relevant to the post I quoted.
Indeed...
Of course, with up to 800 Arx each week available to the devoted player, even cosmetics may be had for free, if one desires such.
I stopped buying Arx for cosmetics after buying a heap last year in readiness for the Summer sale, then the prices went up considerably a few days later. Not that I haven't bought cosmetics since, only not paid specifically for such.
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Robardin Rock perhapsBut where will you live after?
Well given I'm stuck at the airport on a delayed flight, may as well post a wall of (quoted) text here.
No conspiracies, no schemes, no wagging fingers at Frontier - as I said before, the weeklies are now completely meaningless because prices are so expensive overall now that the weekly rewards are a mere drop in the ocean. I ignore it these days as I have no hope in hell unlocking any items purely by playing the game (as I used to be able to do in the past, but I'm over cosmetics in this game and have already mostly what I want anyways, so c'est la vie).
While I dabbled in PP2.0 I also seem to remember not really making much progress, and that is pretty much the essence of varied/balanced gameplay styles. So not sure if it's just me or something else. I used to get lots of Arx with mat trading, and buying/selling expensive ships/modules, but that doesn't yield the expected results for me either. So I'm stumped.
That doesn't change the fact that these are established principles pretty widespread across particularly the F2P gaming sector (but clearly creeping into regular games, because they work).
All I'm stating is what I'm experiencing, literally, i.e. I can't reach the weekly Arx limit any more (neither in Legacy, nor in Live), no matter what I do, though Ian's post does offer some useful pointers as I'm not really up to date any more on what the 'meta' is in terms of which activities yield the best Arx returns.
No conspiracies, no schemes, no wagging fingers at Frontier - as I said before, the weeklies are now completely meaningless because prices are so expensive overall now that the weekly rewards are a mere drop in the ocean. I ignore it these days as I have no hope in hell unlocking any items purely by playing the game (as I used to be able to do in the past, but I'm over cosmetics in this game and have already mostly what I want anyways, so c'est la vie).
That's indeed helpful, as I don't engineer ships much these days - only own a Cobra 3 and 5 and roam the bubble with those. Or ground CZs... I tried to enjoy them but no biscuit.. so just ignore them. And ever since they messed up the shadows pretty much everywhere in the game I don't go exploring either anymore, as visuals are kind of important and largely the point of it (for me at least).
While I dabbled in PP2.0 I also seem to remember not really making much progress, and that is pretty much the essence of varied/balanced gameplay styles. So not sure if it's just me or something else. I used to get lots of Arx with mat trading, and buying/selling expensive ships/modules, but that doesn't yield the expected results for me either. So I'm stumped.
Thanks for the humble brag I guess but not sure how any of that is relevant. You're falling into the same trap as other posters taking the description of a proven concept and applying that to themselves, while coming up with some purely subjective explanation why these tactics are not a problemo.
That doesn't change the fact that these are established principles pretty widespread across particularly the F2P gaming sector (but clearly creeping into regular games, because they work).
I try to not bring this up in this forum (for obvious reasons) but it's nice to see I'm not the only one who gets that impression. After botching several of their IPs they realised this old space game with a dedicated fanbase and loose wallets, so decided to support it just enough to milk it for a bit longer. Makes sense economically, if nothing else.
I say again, hyperbolically for comedy, big 'I am smart enough to not wander down murder alley, I don't see why having a murder alley is a problem' energy.
You're falling into the same trap as other posters taking the description of a proven concept and applying that to themselves, while coming up with some purely subjective explanation why these tactics are a problemo.
Righto, so what's your suggestion for Fdev to gain a steady income to continue paying staff working on Elite?
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