Oh, geeze, the "The Journey is the Destination" Zen spiel again.
FD just Nuked loads of trade routes!
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Oh, geeze, the "The Journey is the Destination" Zen spiel again.
And you want to keep it that way? Were you really happy just going from A to B and never seeing things change?
Well, I'd be happy to change the routes if C and D were actually different. It currently looks like "have a huge Excel spreadsheet, jump to random cell and see if that number suits you".
Hey at least it's different to the "use your imagination" they loved to spout to make up for the game's failings.
Well, it's one of the standard shticks, though.
Good news then, you'll still be playing the game this time next year.
Ya i agree with you on this. I mean, in order to have a fully modified viper you need what, 2-3~ million for a ship that costs around 140k~. Cobra is around 6~ mill last I checked for a 300~k ship. Asp you need upwards of 30~ mil to fully deck it out.
With the trade route that I took the time to find, it probably would've taken me another month of play (because I do other things besides trading) to afford python/type 9/anaconda type ships. This change seems to really impede any and all progress for people that play casually.
They're making these changes based on outliers. The people that put 15 hours a day into the game instead of focusing on the people that play casually and still would like to progress. "Want that better FSD? Don't you worry, it'll only take 5 more months of grinding. Good luck." It's sad really.
Sounds like you're not much of a trader, really.
And let me see if I've got this right - you had 6 trade routes you were grinding away at, and complaining that the game is a grind? You're the grind, not the game.
Speaking of philosophy, consider this possibility: there are plenty of people (including your humble servant) who appear to be having plenty of fun in the game and appear not to be bored; perhaps it's not the game that's boring - perhaps you're just a boring person.
This is, I admit, a problem with role-playing games. I've been a DM in some kind of RPG on and off since, oh, about 1977 or so. One of the worst things that can happen is when you get a party of boring, uncreative people, who want you to entertain them. Of course, it's not very hard (for a while) you just put them on a gear-grinding progression and they'll go away for a while. Eventually they'll complain that you're not entertaining them enough. Actually, what I used to do with the super uncreative party members was I'd just mess with their heads and make them feel inadequate and stupid.
Maybe that's what FD's doing to you.
tim74uk
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It appears there are four.
1. Use your imagination....
2. The journey is the destination
3. You're just an Entitled Gamer
4. What you really want is Easy mode
LMAO!
CMDR NeoN HaZe
I'll ask you kindly to stop the insults.
tim74uk
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And I suppose jumping from system to system, only to see the exact same planets over and over again is very exiting is it....???
'Ooooh Look love this system has three stars... different from the last one.... hang on a minute.... are they the same planets I flew past 19LY earlier?'
Complaining about grinding due to lack of any other content.... Yep Check!
Now they have nuked grinding.... and still no content.... what's left??
Oh wait... the journey?? LMAO
CMDR NeoN HaZe
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Yup. It's profoundly true.
If you don't agree, tell me: why do you play games? What do you get out of them? What's the point?
Presumably entertainment, right? Are you only entertained when you're getting exactly what you want? Are you only entertained when the final credits roll? Are you only entertained when you are so geared up that you walk over the final boss like a level 100 Death Knight ganking a newbie in a PVP zone?
It's probably off-topic and we should return to the scheduled hair-pulling and whining, but, seriously, why are you here?
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It's vastly more exciting than you're turning out to be.
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What insult?
So as everyone putting there boot in & making daft quotes about dodge vipers & rubbish, I dident want the pvp crap done that in other games Meany meany other year ago in another games so elite come back around great came be a miner & trader so iam a kickstart backer game comes out they brake mining because of a bug ok I'll move to a trader 10-12weeks later brake trading, maybe it just me but I don't want to pvp & that's my option but now both have been taken away due to who knows what (14yr old I want I want ! Ers) moaning coz they can't do there GTA crap & linear missions with non-imagination, its now turning into a kindergarten of 9-14yr old game
Variety is the spice of life. People get bored with the same thing. The ones who don't are the rare exception
It's in FDs interest to keep people entertained.
You should also probably stop instigating so much.
I've always used the same trade route I found over a month ago. It changed today, but it did so in my favor. After three full turns through the route, I was unable to change supply or demand. They were always right back where they started by the time I returned. It's a 10 minute A-to-B-to-A route in a 436 ton Anaconda. So, I'm not convinced the emotional response is warranted. Also, it's just a game.
Again, stop the personal attacks.
Secondly, this argument of the "Journey" being worthwhile in and of itself is misleading. Because by that yardstick, you can thusly defend any and all games from being criticised for lacking content or worthwhile things to do. In effect, even a "watch paint dry" simulator would be a game worthy of your attention, due to the "Journey" from fresh paint to dry paint.
tim74uk
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RE-REad what you wrote then read it back as if someone wrote that directed at you...
But hey it would take a lot more than that to make me angry
CMDR NeoN HaZe
I don't have a bubble mate, so knock yourself out.
What you should have said, was trading in this game amounted to time and willpower before now.
Did you notice the title of the thread? And the content?
Welcome to the discussion. They were giving trade ranks away before, if trade routes are constantly changing as they should be they will now also take some modicum of effort.
I liked how you could space google trade good prices in Space Rangers 2. You could filter your results by station type, government, dominant species, distance from your current location, it was great, and it almost always ended up getting you to plan some crazy multi-jump trek through pirate/robot controlled space in the hopes you could still score some cheap crates of space drugs at the end.
I wish ED's in game tools were as awesome as those.
Indeed.
I wish ED's in game tools were as awesome as those.
Indeed.