Play the BGS first, say that again afterwards.
There's a difference between accepting any smuggling missions that pops up and hoping that a specific factions gives you a good missions. When you spend 50+++ minutes docked just trying to get missions and RNG keeps on screwing you over, we can discuss this again.
And, after all, I have proposed for this to change multiple times as well by making more missions appear that incur smaller influence swings. Instead, FD keeps on increasing the influence swings the missions create.
I see, so the game doesn't give you what YOU want fast enough, therefore it's perfectly ok to bypass how the mechanics are supposed to work, so noted, you'll cheat when it suits you.
That is exactly what you just stated, you may not have MEANT to say that, but you did, as have many others in this thread. This IS a game, that is true, but this game has mechanics that work a certain way for a reason. You not LIKING those mechanics or the reason behind them gives you ZERO justification in exploiting to bypass them. The difference between changing modes to get new missions and installing the hack for Elite is what exactly? In both cases you are bypassing the NORMAL game mechanics for your own personal advantage. You can try and justify it however you want, the simple fact that what you are doing is what you are doing doesn't change based on your reasoning for doing it. The ends do NOT justify the means.
And I'm pretty sure that a SINGLE player isn't supposed to be able to game the BGS at all, much less easily, and that is YOUR intended goal, self proclaimed no less. So again, you are purposefully bypassing the game mechanics for your own purposes.
No if support has said as Stalker stated that you can use it to get a better res, then it is no different to do it for missions. FD says with this answer they don't call it an exploit.
That response was in regards to getting new spawns in a RES, it was NOT in regards to changing modes to reset BB missions, not exactly the same thing there and as it happens, FD IS looking into this very subject now since it's been brought to their attention. Obviously NOT the same thing or they would have just said 'we already covered that subject, it's allowed', not 'we're looking into this, thanks for bringing it to our attention.'
Context, I know, it's SO hard to understand it sometimes, and it's so easy to try and justify actions you know aren't morally righteous because guilt does that to many people. If you aren't owning what you do but are instead trying to defend it, you know you are in the wrong, just a little FYI there. Every parent sees this all the time when their kids get caught doing something they knew better than to do, every cop sees it when they catch a criminal, every judge hears it in court all day long, and many of us priests hear it quite often as well. Funny thing guilt, makes people get stupidly verbose.
I use it all the time while mining, the mission system is broken with regards to mission distribution. And I'll continue to use it.
Question for all the moaners, whingers about this being a cheat/exploit etc how is what I (and hundreds of others) doing impacting on your gaming experience?
And you too feel it is ok to exploit the mechanics because you don't think the game works exactly as you want it by catering specifically to YOU.
This game is NOT built or designed to cater to ANYONE in particular at any time, the BB timer is there for a reason, whether you agree with that reason or not doesn't matter, FD gets to decide those things, not YOU. Exploiting the mechanics to get around the designed features is NOT a justified action.
Don't like the spawns in a RES, exit and reenter, don't have to do anything else to reset the spawn, FD has covered that, they allow it because sometimes the RES doesn't spawn foes that fit your Combat rank, too high or too low, either way, not a good game experience, so reset it by leaving and reentering the RES or changing modes, which does the exact same thing but isn't required.
Don't like the BB missions, you are SUPPOSED to wait a few minutes and new ones populate, simple as that. If you leave the station and reenter inside that time frame, the missions do NOT change, if you swap from solo to open and back to solo, the mission do NOT change. If you swap from solo to open, the missions DO change, oversight by FD obviously, since it seems pretty evident they aren't supposed to change when you leave the station, they are on a timer. There is no 'Refresh Missions' button, so again, we are evidently NOT supposed to be able to get new missions at whim, we are supposed to wait for the timer.
Try and justify it however you want, it IS an exploit, pure and simple. At this time FD hasn't stated if it's an allowed exploit or not, but it HAS been brought to their attention and they ARE looking into it. That alone tells us that this was NOT the intended gameplay mechanic, it's something they really hadn't given any thought to outside of the naval rank situation where this was being done. THAT misuse of the mechanic cost the player, so they were good with allowing it's usage by NOT saying anything about it, they never confirmed or denied it was WAI, they just didn't comment. Lack of comment doesn't mean consent folks, it simply means nothing official has been stated. They are looking at the situation again because now it's been aggressively abused by many players and all for personal gain without any cost to the player. And that is the kind of exploitive behaviour that gets devs riled up.
We'll have to wait and see what FD's official stance is on this. Personally, I won't do it if they do stated it's allowed, it's an exploit of the game mechanics, obviously not intended, and that's something I refuse to do in a game. Doing what is right when it's convenient doesn't make you a good person if you do wrong when it's convenient, the ends to not justify the means.
