ANNOUNCEMENT Server downtime - bonus credit weekend
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Is there a bonus to reputation or ranking? I managed to get about an hour of "bonus" play tonight, all of which consisted of a contrived mission to find and supply cargo (ended up being three deliveries, although I'd only expected it to be a single, quick, one). Was described as "medium" influence, but after all of that my rank % only increased by 2 (I'm federation, cadet). Would have expected more than that anyway, never mind during "bonus" time. Would have been better off doing three separate missions, if I could find that many decent ones. On a plus side, I noticed NPCs using missiles, which I hadn't seen before, and generally seeming more intelligent.
Did anyone actually read the post? You can't look at your transactions tab and then figure the 20% from transaction tab to turn in cred. Its at the moment of the kill. You get the kill with xxx cred (showing in the top right) THEN when it goes into your transactions tab it will be 20% higher than the amount listed in the top right hand of your screen at the moment of the kill.
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Did anyone actually read the post? You can't look at your transactions tab and then figure the 20% from transaction tab to turn in cred. Its at the moment of the kill. You get the kill with xxx cred (showing in the top right) THEN when it goes into your transactions tab it will be 20% higher than the amount listed in the top right hand of your screen at the moment of the kill.
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Did anyone actually read the post? You can't look at your transactions tab and then figure the 20% from transaction tab to turn in cred. Its at the moment of the kill. You get the kill with xxx cred (showing in the top right) THEN when it goes into your transactions tab it will be 20% higher than the amount listed in the top right hand of your screen at the moment of the kill.
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Did anyone actually read the post? You can't look at your transactions tab and then figure the 20% from transaction tab to turn in cred. Its at the moment of the kill. You get the kill with xxx cred (showing in the top right) THEN when it goes into your transactions tab it will be 20% higher than the amount listed in the top right hand of your screen at the moment of the kill.
I guess once Frontier notices how much anger their 20% bonus sparks, they'll think again next time.
I am continually amazed at how ungrateful some are. This is a gesture of goodwill from FD for the inconvenience caused by an unexpected event. Be thankful. How many other gaming organisations do this for their player base? Not many.
World of Warships for example hold themselves out there as a "free to play" game yet are geared up to suck your $$ at every turn, and dont communicate well at all.
Well done and thank you FD.
World of Warships for example hold themselves out there as a "free to play" game yet are geared up to suck your $$ at every turn, and dont communicate well at all.
Well done and thank you FD.
I agree.
The trouble is, this compensation offer is now coming across as a well meaning but poorly thought out knee-jerk response. And in a way, that's actually worse than not offering any form of compensation at all.
All it's serving to do is remind players that yes, while they're all equal, some are apparently more equal than others.
As an explorer out on the DWE myself, I couldn't care less about financial compensation really - if I did, I wouldn't have chosen exploration as my primary profession after all would I?
What I've lost with the server outage is TIME and that is something Frontier is powerless to replace. Nor did I expect them to try, to be honest. And I'm sure a lot of explorers feel the same way. So from our perspective, if Frontier hadn't offered any compensation to anyone, we'd have shrugged and just accepted that loss of time as "one of those things".
But now thanks to this well-meant but rushed gesture of goodwill, we're left feeling like a diabetic kid whose friends are all being offered sweets, and the person handing the sweets out turns to us and says "Oh...sorry, I forgot you were diabetic..."
There's no malice involved, it's simply an oversight of the kind that leaves everyone feeling a little embarrassed and uncomfortable.
Truth is, I don't believe there is anything in the game's mechanics that Frontier can offer to those of us on the DWE as compensation for those lost hours of journey time. But the fact everyone else was offered something and then Frontier added as an apparent afterthought "exploration needs more consideration sadly" and they'd "be sure to discuss it" makes explorers feel (once again) like some sort of fifth wheel in the game.
Reduction in scan times, bonus jump lengths, faster opening of system map......there's plenty of options ;-)
You are right, it wasn't special but I did get his on the specific CG I mentioned or the one before? I think it was lugh though.
Lol, this pays over 100% more. Don't tell the devs! It must be glitched when you have 100% level 5 merit bonus to bounty and bond because I'm getting double in the transaction tab roughly then double cashing them in.
Quick boys, make the most of haz res!
Anyone thinking this isn't working at all, watch the transaction tab relative to the bounty value when it comes up as the ship explodes.
EDIT: spoke too soon. Suddenly killing ships in haz res and some aren't paying at all. Killed a Fer-De-Lance an it popped up 176k yet transaction tab did not adjust and allocate a dime!
Quick boys, make the most of haz res!
Anyone thinking this isn't working at all, watch the transaction tab relative to the bounty value when it comes up as the ship explodes.
EDIT: spoke too soon. Suddenly killing ships in haz res and some aren't paying at all. Killed a Fer-De-Lance an it popped up 176k yet transaction tab did not adjust and allocate a dime!
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I personally won't benefit from this, but this is why Frontier is such an amazing company. They care about their customers. Frontier, you guys rock. Thank you.
How's that revision coming along bro? I don't want to have to flunk you.
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Yeah I hate it when people give me free stuff, it's truly sickening. Easiest way to make sure that we're all treated fairly is to just not give anything to anybody, I'm sure they're taking notes of what the players are telling them they want.
You can please some of the people some of the time but never all of the people all of the time.
I just created a thread regarding this being glitched. Some ships being killed are not awarding the bounty into the tab at all. I'm talking about the bounty in it's entirety. It still shows the top right corner award but nothing is credited.
Key word... every OTHER ship. Kinda means we're losing money rather than seeing more.
Key word... every OTHER ship. Kinda means we're losing money rather than seeing more.
This does appear to be an issue. Maybe we ought to post it in the BUGS section. . .
I am sure everyone has encountered a home broad band outage while running missions, I know I have, is there a difference? This is of course Elite Dangerous/Horizon and as fully fledged Cmdrs we all should understand Danger can hit us at anytime.
Keep up the good work guys, I thank you
Keep up the good work guys, I thank you
Is this a bug that was always present? Yet another Fer-De-Lance gave me nothing.
I'm surprised they didn't say only people in groups would be getting the bonus! HA! Seriously, it is a nice gesture but Frontier should've thought it out more. Looks like they gave it as much thought as the introduction of Player Factions.
And today it will look 20% prettier
but i like the solitude.. i want it to be 20% more empty!
I didn't lose anything and I don't expect to gain anything from the server outage. Schtuff happens. Get over it!
I didn't read all 17 pages of this thread but if the amount of whining I did read is indicative of the bulk of the thread, and I was FD, I would tell all y'all to go on a spark plug and rescind the extra credit weekend. Some folks will just never be happy.
I didn't read all 17 pages of this thread but if the amount of whining I did read is indicative of the bulk of the thread, and I was FD, I would tell all y'all to go on a spark plug and rescind the extra credit weekend. Some folks will just never be happy.
This was incredibly nice of you FD. For people that actually do combat.
but what about the traders?
the miners?
the explorers especially?
The guys that aren't ever near the bulletin board? The explorers out in the black, it wouldn't be that hard to boost the values of what they scan for 48 hours.
seriously, this is wrong.
You wouldn't know "balance" if it hit your ass with a 10 foot bat.
but what about the traders?
the miners?
the explorers especially?
The guys that aren't ever near the bulletin board? The explorers out in the black, it wouldn't be that hard to boost the values of what they scan for 48 hours.
seriously, this is wrong.
You wouldn't know "balance" if it hit your ass with a 10 foot bat.
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