The current CG proves one thing

[Fishy]

How long did it take you to do two trips? You can make 100 Mil in 3 trips to sothis.

Since the commodities were available next door, it took the time to do two 1-jump deliveries. 3 jumps in total: A->B->A->B. A single Sothis run takes way more time with board-relogging, jumping and delivering to 5/6 different stations.

Seriously, Sothis is good money, but this CG was simply insane.

 

[askavir]

All those shiny new Belugas will get new owners fast.

 

[Monk]

Credits, shmedits. Insane rank requirements for the Cutter and Corvette are much more of a problem. My Empire rank hasn't budged past 10% over Baron since Engineers.

The trick is to find two systems that do loads of data delivery to one another. Once you are allied to factions on both ends you can easily max out your mission limit without mode switch. I was at Viscount and blasted to Duke in a week by doing this at HIP 10716. Often times I'd see a 3-5% increase with every trip. I don't normally grind for things, but I was just plain sick of pining after the Cutter.

EDIT: but yeah, someone in a semi-duplicate thread of this one pointed out that the rewards were exactly 10x higher than that of a previous CG...so, seems they put a decimal in the wrong spot, again.

 

[Leo Sagan]

Don't ph34r , we'll get a federation overrewarding CG.
Then an Alliance.
Then a Jaques.
Then nothing will mean anything anymore and we will all be happy. Not like this is new in any way.

 

[TheDayman]

Along with a combination of other things, this CG is the tipping point (note, the tipping point, not the entirety) for me to become disenfranchised with Elite. I worked for years getting to where I am now, and with this CG I could've done it in much, much less than that. Am I bitter? You bet. All in all though, with everything that's occurred over the past 6 months, FDev will be lucky to get Season 3 out of me. I'll protest with my wallet.

 

[crushdepth]

Any evidence to support that theory?

Fails sanity check?

 

[Fishy]

Don't ph34r , we'll get a federation overrewarding CG.

We already did. The Gooheimar CG (deliveries to build 3 capital ships) had the same payment structure. It just didn't get noticed as tons of people were still on the way to or at Jaques and participation was low, so it didn't hit the high tiers that would have made it obvious. My impression is that Gooheimar was when the mistake was made (a factor of 10 in the rewards), went unnoticed by players and FD both due to low participation, and got copy/pasted for Morai.

 

[Ziljan]

There is someone (or a strong contingent) within Frontier that is making sure that the Empire "wins the game". So many examples:

• ALD bonus exceeded Hudson bonus by 200% for nearly a year
• The ship variants for the Empire are always vastly superior with little to no downsides or compromises
• The story line of Elite seems to center on the Empire
• Hudson looks like a jerk
• There are 4 Empire factions
• 2 Federal, ensuring that the Empire would get more players just because of diverse bonuses and modules
• Felicia Winters bonuses are the worst in the game and her module does almost no damage
• Frontier (especially Sandro) must continually profess that they favor the Feds, me thinks thou dost protest too much
• And many many other reasons
• The latest of which is a CG which hands out as much money as some CMDRs have made in 6 months of playing.

 

[kofeyh]

We already did. The Gooheimar CG (deliveries to build 3 capital ships) had the same payment structure. It just didn't get noticed as tons of people were still on the way to or at Jaques and participation was low, so it didn't hit the high tiers that would have made it obvious. My impression is that Gooheimar was when the mistake was made (a factor of 10 in the rewards), went unnoticed by players and FD both due to low participation, and got copy/pasted for Morai.

This sounds like the most logical situation. Number transposed somewhere and hey presto credits. But it's all an obvious conspiracy or something.

Can't they just stuff up, once, for an exploration CG? Could it kill frontier to just stuff one of those up one time? I mean it can't hurt to ask, right?

 

[Becks]

There is someone (or a strong contingent) within Frontier that is making sure that the Empire "wins the game". So many examples:

• ALD bonus exceeded Hudson bonus by 200% for nearly a year
• The ship variants for the Empire are always vastly superior with little to no downsides or compromises
• The story line of Elite seems to center on the Empire
• Hudson looks like a jerk
• There are 4 Empire factions
• 2 Federal, ensuring that the Empire would get more players just because of diverse bonuses and modules
• Felicia Winters bonuses are the worst in the game and her module does almost no damage
• Frontier (especially Sandro) must continually profess that they favor the Feds, me thinks thou dost protest too much
• And many many other reasons
• The latest of which is a CG which hands out as much money as some CMDRs have made in 6 months of playing.

How does the Federation dare to win some CGs! FDev has clearly a fed bias!

 

[Banana's_Are_Good_For_You]

Throwing money at a problem doesn't fix it.

 

[Parmo]

... proves that Commanders are for the most part, a bunch of greedy mercenary capitalists that have no moral backbone and actively support slavery.
Dangle a credit under their nose and their anybody's puppet.
Just saying ...

 

[Jockey79]

... proves that Commanders are for the most part, a bunch of greedy mercenary capitalists that have no moral backbone and actively support slavery.
Dangle a credit under their nose and their anybody's puppet.
Just saying ...

I was Imperial before they started handing out massive cash rewards, so greed has nothing to do with it for me.
Though the extra cash helps me keep my slaves fed and clothed. I was getting fed up of all those female slaves walking around naked

 

[crushdepth]

There is someone (or a strong contingent) within Frontier that is making sure that the Empire "wins the game". So many examples:

• ALD bonus exceeded Hudson bonus by 200% for nearly a year
• The ship variants for the Empire are always vastly superior with little to no downsides or compromises
• The story line of Elite seems to center on the Empire
• Hudson looks like a jerk
• There are 4 Empire factions
• 2 Federal, ensuring that the Empire would get more players just because of diverse bonuses and modules
• Felicia Winters bonuses are the worst in the game and her module does almost no damage
• Frontier (especially Sandro) must continually profess that they favor the Feds, me thinks thou dost protest too much
• And many many other reasons
• The latest of which is a CG which hands out as much money as some CMDRs have made in 6 months of playing.

You could be flying a Ferrari, but no, you bought a Volvo

 

[Leo Sagan]

... proves that Commanders are for the most part, a bunch of greedy mercenary capitalists that have no moral backbone and actively support slavery.
Dangle a credit under their nose and their anybody's puppet.
Just saying ...

Until money doesn't mean squat to them and they're left without any objective in the game as the vets ? Then what ? FD will come out with another binary riddle to keep them somewhat interested ? Great game design indeed.

 

[WreckWren]

There goes any meaning to any part of the economy in the game, along with any sense of value to the achievements of those who have been playing over the past two years.

Thanks FD.

 

[Monk]

... proves that Commanders are for the most part, a bunch of greedy mercenary capitalists that have no moral backbone and actively support slavery.
Dangle a credit under their nose and their anybody's puppet.
Just saying ...

Should start a social media "Like and Share" campaign so everyone can show their displeasure while nothing changes

 

[nathdixon92]

When has there ever been such a stunt like the one you pulled?

Robigo? Segovan? Jacques? Obsidian Orbital? Nend I continue?

 

[Leo Sagan]

There goes any meaning to any part of the economy in the game

Like this is new.
It is not : FD destroyed all the meaning of the economy way way back. This could be seen (at most) as the final nail in the coffin by a very green CMDR. But over rewarding events / bugs / exploits have been in the game for ages : rares before nerf, buying weapons T9s, smuggling , all of them and more.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

There goes any meaning to any part of the economy in the game, along with any sense of value to the achievements of those who have been playing over the past two years.

Eh, if Seeking Luxuries, Wing Teleportation, Capship Turret Snoozing, Powerplay Bonus Synergy, Robigo/Ceos/Sothis mode switching, Dangerous Games Gem Fountain, Powerplay Expansion Bug Snoozing, or all the other ways to earn money considerably more rapidly than Frontier originally intended didn't already break that, then one CG which gave a few hundred commanders a few hundred million credits isn't going to either. I'm not even sure it's the biggest easy money giveaway either, in terms of total credits.

And for what it's worth, I didn't participate in this CG (or any of the other fast money methods I've named above), currently have around 375 million in assets, and don't feel in the slightest that the existence of those fast money methods devalues anything I've done.

All in all it is probably for the best that Frontier allowed themselves to be talked out of offering credits in exchange for real money, though. I can't imagine that would be getting many takers nowadays...