2.2 is rather a disappointment

[[VR] DDM_Reaper20]

Hey here's an idea: why do you have to assume everybody that's complaining has a political agenda?
Maybe they just want to vent their frustrations, that they seriously think the game has been ruined, or just a little.
I've been playing 2.2 for a day now, and I would rather be playing 2.1.
Sure there's a lot to like in 2.2, but I particularly don't like their reducing of bounties on my (NPC) attackers, and reducing delivery mission basic rewards. That's my opinion whether you like it or not, I'm entitled to my opinion and there it is.

I just killed a bounty hunter that interdicted me. He was after me only because I killed mission targets (smugglers) in a Navy mission, to rank up. Now I am wanted in one system (and I wasn't in it). So I got interdicted, and killed the interdictor, but the bounty for him was only 400. I paid more than that to reload afterward, plus repair, plus fuel. All in all I was out about 1500cr (negative) for the incident. And that's not just a fluke, it's happened to me several times since 2.2, and the better bounties are no longer making up for them (perhaps about a wash - zero gain?).

And I have never been to Sothis or ceos (or whatever it's called), and never made those big money runs. I've just been happily running missions (after killing pirates at RES sites for the credits), and trying to get a better ship than my current Viper III. I don't like 2.2, that's my opinion, don't dis me for voicing it.

That's not a bug. The bounty hunter was fined that sum for attacking you in a system where you were considered clean. Apparently, he had not done anything else (clean slate, so to speak), which explains the 400 CR bounty when you blew him away.

His only mistake, basically, was attacking you in that system.

Has happened to me plenty of times. I use those dudes to improve my combat rank and harvest mats...

 

[Jex =TE=]

You see, there is a "right" way to play, and a "wrong" way to play. Thankfully, we have representatives of the "right" club here to guide us.

How do you recognize a member of the "right" club? Just ask them, they'll tell you.

OMG this so much! LOL

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Ships are still the primary method of progression in this game, and once you're triple elite in an A + engineered Conda, it's entirely on the player to invent their own progression because the game offers little else.

If you only had one ship, with no modules to upgrade, no ranks to attain, just the missions to do with no rewards, are you saying the game would be boring?

 

[David Parkland]

and within a week was "richish" again.

My experience as well. I recently decided to delete my save altogether, in the hope I might get some "other" stuff done. Instead I ended up going back to the Sidewinder and remembering how much fun it was to do tiny trade loops to boost up from Penniless to Mostly Penniless, etc.

After just a few short hours I have a Cobra 3. I think that took me about 2 months first time around.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

, and reducing delivery mission basic rewards. That's my opinion whether you like it or not, I'm entitled to my opinion and there it is..

but your opinion is based on a bug which the developers have confirmed they are looking into fixing. Yes i wish the generic missions were not offering me 2k credits, but to complain as if this is some new design feature is totally disingenuous. IF in a months time it is still the same then i get why you would begin to get angry, but for now, what you are arguing about is the fact that the game has a bug..

which you are entitled to be angry about but at least be angry about the right thing.

As for your experience with the bounty hunter...... that sounds like FD have introduced some added complexity which surely is a good thing?

you annoyed one faction by wiping out some of their people, who then hired a bounty hunter to come after you in another system? maybe i am misunderstanding your post, but, isnt that quite cool? this kind of stuff happened all the time in First encounters and Frontier.

 

[SkorpX 666]

yes,since the 2.2 update i find im waiting stupidly long times to access Galaxy Map,System Map and Starport Services,near 8mins my longest wait...going to logout for a few weeks and hope things get fixed. [???]

 

[Jex =TE=]

I am not really sure as I did not do it in one session. Total of 3 hours, maybe a bit less? That includes a few breaks to get a cup of tea or coffee.

OK so 12 million in 3 hours?? LOL wow that's a lot if you consider what you can buy with that money. If you played each night for a week at 3 hours that's 84 million which is a ton of money. If you stretched that play time out over a month I bet you could make twice that - so 168 million in a game that's obviously meant to be played long term, so more than a few months and who's complaining about these runs being "nerfed" LOL?

Try ED launch day in 2014 where you got 350 credits for a delivery mission!

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Try ED launch day in 2014 where you got 350 credits for a delivery mission!

I gotta admit back then times WERE hard...... not only the above, but repair costs and fuel costs actually made me sweat as well.

(god I just wrote a "when I were a lad all we got for Christmas were a lump of coal and if we were lucky a satsuma!" type post - said in a Yorkshire accent)

 

[Jex =TE=]

The game isn't about grind is about getting the things that you want as. You progress through the story I've played for almost a year now and I got my FDL at 8 weeks of play without sothis(that wasn't a thing back then) or robigo just doing what I wanted which it was bounty hunting and I was in my cobra I've never felt like it was a grind and no I'm not a virgin who played the entire day before you mention it I went to school from 7 to 3 and I only played around 2-3 hours and I got my achievements I'm currently sitting in my anaconda I only did sothis runs when I was in endgame, and sothis is still absolutely profitable it was nerfed in a good way because it's still perfectly viable without obliterating pretty much any other source of income in the game and I don't say this because I already made my millions I still haven't a rated my conda and of course sothis could have helped on that but I understand the changes because this game is not only make millions in a week and get a big ship elite is far more than just that. That's how I play elite if you just want to play for money then go ahead but don't come to the forums whining because you are grinding you've brought this upon yourself and neither me or FD is obligating you to grind, in this game you grow slowly this is not COD that's how I see it still that may just exaggerated a bit by reducing pretty much all the payouts but the game it's still perfectly enjoyable

I tried reading that out loud but my lungs can't take it and I pass out about mid way each time

Now my head hurts....

 

[Toumal]

To OP: So you haven't yet figured out that there's other places that pay really well? Too bad...

Hint: There's other places that pay really well.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

To OP: So you haven't yet figured out that there's other places that pay really well? Too bad...

Hint: There's other places that pay really well.

So what are you saying? That there are other places that pay really well?

 

[Westyb]

I don't get it, i didn't do any missions at all for the 1st 6 months of the game, just traded commodities from A to B etc, you can still do that right?

 

[Spookyy]

So if you have a problem with the gameplay, you are playing the game wrong? Sounds like Apple =)

 

[Jex =TE=]

100% the most hostile, demeaning, disrepectful community i have ever encountered. I am just appaled by some of the comments and cheap low blows by some of the members here. I dont even respect half of them enough refer to them as my fellow commanders.

I couldn't agree more and I've never been on a forum where I've had to ignore people before let alone 20 or 30 now. Misrepresentation of posts on a massive scale, quote mining, insulting, trolling it's all here.

 

[Pyrotiger]

So what are you saying? That there are other places that pay really well?

There's a system called Hint? On my way [haha]

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I couldn't agree more and I've never been on a forum where I've had to ignore people before let alone 20 or 30 now. Misrepresentation of posts on a massive scale, quote mining, insulting, trolling it's all here.

Jex, people tried to help him.... I spent a fair amount of time listing ways he could make money, and all i - and others - got in reply was vitriol and insults for trying to help.

I cant believe you are supporting him.. even if his OP had some valid points, the vitriol and hypocrisy in his posts afterwards imo are disgraceful.

 

[verminstar]

So if you have a problem with the gameplay, you are playing the game wrong? Sounds like Apple =)

Not exactly...FD don't think ye play right and the fanbois protect FD...most of them don't care what the issue is, they just here to take shots at anyone being critical of their idols ^^

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

Jex, people tried to help him.... I spent a fair amount of time listing ways he could make money, and all i - and others - got in reply was vitriol and insults for trying to help.

I cant believe you are supporting him.. even if his OP had some valid points, the vitriol and hypocrisy in his posts afterwards imo are disgraceful.

Jex has issues. He can't see this because I'm on his block list (finally...) Some people don't like opinions or reasoning. I'm loving 2.2 by the way. I can see some issues, but they're not game breaking in any way (unless you are a one trick pony...)

 

[Toumal]

So what are you saying? That there are other places that pay really well?

I think that it is safe to say that, after weighing the pros and cons, taking into consideration the facts as far as they can be determined and demonstrated, and after the appropriate give and take, it is not unreasonable to assume that at the end of the day, the juxtaposition is such as to suggest that the correlation between the theoretical background and the known results act in a reinforcing manner to the extent that there's sufficient reason to believe that that was what I said.

 

[Theodrid]

I think that it is safe to say that, after weighing the pros and cons, taking into consideration the facts as far as they can be determined and demonstrated, and after the appropriate give and take, it is not unreasonable to assume that at the end of the day, the juxtaposition is such as to suggest that the correlation between the theoretical background and the known results act in a reinforcing manner to the extent that there's sufficient reason to believe that that was what I said.

pics or it didn't happen!

 

[Demascus]

Isn't there a "ED's toxic community" thread floating here somewhere?