Nope, this is from our new crack train 2.0, we also get MEF from this train.
Surprise! For the thousandth time, "rare" mission rewards are borked
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Nope, this is from our new crack train 2.0, we also get MEF from this train.
It's been a very very long time since I've seen either CIF or MEF on mission boards. Many months. They're needed for many G5 mods, but in comparison to other needed mats at that level, they're seemingly difficult to come by. CIF is supposed to be standard, but IMO it's much easier to find rare data like Security Firmware Patches, or even very rare like Classified Scan Fragments, which actually seem common as muck.
I've just spent 2 hours base scanning, and not found either of them. Lots of other useless rubbish, but neither of these.
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Can confirm that there is no EFC or biotech conductor in the game. It's amazing how fdev can screw this every other patch they release. And that they are fine with that. Now that they have released the game for ps4 they can expect more "happy" customers in near future flooding the forums with the same questions.
Is this so hard to fix? It can probably be tweaked at weekly powerplay server restart, but it seems that nobody cares.
Is this so hard to fix? It can probably be tweaked at weekly powerplay server restart, but it seems that nobody cares.
Open and honest reply : thank you so much Dominic !
Whats the new crack train? Professor Palin has a serious addiction that I need to feed (and a few other Engineers who are equally addicts).
That's the kind of feedback that makes me gain hope for Elite.... Keep it up! 100% honesty is better than secrecy!
Thanks!
Absolutely. Cheers Dom!
You're in a thread with the mission dev talking about fixing mission things, complaining about how they don't care about fixing things. I'm going to assume your avatar is a real picture. >______>
Absolutely unreal. Glad I saw this because I was planning to head back to the bubble and spend a bit of time on Fed ranking missions this weekend to push me closer to the cutter, hoping that in the process I could finally bag some missions to pick up some CIF and exquisite focus crystals as I still only have a single power distributor with a grade five charge mod. That is in itself because of the last two times this got bugged and I wasn't able to get any.
Hilariously I'd taken a break from doing engineering work for a while precisely because I was just sick of never being sure whether I could obtain particular rare materials or data, said break obviously happening to span the brief period when this was actually working correctly.
I'm not trying to ride you about this Dominic, I do get that bugs happen. What I'm having difficulty with though is understanding how the patches that break this manage to make it through QC and into release with them still present, not least because surely a recurring bug that has come up previously should be pretty high on the list of things that QC are checking for. Were these broken in the public beta and it just wasn't noticed or reported somehow, or is it something creeping in after the beta, then slipping past internal QC and if so, how does it keep happening? As an observer it seems to be as much a process failure as a coding one.
The fact Dom has said it is being fixed again doesn't make asking how it keeps ending up broken an unreasonable question.
Hilariously I'd taken a break from doing engineering work for a while precisely because I was just sick of never being sure whether I could obtain particular rare materials or data, said break obviously happening to span the brief period when this was actually working correctly.
I'm not trying to ride you about this Dominic, I do get that bugs happen. What I'm having difficulty with though is understanding how the patches that break this manage to make it through QC and into release with them still present, not least because surely a recurring bug that has come up previously should be pretty high on the list of things that QC are checking for. Were these broken in the public beta and it just wasn't noticed or reported somehow, or is it something creeping in after the beta, then slipping past internal QC and if so, how does it keep happening? As an observer it seems to be as much a process failure as a coding one.
The fact Dom has said it is being fixed again doesn't make asking how it keeps ending up broken an unreasonable question.
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Until they start posting their daily scheduling or some of us get jobs at FD and start secretly sending out company itineraries and project phases, "why" questions in regards to bugfixes are pointless speculation that almost always turn into "omg they just eat pizza all day on my dime I gave them two years ago".
I gave them many dimes just yesterday in exchange for engine colors (with the exception of pink), in my case.
An honest and concise reply, the kind we need. Thanks.
It's a question, the answer to which will avoid me needing to speculate about it. Frankly I don't give a crap what anybody else does, nor is it my responsibility. Either Dom will answer it or he won't and the world will keep turning either way. If 'why does it keep happening' isn't a question he's asked himself, I'd be very surprised.
If I wanted to speculate about why it's happening I would have done so but I wouldn't be including idleness or pizza consumption in any hypothesis I may have come up with.
I got some imperial shielding from killing a pirate I think. I have not found a use for it yet but it is super rare. And in 2.3
Looks like the fix is coming in today's patch:
"We no longer award micro resources that are not used for anything as mission rewards."
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/363853-Update-2-3-11
"We no longer award micro resources that are not used for anything as mission rewards."
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/363853-Update-2-3-11
Since Dom is doing this fix, he may also be adding the MEFs back as mission rewards.
