Instead of nerfing by hand, they should just implement a system that nerfs itself.
If there are loads of people who want to do that mission, then just pay them less. And if the mission has been done often enough, offer it less often. I mean, you want data delivered, or a planet scanned, sure. But if 500 people do that for 5 hours, I'd think you have all the data delivered that you ever needed delivered. Why would you want to transport more?
And if no one wants to do the you ask for, like bringing people 20kLy just increase the reward.
It's the plain logic of supply and demand. Maybe have a hard cap at say 40 million to avoid it becoming ridiculous.
People would find rare opportunities, exploit them, maybe get rich. After 4 or 5 runs it'd be back to a normal price, and if people flock, then it'd drop until people don't want to do it anymore.
The downside: People would disperse more, trying to find systems no-one goes to, in a hope they'd find some nice payouts. But such systems with low population would have little money to pay for missions, the cap would be lower.
The other solution I have: Pay by time investment. Mining specific stuff takes forever. Carrying something 500ly takes a long time, maybe 10 or 20 minutes. Carrying somethign 20kLy takes a few days.
The thing frontier doesn't seem to understand is that people have OTHER STUFF TO DO in their life. I've been playing since beta. I got 420hours in, And just a few months ago I could buy myself a python by playing legit, that is res grinding. I didn't want to cheat and exploit, but frontier just forced my hand. 17 draconis came along, and I took the chance. Had I not been doing that, I'd still sit in my python, and I would for another year or 2.
It's not only about money either. Engineers are a grind, federation and empire ranks are a grind, pilots federation ranks are a grind.
I like the game, it's just so frustrating that I take loooong breaks from it, a month or two after playing for 2 weeks.
But I can complain all I want, it won't change a thing. I can propose adivce all I want, I can post bug reports, I can shout, I can scream, I can cry and I can throw myself on the floor and thrash about. None of that helps. And here we are, all doing it anyway, hoping it would help.
It will not. Because no one in FDEV cares to read this crap in the first place.
I found the noisiest people are in the minority usually. I wonder if so many people here complaining really are just a few percent of the playerbase, and everybody else is happy with how things are going?
I don't know.
Perhaps they should have a poll in game or something, asking for opinions. Perhaps that'd give a better picture or what all the players actually want...
