Corvettes and Cutters are now Super easy to get.

Einar Donarsson

Einar Donarsson
Hello dear Forumplayers.

So yesterday morning i was up early (7am) and logged into the Game. Sitting in Shinrarta, i saw 7 Corvettes, 1 Cutter and one Chieftain in the List of Commanders.... wait.. 7 Corvettes? Wasnt that a special and Rare ship once?
I went investigating why everyone has a Corvette now... found a Youtubevideo that showed how to get ranks fast with the latest Beyond Update..... well holy Sh*t.
I farmed weeks or more like months to get my Cutter back in the Day, and now i was able to reach Rear Admiral within one single Morning by just picking the reputation reward on every data delivery mission.

Now im a not so proud Corvette owner... it doesnt feel like i earned it properly, remembering how much work went into the Cutter.

I think F-dev fails to find a middle ground. First it was to much grinding or to much work, now it is way to fast. What do you Guys think?

Have a good Day.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Good point, OP. There will be the usual crowd saying "thewayIplaymygamedoesn'thurtanyoneelse" and we know where that leads.

Even I qualify for a Cutter, should I choose to buy one now, and that was through traditional hard graft.

But the kids these days that want everything now are paying for the new shinies in the shop. FD has made its pact with the devil on that one.
 

pippo

pippo
Vincent Valamore said:
I think F-dev fails to find a middle ground. First it was to much grinding or to much work, now it is way to fast. What do you Guys think?

Have a good Day.
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I thought this was an unintended effect that was going to be fixed in 3.0.3?
 
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Skatez69

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this will be nerfed, at least in part, with this week's 3.0.3 patch. Gaining rank has been ridiculously easy since 3.0 hit.
 

Flapdrol1337

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Shinrarta isn't representative of the general playerbase since you have to have elite rank (or have bought the game in the kickstarter?) to get there. When I first got there ~5 months ago it was already full of corvettes.
 

verminstar

Banned
verminstar
Couldnt have come at a better time fer me cos Ive been rank grinding fer about two months now and was starting to wonder if there would ever be an end in sight...now Ill have it before the nerf. That being said, Ill have the rep but not the cash so Im on the lookout fer something shiny...hopefully another gold rush or two to ease the pain a little. Although I am tempted to just sell the conda cos Ive never liked the cockpit and it looks like a star destroyer with a beer gut.

Ive been pretty much farming data missions hard since yesterday to make the last ranks before tuesday, after which ye can nerf away till yer hearts content cos it wont be an issue by then. They probably shouldnt have said it was unintended...I think of that as advance warning and have adapted what Im doing this weekend to compensate as a result and make hay while the sun shines ^
 

Redomus

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Vincent Valamore said:
Hello dear Forumplayers.

So yesterday morning i was up early (7am) and logged into the Game. Sitting in Shinrarta, i saw 7 Corvettes, 1 Cutter and one Chieftain in the List of Commanders.... wait.. 7 Corvettes? Wasnt that a special and Rare ship once?
I went investigating why everyone has a Corvette now... found a Youtubevideo that showed how to get ranks fast with the latest Beyond Update..... well holy Sh*t.
I farmed weeks or more like months to get my Cutter back in the Day, and now i was able to reach Rear Admiral within one single Morning by just picking the reputation reward on every data delivery mission.

Now im a not so proud Corvette owner... it doesnt feel like i earned it properly, remembering how much work went into the Cutter.

I think F-dev fails to find a middle ground. First it was to much grinding or to much work, now it is way to fast. What do you Guys think?

Have a good Day.
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I think you might have been noticing more people playing in open because yknow you can survive a gankfest better now. I didnt get attacked once at any engineer planet strangely enough.

Stop being alarmist. Other people grind too. If they want to buy a vette who cares. Apparently only certain people can right?
 

pippo

pippo
picommander said:
I threw this baby out with the bath water err my big wipe 3 weeks(?) ago. Never looked back. And I got it 'naturally' as I never grind. But since I also stopped playing in Open I don't need to see all that nonsense now in form of Vettes and Cutters all around and blocking the space ports. So I wouldn't even bother to go to Shinrarta. I've always avoided places that I consider broken as at a later point it will feel like another reason to wipe my commander (again)...

tl;dr

No briquettes of boredom for me. [big grin]
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Way to go!
 

zimms

zimms
Flapdrol1337 said:
Shinrarta isn't representative of the general playerbase since you have to have elite rank (or have bought the game in the kickstarter?) to get there. When I first got there ~5 months ago it was already full of corvettes.
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You make it sound as if that was any harder than getting a Cutter or Corvette. If you grind the money for it, you'll become Elite by accident if you do e.g. passenger missions.
 

Maka Gucci

Maka Gucci
Let it be easy. It's gitin gud, that takes time. Lots of big, easy targets, flown by players who haven't learnt to outfit or engineer a ship properly. With that adorable false sense of security one has while flying in Open early on. All just ripe for the picking/pirating.

Good times/content.
 
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Unshackled AI

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I ran into a novice Cutter last night, and he was of course griefing poor sidewinders by ramming them outside the station. I can play that game too.

It took one ram from my vette to remove his shields, so he obviously couldnt afford to outfit it.
 
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