I was talking to you, not about. Ive put him on ignore so i don't have to deal with his pointless angsty bull.
It's OK for me to disagree, it's no problem forum working as intended like USS's.
Whereas your attempts at getting personal are simply because you can't think up a coherent argument. So why don't you try again, this time try to post about the topic.
Conspiracy theories (whilst hilarious) don't really help you prove your point.
There are stacks of quality mods for freespace2 if you ever need a hit of space campaigning, which I think is freeware now.
Congratulations: You have just discovered that people can force themselves to do unfun unenjoyable things in something called a "game". Now proceed to bash your head against the wall 100 times at the collective foolishness of the human race.
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No no no. That's nearly as bad as suggesting FDev add an auto-pilot. (We'd loose the sense of scale & vast distances, something that Elite 1 & especially 2 had in spades.)
The solution to fixing Super Snooze is not to get rid of it (or automate it), but rather to make the actual experience of it more fun & engaging. Add interesting events & (optional) activities to it. It might conflict with FDev's hand-waving theory that explains Super Cruise, but enjoyment should trump realism (like they scrapped Newtonian flight physics).
That's not how ignoring is supposed to work. Someone PM him and tell him he's doing it wrong.
I'm not so sure about a lack of progression. Since 3.0 I've been flying through Federation & Empire ranks (and reputation). To be honest, even as a casual player it feels too fast now, and I worry what I'll have left to do when I get to the end...
Credits may also be easier to gain than before, but I've been choosing Reputation rewards for missions...
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Yea I'm pretty sure he's on a lot of lists, I wonder how few people actually see his posts at this point.
You're right, you did a good job of keeping the OP focused and you're doing a good job now of tryna get it back on track.
Maybe update OP with any good suggestions made, so people don't have to dig through the mountain of distraction.
Respond to those willing to stay on topic and ignore the rest.
You'll fly a cutter or corvette for a while then mothball it equip a smaller ship just for fun and only do what you enjoy. That's the endgame.
Am I on yours yet ?.
I think you've misunderstood him. He's saying that the progression feels like a grind because its not fun and engaging.
I agree the grind is intentional on Frontier's end, Sandro has pretty much said this. And I'm not against grinds being in the game, I just wish they would go about implementing better grinds with more interactive mechanics and diversity. Having to do the Guardian Orb event 24 times to unlock stuff at the tech brokers is just lazy design, and there are a number of fairly easy ways to make that much more engaging. I just wish Frontier would make the effort to do so.
Until everyone agrees on the definition of the word, or at least agree that it isn't a matter of people deluding themselves and stop misrepresenting the issue, we can't even begin to solve it.
Can't begin. /thread
Can't begin. /thread
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You could be right! (blushes)
Although in that case I don't understand how he differentiates between "progression" & "grind".
My definition of "grind" is doing something with little to no visible progression (as well as those actions requiring little or no thought beyond muscle memory).
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Why on earth would you upgrade your whole fleet at once? Just upgrade the ship you're flying. Clearly, engineers are intended to used be occasionally, after you've gathered some materials as part of playing the game.
Trying to do this all at once is self-inflicted grinding. Just go play the game and have some fun.
It is pretty simple why they do it - it is because they are absolutely terrified that someone in the game might have a better ship than them, whether it can jump further, have a higher DPS or shields - well whatever. And once they do get the ship of their dreams, they jump onto the forums to boast about how great their ship is, only to have someone tell them it isn't. So they go out again, trying to have the best of the best, never realising that there will always be someone with a better ship than they have.
So what you are saying is that there is someone to blame - the first guy who had the best possible thing. The Prime Grinder. And now everyone is following his footsteps, trying to be as good?
Awful.
#grindismisevil
One of the cleverest things in the new and improved engineers is the upgrade cap, it means even crazy grinding has a built in end. That and being able to switch experimental effects whilst keeping the base upgrade, and the mat traders.