Riiiiiight. But they should probably work on fixing all those C&P circumstances which allow you to be trapped in this kind of situation, rather than "doubling all jump ranges across the board" as a panacea and leaving the C&P system in its exact same dysfunctional state, right?
What does this mean? Frontier developed a game where it is
perfectly valid to use any module rating A-E, as well as fit smaller FSD to ships. They they compounded that by allowing these ships to be transferred
anywhere. This was fine. Even if one gained a bounty, for any reason, one could swap ships and go and do the needful.
In other words, the mechanics allowed for a scenario, and provided solutions. The developer flippantly turning stuff off, breaks that entire concept.
People are howling that the commander fitted an undersized FSD in a ship which has always required power management, ignoring that everything did not care,
until the developer invalidated the entire thing by
locking station facilities.
There might be a decent argument to be made for increasing jump range, but "C&P is convoluted, inconsistent, and can force players into an intractable Kafkaesque nightmare scenario" is not a good argument for derailing the conversation into "let's double the jump range of every ship you guys!"
The entire FSD range argument is a garbage bin fire. Arguing ships should have convoluted and suspect jump ranges "just because they can have guns, but they are different to all the
other ships that also can have guns but jump range and power is not their choke point" is insanity.
The game has no issue with a ship fitting a tiny FSD because the developer
designed it to be that way. They then, thoughtfully,
forgot the customisation of their own game by just turning crap off because that was more expedient than considering
why we are even in this position.
You don't invent a game with considerable customisation, then summarily ignore that when it's not helpful. In short; the developer turned a bunch of stuff off because they were focused on solving other issues,
all of which are of their own doing, and screwed over players in the process.
The community response to that?
"Good sir how dare you customise your ship in manner, N, rather than in manner Q?! I am offended!"
The entire thing is a joke at this point, and not a lot of people are asking is the underlying situation problematic - but simply finger pointing, which it just loves to do. If this is what C&P has become, imagine what's going to happen when the developer comes for exploration or trade or whatever it is
you care about. Suddenly? I don't think you'll be so flippant about being an authority on how jump range should be determined.
The issue is not the range; it's that the developer has included using cheaper modules as a method to create progression and keep ship costs down, whilst simultaneously offering
customisation. Getting offended over that, is just bizarre.
What actually surprises me, even though it probably shouldn't, is even the developer forgot that their own customisation choices were a thing and invalidated a bunch of them.
I am sure the commander did not help themselves by their outfitting choices; however this is only part of the issue. The developer has removed the ability to self-determine an outcome, and instead made it a forgone conclusion. This is not as constructive as people want to believe.
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