Bull? Really. I don't agree. Seems like anyone would travel around a bit and sell off loot here and there. I don't do trading (well lately I've started doing sourcing runs) but I had him unlocked when invited simply by selling trash.
Gameplay to unlock Lei Cheung
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Bull? Really. I don't agree. Seems like anyone would travel around a bit and sell off loot here and there. I don't do trading (well lately I've started doing sourcing runs) but I had him unlocked when invited simply by selling trash.
Trade via the mission system is just trade where you let someone else pick the destination. For me at least, it was no better and actively slower than system hopping. I didn't need credits either. I wanted access to G5 shield engineering.
I'm a combat pilot. Most of what I'd pick up either can't be sold or can't be sold on the regular market. I don't enjoy trading. Dock>Jump>SC>Dock gameplay does not appeal to me, as such no, it's not something I just do, and nor do many others I know who play.
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I'd go with rare commodities trading as I found it much more interesting to see more of the systems inside the bubble while earning credits and as a bonus it also helps to unlock Palin (5000ly, remember?).
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Indeed.
Some lunatic wants combat bonds and another one needs me to be 'Dangerous'.
I can't think of anything worse.
At the end of the day you've either unlocked him without having to lift a finger, or you're doing an empty depressing grind.
Which would seem to make it a bit pointless imho.
It's the mining one I'm really dreading.
As was I, but somehow after assembling my mining type 10 for RES mining it flew by. Even kept the ship as I can see myself doing it again for a bit.
Then again it had plenty of shooting wanted ships mixed in so that may be what did it for me.
Cheers might do this.
Put of the Thargoid stuff, do something else and try to do Lei Cheung in the background, just the thought of selling 35 hydrogen at 35 different stations is depressing.
I'm a third of the way through the mining one.
I can't see myself finishing it.
Although since FDev have just decided to destroy exploration, I might have some motivation now.
why are so afraid of the mining one?
since you are not new to the game, you should know that 500t refining can be done relatively fast - after all you don't need to keep the stuff in your cargo hold and you will end up with some excess grade materials too.
you can even wing up with yourself if you manage to run two clients and double any asteroids yield and your defenses (turrets, SLF, point defense)
since you are not new to the game, you should know that 500t refining can be done relatively fast - after all you don't need to keep the stuff in your cargo hold and you will end up with some excess grade materials too.
you can even wing up with yourself if you manage to run two clients and double any asteroids yield and your defenses (turrets, SLF, point defense)
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
"Hostage"?
LOL
Perhaps the game is encouraging you to delve into parts you may not otherwise do?
The same can be said of Lori Jameson for G4 LW life support.
If you decide the world is awful, there is no one who can convince you otherwise.
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
You just need a faster mining ship.
How is it you have been playing the game for any length of time and yet have not managed to trade in 50 markets?
It's an alt account, he mentioned that already [up]
Fair enough. I like combat as well but only doing that would seriously burn me out. Need to vary my playstyle.
Didn't expect to enjoy mining or exploration but sometimes I just want to see my limpets play or cruise through space and look at stuff.
I'm one of the lucky ones that like all aspects of the game
Nope, holding hostage is fully accurate. Trying trade is something that's fully accessible and has been since well before Lei Cheung, and was boring for me well before Lei Cheung, and his existence changed none of that.
The game is demanding I engage in a mechanic that I personally find to be otherwise an inferior experience to being logged off in order to get the benefits he has to offer.
Given that the engineering process itself has me visiting a lot of material traders, surface prospecting, moving around between 10 ships all fitted and the respective engineers for special effects and generally planning things out the downtime seems to build itself in.Fair enough. I like combat as well but only doing that would seriously burn me out. Need to vary my playstyle.
Didn't expect to enjoy mining or exploration but sometimes I just want to see my limpets play or cruise through space and look at stuff.
I'm one of the lucky ones that like all aspects of the game
That said to each their own, I know to some the way I play sounds horrendously unappealing.
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You might want to re-read the definition of 'hostage'. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Just because you find trade boring not mean it is wrong for the game designers to ask you to engage in it. It is one of the 3 core aspects of the game, and fully reasonable to expect you to engage in it, even if it's only a minor aspect.
You could always combine other gameplay aspects with this:
- Go mining and sell your materials at as many different trade markets as possible. This will have the added bonus of contributing towards Selene Jean's mining requirement too.
- Engage in Piracy and sell your items at different markets, or black markets (thereby contributing to The Dweller's black market requirement).
- Trade within Imperial systems and take on delivery missions, so you gain Imperial Rank (which will also contribute towards Hera Tani's Imperial Rank requirement).
- Trade within Federal systems and take on delivery missions, so you gain Federal Rank (which will also contribute towards Bris Dekker's and The Sarge's Federal Rank requirements).
- Run trade missions for the Sirius Corporation, which will also contribute towards Marco Qwent's requirements.
- Doing trade will increase your trade rank, which will also contribute to Didi Vatermann's trade rank requirement.
By refusing to engage in one of the game's core aspects, you are only holding yourself "hostage".
hos·tage
ˈhästij/
noun
noun: hostage; plural noun: hostages
a person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.
In this case we have a functionality rather than a literal person, but otherwise it wholly applies.
Depends, is this a sandbox game or a job? For the former, no, it doesn't make sense because the entire point of consuming the product is for enjoyment. As such arbitrary requirements can be said to detract from the purpose of the product. If the latter, why am I not being paid?
And I have, hence why I know I didn't like it, which escalated over the course of this unlock to active animosity for a time. If it's a minor aspect, then my minor engagement prior should have been sufficient, right?
Yes, the way to trade is to trade, and if you don't like trade, guess what, you won't like those suggestions save the one that doesn't work because black markets, while admittedly trivial when pirate are spewing cargo left and right, is just wholly unbenificial doesn't contribute to Lei Cheung.
I didn't have to do anything for DiDi, because I'd traded before. Just not to Lei's arbitrary specification.