You guys were talking about utilizing more of the Bonus Weekends concept. So my idea is to make it so there is largely reduced rebuy cost for players to see how it changes a game. It would make it a lot easier for everybody to try and risk everything playing in open or just make some interesting spectacular attempts. PvP would propably benefit a lot from this too.
Idea for Bonus Weekends
- Thread starter Bier00t
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Well its not but somehow many people just restrain from many actions when they feel they are going to lose a lot. Just letting it be effortless for two days and advertise it as free/reduced rebuy cost - it wont hurt anybody to see how it affects all the gameplay...
Well Bonus Weekends are not my idea - its FDev's (and its based on what most of MMOs do) - they once did it in the past and recently they announced that they want to get back to it in many different forms. So my idea is to - at one time - try this in form of reduced rebuy cost. I think that timeframe would be based on ingame time which UTC.
EDIT: past Bonus Weekend https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Bonus_Weekend
unfortunately cant find when they said they want to explore this idea more - maybe it was spoken on some of the livestreams...
EDIT2: finally found it - they talked about it in "Important Community Update (01/03)" and called this "reward boosts (such as Superpower reputation increases)" so I guess we are getting something similar to my idea anyway.
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You will all get the same amount of play time, the only difference will be at what time, locally, it starts and ends.
You would still get 48 hours bonus (or whatever)
As FDev is based in the UK, and the Game runs on GMT, I would imagine that the weekend starts at 00:01 GMT on the Saturday, and ends at 23:59 GMT on the Sunday.
Lestat
Banned
I already made a few Billion in the last few days on a restarted account. All I started with was a Penniless trader. Harmless Combat, Mostly Aimless and 1,000 credits. Now I have Elite Trader so Why do we need this bonus week again?
I think the issue you might have is you bit off more than you can chew. Buying a ship that was barebone and lack of weapons.
Well many old players know how to quickly earn billions but not everybody. I would just treat that bonus weekend as a not harmful experiment. Why are you being so persistent that there is no option at all just to try something like this?
And yeah I have few billions on my accout too - Im not worried about money or any of my ships.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Would players with stuff in their ship that would be lost on destruction be expected to be more or less likely to play in Open if this type of weekend event took place?
Well as I suggested in earlier post - as part of developement support for events - FDev could consider few different options - for example a possibility to rebuy lost cargo with big discount or cash equivalent for the lost cargo. There may be other options if anyone have some suggestions?
Lestat
Banned
So are you saying, New players, are going to play super dumb and not do some research and learn how to make credits super fast? That is the first thing someone does when they buy or want to learn how to progress in a new game. Research and more Research. They may even be bold ask on the forum.
You know if it was before the 3.3 updates I would 100% agree with you and would not have an issue with the idea But at that time to get 1 billion credits took real time and effort. But please remember. I went from Harmless to Elite in less than a day and 1,000 credits to 1,000,000,000+ credits at the same time So your idea is not needed.
Thing is we don't need an I win feature and the player leaves the game. We want players to stay.
Of course they are trying - not all of them are succeeding.
Before 3.3 FDev didnt do developement supported events and any new bonus weekends. The idea is to make it an event - not a permament change - bring people to play in open. For example in addition to that there could be bonuses for trading, bounty hunting and pirating in open.
Im gonna stay for sure as am playing since original beta.
Lestat
Banned
So your idea is to FORCE people into the open so PvP can kill players. If they had a bonus weekend. It should be for All modes.
Still, this game is way too easy to make money. Don't need a bonus weekend.
No, not force into open. Rebuy cost would stay lowered for solo and private groups too. For example - attempt as many times as you want to:
- attack an Interceptor in solo
- land on a high G planet with high speed
- be a crazy pirate that attack powerful NPCs using highly experimental builds
- fight a police inside a station
- trade in low security system with a shieldless Type-9
I think people would come out with many more ideas of how to exploit this.
Its not a way to accelerate progression. It would be a funny experiment, test for more careless style of gameplay. Also it would only last for two days and FDev announced already that they are planning for different kinds of bonus weekends so this is propably inevitable one way or another.
The fact progression is way too fast already has the effect of making the game way too carefree. Why should you care about losing your ship, when you can make hundreds of millions in a matter of hours. And this leads to nonsensical gameplay, where instead of roleplaying risk-averse commanders who try to survive in a cut-throat galaxy, we see our spaceships as disposable assets since it has become virtually impossible to lose money, and money is all a rebuy costs.
Although in a way elimiating rebuys is the next logical step to catter to ED's new target demographic I guess.. but then why stop there. Why just the weekend, and why not just run with it and remove all obstacles to immediate and minless fun, because that is what such suggestions are leading to, is it not?
So if the progression is too fast already there is no real danger that by making it even faster for a short moment, it would brake the game or something... no danger that someone would become a billionaire during that one special weekend yes?