I don't understand what you mean.
I haven't played NMS for a looong while, but as I remember you encountered this scenario at some point during every playthrough, following tutorial missions. It was a starter freighter that you could upgrade later.
Reduce the grind
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I haven't played NMS for a looong while, but as I remember you encountered this scenario at some point during every playthrough, following tutorial missions. It was a starter freighter that you could upgrade later.
Perhaps the 'grind' should be increased 100 fold, maybe even 10,000 times more difficult to obtain higher grade materials...
Just a suggestion, I do hope Fdev read this particularly good suggestion to reduce grind
(think about it - if it was nigh on impossible to go 'meta' it would actually reduce the amount of time people 'grind' as it would be, effectively, pointless and then the game could be enjoyed for what it is rather than what it could be)
Just a suggestion, I do hope Fdev read this particularly good suggestion to reduce grind
(think about it - if it was nigh on impossible to go 'meta' it would actually reduce the amount of time people 'grind' as it would be, effectively, pointless and then the game could be enjoyed for what it is rather than what it could be)
I see a lot of references to the 'old' grind vs new grind.. It's true that back then killing an elite could net you 200 cr.. or when the cutter first came out and we had that berlin wall of rep to scale.... the difference is that back then when the grind properly melted your will to live, you were thrown a bone in the form of a 'bug'. I remember the Cutter grind taking me a few hours, booned by the flip board trick and stack 100 skimmer missions, where one missile would cause completed messages to scroll down your screen for a good 20 - 30 seconds.
GOOD TIMES
GOOD TIMES
I have played NMS since the beginning and I remember my first Carrier (when they were introduced) was not free. I paid 50 milions or so units for something similar to what I could earn now for free. I think this is excessive but still an improvement.
I don't think you did it right then. Option to rescue one and get it for free has been there since the introduction of freighters.
I've not played for quite a while but I thought that after you had killed the pirates the captain offered you the option to buy his freighter for like 90 million credits - and I never had more than 2 million credits.
Maybe it's changed now so you can get that first freighter for free??
Last time I played was probably more than a year ago and I never got far with the game.
There was a free freighter then. I googled it now and it seems that getting it for free after defeating pirates is part of early Atlas storyline, and was from the beginning.
So, basically, this was always designed as kind of a starter ship, that you'll work to upgrade, or exchange.
You mean, grind is a choice? And if you chose yourself to do it you shouldn't complain about it?
The smart commander only bothers landing on planets with lots of geological signals, then that clever commander can pick up dozens of the raw mats he/she needs very quickly. B@#$er driving around for 2 hours and only getting 6 mats! You obviously don't do much exploring do you?
WHERE it is a choiceYou mean, grind is a choice? And if you chose yourself to do it you shouldn't complain about it?
I think 'most' people regardless of IQ would have realized for 2 hours work they could earn actual real money then spend 2 hours picking up 6 mats for a NPC engineer.
If I was finding something was grindy I would stop doing it and move onto something I enjoy doing. Certainly wouldn't waste my time complaining on a forum, total waste of f@#$ibg time mate! Also smacks of being a little bit entitled too IMO.
Still, it would be nice to be able to get raw materials from places other than planet surfaces and (rarely) asteroids. Where are the missions offering raws mats for a reward? Where are the USS of destroyed cargo ships hauling raw mats?
Thought the forums were for feedback. Truth be told, i find the forums more engaging than the current grind of engineering, at least i get a good laugh. Thought at its core FD still operates as a business. Not sure how a game heralded as "grind being the core of the game" will entice more players into it outside some of the screenshot bait & retain them. Asking that the grind be sensible is not a big ask imo
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I dont see much choice. I played the BGS yesterday and today they spawn engineered AI on me. What I played yesterday now takes considerably longer and became unfun. To remedy that I'd need to engineer my nerfed stuff to get to old level of killpower. Guess what - I already grinded for my stuff. And I'm not doing it again to do the very same stuff I already did.
Well according to half the people in this thread, you must be playing the game wrong or dont understand what grind is.
There's people who like surprise mechanics, gacha games, power creep, mindless repetition, sense of pride and accomplishment. I don't count myself among them.
Actually scratch the last item, my progress was my source of pride and accomplishment and they took that away by shoe-horning in the power creep.
I know surprise mechanics but I haven't come across "gacha games, power creep"
Explain please.
Probably for the same reason that some people find cricket boring while others don't.
Seems that there's plenty of players who have come to this conclusion already. I logged on to Mobius last week and there wasn't a single player online. Compare this to last year when there would be several hundred online on a quiet day. It wouldn't bode well if this was indicative of the state of the population in the rest of the game.