This is what I got for 2.5 hours of mining

[dreampage]

After 2.5 hours of mining and selling the minerals. Frontier, this is not "free ARX". This is an insult.

I don't feel rewarded for playing. I feel mocked.

I understand the need for funds for continuous development, as I have spent a considerable amount of money on the game in the past 4+ years. But this system is not an incentive to play. It's essentially mocking players when they exit their session. If you really think 2-3 hours of daily gameplay is worth this much then you simply don't understand how these systems should work. 400 ARX per week is low enough as it is, clearly not breaking your bank. At least let us reach it with normal, active gameplay. Make it an incentive, an encouragement to play. Or remove this insulting system completely.

When I give a gift to someone, I want it to be meaningful, regardless of financial value. But I wouldn't give a box of toothpicks as a gift. The current system feels exactly like that.

 

[ebbrell]

Haha, I have done same. And 3 hours or missions paid less.

It does seem a little unfair, I hope it gets balanced at some point.

 

[Ian Skippy]

Wut, 'insult', 'feel mocked'? Man, the hardships you ensure! I can't imagine how that must feel, getting an insignificant amount of a fake currency for your spaceship game instead of a slightly less insignificant amount.

If I were you I'd publish an open letter, loudly demanding more. In the meantime I send you thoughts & prayers.

Seriously: the incentive to play should come from enjoying the game. If you need arc to enjoy it the problem is somewhere else. Arx given isn't an expression of value of time. Raging and 'feeling mocked and insulted' over this is quite literally unhealthy.

 

[Klarg]

Shall I call you a waaahmbulance? You get credits for mining. That's your reward

 

[xzanfr]

"free" arx needs to be ditched, mainly to stop wingers like this moaning that they've only managed to get 12p worth of store credit per session.
Playing the game for enjoyment then buying stuff from the shop worked for years and should have been retained. As a side effect we wouldn't have this buggy mess.

 

[M00ka]

I suggest FD takes 5 Arx from every player and gives it to the OP since he is evidently very special

 

[Factabulous]

lol - so you want more ARX from mining? Even after fdev seem to break whatever they try to add ARX to? Brave guy!

 

[Commander Biscuit]

Mining is extremely high profit, low Arx.
Combat is low profit "high" Arx.

I think this is the basic rationale behind Arx balancing, because if mining rewarded Arx similarly to combat, then all anyone would ever do is mining.

 

[Kissamies]

Mining definitely is not the way to earn ARX. As a contrast, I am doing a lot of bounty hunting and combat zones as a way of BGS manipulation and also have a collector limpets to get the materials the ships drop, then sometimes go and arrange those materials around with a trader. I very often earn 60+ per session.

 

[Bigmaec]

Wut, 'insult', 'feel mocked'? Man, the hardships you ensure! I can't imagine how that must feel, getting an insignificant amount of a fake currency for your spaceship game instead of a slightly less insignificant amount.

If I were you I'd publish an open letter, loudly demanding more. In the meantime I send you thoughts & prayers.

Seriously: the incentive to play should come from enjoying the game. If you need arc to enjoy it the problem is somewhere else. Arx given isn't an expression of value of time. Raging and 'feeling mocked and insulted' over this is quite literally unhealthy.

This

Shall I call you a waaahmbulance? You get credits for mining. That's your reward

And this.

Mining is extremely high profit, low Arx.
Combat is low profit "high" Arx.

I think this is the basic rationale behind Arx balancing, because if mining rewarded Arx similarly to combat, then all anyone would ever do is mining.

Aaaaaand thiiiiiiiiiiiiis.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

I only got about 40 Arx from piracy last night.

Don't care, it was fun.

 

[Dagwit]

Two things are clearly true:

the devs are playing favourites in the activities they award ARX for;
the ARX you get (or don't get) aren't worth enough to make it worth giving a rat's tail connector about it.

 

[askavir]

Feeling that the salary one gets from playing a game is too low is definitively a new kind of creative complaint.

I can already see miner protests in the streets, yelling "Up the Arx!".

 

[sollisb]

I couldn't give two flying bananas about Arx, the rate they're earned or what they can be used for. I refuse to pay for fake currency. But sure.. I'll give them back the free ones when-ever they amount to anything substantial, if I'm still playing.

 

[schmicknick]

..not sure I fully understand... I'm thinking a high quality box of toothpicks would be a fine thing... things need not be expensive beyond your means to be nice.. quality is nice to find in anything people use.

 

[Factabulous]

We must also consider that maybe the OP needs to L2M. They didn't say how much money that made in that 2.5 hours, could have been they were doing Bromellite mining to be ready to fuel their FC - and Bromellite is not a big profit

 

[MDHansen]

Easy, we equalize combat money/arx with mining yes? so 2 hrs of mining gives 20mill and 150ARX. Everyone's happy

 

[Florenus]

Mining is extremely high profit, low Arx.
Combat is low profit "high" Arx.

I think this is the basic rationale behind Arx balancing, because if mining rewarded Arx similarly to combat, then all anyone would ever do is mining.

That's not how the game should be balanced, though. Through fake currency.
ARX shouldn't be used as an incentive to take selected activities only.

Besides, mining is profitable only if you mine profitable minerals. But you'll get the same amount of ARX for mining water and void opals.

 

[Hanerib]

I wish they'd bring back UA bombing, that would make some serious ARX...

 

[Enderby]

The free arx are just bait to get us to buy some