Personally, I am shocked.
CMDRs now playing for ARX
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Same could be said for BGS data - 10M / day for that is usually the recommendation. I guess they could fix that by dropping the payout to 1 ARX per 10 Mill - then you can sell everything in 1 week
Nope...
Well.. let me say this... if you can only play for 1 hour / week... yep... getting 400 arx will be very, very hard.
If you can play the game for 8 hours / week however....
At least with the BGS, you can still drop exploration data bombs off for the sake of various factions across the bubbles. Well, at least as far as I know.Same could be said for BGS data - 10M / day for that is usually the recommendation. I guess they could fix that by dropping the payout to 1 ARX per 10 Mill - then you can sell everything in 1 week
But this stupid. You get a reasonable amount of ARX for jump-honk-scoop now. And good amounts for other things.
Just ignore the "loss" of 24p. Because I already see the threads... "I was ganked in Deciat with a billion in explo data, support I demand my ARX being reinstalled, so that I can get ganked every week again" sigh
Yep... It's an... interesting dichotomy, one I wasn't really anticipating for the game previously.
When I was hauling poopie, and then after that polymers, and making lots of money I got Arx in a flash.
When I have been doing missions and just tooling around normally, I haven't been getting hardly any. I'm not too concerned because I understand what in-game currencies are, what they're for, and what freebie drip itself is for the way it works.
but, not so good
When I have been doing missions and just tooling around normally, I haven't been getting hardly any. I'm not too concerned because I understand what in-game currencies are, what they're for, and what freebie drip itself is for the way it works.
but, not so good
Hey I liked carrying poop from Sothis and Ceos. It wasn’t a total gold rush exploit, carried some danger (especially when said poop hauling was given as smuggling missions), and it was my first real taste of big money. Well big money in those days. Now it’s chump change.
If you're not too worried about progression and the meta, or perhaps even regardless of it, there is still some fun emergent game-play that can be had here and there on occasion. In a way that's sort of like an interactive story you help make for yourself.
That's a good point. With the current ARXs some significant number of people seem to feel not validated but invalidated. I think the best would be to remove ARX to be earned through playing the game, only microtransactions with real money.
Yes, thats (the bold parts) what I am thinking and what I want to discuss. Thank you for being more clear.
The current amounts of ARXs earnable through game play is somehow a joke (for those who go for it), but earning ARXs by participating e.g. in the Interstellar Initiatives could be something.
And I understand that ARX is something the different platforms (PC,PS4,...) now have in common, instead of the separate things before, where PS4 have something (Points? What was the name?) and others don't. Maybe a sign for future cross play, at least a necessary preparation.
Some missions and activities don't pay at all. Can't blaze my own trail by being locked into a single type of game play just to make arx. So arx is of no interest to me now. It was a good idea, but useless for me until FDev get some balance to it.
Did you play after the newest patches? I'm genuinely curious what you do to not earn Arx.
Exploration pays Arx, Trading does, mission running does, engineering does, building ships does, using mat traders does, combat does a lot, even PvP gives Arx now...
I have capped the Arx limit on my main account since introduction by, at the latest, each Friday... Just playing normally, so can't see me forsaking play because I've capped out!
My alt makes random amounts depending on what has been done and has only capped out once so far.
Does it bother me? Not in the least, about the only nice thing is that at some point I'll visit the store without spending a penny of my own money - very nice
My alt makes random amounts depending on what has been done and has only capped out once so far.
Does it bother me? Not in the least, about the only nice thing is that at some point I'll visit the store without spending a penny of my own money - very nice
I did some data scan missions, but it was before the recent update, and didn't get any. I'm not sure trading missions give anything. The "exploration" of flying back and forth does though. That's on my alt-account. I've been doing trading mission for a week now and have about 100 arx.Did you play after the newest patches? I'm genuinely curious what you do to not earn Arx.
Exploration pays Arx, Trading does, mission running does, engineering does, building ships does, using mat traders does, combat does a lot, even PvP gives Arx now...
On my primary account, I have a lot of exploration data to turn in, and every 40,000,000 credit corresponds to 400 arx, so I have that ship parked, and dump only enough each week to reach the max.
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Checked my logs. Done 120 trading missions in two weeks and that has given me 150 arx, most of the arx from all the jumps though.
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Yeah. That's a problem. With that in mind, arx shouldn't be connected to credits or payouts at all, but rather just on activity, hours spent, number of missions, number of kills, etc, but not cashing in explo-data, like I'm currently doing in allotments in my primary account, it's going to take a couple of weeks to clear my list. I'm glad having an alt-account to play on right now.
Haven't done exploration in a while, but by the sound of it, ARX rewards shouldn't be about cashing in data at all, except when you get the first discovery of something maybe. Mostly it should be about the actions, like 1 for every X number of FSS scans, for each mapped body and so on.
I already hit the weekly cap. Combat mostly.
I already hit the weekly cap. Combat mostly.