Another ARX thread (Complaint)
- Thread starter Serenity03
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Congratulations. You have achieved enlightenmentProbably best not to think about the free ARX, they weren't there before so best to forget about them now and just have fun.
Or something like that anyway
I'm not a fan of premium currencies in general (that's a different discussion), but this is indeed spot on.
I don't get this complaint either.
The one thing i would consider problematic were if there had been a stealth price increase for shop items with the introduction of ARX.
Now, i don't buy anything from the shop, so i wouldn't know if there had been such an increase.
But i have not read any complaints about that, so i have to assume prices are the same as they were before ARX.
Someone please correct me if that assumption is wrong.
Does it really? Every time I tried out this I got ... zero. Are you relogging before & after the hand-in26t at a time works too
Not sure what I'm doing wrong ...
But but someone might be getting more than me. I don't care if it is free, I demand to get more than everyone else
Please ensure you have your sarcasm module fully engaged before reading this post
It's completely silly.
You'd make more searching trash bins for discarded bottles and take them to the next super market.
ARX
I recently watched a YouTube where they got their 400 Arx in 2hrs in a CNB. About 1/3 to 1/2 was combat Arx. The rest was Trade - by trading up all the junk they picked up falling off ships. I recently got a fair chunk of Arx trading up raw mats.
When I was coming back from Beagle Point to Colonia I was getting about 12 Arx per session on average and never got anywhere near the 400 limit per week.
I then started selling my One Billion Credits worth of exploration data and immediately hit the 400 limit.
Hmm, I thought, I could sell a bit each week and get loads of Arx.
I did it for one week and then sold the lot, the exploration data and discoveries are worth more to me than any amount of Arx.
Not complaining.
I then started selling my One Billion Credits worth of exploration data and immediately hit the 400 limit.
Hmm, I thought, I could sell a bit each week and get loads of Arx.
I did it for one week and then sold the lot, the exploration data and discoveries are worth more to me than any amount of Arx.
Not complaining.
Does it really? Every time I tried out this I got ... zero. Are you relogging before & after the hand-in
yeap, sold 586t of painite, 26t at a time - that is slightly above 20 millions credits per transaction - got like 60+ arxes out of it
How many transactions was that?
Maybe you need to split them and sell part,
just like the BGS used to be?
Arx are counted towards times of transaction. If you only make 1 Transaction you will be rewared for one. regardless of how much profit this one transaction gives. Next time, try to sell your haul in small packages.
What? You're not getting sex for playing Elite?
All I know is when I strap the VR headset on, sit in my chair with the HOTAS between my legs for hours on end it drives my wife crazy..she just cant keep her hands off this hunk of CMDR.
well, not really
Buy a sidewinder, attach the station and get blown up. 6 Arx. Then you get insta-teleported to the prison colony (I want that feature the other way too) and when you take off in your sidewinder, attack the station again. 6 more Arx. Repeat until watching paint dry gets more interesting.
Humans are simply weird. For example, a few studies have shown that people are happier when you give them a large gift compared with the exact same large gift plus a tiny gift. The tiny gift somehow devalues the large gift in many people's mind. There are many variations, but often the conclusion is the same: giving someone a small thing for free often makes them less rather than more happy. For example: Beyond and Horizons would have been received much more favorably had it been released as one major update instead of numerous smaller ones.
This week I've been fighting in CZs with massacre missions, and also taking surface missions from another nearby system. I maxed out in two days. I don't know which was earning me more.
When the war's over I'll take a stack of surface scan and generator kill missions and see what it earns me without any other mess tying things up.
One thing to consider is that I stacked a lot of those surface missions before the thursday tick when my arx were already maxed out since they give you a pretty generous 6 day timer to complete them, so I wasn't at the mercy of the mission board to give me some. If skimmers and turrets still count as "a kill" then that's a pretty swift way to rack up some combat arx if you don't mind a bounty on your bomber
When the war's over I'll take a stack of surface scan and generator kill missions and see what it earns me without any other mess tying things up.
One thing to consider is that I stacked a lot of those surface missions before the thursday tick when my arx were already maxed out since they give you a pretty generous 6 day timer to complete them, so I wasn't at the mercy of the mission board to give me some. If skimmers and turrets still count as "a kill" then that's a pretty swift way to rack up some combat arx if you don't mind a bounty on your bomber
you can make more money mining today than you ever could with mission stacking, in fact mining completely obsoletes any activity for money making to a degree that it's simply offensively stupid.
if mining made lots of arx most people would never do anything else again, the free arx is an incentive to vary your playstyle instead of just grinding for it.
if mining made lots of arx most people would never do anything else again, the free arx is an incentive to vary your playstyle instead of just grinding for it.
What? You're not getting sex for playing Elite?
Close enough... for NOT playing Elite!.... cough cough
I think Arx is great the way it is.
I have earned the 400 I think every week it came out except this last without doing anything in particular to earn that.
I did purchase the 100k arks bundle so I got enough and dont really care about earning but its a nice to have I suppose.
My problem is that I have a sneaking suspicion that Arx are going to start to move towards play-to-win or gameplay-altering mechanics. And I suspect the delay of fleet carriers has a relationship with this. 2 years they have been in development for now, and as a professional programmer, I know its not that difficult a thing to do. All the assets are there from megaships, most of the work to do fleet carriers is for the artists and working out balance issues(price etc). So I suspect fleet carriers are ready-to-go and have been for a while now. Which leads to the question: why have they not been released? There has been talk of a "something else" not just credits that is required to maintain fleet carriers. Any 3 guesses what that "something else" they want it to be? Community right now would just not stand for it. But after 6 months, esp some quality-of-life features are introduced that can be purchased for Arx...
Gavin's paranoia most likely, but food for thought nonetheless.
CMDR Gavin786
I have earned the 400 I think every week it came out except this last without doing anything in particular to earn that.
I did purchase the 100k arks bundle so I got enough and dont really care about earning but its a nice to have I suppose.
My problem is that I have a sneaking suspicion that Arx are going to start to move towards play-to-win or gameplay-altering mechanics. And I suspect the delay of fleet carriers has a relationship with this. 2 years they have been in development for now, and as a professional programmer, I know its not that difficult a thing to do. All the assets are there from megaships, most of the work to do fleet carriers is for the artists and working out balance issues(price etc). So I suspect fleet carriers are ready-to-go and have been for a while now. Which leads to the question: why have they not been released? There has been talk of a "something else" not just credits that is required to maintain fleet carriers. Any 3 guesses what that "something else" they want it to be? Community right now would just not stand for it. But after 6 months, esp some quality-of-life features are introduced that can be purchased for Arx...
Gavin's paranoia most likely, but food for thought nonetheless.
CMDR Gavin786