Again, this is the point of perspective. You seem to be refuse to accept that a task can be a grind. Even if it does not feel like a grind to you. You are literally grinding down a virtual bar to get to a specific point. You are literally working to do something that takes X of something. It does not matter how you choose to do that. You can not just magically get there doing nothing. Feel free to disagree if you can't accept that. It just shows that you were unwilling to actually read what I wrote and to take it in from a broad point of view. I totally covered your position. You don't feel like it is a grind the way you choose to play the game and that is perfectly fine. But on a level, you still work through that bar. Call it whatever you want. This isn't just about you. This is a concept for gaming in general. It is accepted and not in argument. Even Frontier accepted it, and labeled the Faction reputation a grind and that was why they chose not to include it for the Alliance ships.
As for the whole "Mining gameplay". I don't feel like that question was directed at me. But I'll interject. They didn't nerf mining. They broke mining. If you go into a hotspot and can not find anything of what you are looking for, for multiple hours. Then you are not in a hotspot. You are wasting your time. Which is what Frontier chose to do to you in general because they very much chose to do this. They do not listen to players. They do not participate in the game they make. They are oblivious to their impact even while they create patches for the game. It does not take much effort to load into the game and look at what impact the patch has caused. But they clearly didn't, because they would have caught these problems a lot earlier before releasing the patch to the live game. I'm not interested in a mining simulator. I am interested in making credits to earn a fleet carrier of my own. Of which currently, I have zero reason to care about now. I have repeatedly stated how much I hate laser mining.
If everyone could earn the same amount of time per hour estimated, doing any chosen task in the game for earning money. They would have less people mining. If you could earn the same funds at the same rate for bounty hunting, or trading, or anything else. We would have more options. But Frontier, their leadership, and their developers are full on incompetent to listen to that statement. Even Braben himself said no role should be more profitable to be the only task to pay so much. If Mining is impacted so much then Fleet Carriers need to be reduced in price. If A, then B. Period. They are directly linked. And no, no one gets their credits back if they do. Frontier needs to learn that if they treat their customers like trash, they should expect to be treated like trash as well.
