But it is broken. And that can be seen from the Issue Tracker. Everyone knows mining was too good. Whether you were against mining or an avid miner. Of course it was too good. So a nerf was inevitable. But the nerf broke some things. It's hard to see where it is currently without those smaller issues being fixed. If fixing those issues makes mining OP again, then another nerf will probably follow. That doesn't mean the problem doesn't need to be addressed. A bugged feature to what was an overpowered problem doesn't make it right. We'll see what FDev does. Though from my short time here, it seems when something is fixed, another thing gets broken. Scary cycle.
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But it is broken. And that can be seen from the Issue Tracker. Everyone knows mining was too good. Whether you were against mining or an avid miner. Of course it was too good. So a nerf was inevitable. But the nerf broke some things. It's hard to see where it is currently without those smaller issues being fixed. If fixing those issues makes mining OP again, then another nerf will probably follow. That doesn't mean the problem doesn't need to be addressed. A bugged feature to what was an overpowered problem doesn't make it right. We'll see what FDev does. Though from my short time here, it seems when something is fixed, another thing gets broken. Scary cycle.
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Certainly the temperature went from 0 to 1000 in a day. I think the shrieking and stamping of feet has been insane and really, I mean insane.
I’m no archivist for the forum but in the brief time I’ve been here, I’ve never seen anything like it. What makes it worse is, generally, the average age of ED is way higher than a lot of other games. Grown men having fits. One week.
The chap I always think about is @Rubbernuke, I’ve seen him, consistently but patiently ask for PowerPlay to be looked at. He has some good, constructive thoughts and suggestions. He carries on, quite calm.
This recent flurry of just caps lock shouting, demanding, quite abusive posts is, in the true sense of the word, remarkable.
It was all skewed by the new mining in Beyond, we complained that blowing up cores should be better paid, and unfortunately fdev listened (lesson there fdev). They "fixed" it but left all the other mining worthless and unused, and this accelerated into what we have seen in the last 6 months.
Someone is to blame and we all know (TJ) who it is, but I won't say who, that would be unfair.
I agree. I'm a semi long time lurker. No forum fixture by any means but I've seen this type of stuff before in almost every game forum. I understand passion but yes this is outright absurd. And to think the higher average of age of this game makes it that much more painfully obnoxious. I certainly didn't buy this game for mining. Have I done my fair share, sure. I didn't get where I am currently because of it though. My entire being here is to positively interact with the community but that seems to be challenge in it's own right. However there is no shortage of passive aggressive petulance with the subject matter. Sigh
People have been saying balance needs ... balanced ... for a long time. It's not that fdev have shown "love" to mining and need to apply it to the rest of the game - it's that mining both rescued the game in terms of an engaging revitalisation of a placeholder mechanic, and broke it due to complete lack of balance. The changes to mining in Beyond were brilliant, and The Disaster that has made (for example) people think the game is 2 weeks of mining to get to end game.
Its ed. (btw, fdev forum filter - the irish word that is similar to another F word, does NOT mean the same thing. Get your filter sorted.)
That's FDev for you vis ED: it's often hard to tell if something is bugged or if it was done that way be design.
It was broken - and rescued at the same time - by Beyond 3.3. It's been dragging the game down ever since.
And I like mining.
For mining's sake.
Almost like there's two completely different sets of players now.
If finding 3 opal cores within 10 minutes , in a single vo hotspot is broken, please leave it broke 
Went into my home system yesterday, hold filled with Voids, LTD and Serendibite. Took a a few hours but a decent fill in my little Python...
The only thing that needs addressing is Tritium IMHO..
The only thing that needs addressing is Tritium IMHO..
I've been around a few weeks now, most of that was lurking.
Seen a lot of toys being thrown out of prams in that time, it was mainly VR whining before (I don't like VR, kills spatial awareness to the real world), now of course it's the great eggs fall from grace.
Gamers will always be the most capricious bunch of weirdos.
It'll be something else next, official forums are always hotbeds of discontentment though. SWTOR, WoW etc, always the same.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
He should have bought insurance.
He should have bought insurance.
Probably so, ebbs and flows....Mostly flows
I can understand the VR guys getting upset. To them it is removing all aspects of the game, not some secondary part (mining). I'm intrigued by VR but haven't felt ready to invest. Plus I'm on PS4 and don't feel like turning my PC into a VR spaceship either.
That is true although typically a game like this has more appeal to what you would believe a more mature audience. Evidently not.
Maybe I'm just easy to please with this game but I find it mostly appealing and hardly anything to complain about. (occassionaly hyperspace detrottle stops working for a day or two)
When I say, "showing love", I mean that it seems mining as a profession has seen a lot more adjusting than any other activity in the game. Being fine tuned to an extent. To what extent is still up in the air since Frontier doesn't seem to vocalize their vision much. Funnily enough, I've seen that video of Braben stating he wants no job to be more lucrative than any other and yet, here we are lol. Otherwise, I agree with your points. I'm not an Elite veteran by any sense of the word and most of my experience in game has been during the gold rushes, but with one extreme end in mind, it's been clear to see that the other activities just are not up to par in terms of reward.
So is smuggling. There's not even any options to continue doing smuggling it's so broken.
So are outbreak massacre missions.
You can see this in the issue tracker too.
Why do these constantly get shoved under the carpet, but break the OP billion-credits-a-day cash cow, and suddenly that's all that matters?
Screw mining. Fix everything else that's been playing second-fiddle to the farce that mining's been for over a year first.
Alright.
Oooohhhhh that would be swell.
Imagine the salt and eeeeeeeeeeeeeee the gankers and griefers would deliver if they suddenly couldn't harm other commanders?
Players in Open would rejoice. I know I would even come to Open because for the sake of it.
thanks obama