Fdev ! stop the 1 billion a day shared wing pirate massacres bonanza

[Dragsham]

Time to close this gameloop?
4 cmdrs in a team (don't have to be winged up till hand in), set off to their local haz res they farm.
Once they've visited the neighbouring systems asset and all stacked a dozen or more wing pirate massacres (same pirate faction is a must) each, they arrive together at the hazrez and proceed to farm it.
An hour or 2 later their all done as each kill counts towards each cmdrs wing missions as much as 1 kill = 28+ kills in stacked winged up missions. Remember it's important when stacking the missions you take one from each faction hence having to be allied with em all.
They then head back to the neighbouring asset and hand in as a winged up group.
And I Poo u not, assumption a dozen each x4 cmdrs =48 missions to share each averaging 20 mill each that's a billion or so credits per hand in per cmdr.
And if the missions run dry as the neighbouring systems state changes then yup, your groups already got another farm elsewhere...or even a third.
It's the new meta as senior cmdrs well know.
Just don't think the devs know cos they'd nerf it sharpish.
Sorry in advance everyone.
Any suggestions as to making it harder or whatever pls post.

 

[alexzk]

Well ... if they willing to play together, then it is fair price for. It's hardest trial to play as a group.
Especially when you have no real way to spend this billion for older accounts.

 

[Rat Catcher]

Without being obtuse... Does it really matter if a wing of 4 players make a billion credits playing the game? Credits are abundant, once a billion or so is banked following a FC purchase, they just become a growing number without any practical use.

It isn't even an exploit, just using game mechanics that have existed for some time. Maybe get some of the other 'fascinating' flaws in the game fixed first? Then consider if making credits is bad.

 

[Frop]

Any suggestions as to making it harder or whatever pls post.

A thread calling it a credit exploit will have it fixed faster than any suggestion ever would.

 

[LeoBartlet]

I'll just pop this right here thanks.

 

[Dragsham]

But it isn't an exploit.

And to answer another Simpsons quip, I too take advantage of this loop

 

[Frop]

But it isn't an exploit.

And to answer another Sampsons quip, I too take advantage of this loop

You take "advantage" of something "the developers would nerf if they knew about it", but it isn't an exploit? What's the problem then?

 

[ubermick]

 

[Dragsham]

It needs redoing. Make it so for example, you can only kill the mission signal pirates to count towards as was intended I think. And the haz res or lower don't count.
But they'd have to rework those mission signals so their more numerous if say 4 cmdrs enter a signal. And different kinds of ships too not just 3 vultures and an fdl or wotever

 

[LeoBartlet]

But it isn't an exploit.

And to answer another Simpsons quip, I too take advantage of this loop

I used to know a group of players that spent months taking advantage of a loop and then spent even longer calling for it to be closed after they got all the shiny shiny they needed/wanted.

Funny.

 

[Dragsham]

I won't deny it....
I'm reminded of borann. We're we not all there too?
Cmon let's discuss not descend

 

[Bottom Hat]

You take advantage of it, and now want it stopping because you have made the money you want.

Are you in politics?

 

[LeoBartlet]

I won't deny it....
I'm reminded of borann. We're we not all there too?
Cmon let's discuss not descend

What's to discuss, you've confessed you rinsed it and now you don't want others to do the same

 

[Bottom Hat]

I won't deny it....
I'm reminded of borann. We're we not all there too?
Cmon let's discuss not descend

Nope. Did you want it closing after you had your carrier money though?

 

[Dragsham]

Carrier money?
Lol I bought my carrier and mined all of it. Painite was the order of the day. Or ltds or voids if u wanna go way back.
No this massacre malarkey is a recent affair and I'm just casting light upon it.
As was done in borann.
Twice hehe.
Trust me mining made me not pirates.

 

[Darth Ender]

mission stacking in general has always been a really obvious avenue for doing things that you really shouldn't logically be allowed to do.

Fdev is not really concerned with it being a problem because as has been mentioned previously... credits really dont matter in this game. They're a very minor afterthought at this point and all that matters to Fdev is that people are playing the game. Credits only still exist because it would be more work to create a replacement currency to give players a reason to keep playing and our animal brains still feel rewarded when getting credits even though we know they aren't really worth anything.

solving this and other mission related issues though would be trivial, just make the progress in one not stack to the progress in another mission. Simple. It hasn't been done for a reason. So i dont see this "meta" going anywhere

 

[Frop]

Nope. Did you want it closing after you had your carrier money though?

Well, it's rather kind of him to point FDev towards his profile and logs so they can identify people who took advantage of this loophole and wipe part of their progress as they usually do. It's the reasonable thing to do really if you're feeling guilt and want to clear your conscience.

 

[teeth_03]

Stop trying to let people have fun in this game OP

 

[Rat Catcher]

I'm reminded of borann. We're we not all there too?

No, I wasn't... I had interesting stuff to play.

 

[LeoBartlet]

Carrier money?
Lol I bought my carrier and mined all of it. Painite was the order of the day. Or ltds or voids if u wanna go way back.
No this massacre malarkey is a recent affair and I'm just casting light upon it.
As was done in borann.
Twice hehe.
Trust me mining made me not pirates.

Casting light on it after taking full advantage of it doesn't make you a hero it just makes you a hypocrite.