unrewarding

I found this really persuasive thread on Reddit which addresses how stupidly obtuse the game can be.

sigh ... i went to the megaship LHS 1348 1 Sanchez-class researcher ... to see if it might be owned by the Brotherhood of Terra Mater ... i find it is... great! there should be a concentration of their ships i can blast away at, and get lots of kills at, when sometimes they're a sneaky...

Jumped into a friends AspX to help him learn how the core mining works. We flew around for an hour or so and just popped some Alexandrite rocks. Yeah, yeah, not the top paying mineral but he was just learning the ropes. By the end though we had 50T of Alexandrite and a quick check on the Galaxy...

Elite Dangerous' update cycle and game balance is one of the most neurotic in gaming. They either fail to notice a glitch that causes extremely unbalanced payouts/exploitable payouts, or otherwise take a new fun, rewarding and enjoyable game mechanic and nerf it until it's no longer fun or...