I must have missed that the first time around, yes the proposed Karma system could pick up on a trend & flag accounts for manual review. It would be a highly manual process though (searching auction sites etc), but an automated flag that inserts a low cap on that account's ability to gain a large bounty could work.
I must have missed that the first time around, yes the proposed Karma system could pick up on a trend & flag accounts for manual review. It would be a highly manual process though (searching auction sites etc), but an automated flag that inserts a low cap on that account's ability to gain a large bounty could work.
Adding in Player owned offices where you could store goods and set up missions yourself for other people to accept. Like bring me a bunch of imp slaves and i will give you this much money. They go get them and turn them in just like a normal mission. Selling a ship you made and engineered to someone else. The ability to put a bounty on someone else. The ability to mark a commander as KOS for your group. The ability to actually have a group and decide what it does. All these things could be used. So its unfair to let people use them. Is this a game or a fish tank?
I would be willing to pay a subscription for the freedom to make my own descions instead of searching thru RNG and complaining about algorithms. And they can do these things. Don't make the mistake of thinking that these things are beyond the ability of current technology or coding skill. Auction houses, player created missions, player owned and run groups. These have all been done successfully by other companies.
Even these gold rushes that people find. There must be a reason why they became an extreme situation in the first place. Over time people going there and healing the market should ease the need for these messages and they would normalize. But that doesn't happen. Someone talks about it and it immediatly becomes the next thing nerfed until even small discrepncies are all the same and every place sells the same stuff and everyone flys the same thing and no one does anything but makes endless money for no reason.
Snowball effect games that choose this design structure as a layout. If this was a simulation there would be tweaks but not nerfs. People would fix issues and emregent gameplay would be created by people filling gaps in the system. Then the system notcies this and creates QOL featuers to support player choices.
Elite just NERF HAMMERS Everything that makes the game unique.
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wasn't sold as a p2w game it was sold as a normal game with seasonal expansions. Unfortunately, it is structured like a p2w game, with grindwalls, slow progression, premium currencies (ensuring everyone has to grind multiple different activities instead of one which they might actually enjoy), premium ammo that can only be bought with those currencies, ect. All those mechanics are designed to make players WANT to buy p2w content, which is why players start asking for p2w options. The devs, despite claiming to be against p2w (they aren't in practice, more on that later) have built a game around having p2w micro-transactions, but have left out said micro-transactions. I am totally on the side of "anti p2w," btw. (although I couldn't care less if some rich kid wants to pay some 3rd worlders to grind credits for them, it's no skin off my back) But I understand that the way this game is structured is identical to games designed to make players want to spend money for in game currency, so it's only logical that some players are going to want the option to do so. I don't think they should be given the option, rather I think the game should be changed so that they no longer want it.
Oh and there is a special, frontier flavored irony to the whole p2w ordeal. While fdev seems adamant about not allowing currency micro transactions, which are actually the least exploitative of the p2w options, they have openly and unapologetically implemented the OTHER type of p2w system, locking more powerful content behind a pay wall. Yes, I am talking about engineers. Pay fdev $30 and you get access to content that can increase your weapons damage by up to a factor of 5, your ships speed by 60%, and your ships health by up to a factor of 8. It is blatant, shameless p2w content and IMO worse in terms of balance than credit micro transaction would ever be (mainly because fdev is about as bad as f2p games when it comes to prioritising preventing players from progressing above all else, which is the only real down-side to in game currency microtransactions anyway).
Oh and theres that choice quote from sandy about how if someone went through the effort of buying alt accounts just to have more PD pips he wouldn't care at all. I wounder why...
