That is a good observation. I may have struck the alarmist tone too soon and without all the facts. Forgive me, I'm American and that I'm afraid defines the time.
About that double-engineered FSD reward for the CG...
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That is a good observation. I may have struck the alarmist tone too soon and without all the facts. Forgive me, I'm American and that I'm afraid defines the time.
Experimental fitted... confirming the 1,856.4 tons
Thanks for confirming! In my opinion, it's quite disappointing that Frontier did ultimately go down this road and chose not to say anything about future availability yet.
Oh well. Hail to the DBX as the new king of jump range! ...but only for thetwo five thousand players who were lucky enough to be able to get one. (Before anybody mentions sour grapes: I did get one as well.)
Well, might as well ask the question again: @Arthur Tolmie , @Bruce Garrido , will similar FSDs be obtainable by everyone in the future?
Update: saw only after posting this that Fronteir gave the reward for the top 75%, as was asked in this thread. Thank you! The question still stands, of course, but at least it's not just two thousand then. Instead, it's five thousand.
Oh well. Hail to the DBX as the new king of jump range! ...but only for the
Well, might as well ask the question again: @Arthur Tolmie , @Bruce Garrido , will similar FSDs be obtainable by everyone in the future?
Update: saw only after posting this that Fronteir gave the reward for the top 75%, as was asked in this thread. Thank you! The question still stands, of course, but at least it's not just two thousand then. Instead, it's five thousand.
Wait, it's available already ?Experimental fitted... confirming the 1,856.4 tons
Yes your transfer time may take longer if greater distance from storage... mine was 7 mins
I'm still in the CG system. Can't wait to see if I got one or two of these. I was top 10% in trade and top 25% in AX.
Was it known before CG or during CG that the reward FSD was gonna be that good?
Not sure whether I should blame fdev or myself for not trying to get one.
Not sure whether I should blame fdev or myself for not trying to get one.
Same, but I'll keep the pitchfork down for now until the 21st.
Yes, others did the maths and worked out it would be good...Was it known before CG or during CG that the reward FSD was gonna be that good?
Not sure whether I should blame fdev or myself for not trying to get one.
The change to 75% getting it was only announced today..
OK. So I blame myself. 
On the LS on Tues they talked about game balancing and pretty sure they mentioned these unique modules or mixed it in somehow and repeated 'Everything we do is for a reason', so Im just gonna wait and see now, probably gather all the modules on the way so Ive got them either way, but giving up asking and waiting and seeing instead.
What? Where? I cant keep up these days.
Twitter announcement... (whiners win again. )
Is it? I get maximum 82.34 LY for a DBX concurring with @Numenor1379's build, but still get 83.62 LY for an Anaconda with a conventional 6A FSD.
The DBX only being able to fit a size 4 Guardian booster still keeps it slightly slower.
(Might be slightly faster in the long run due to higher supercruise agility, though the low scoop size will also get it there ... the Phantom which can do agility and scooping is at 80.51 max, I think. It'd be interesting to see which of the three actually does end up fastest now)
My DBX doesnt have the space for what I need so the Conda will always be for proper explo for me.
but it will enhance the AspX or the DBX for the smaller outings or just for getting around. Not a game changer just a tiny QOL improvement.
Sure min-maxers will break it somehow and get some impossible range, I hope so anyway
but it will enhance the AspX or the DBX for the smaller outings or just for getting around. Not a game changer just a tiny QOL improvement.
Sure min-maxers will break it somehow and get some impossible range, I hope so anyway
My take away of feedback given prior to this change being announced fell largely along the lines that a community goal should be a cooperative event and not a competitive event. Offering it to a larger proportion of people who participated while under the impression they were unlikely to get the reward seems fair. It rewards community spirit for CMDRs that contributed for the sake of contributing.
I don't see the same merit in CMDRs that chose not to participate from the start because the threshold was too high. I hope Frontier doesn't entertain calls for a mulligan.
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it's a very good point
all I can say to this is if they give a prize to the top xx% it will always be a competitive event and there will always be a loser, if it truly was in the spirit of cooperative/community goal everybody should have the ability to claim that prize not the top performers
set a minimum contribution limit (which can still be steep) and give everyone the chance of getting it
This is true particularly in light of the brief length of the CG, which I think took a lot of folks by surprise. It's pretty obvious that particpants in the upper accomplishment segments were driving the entire CG progress so fiercely while those in the lower were generally just pushing more into the higher % range, meaning their efforts benefited others more than themselves. Expanding the bonus threshold seems a way to recognize this effort.