Im not sure what forum to put this in, and im definately not a care bear so this moan is not related to a 'no change' mentality. However, i am triple elite, king and admiral and this took me 4 years to achieve....
We already know that it is possible to get Elite explorer rank and King using existing 'exploits' (Road to riches will get you to elite exploration in about 2 days effort; there are multiple locations where you can grind imperial rank to king in under 2 days). But now has FDEV created another exploit for rapid elite trader rank.
It is my understanding that elite trader is obtained when you have generated over xxx million credits trade profit (from memory 300-400m cr). This used to require a fair bit of effort - took me around 2 years (typical good trade route was 3-5m cr per run so around 10m cr per hour). Mining also counts for trade rank but it used to be too slow to use as a ranking up approach (around 2-10m cr trade profit per hour).
Now, though, with the void opal (non-exploit according to FDEV), it is possible to generate 100+m cr trade profit per hour fairly easily. So..... are people ranking to elite trade in a couple of days? If so, isnt this broken now as well? So the only meaningful CMDR ranks are combat elite (which still requires a lot of kills) and Federal Admiral (as there are few good fed rank exploits available).
I hate it when a game manufacturer dumbs down its games, but it looks very much like FDEV has done this again. Im not arguing that mining motherloads should be low value, im all for high profits available - though i do think the amount of cr available in ED has now gone too far again. However, when FDEV makes changes it never seems to think through the consequences of that change on the overall game.
We already know that it is possible to get Elite explorer rank and King using existing 'exploits' (Road to riches will get you to elite exploration in about 2 days effort; there are multiple locations where you can grind imperial rank to king in under 2 days). But now has FDEV created another exploit for rapid elite trader rank.
It is my understanding that elite trader is obtained when you have generated over xxx million credits trade profit (from memory 300-400m cr). This used to require a fair bit of effort - took me around 2 years (typical good trade route was 3-5m cr per run so around 10m cr per hour). Mining also counts for trade rank but it used to be too slow to use as a ranking up approach (around 2-10m cr trade profit per hour).
Now, though, with the void opal (non-exploit according to FDEV), it is possible to generate 100+m cr trade profit per hour fairly easily. So..... are people ranking to elite trade in a couple of days? If so, isnt this broken now as well? So the only meaningful CMDR ranks are combat elite (which still requires a lot of kills) and Federal Admiral (as there are few good fed rank exploits available).
I hate it when a game manufacturer dumbs down its games, but it looks very much like FDEV has done this again. Im not arguing that mining motherloads should be low value, im all for high profits available - though i do think the amount of cr available in ED has now gone too far again. However, when FDEV makes changes it never seems to think through the consequences of that change on the overall game.
