Any compensation incoming for non-exploiters?
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More fools they. Not to mention how foolish they're going to feel when they realize what they can buy with them.
Bragging about it now, you must be so proud of yourself! What did you buy?
The players who follow the rule and grind legitimately for them.
Why worry? If you need to buy credits to 'win' there is only one loser
All credits can buy is fluff...
Dunno, carriers are actually pretty cool and they are behind grind wall of quite a lot of evenings spent mining. Interestingly they are pretty much the only thing that I could imagine being bought with real money credits.
Agreed, FC's are pretty cool - I do intend to have my own at some point in the future...
I wouldn't be surprised if some players are 'desperate' enough to throw real money at someone else to get their latest 'shiny' - it is their choice after all
Having 'credits for sale' on a website doesn't prove folk are buying though... Unless someone who has parted with their cash comes onto the forum to tell us about it... How likely is that to happen?
Hmmm....ED is not competitive & credits don't matter.
Tough luck for us all, stop moaning and play your own game.
Life isn't fair...
"ED is not competitive" - that's not what a minority of the playerbase would have us believe
"credits don't matter" - You know that, I know that... others may have other opinions...
"stop moaning and play your own game" - Isn't that being just a little non-inclusive? For some of the forumites moaning is the game
I still don't understand why they can't consolidate multiple carriers into a single "feature" on the system map.
Instead of a carrier icon, give it a little "flotilla" icon that you can select to zoom in and pick out individual carriers, the same way that planetary bodies with multiple surface features don't take up a ton of slots on the map, you find them by selecting the body and zooming in.
Edit: in fact i'm gonna dump that in the suggestions forum.
As long as they don't affect my game, I honestly couldn't care less.
Personally I do agree that it is good that FDev does react to very obvious exploits like that fertilizer buy-sell-glitch and remove ill-gotten gains despite the fact that it doesn't affect my gaming much, but I guess egg farming was less obviously an exploit. You actually have to do something in that, after all.
Not only do something, but it gets murkier because every single mechanic used in egg mining I've read here, elite reddit, or youtube videos shows those miners using nothing but the same mechanics that are seemingly ok elsewhere.
e.g. The egg is found via a static location mapped or plotted by directions learned - this is same as many other activities we used to have to locate the static spawn area of (although probes now make this much easier and not have to use the old planet coords flying skill)
The egg asteroid refreshes or respawns SSD resources on it when player moves sufficient distance away - this is same for other resources like planet SRV mat hunting. Drive away from a crater, go back and more meteorites.
The egg respawns on logout / login - same as for other data, mat, crashed anaconda, etc
Login/logout for egg respawn is made easier by moving just out of mass lock range, hence when logging back in, you keep your exact same position - making finding egg again lot easier - this has been true for preserving local area position since Horizon launched.
Everything is obviously an opinion, but I'm not sure how a fair person either doesn't call ALL of these things exploits, or none of them - because a player is just using the same tools available for all these activities. It is just egg mining has such a high payout potential that I suppose it catches flak
Must be this. And also unlike say data farming through relogging, it doesn't have the inventory cap.
Whilst I haven’t used this exploit,when I did acquire huge wealth through traditional mining I found myself playing in open almost exclusively because I wasn’t concerned about rebuys anymore,so there’s upsides to flooding the game with credits.
I suppose there is an up to it but what i dont get is why ppl still clog on this game especially in open considering the current fighter exploit.
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17 pages and we're still going.
I'm going to repeat myself and other people here.
The issue is entirely FD's fault and could have been avoided but it is too late now. You'd hope that lessons can be learned.
If I suddenly discover some procedure in the game today that allows me to generate 100m an hour by creating a set of circumstances that were never meant to really be part of the game, they should be get on it instantly.
What I mean by that is, acknowledge it instantly and publicly. Label it instantly. Is it a bug or an exploit? If they decide it is an exploit, they can state it as such and issue the warning that steps will be taken to recover any credits and assists gained in the period that the exploit was being used. Even if they are unable to fix the issue for months, they have laid the marker down to stay away and no one can complain later that they didn't know. In the case that some were doing it before FD discovered it, then I guess you have to let those people be but note that the axe has fallen now, you won't be punished for the activity before the statement but you surely will be for continuing after the statement.
As it is now, a huge number of people (apparently) have been using this method to gain money and it's now a complex mess. FD obviously didn't want the egg to be possible because thy have tried fixing it but without grabbing the nettle from the start, they now have no real right to start punishing players at this late stage. Draw a line under this one but act quicker next time to take control of it. Don't let it spiral into a situation where people think you're toothless because you're so reliant on the cash made from FC cosmetics.
I'm going to repeat myself and other people here.
The issue is entirely FD's fault and could have been avoided but it is too late now. You'd hope that lessons can be learned.
If I suddenly discover some procedure in the game today that allows me to generate 100m an hour by creating a set of circumstances that were never meant to really be part of the game, they should be get on it instantly.
What I mean by that is, acknowledge it instantly and publicly. Label it instantly. Is it a bug or an exploit? If they decide it is an exploit, they can state it as such and issue the warning that steps will be taken to recover any credits and assists gained in the period that the exploit was being used. Even if they are unable to fix the issue for months, they have laid the marker down to stay away and no one can complain later that they didn't know. In the case that some were doing it before FD discovered it, then I guess you have to let those people be but note that the axe has fallen now, you won't be punished for the activity before the statement but you surely will be for continuing after the statement.
As it is now, a huge number of people (apparently) have been using this method to gain money and it's now a complex mess. FD obviously didn't want the egg to be possible because thy have tried fixing it but without grabbing the nettle from the start, they now have no real right to start punishing players at this late stage. Draw a line under this one but act quicker next time to take control of it. Don't let it spiral into a situation where people think you're toothless because you're so reliant on the cash made from FC cosmetics.
They are toothless though. That's been known for a long, long time.