ARX buy resources for engineers.
- Thread starter blin25
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Oh no - pay to win - no chance.
If you enjoy wasting time grinding engineer materials then you can do it the old way.
If you enjoy pay to win mechanics you can vote for this horrible idea.
Engineering a ship vastly imporoves its performance and abilities, having that be at the disposal of a currency you can buy for real cash is literally a pay to win feature.
ED is all about grinding, go out and grind it, if you dont wanna do that, ED is probably not the game for you.
hello mate, are you struggling with finding/getting the mats ?
or is it just a case of not wanting to grind for it
Here here.
Err. No.
My suggestion is you find another game to play if you can't be bothered to actually play this one.
My suggestion is you find another game to play if you can't be bothered to actually play this one.
Yes...let's get rid of content some of us enjoy so people with short attention spans can fully engineer their fer-de-gank.
If playing the game is wasting time for you, then don't play.
Also, if you think what we have now is a grind, introducing p2w mechanic would encourrage developers to make it even more demanding, to force you to pay.
Stop suggesting things that literally kill gaming.
Paying to avoid playing the game - people are the weirdest
Paying to avoid playing a game you already paid for.....people are REALLY weird.
Anything involving real money sounds awful. I wouldn't hate it if players were able to sell (and buy?) mats on Fleet Carriers, though.
I have a chronic illness; best way to describe it is that my brain doesn't have enough RAM. Throw too much information at me at once, and you get a system crash. That's what Engineering does to me. It is too much of a rabbit hole, too much information to keep track of, and all the Youtube tutorials in the world aren't going to help. It's an accessibility issue for me, not laziness or a desire to avoid playing the game. I love this game, I find exploration and trading relaxing to an almost therapeutic extent. All I want out of engineering at this point is a better jump range, and it is weird and frustrating that for a game that is pitched as "play however you want", I can't optimise myself for trading or exploring by actually trading or exploring. I have to play not how I want, and that feels a bit against the grain somehow.
There are people in this game who enjoy and are good at all that stuff, and I don't see the harm in letting me throw my explorer/trader credits at them. Yeah, every MMO has a resource grind at some point, but a lot of them also have an auction house so that the people with the skills, time, and inclination can convert that into credits. Players like me get to dabble in engineering and figure out if it's even going to be worth the challenge of learning XYZ, players who know what they're doing get compensated for their time and skill, and if it's done through Fleet Carriers it potentially adds a new element to their role in the game.
I have a chronic illness; best way to describe it is that my brain doesn't have enough RAM. Throw too much information at me at once, and you get a system crash. That's what Engineering does to me. It is too much of a rabbit hole, too much information to keep track of, and all the Youtube tutorials in the world aren't going to help. It's an accessibility issue for me, not laziness or a desire to avoid playing the game. I love this game, I find exploration and trading relaxing to an almost therapeutic extent. All I want out of engineering at this point is a better jump range, and it is weird and frustrating that for a game that is pitched as "play however you want", I can't optimise myself for trading or exploring by actually trading or exploring. I have to play not how I want, and that feels a bit against the grain somehow.
There are people in this game who enjoy and are good at all that stuff, and I don't see the harm in letting me throw my explorer/trader credits at them. Yeah, every MMO has a resource grind at some point, but a lot of them also have an auction house so that the people with the skills, time, and inclination can convert that into credits. Players like me get to dabble in engineering and figure out if it's even going to be worth the challenge of learning XYZ, players who know what they're doing get compensated for their time and skill, and if it's done through Fleet Carriers it potentially adds a new element to their role in the game.
Talking about real money, you completely forgot about the fact that you get a certain amount of ARX for gaming activities. Now ARX is practically useless except for the beautiful paintwork and the look of the cockpit. If you can exchange ED materials for ARX, then ARX will be more useful.
No. Here's why:
That's pay-to-win. Sure, you can grind the materials instead, but it's a first step into pay-for-advantage territory. Any such small step is the beginning of a game's ruin because once such a small step was made, more progressively worse steps will be made later.
It doesn't matter that you can grind the Arx because grindable Arx is limited while there's no limit to how much Arx you can buy for $/€/£/₽
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