News Bonus Weekend: Trade & Engineering (24/05 to 30/05)

StuartGT

StuartGT
True Phoenix said:
This is Elite, we are not playing this for fun.
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PeLucheuh

PeLucheuh
Yeah! A grinding event! Make sure to let us earn more than 200M/h though.

Will the reward be the same wathever the mode ? I mean i want to be sure to be able to use my shieldless cutter transporting bio-waste without facing any risk in solo for max profit.
 

FH DIP

FH DIP
Fenris Wolf said:
I don't think it's negativity... just puzzled some people.
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I really don't get how this is puzzling. Player count has likely dropped in recent weeks, so we're getting an attempt to draw players burnt out from the grind back in. And who knows, maybe this is a test run for rebalancing payouts and/or engineering. Gaijin does the same thing for their April Fool's event; this year they did submarine battles to test their viability in the upcoming naval mode
 

Auronio

Auronio
Hey Will,

I'm always hauling hence a great idea for us money-grubbing multi-billionaire Elite traders.
Not that we would need it - but you know, you never can have enough credits!
:D

Nice idea, I like it!
 

Punished Mobius

Punished Mobius
You think this is a bonus? This is how it should be all the time. And now you present it to us as a bonus and we are supposed to love you for lightening up on the engineering abuse you put us through?

No.

Make this permanent and then maybe I can finally have some relief from this abuse.
 
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CMDR Terrorfirma

CMDR Terrorfirma
rootsrat said:
Nope, I'm right with ya.

@Will, some questions from me please?

1. Is this a one-off thing (if so - why?) or a new regular magical hand-of-god appearing and raising the profits "because reasons" every so often?

2. How are the Engineers able to make exact same improvements to the modules with completely different materials? ("As if by magic, I am now going to use, erm..., this lead pipe instead of this fancy turbine to install turbo in your engine")

3. What is the lore explanation for all this?

4. Do you still consider this a simulation or is it just an arcade game now?
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exactly! If (big if) they feel hey have to do this for marketing and player hype... at least tie it to the story-line of the game... remember STORY Fdev? So gimmicky.
 

withnail

withnail
Maro-Val said:
Power play "open only" announcements, bonus weekends.. I have a feeling that NMS multiplayer gonna be good, or there's some kind of major announcement around the corner from the competition. There's no g way that frontier is doing all this for no reason.
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Crikey! The competition may or may not be planning something, so let's do some fun things!

Seriously though, I like some of the thoughts and ideas coming out of frontier at the moment.
 

Mengy

Mengy
I love the sentiment of this "Bonus Week". It's strange and out of left field, but the intent is appreciated.

However, I'd much rather things like this were in game events. For example, if the engineers would sometimes offer cheaper upgrades on their own as a sales event type thing. Or if system economies could frequently go into "boom" states where all trading (or mining) became more profitable for a time. Code these events into the BGS so they could occur from time to time randomly all over the bubble. These "gold rushes" could be awesome triggers to drive player interactions and such.

Maybe someday.
 

Spiers

S
I have just downloaded the game on the Oculus store as I haven’t a clue what this means but great work :).

Anything to help a new player catch up I am happy with.
 
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