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

[ItsA_WriZzaP]

So when you say the engineers have us covered in a little extra jump range you mean......? I would love to but 60+ly on my explorer. All in all, thanks for the bonuses. And please people. I need to rank up in the arena. Can I get some ps4 players online from time to time

 

[Globusdiablo]

...Let us know what you think about the upcoming bonus weekend and if you have any questions, we’ll do our best to answer them!

Events are always a good thing. Approved.

 

[Terry Bruge-Hiplo]

Umm.... i do have to ask a question though. If FD can juggle things like this without a major patch, why do we so often have to wait for major patches for (seemingly) similar tweaks?

I mean, let's say something is bugged, like CIF not spawning. Then FD could simply remove the CIF requirement for recipes or switch it out for something else until a bug fix can be put in place.

I'm going to remember this for the next time something like that happens.

That would only happen if there were too many CIF spawning...

We saw certain mission types being disabled when there was a gold rush, but if it's the opposite end of the spectrum, it's fine. Kill x pirate massacre missions have been absolutely broken and wasting everyone's time for ... nearly 3 months now, yet they still fill the mission boards.

On a positive note, maybe we can have a bounty bonus weekend sometime, when that's fixed?

 

[ZeroAi]

Hello Commanders,

We’re pleased to announce that, starting from May 24 to May 30, we will be introducing an extended ‘Bonus Weekend’, which will bring temporary but lucrative bonuses to the galaxy!

The bonuses we will activate for this period are as follows:

• All profits from trading activities will be increased (the amount of profit will vary depending on what you are shipping and where you’re shipping it to. Rare commodities are excluded from this bonus.)
• The materials requested for engineering recipes will be at one rank below the existing ones (cheapening the current cost of engineering your modules.)

Whether you’re a penniless pauper or a wealthy space-tycoon, it’ll pay to haul this weekend, so dust off your freighters and get out there!

Oh, and if you need a little extra jump-range, the engineers have you covered!

Let us know what you think about the upcoming bonus weekend and if you have any questions, we’ll do our best to answer them!

+Rep

Love the idea!

Unfortunately, we're going out of town camping for the weekend :-(

 

[Patrick_68000]

Events are always a good thing. Approved.

Yes ! My grandparents said : "Never refuse a gift"

 

[llanelwy]

Aww another event us explorers out in the black miss out on. How come no exploration bonus

 

[Tidings]

Love this, except my folks are in town that weekend. Hope it happens again!

 

[sedilbur]

GREAT EVENTS !!!!!!!!!!!!! [big grin]


I just got the email

 

[vidslo]

I'll be gone for most of it, but definitely plan to take advantage of it when I'm back!

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Quite a lot of online games do this. It's a way of increasing player activity, and it's also quite fun.

In a game which sports background simulation as core model I doubt this is smart idea.

 

[KingMacKenzie]

Allow us to pay credits to upgrade at engineers and just make it a steep price. Really. This makes sense in the future in my opinion.

 

[Jack Wilmslow]

*Tips hat* (if I had one)

Now that is amazing! Great idea!

 

[Wasp0]

This is bad news Cmdrs. If more people are playing then the servers will struggle, with dropped servers, server connection errors, missed delivery deadlines!

Oh well looks as if Far Cry 5 will get an outing for me this bank holiday weekend.

 

[5m4llP0X]

Am I the only one to be puzzled? Is this by way of an apology/compensation for something I've missed?

Basically, errr ... why?

Shhhhh. Proto Radiolic alloys are damn annoying to find for how useful it is.

 

[Vasea Azure]

Huh, I sure be taking advantage out of that... on the other hand... bit of mmo ish, did not expected that. Or did I?

 

[Valen Zendaris]

Aww another event us explorers out in the black miss out on. How come no exploration bonus

Just imagine the rush of everyone scrambling back to the nearest station to cash in the data.

Seriously though, something tells me most explorers would simply ignore such an event, as most of them probably aren't doing it for the credits and certainly not engineering.

 

[sedilbur]

week bonus is better than Weekend bonus =)

Just my 2 cents for next event ^^

Love your game

 

[Sneake Llama]

In a game which sports background simulation as core model I doubt this is smart idea.

I don't see why when the effects are global and not focus on a handful of systems.

 

[Jack Wilmslow]

Allow us to pay credits to upgrade at engineers and just make it a steep price. Really. This makes sense in the future in my opinion.

I have to disagree, it wouldnt make much sense, also CMDRs that have billions in the bank will have more opportunities to get great stats on modules. And if it is cost prohibative, people will complain that all their money is gone and wouldnt have much reason to log back in.

Now paying credits (in conjunction to commodities) for some materials wouldnt be a terrible idea.

 

[RobLocksley]

I see this as a fun iniative to draw in some playtime for us who might just be waiting around to become hungry for ED or see an update we get intruiged with. Personally I am all for QOL and more Lore In-Game, anything that makes the illusion of a living universe more convincing is fun to me.

Yup, might try to fly a few cargo runs!