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In protest against the allegedly stupid amounts of credits to be earned in the current CGs I refused to take part in them - so there!
(Truth be told, in common with most CGs, it didn't engage my interest in the least)
In protest at this I will be boycotting all future community goals unless the effort and pay-outs are comparable with the Hudson and Winters CG.
I still need one billion credits for a carrier!
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Wait a minute, you still need another billion? I thought you were rich now?
Call me crazy, but if I'm going to be paid 8 billion it should be for actually flying a spaceship skillfully. I'm currently playing two rock hard platformers and I have to bleed to get the good stuff, whereas this CG is simply a case of gaming the system over and over.
I mean, its like Luke getting paid to open packets of Skittles over and over and being paid bajillions, while only getting a 'few' hundreds of thousands for offing the Death Star.
I mean, its like Luke getting paid to open packets of Skittles over and over and being paid bajillions, while only getting a 'few' hundreds of thousands for offing the Death Star.
I am but not buy a carrier and wonder what the hell to do with it rich.
You wait until they add the ability to buy a planet for a trillion credit. You'll regret those words !Oh no, I missed this CG because I've been too busy testing!
Whatever will I do to survive on just my 2bn + 2bn in my carrier? That additional 8bn could have helped me so much. And I missed out on all that relogging fun too
ED has consistently been about doing the easiest thing as often as possible for the biggest rewards. Dragging biowaste around in high-sec has always been more profitable than fighting an alien invasion. That part is not unintentional I think. The core group of backers are mostly boomer dudes who abhor any kind of challenge or risk and love endless tedium, time wasting and mindless repetition.
You know, 'immersion and realism'.
Any demands on skill break their Spaceman Spiff larp'ing, and they hate it when that happens.
I'll be buying my NPC crew that runs the fleet carrier some Ferrero Rocher. "Wif ferro roshay, our capin is spoilen us!"
I knew your name sounded familiar
.. Escaped with 53% hull.. A clipper I believe . I agree with you, the only good thing about this CG is the army of clueless CMDRs chasing a number that I could kill all day long. Due to bad instancing I had to re-log occasionally as well to find the rest of the sitting ducks. I didn't sign up as I could probably have more fun and make more money just trading with my other 788 ton shieldless Cutter.Sad but true.
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Won't they have to sort out issues with integer (or whatever variable type they use) overflow issues first?
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I have a mixed opinion on this latest CG, on one hand it makes no sense but at the same time I've definitely profited by it.
I think on balance I would definitely support a risk vs. reward payout structure and I'm certainly against 'length of time' being the measure and basis of most rewards that feels wrong but is seemingly what ED panda's too
I think on balance I would definitely support a risk vs. reward payout structure and I'm certainly against 'length of time' being the measure and basis of most rewards that feels wrong but is seemingly what ED panda's too
A 64bit signed integer can go to +9,223,372,036,854,775,807 and -9,223,372,036,854,775,808. I think only one player has over a trillion credits.
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Ha, yeah I remember you, Cutter out of thin air plopping onto my head while I was disembarking from my ship lol (actually the most exciting thing that happened during my entire involvement in the CG) gave me a bit of a jump scare haha, and I had my bandwidth monitor on already but that's Elite Logging - The Game for you.I knew your name sounded familiar
It was my iCourier by the way, and you chased after the autopilot as I dismissed it as soon as I noticed you - was wondering if it would make it, and wondered even more why you chased it rather than coming back to stomp me in my SRV
All good though CMDR - I observed you once more from a safe distance in my SRV overlooking the site (and seeing a number of noobs - who seem to be well aware of the min-maxing methods at least! - haplessly falling over each other in their SRVs) but as you say instancing was a bit of a mess as per usual so no other hostiles around to give me a run for my
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Ok, must be mixing this up with something else - now and then I see numbers going into the negative range, can't remember where though.
Simple... killing the ship always takes priority. Once the ship is dead I hunt down the SRV (if they don't log out.. which at least half do even before the ship is killed). But I don't think I even noticed you were not on the ship in this case. Then later as I saw you are still in the instance.. I could not find the SRV (very difficult to see even at a small distance from the main site)Ha, yeah I remember you, Cutter out of thin air plopping onto my head while I was disembarking from my ship lol (actually the most exciting thing that happened during my entire involvement in the CG) gave me a bit of a jump scare haha, and I had my bandwidth monitor on already but that's Elite Logging - The Game for you.
It was my iCourier by the way, and you chased after the autopilot as I dismissed it as soon as I noticed you - was wondering if it would make it, and wondered even more why you chased it rather than coming back to stomp me in my SRV
All good though CMDR - I observed you once more from a safe distance in my SRV overlooking the site (and seeing a number of noobs - who seem to be well aware of the min-maxing methods at least! - haplessly falling over each other in their SRVs) but as you say instancing was a bit of a mess as per usual so no other hostiles around to give me a run for mymoneymats.
Do you really think this is true? As a boomer who's into playing a game in order to pretend I'm a space pilot, my two of my biggest complaints concern lack of challenge and repetitive loops. I know I'm jumping in to page 11 of thread on a different topic, but I'm just having a hard time making a mental model of the kind of player being described, or matching it up with my (subjective) sense of the general sentiment I read on the forums.
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Yep - not really sure what happened if I logged out after you killed my ship...
As for visibility, it's interesting how having lights switched off make you almost invisible from even 1km+ away and in broad daylight - did this to a couple of gankers at Dav's Hope a few months back, they didn't realise I was in my SRV and tried to find my ship, while I was quietly chuckling away right under their noses, and now and then dropped a little taunt in local chat
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No it's just conditioned behaviour. This CG is either an inside joke or an experiment to monitor the people who do this. It reminds me of pigeons that will just sit on the ground eating the bits of food thrown at them, and as long as you keep throwing they will keep eating and never even fly..