This is troubling because if that was the plan, then the plan has failed badly.
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Earning parity between pilot roles
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This is troubling because if that was the plan, then the plan has failed badly.
You spreading lies from jealousy and spite.
There are no truckers in ED.
Trucker gets money for hauling merchandise, in ED you own ship and merchandise, you get money from trading not hauling.
So you have traders here and trade was always most profitable, wars were fought for trade routes, Emipres and Corporations were forged with trade.
Pirates were always very few criminals who prayed on traders, you need lots of traders for 1 pirate,
and bounty hunters ? there are/were payed for securing trade routes by traders or authorities payed from taxes from trade.
there are games where you get cr for damage, kills. Pure combat arena games. ED is not one of them. Stop whining.
If I choose career of lazy bum sitting in station can I expect my income equal to trading or pirating as well ?
I hope devs won't listen to those stupid ideas.
Otherwise we don't need Galaxy, 1 system 15min battles with cr for damage and tech tree would be enough.
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You're wrong, it's been said said they wanted equality, they just completely screwed it up.
So stop telling everyone what kind of game it is. Thanks.
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Of course everyone should give feedback. I believe FD does read and tabulate suggestions.
And acts (to their vision of the game) accordingly.
What doesn't make a difference is all the "If you don't agree with MY opinion of the game you are dumb." Actually, it makes it harder for all the suggestions to be tabulated since their is so much nonsense to weed through.
If you think the game is wildly imbalanced and makes for a bad design, that is your perception.
And I will not debate or argue that. Perceptions cant be argued about anymore than a persons taste for food.
So bring on the suggestions, and lets see what FD gives us down the road....
Wildly imbalanced professions are bad design.
My suggestion is not having one activity be vastly superior to others. It's so obvious it makes me wonder how anyone could argue it, but people still do.
/sigh
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Nahh. its called realism.
Do you honestly think a Miner is paid the same as a trader on the stockmarket trading commodities?
This is a videogame.
Nahh. its called realism.
Do you honestly think a Miner is paid the same as a trader on the stockmarket trading commodities?
Realism: Slippery slope
Or would you prefer it take 9 - 12 years to cross Sol? http://www.universetoday.com/119264/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-pluto/
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<edit> Re-opened. Thank you for your patience.
<edit> Re-opened. Thank you for your patience.
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And.... We're back!
A snack got lost.......
can be that was my fault......
ok i eat it, are you happy now??
Not that I spotted.
And I finally get to fix that typo in the very last post before close... So all is well.
I don't think bounty hunting and trading should be balanced - if they are, there is no point in trading at all. Bounty hunting increases your combat experience in a way trading does not. By choosing trading, you forego both the skill development and the ability to defend yourself when need arises, this must be compensated somehow.
Imagine if I, as a trader, get interdicted in my type 7 by a player in a Viper. It's pretty clear who has the advantage here. If that Viper makes as much money as the Type 7, what's the point of Type 7? Trade becomes meaningless.
Imagine if I, as a trader, get interdicted in my type 7 by a player in a Viper. It's pretty clear who has the advantage here. If that Viper makes as much money as the Type 7, what's the point of Type 7? Trade becomes meaningless.
I would never want them to be equal, but still - other activities such as mining, bounty hunting and exploration could use little "buff" if you know what I mean.
As mentioned before it wont necessary need to be better payouts - just something very rare to drop from wanted ship, rare very hard thing to find when exploring- this kind of stuff.
Well trade raises your ranking in... well... trade. Same as combat does for combat ranking etc. It *is* positioned as 1/3 of the game. I don't see how fixing things hurts this.
edit: What I'm trying to say is, people looking at the website are expecting a pew pew action exploring game. They come on to the forum and they get yelled at by people saying it's a completely different game than advertised it's not going to help.
That being said. I think bounty hunting got a buff with 1.2 as I stated in a few other threads. Tried it again yesterday with Beta 4 and it was quite promising (360k within 30 minutes, would have been more if the bigger ships didn't have novice pilots in them!). I'm going to make a video to see how profitable combat is now once 1.2 launches.
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I am a horrible person and I mean no disrespect.
But the last thing we need is Elite to be open to casual gamers , half if not more of the video game market is taylored to casual gamers and it makes me sad. if anything elite needs to be more complex and have a slower pace. I love the game , and anyway as I allways say , its a life-sim.
If you want somthing casual maybe try some games like no mans sky. the game will have an end goal and all that rubbish
But the last thing we need is Elite to be open to casual gamers , half if not more of the video game market is taylored to casual gamers and it makes me sad. if anything elite needs to be more complex and have a slower pace. I love the game , and anyway as I allways say , its a life-sim.
If you want somthing casual maybe try some games like no mans sky. the game will have an end goal and all that rubbish
To OP: there are more ships in the works, regrettably we'll have to wait for them for at least some months yet.
As for the few 'go play something else' types, never mind them. The game will offer more to both casual and nolifer gamers in time
As for the few 'go play something else' types, never mind them. The game will offer more to both casual and nolifer gamers in time