Another alternative would be to do something like the Thargoid war spread progress where the progress gets distributed across multiple systems, because unlike something like killing in a certain location or rescuing in a certain place the data is more abstract in its value. This would also stop the issue of a massive data dump being a uncounterable blow that nobody can respond to. It FEELS like a bit of a knee-jerk paniced response to seeing a system shift by 600k points because of a one-off.
Elite Dangerous | Powerplay 2.0 exploration and trade balance changes
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Honestly he put in the work 2.5 yrs of data have you played that much it's the first day wow... Been around since the beginning why do you have to cry he got 100 day 1 he plays alot it's a merit system for time spent he spent the time there are other merits not counting it's not working please don't punish your players for saving data and using it for something.... Not cool.... Not cool FDEV.
I was excited for the big patch, to buy t8 for credits and try PP2.0. I check the forums on the 20th, delayed to 29th.
I login on the 29th no patch, delayed again for 2 days. I login finally on the launch,cant find t8 to buy for credits,delayed to 28th NOVEMBER.
I mine 60 tons of goods today, to sell for merits, sell half, no merits... Find out its been disabled today. What the hell were the delays for.
Classic Fdev, one step forward three steps back
I login on the 29th no patch, delayed again for 2 days. I login finally on the launch,cant find t8 to buy for credits,delayed to 28th NOVEMBER.
I mine 60 tons of goods today, to sell for merits, sell half, no merits... Find out its been disabled today. What the hell were the delays for.
Classic Fdev, one step forward three steps back
Delayed? I don't remember anybody promising it would be available with Ascendancy.
If someone found an exploit with exploration data and abused it, by all means balance it. But if this is in any way related to a small group of CMDRs who dumped years of exploration / exobiology data, when Fdev made it clear there is no cap to merits or contributions, then that is not their fault, and Fdev are balancing the game around the top 0.1%.
I think... unless users exploit glitches or bugs, Dev shouldn't adjust or modify users' data directly.
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frontier said they would release older ships for credits when the new ship launches
3 months early access. So Aug 7th or 8th avail for Arx, should be 11/7 or 11/8 for credits... Fdev being sneaky, imho. Supposedly Ody starter sys is permit locked now as well, I do not remember that in the patch notes. Nor the T8 getting 3 months + early access, instead of 3 months exactly like the previous ships
No, they never said that.
Although it was expected to be in-game for credits on November 7th, 3 months after it releasing for Arx.
To me Cmdr Hatch, on stream this afternoon, did set the right question about ranking : why does power reward you when it doesn't benefits to itself ?
When it comes to exploration what will benefits it ? And when it comes to trading ?
An example could be "only things they need", so high demands for trading.
Good Job Fireytoad, I laughed a lot thanks to you
When it comes to exploration what will benefits it ? And when it comes to trading ?
An example could be "only things they need", so high demands for trading.
Good Job Fireytoad, I laughed a lot thanks to you
now that they removed the big merit gains (explo and trading) they need to buff other merit gains.
Why is the power commodity cap 15 or 20 every 30 mins ? By doing my weekly and abit more (several hours of chill play) it got me 2200 merits. Its gonna take over a year of same gameplay to get to max rank
Why is the power commodity cap 15 or 20 every 30 mins ? By doing my weekly and abit more (several hours of chill play) it got me 2200 merits. Its gonna take over a year of same gameplay to get to max rank
Exactly; the whole point of PP2.0 is that people can contribute to it regardless of playstyle, so to suddenly turn off a big chunk of that because they didn't expect people to contribute with their playstyle is just dumb.
Tuning back into Reality FM, this was a thing strategically in PP1 with the BGS so that aspect is not unusual.
I think its the instaTier 100 which has blindsided FD a bit, and although an edge case (i.e. its an explorer thing after a significant amount of time away from doing other PP stuff).
Why not just cap at 100? players already taking a large credit loss from those runs.
To me Cmdr Hatch, on stream this afternoon, did set the right question about ranking : why does power reward you when it doesn't benefits to itself ?
When it comes to exploration what will benefits it ? And when it comes to trading ?
An example could be "only things they need", so high demands for trading.
Good Job Fireytoad, I laughed a lot thanks to you
That's quite out of context about Hatch.
The discussion was "What if they awarded merits at the time of scanning so you couldn't stockpile data for a Firey Toad style megadump?"
Hatch raised the point that merits should only be awarded when you hand it in at one of your Power's systems, or why else would they reward you, as a counterpoint.
There wasn't any idea of simply negating exploration merits along lines you seem to be suggesting.
Imagine punishing a player for legitimately playing the game. FDev should be delighted to see a commander so dedicated to exploration and logging in each day. What happened to blazing your own trail?
Well, just for now they've only said "review" and "adjust", so I'd rather see what the outcome is before getting too worked up.
It's a complex new system being birthed and inevitably some adjustments and tuning will be needed, so best to allow calm reflection and avoid rushing to judgment IMO.
The problem is that they're ROLLING BACK gains. That's what's got everyone angry.