Tritium is still valid so banana is happy.
Elite Dangerous - Tritium Efficiency Update
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Can you give us an epic quest chain to make it 4x as potent. I need a legendary FleetCarrier build. At least let the crew rank up with use.
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Agree. After the first nerf to LTD SSD yields, LTD mining would have been in a rather good place - possibly just needing minor changes to pricing - apart from the respawn exploit that clearly needed to be fixed. When they could not fix that glitch on the first try, they panicked and brought out the big nerf hammer just in case they would fail again. This has lead to a series of very unfortunate changes to the game as a whole and to mining in particular.
Yes, altering the value of one parameter might only take "as long as a minute" to achieve. But this characterization is disingenuous at best. If your car with an otherwise functioning fuel system has a bad filter, and it doesn't take long for the mechanic to change it, do you accuse the mechanic of a "cheap" fix because he didn't replace the entire fuel system?
And do you really think they didn't invest any time and thought in coming up with the solution they did, in the days since Patch 3 and 4 dropped? We might not necessarily agree with their solutions, but these aren't things that are done on a whim, on spur of the moment. And we know that the overwhelming majority of their development team (and likely all the best/most talented ones) are working on Odyssey. They HAVE to be, if they're going to hit that early 2021 release date.
Excellent
If it can't be well designed & balanced, it can at least be stable & consistent. Or easy, that's an option too. I have yet to buy a carrier, and no longer explore far from home.
Chin up buddy, could be worse.
For us, it wasn't. Read with comprehension.
Easy Peasy Rocket Tea-sy
A little under 3 hours mining in a LTD1 hotspot. Had my jump cost repaid in barely an hour, but wanted to see how the LTD situation was panning out now. Lots more of everything, cores, SSD, SD and intrinsic, quite an improvement over my previous LTD1, so things may be looking up in the money minerals department, particularly cores. I also added 50% jump cost to my Rocket Tea reserves, more than I usually would, but that's to be expected now it's been dumbed down. No more H3 HSs necessary, it seems.
Carriering on to the next wayward sun....
I hate mining, I was never going to mine to fuel a starship, that was silly in the very beginning, making that the only way to fuel for explorers who want to spend years out in the black exploring. There are enough players who dislike mining intensly that forcing everyone to mine to fuel your FC was always going to cause controversy on the forums. The thing about fuel in the game was always that it was cheap and easily obtainable for every ship and in every situation, and then along came Fleet Carriers that completely broke that basic premise and turned fueling into a long boring and unlikable grind for hours on end. That's where the problem comes from.
so if I get this right, what the OP really should have said is:
After trying to fix a problem that nobody was complaining about to ensure the grind to get a Fleet Carrier by anybody not already rich enough to own one would be increased, we broke mining.
Repeated attempts have failed to fix this, so now we are giving up.
But because those of you who were rich enough to have a fleet carrier have been complaining and might ask for the money you spent on ARX back, we have decided to do this instead in the hope you all go away and forget about the mess we made.
This is particularly important to us as it would be embarrassing to admit we can't fix the problem we created or roll back what nobody asked for in the first place.
After trying to fix a problem that nobody was complaining about to ensure the grind to get a Fleet Carrier by anybody not already rich enough to own one would be increased, we broke mining.
Repeated attempts have failed to fix this, so now we are giving up.
But because those of you who were rich enough to have a fleet carrier have been complaining and might ask for the money you spent on ARX back, we have decided to do this instead in the hope you all go away and forget about the mess we made.
This is particularly important to us as it would be embarrassing to admit we can't fix the problem we created or roll back what nobody asked for in the first place.
Commandos? That's the second time I've been puzzled by you mentioning those. Do you mean Commanders? Or something else?
Awww, I'd play my tiny violin for you but it's so tiny, I can't find it at the moment.
The announcement of FCs plainly said fueling would not be like ships, because a carrier is not a ship. No one was forced to buy a fleet carrier, nor are those who do buy one forced to mine for fuel. There were and still are lots of alternatives. Everyone who thinks mining is so unthinkable should be able to find ways to avoid it, the forum is full of them. "Hours on end" is yet another emoexaggeration (aka whining), and "boring and unlikable" are not universal opinions by any means. Nothing was "broken" because carriers were never meant to be as easy to deploy and employ as ships...nothing except unreasonable expectations, that is. The "problem" isn't really a problem except for those who can't cope with figuring out how to manage something that isn't same ol' same ol'.
But, the tantrums carried the day, and now carriers are one step closer to being nothing but superjumpacondasthatcangetmetherethefastest, which the game does not need in the least.
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I guess if Tritium is twice as potent then that will have some effect to reduce demand by up to half which may make it easier to buy in regions with lower supply.
I was in Colonia a few weeks back and although it wasn't cheap, I was able to fill up around 12kT of Tritium but mostly from the odd Fleet Carrier that had Tritium for sale. If I can ever log back in again with out an Orange Sidewinder, I am around 9 jumps from Colonia and hope to be able to buy some Tritium for the last leg of my trip back to the Bubble. With the new potency maybe I won't need to buy that much.
Yes it effectively doubles the range of Carriers from the Bubble which makes things a bit too easier perhaps. I am returning from Beagle Point and didn't take my Carrier all the way as that would necessitate mining. Now if you can fill up at Colonia you can pretty much fly to Beagle Point and back in without mining.
Now all we need is a way to replenish the fuel tank from the commodity store remotely.
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there is no other ways to get enough trit except mining. You can do other mining like painite to be faster and still it is mining.
Full carrier of fuel is about 1bil cost, 350 000ly trip with like 60% of first visits pays out 2 bil. So it seems even full range new effective trip of carrier will not pay out fuel.
Why ? My game urgently needs it.