Yeah, it's still bleatin' on about it now.
Exploits are boring and they twist perception about game into something it's not
- Thread starter Cmdr Eagleboy
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Yeah, it's still bleatin' on about it now.
No kidding!
There's been so much talk about what people were going to do with their wealth in the aftermath of Volyboom, the irony for me is that all I ever cared about were material rewards so I could engineer my new Chieftain. It was cool making some extra cash, but my total worth was already in the neighborhood of 6 billion, so the money was irrelevant. The attractive thing about those missions is that they were the only ones I've seen that spawned g5 mat rewards that were not attached to a wing mission since 3.0 dropped, and literally the only time I'd seen Biotech or MEF's either at mission boards or from nearly 50 successful base scans.
Setting all the partisan bickering aside, there is a problem there, one that goes much deeper than what some of you guys like to oversimplify as a desire to get a hold of "the Big Three" and reach the much talked about "endgame." Now I'm busy flying around getting her (her name is Bessy's Baser Instincts) all set up, and I gotta tell you guys, you aren't going to be able to pry me out of this thing!
Setting all the partisan bickering aside, there is a problem there, one that goes much deeper than what some of you guys like to oversimplify as a desire to get a hold of "the Big Three" and reach the much talked about "endgame." Now I'm busy flying around getting her (her name is Bessy's Baser Instincts) all set up, and I gotta tell you guys, you aren't going to be able to pry me out of this thing!
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True that credit inflation already has been a problem and it may be too late to try to fix it. ED is also an ambitious world building game with mmo as part of its core foundation. Perhaps someday ED will achieve the capability for greater player agency and persistent assets such as one's own station, their own factory or base and the runwaway inflation has already upset the balance for future worldbuilding. Currently billions can be put into play for powerplay contests, but after a while the usual fast tracking cmdrs eventually move on and can't do it week after week indefinitely. ( kind of like fundraising for an election campaign that eventually loses and loses big financially )
I don't know if FD has prioritized quelling exploits which is understandably difficult due to the immense scope , but perhaps they need a quicker system to nerf these exploits as they appear , perhaps some automated economic alert system when too many credits are made on an hour in tandem with the rest of the proceudural systems populating the mission boards and rewards on tens of thousands of stations. Just look at most any other mmo game that lasts, and usually the currency is under control to a major extent.
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Stop milking it now.
Because there is no economy in the game. It's all magic numbers floating around in a range.
You hit the nail on the head.. It would seem Cambridge cannot summon someone who has economic understanding despite the prevalence of PPE. [haha]
People always forget, I don't give a damn about your idea of immersion, and am not accountable to it.
That's why I'd actually be in favour of a proper inflation mechanic, wherein all in-game prices, current goods and payouts steadily increase by a tiny amount every server tick. It would be a slow process, but due to compound inflation it would add up over the course of years to devalue the exploited billions that players have in reserve.
I don't give a damn you don't give a damn about my idea of immersion.
Your turn.
Sucks for players who don't use exploits or are new to the game doesn't it?
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Agreed, the exploit was bad. However, skimmer missions as they were intended was something I used to play as an alternative to trading. I hope they fix this in a form that leaves the older missions relatively intact.
And all said, the credit payout for many mission types is too slim, there are too few mission types, many of the ones that do exist are akward and fiddly. There is also a lack of "epic" missions. This, at least in part, is what makes "gold rush exploits" appealing to many people.
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Sounds like fun, can I join you?
Can I stop you? 
If I never read the forums/watch YT Elite vids I would never even know that doing those missions (with out stacking/suicide) can be even consider an exploit. I would just assume I got lucky with BGS. As far as cheating goes it brakes FD EULA and if you cheat you get banned.
Also OP what exactly do you want to achieve with this topic? Fun read anyway.
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Good, we're both in agreement that neither of us has any right to demand that anyone else restrict their playstyle, or have their playstyle restricted to suit someone else's personal sense of immersion. I think?
Can I stop you?
Do I look like I give a damn?
But no one calls for anything. Final judgement is passed by devs anyway.