Its a hypothetical example which should illustrate actually seeing a negative number appear from having to repair your ship. Its funny seeing everyone laughing at flying in at 1% hull, when damage should be expensive to repair and make you approach things differently.
Hypothetical or not, it's a poor example of what you're trying to say. If someone gets blown up, it's because of several failures and mistakes on their part regardless of how much money they have in the bank. Generally speaking if you're a person who is getting blown up all the time, your skill level is probably pretty bad and thus you're not rich to begin with. Conversely, when you skill level goes up where you can do X activity over and over without getting blown up, you naturally will make more money.
So why are you wanting to penalize a player for being good at the game? Because that's what this is, players are TOO good at mining, so we must punish them by making them earn less money. Fdev tried to do it by 'fixing' the distribution rates and hotspots, but the miners were just too good, they figured it out. So now Fdev is at it again, this time with direct price controls. This is what they do in communist countries btw.
No, you don't get the difference at all. Does your balance go down (i.e. money subtracted) meaningfully after that time playing? Or is it just going up more slowly?
I get it just fine, I simply disagree with you. My time has value, even Fdev has said "We value the players time.", meaning that when I mine, I know I should be earning X amount of credits per sec, per min, per hour. The reason I bought a FC, other then the fact that I wanted one, was also because I realized how much time was spent traveling to the sale system and selling off my one cargohold of ore. All that turn around time cuts into my credits per hour. Having a fleet carrier means I can minimize that time and get back to mining, and also hold that ore till
I feel like selling it. Because I decided to invest in one knowing that it will improve the earnings rate and return on the investment.
Now I'm being penalized because I'm TOO good, I'm making TOO much money, TOO fast because Fdev decided so. Instead of doing what people have asked which is the other professions being BUFFED. I watched all the videos, the charts, and requests, they want a buff to their profession first and foremost, not a penalization to mining.
Because bringing down my earnings potential doesn't make a combat pilot LESS poor. Not unless Fdev is going to go full "Great Reset" and redistribute some wealth too.
