FDev: Credit rebalancing incoming, "more reward for higher risk" activities

[StuartGT]

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Quick summary:

• Aware that balancing isn't right
• Done in stages, continuous
• Mining first, start next week
• Combat next, start two weeks later
• "How much earned per hour, different loops, what risk, what reward, skill required"
• Core mining should be higher paying than laser mining, as more skilful
• Mining heavily linked to economy via commodities
• Galnet narrative driven
• Combat needs to be buffed, better rewards
• Wing missions not a focus yet
• Combat missions, bounties, bonds
• Conflict zones last
• Won't be a quick fix, will tweak and check data/feedback
• It feeling right to the player is what matters
• Been seeing all the existing feedback, videos etc
• Balancing is super important, on the agenda and a priority
• Incremental changes
• Discussions have been ongoing since after Arthur & Bruce joined FDev
• Skill and risk more rewarded
• Bulk sale to change to be fairer, average not minimum
• Rebalancing will be tied with the ongoing storylines
• Forum post later this week, roadmapping the rebalancing
• Implementation over the next weeks

 

[Speedcuffs]

Cheers Stuart!

 

[Factabulous]

Forum post later this week

Man - I fell for it up to this - everyone knows they don't post in the forums any more

 

[Bigmaec]

Remind me again how many credits you could've made if mining instead of posting this nonsense?

Balancing income. Nonsense.

/s

 

[Tifu]

The next few weeks are going to be exciting - ingame and on the forums

Agree that mining has to be balanced and combat rewards buffed.

 

[StuartGT]

Remind me again how many credits you could've made if mining instead of posting this nonsense?

Balancing income. Nonsense.

/s

I'd have made no credits - travelling home from work

 

[Bigmaec]

The next few weeks are going to be exciting - ingame and on the forums

Agree that mining has to be balanced and combat rewards buffed.

In other news FD yesterday buffed mining income and nerfed wing massacre missions.
Go mining citizen.

 

[Factabulous]

Remember when they tried to rebalance mining around the last update? Now we're on patch 6, the PWS points backwards, and core mining is a bust. This is going to end well

 

[Rubbernuke]

I want a 'whoopsadaisy G5 NPC murder extreme' event to occur. A John Peel moment for our times to teach us fear...

 

[Flimley]

This is all good stuff.

Flimley

 

[Bottom Hat]

Hopefully this isn't just a sack of lies, that makes everything earn like stupid mining.


(Post rewritten as my initial reaction of "it's about ....... time" wouldn't have stayed very long)

 

[StuartGT]

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXIL6-L9E24

 

[Wolf Starslayer]

Hooray the £$£ 350mill a hr old-Borannians finally get FD to pull that ladder firmly up after them ; shameless .

 

[TheSisko]

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Quick summary:

• Aware that balancing isn't right
• Done in stages, continuous
• Mining first, start next week
• Combat next, start two weeks later
• "How much earned per hour, different loops, what risk, what reward, skill required"
• Core mining should be higher paying than laser mining, as more skilful
• Mining heavily linked to economy via commodities
• Galnet narrative driven
• Combat needs to be buffed, better rewards
• Wing missions not a focus yet
• Combat missions, bounties, bonds
• Conflict zones last
• Won't be a quick fix, will tweak and check data/feedback
• It feeling right to the player is what matters
• Been seeing all the existing feedback, videos etc
• Balancing is super important, on the agenda and a priority
• Incremental changes
• Discussions have been ongoing since after Arthur & Bruce joined FDev
• Skill and risk more rewarded
• Bulk sale to change to be fairer, average not minimum
• Rebalancing will be tied with the ongoing storylines
• Forum post later this week, roadmapping the rebalancing
• Implementation over the next weeks

........Megaship Piracy? .....LOL, screw it. I've given up that this will actually be fixed in my lifetime.

 

[Rubbernuke]

So will FD also look at Powerplay rank rewards still stuck in 2015 levels then?

You could easily double it, or even quadruple the flat payout since money is still flowing elsewhere. FD could also put back the X4 bounty bonus for certain powers maybe too.

 

[Bigmaec]

So will FD also look at Powerplay rank rewards still stuck in 2015 levels then?

Nah. Powerplay has this naughty word powerplay in it.
Go mining citizen.

 

[Andro]

I heard they will retroactively nerf all mining payments, so if you only mined to get a Carrier, say goodbye.

 

[Mengy]

Finally, this has been needed for years now.

I hope its more comprehensive than Stuart's post suggests though. For example, salvaging has needed a credit boost DESPERATELY ever since it was implemented into the game.

 

[Achtung-Goomba]

No word on an ‘I win’ button yet? Uninstall imminent...

 

[Dillon Fallon]

My hope is that they won't just bring all earnings up to the same value as mining.

However if they don't do that and consequently mining earnings drop to raise averages in other areas to keep the same overall average there's not enough popcorn in the world to keep me going through the forum posts I'd expect to see.