Please don't make Tritium mining Deep Core only.
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- Thread starter Stephen Benedetti
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I have patience. I will park my Cutter and log out if the prices suck. I'll check periodically and when it's more appealing, I'll log in and sell. I'll do that unless I really want to do something else in game, in which case I have to sell since we can't have storage. Apparently we won't ever store things in the future.
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I think that requiring a player to have the rank of King or Admiral should be a requirement to be able to buy a fleet carrier. What other reason is there to have those ranks if they don't actually have any meaning in the game? There is also a pretty good chance that you will reach elite level or get close to it by the time you reach the rank of Admiral or King.
I think that requiring a player to have the rank of King or Admiral should be a requirement to be able to buy a fleet carrier. What other reason is there to have those ranks if they don't actually have any meaning in the game? There is also a pretty good chance that you will reach elite level or get close to it by the time you reach the rank of Admiral or King.
No need to debate anything, just trying to quantify statements.
Earning "300m in a week" or "60m in a weekend." doesn't tell me much. It is all about hours. You paint a picture that you engage in a wide variety of activities, and imply each of them is a viable path towards a carrier. I suspect that when you look at how much you earned with each activity, and how much hours you invest in each, you'll find a different pattern. I'm going out on a limb and dare to guess your smuggling income, which you said you enjoy, does not come close to earning you a spare exhaust pipe of a FC. As for me, as I said: I am elite in all three branches, I've participated in dozens upon dozens of CGs, was among the first to run into a Thargoid (literally two hours after the first discovery), have scoured endless surfaces looking for barnacles when they were discovered, took part in numerous Canonn experiments way back in the day, smuggled weapons into local factions fighting the Empire, I've adopted anarchy factions and helped them spread, and currenly reside in Colonia. I've done, for all intents and purposes, almost everything this game has to offer. And when I look at my stats I notice the following:
1) I have spend less than 1% of my time mining.
2) I have earned >30% of my total assets from mining.
3) Mining is among the easiest, most risk-free things you can do.
That, to me, signals something is fundamentally borked. And I find it a bit puzzling why people insist on defending this reality. You said you earned 60M in thargoid bonds in a weekend. That is the equivalent of 30 minutes of risk-free mining. Does that make sense to you? So far I have seen nobody actually come up with any arguments explaining why this situation is a good thing beyond some "got mine, don't care!" sentiment.
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Please make tritium accessible only thru rewards by winning CQC tournaments. I want to see a lot of carriers that never move.
PLEASE allow carriers to jump into systems with no re-fueling capabilities. Please, it would be the best meltdown ever.
I cant agree with this post more. I've played for 5 yrs. Never once done grind, avoided credit exploits in favour of actually playing the game. Been a member of many groups, provided emergent content for loads of players for free. Explored the Lore and the far reaches of the galaxy. Dont have 10 billion.
Yet if I'd bought the game at Christmas and stayed mining in one system...
Because they don't want uncomfortable questions from players.
Or at least make a 50% discount on the price if you're king or admiral
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If the game were a little more realistic, like Eve Online, then mining would be even bigger. In Eve, people mine so they can sell their ores to other players and player corps who actually use that to manufacture other items, like ships, which you can use or sell. The economy is a live one based on real supply and demand.
No need to debate anything, just trying to quantify statements.
As for me, as I said: I am elite in all three branches, I've participated in dozens upon dozens of CGs, was among the first to run into a Thargoid (literally two hours after the first discovery), have scoured endless surfaces looking for barnacles when they were discovered, took part in numerous Canonn experiments way back in the day, smuggled weapons into local factions fighting the Empire and currenly reside in Colonia. I've done, for all intents and purposes, almost everything this game has to offer. And when I look at my stats I notice the following:
1) I have spend less than 1% of my time mining.
2) I have earned >30% of my total assets from mining.
3) Mining is among the easiest, most risk-free things you can do.
That, to me, signals something is fundamentally borked. And I find it a bit puzzling why people insist on defending this reality.
Really.. You think the game balance is borked? Welcome to Elite. Everything is risk free. Anything that is not is opt-in and ignorable. Credit inflation is rampant in various things be it exploration or mining or trading at some point or another in the past 5 years and the cost of items has never been adjusted to account for it. It's been like this forever. Opposing this reality is like opposing the tide. A waste of time. Instead, it would make more sense for people to stop pretending like this reality doesn't exist for everyone. Credits are super easy to acquire massive amounts of. Even if you made credits at 50 million and needed 100 hours of game time to get 5 billion, 100 hours of game time to acquire a end-game ship like a fleet carrior is perfectly reasonable. If that 100 hours is played across months...or just weeks ...or even days... that's your choice. Nobody is making anyone get a fleet carrier.
You fail to remember that it can generate revenue for you as well. If you choose to not have it do so, that's up to you but it's like you're buying a small business opportunity for that $5B.
To add to this:
How granular is the jump capability? Does it rely on how well known a system is? Example:
System thats been explored: you select a body from the starmap as a marker to jump to
System unexplored: you jump to the primary star
I know that, but FC make the problem far more visible and impactful. Just because something has been borked for half a decade doesn't mean we should stop pointing it out...
Nah, it's just business as usual. FC's dont change anything. Filthy casuals are going to cry as loud as they can on any kind of content that they can't acquire doing almost nothing in the game over what little time they play it. Nothing about the game would change that except making all content available for almost nothing. We already have that situation with all the current content due to credit inflation and a static price. If you want to point out something that should be stopped, it's the static pricing of items. We should adopt a borederlands type economy where the cost of items scales with your own asset wealth (with a floor value set to where things currently are when your asset level is below a certain threshhold).
If we open markets on FCs, how do we get goods for these markets? Can we sell anything? What about rares? Stolen goods? Black markets? Also, if we can sell naughty things via black markets does that tank the local BGS?
Robert Maynard
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I'll be somewhat surprised if the market on an FC affects the BGS at all.
I'd be surprised too because that opens up some devastating tactics if it does.
Robert Maynard
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Indeed - especially if, as I expect, more than one carrier can enter a system.