Fleet Carriers - Patch 3 - Known Issues

garinio

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The problem is/was that the game had so little to offer as content (i.e. single player campaign etc), felt a bit empty, that you have to find other ways of enjoyment. Granted, that's what it's all about, but when you make it so difficult to advance in the game, due to lack of efficient ways of making money, then one gets bored easily. I bought ED when it came out and played couple of hours. After a while I just let it go because, unfortunately or fortunately depends on individual view, I don't have entire day to search methods and execute them to make couple of million; let alone the fact that you have to grind for everything (ranks, engineers etc).

So the mining aspect of the game was a reason for me to start playing again after many years. Heck, I bought Horizons a month ago, after so much time inactive. Then the exploit came. Although I was making ok'ish money till then and also its not a fair way to make money, it gave everyone a chance, I believe, that gave up on the game to try it again. It made me more interested because now I bought a proper ship and could have more fun in the game.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it's the logical thing, "fixing" the "eggsploit" (couldn't resist 😂), was, I believe, the right choice but totally decimating the best way to keep people interested in the game, which was Ltd mining? Wrong choice. My2c 😉
 

Just Ice

Just Ice
hydlided said:
The developers do not have an agenda by their own. They are basically told by a product owner, or buisness manager: "develop these features in this way because we think it has potential value there".
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Yes, you are right.
I should have pointed at the ones pulling the strings, not the puppets ;)
 

Just Ice

Just Ice
Astrometer said:
Unfortunately that LTD spot turned out not so good when I came to mine it. The search for a good tritium mining spot continues. :geek:
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I'm not complaining ;)
56 Tri after 8 rocks prospected : two salvos of 4 prospectors.

But this time I was in a very unique combo: Tritium hotspot enveloped inside double LTD shared area.

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Just Ice

Just Ice
Wlfric said:
(...) without having to play the spinny rock minigame for hours to get a few LY.
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I guess we are playing a different game.
If some rock is spinning too fast and it's shape would make it massacre my collecting limpets, I just ignore it and fly to the next one.
In every spot I tried Tri mining (LTD/LTD2/LTD-Tri overlap) I haven't had a single 4 prospectors salvo (class 5 capacity) without at least one rock containing Tritium SSD.
 

r3per

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Every time this happens (sadly this is becoming more common) if they mess up the game it takes weeks for them to un-f it.
Now if it was an exploit where folks were making billions every 10 minutes, they would have fixed it in an hour, and found a way to track each and every player that used it, and take back the credits in that same hour. So that should tell you what they truly care about and where they throw their energy and innovation.​
 

Nadreck

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There is an issue-tracker entry regarding the lack of tritium in Colonia stations here.

There was another one, but it was incorrectly shut down as a "duplicate" of the tritium-hotspot issue. Frontier, THIS issue has NOTHING TO DO WITH HOTSPOTS. We were promised that we could buy tritium at STATIONS. Why can't this be done in Colonia???
 

Iman_Oldie

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garinio said:
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I don't have entire day to search methods and execute them to make couple of million; let alone the fact that you have to grind for everything (ranks, engineers etc).

So the mining aspect of the game was a reason for me to start playing again after many years. .......
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There are easier ways to make many millions in a matter of minutes. One is Robigo Mines passenger missions and you don't need an expensive ship to do it. Look it up. I can get 20 to 25 mil CR in 15 minutes of relaxed gameplay.
 

Snowymonk

Snowymonk
Iman_Oldie said:
There are easier ways to make many millions in a matter of minutes. One is Robigo Mines passenger missions and you don't need an expensive ship to do it. Look it up. I can get 20 to 25 mil CR in 15 minutes of relaxed gameplay.
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It‘s not about making the money for me.
I have a fleet carrier out in the black, outside the bubble, heading towards a DSSA location to support their initiative.
I dont have the luxury of trading my way to more Tritium, I need to mine it.
the latest changes to Tritium mining has caused the journey to stall.
I want / need the fix in place to allow me to resume.
 
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chetan1987

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my crew in FC are protesting! how do we do crowd control if we don't feed them tritium in deep space! FC is just sailing like lost megaship
 

Sgt Dartez

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hydlided said:
Investors are dangerous people from where I look at (outside of the box). They invest in a company because they want to have an amount of revenue from their... here it comes: investment. So they come up with these crazy theories : "look at what this game is doing, it is making millions". And all they do is look at Star Citizen, because that game is making millions. So here we are, FPS action is coming to Elite dangerous (because SC is doing a similar thing), FC's are here because it needed to be flushed out to get a steady player base going (hence the upkeep cost). And most high-up people at Frontier probably realized that the game is unbalanced because everyone is doing just one task, and one task only... Mining.
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As an investor I can say this is an insane way to look at share holding, and entirely inaccurate. I've invested in multitudes of companies with small, medium and large positions in short and long ranges, and while my feedback is "valuable" (so I'm told), my holdings position in any company does not give me a right to demand my direction. That's asinine and completely wrong. These decisions are made by boards of directors and boards of directors alone, which every publicly traded company has. As an investor, I can vote my direction with my shares when the yearly votes come about, which is mostly about who to keep employed and who to not, maybe something about the direction the company's moving and it's all black-and-white -- yes or no, this or that.

I can interact with the investor relations dept of a company, and demand some kind of transparency for those who have invested, but it is up to the rep to give me the answers I'm looking for or not. Usually companies do not disclose information to specific investors, that's a standard policy. Press releases are there for a reason. But regardless, don't point your finger at something you don't understand, since you're outside the box, blaming them for something as a mechanic of a system you simply don't understand. Just because a person purchases shares of a company, unless they hold a significant stake (I.E. ownership level stakes), they don't get to make any decisions or demand anything except for their publicly filed papers every week/month/quarter/year.

These decisions are made by company employees, and employees alone. I invest in companies that I want to see grow, and if that investment helps them in turn, raise their share price.. it's win-win. The company has made progress, and I can sell my shares to someone else, for a profit.
 

sgto_york

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Iman_Oldie said:
There are easier ways to make many millions in a matter of minutes. One is Robigo Mines passenger missions and you don't need an expensive ship to do it. Look it up. I can get 20 to 25 mil CR in 15 minutes of relaxed gameplay.
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I would say it is more monotonous than relaxing
 

sgto_york

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Free tritium in a single moment? regardless of the distance to be traveled to return to the bubble? It simply leaves the player stuck somewhere else .... hahaha
 
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