Just want to add my voice to that of others here with reference to the mining being nerfed by 25%. I have also been one of the many doing a bit of mining during this brief period and I have to say I am disappointed Frontier have decided to implement this fix. I would have liked to have seen all other professions to be brought up to the level of income that mining has been producing recently. I have not seen so many players in local chat as I have of late the game has come alive. All bug fixes and improvements to the game are welcome but slowing down player progression, not so.
Also wow, that's an epic hotspot nerf. So only triple hotspots with the right placement are going to be good? I guess frontier are happy with people at the one spot outside the bubble and want to make sure its the only thing appealing for that intention.
Fair enough. I installed sub surface kit anyway so will start digging into it.
Fair enough. I installed sub surface kit anyway so will start digging into it.
Of course!
Off you go to play Tetris now...
(one day folk will stop using the tern 'endgame' in a game that doesn't had an ending... But then, maybe once you have had your FC for a month a massive Thargoid "Boss" will show up and dismantle it, and invalidate the insurance so that rebuy is the full 5 billion again
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Have you tried massacre missions as a wing they stack and pay 50 mill each
Other minerals won't be targeted because simply put like 99 percent of the commodities market they are useless, both in terms of function and price. The whole market needs an overhaul. Nerfing LTD yields isn't going to fix that.
I still think the prices of mining commodities should globally fluctuate more. And I mean a lot more, so the same mineral isn't consistently always the best one to mine.
Just a global multiplier on prices that either varies over time (with different rates for different commodities so they don't sync up, or at least only do so very occasionally) or just straight-up gets depressed by global volumes traded and recovers to full over time. The former would probably be more interesting for regular players 'cause the latter would lead to people hoarding with carriers and waiting for the day the price is high enough for them to dump onto the market.
Hm so you want anyone who can afford a mining Clipper, Python or similar, to make enough money for all the ships in the game (Anaconda, Cutter, Corvette....) plus a fully kitted fleet carrier plus upkeep for the next five years within a week or two? hmmmm
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Hi everyone,
We're back online, thank you for your patience! I'll also update the OP
Can you tell us more details about this particular note in the OP?
What is exactly "Ongoing balancing of Faction influence normalisation."?
Thank you @Tim Smith and the Team, any chance to see the FSS ORBIT LINES BUG fixed? It's aknowledged and voted since more than a year: LINK
Mining tritium is easy as pie now.
No, it's not automatic. But it doesn't take 120 hours to fill the tank, more like 3-4 hours.
Unless you're talking about filling the 25,000 ton cargo hold with tritium. That's kind of a self-imposed grind, IMO.
I understand being against having to do this chore at all (gathering tritium). But just a suggestion, but if you don't like mining, gathering 25,000 tons in one long grind to free yourself from it is cutting off your nose to spite your face -- a great way to make yourself miserable, instead of briefly dipping into an ice ring every few jumps. You can be in and out with several 500ly jumps worth of tritium in a few quick minutes with the current drop rate.
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Seriously? You can't find any other way to earn that upkeep?
Rubbish. This is akin to saying "who needs rebuy". Because you can easily make it! Absolutely nothing forcing you to have a rebuy. Because you can easily earn it back! Same with upkeep right? Except when you don't, due to IRL reasons. That's why clever players who shunt this whole offline "free to play" upkeep mechanics decided to stuff the carrier with money for years. Want to charge for offline time in a paid game? Okay, make the game profitable offline as well. But that's another story, isn't it.
No they have to fix the broken reticule animation for surface missions first.
Lol, imagine if you were a developer at frontier, you build your thing, its got your name and rep on it. You own it. Then suddenly someone comes along, breaks it, and it never gets fixed, becoming immortalized as a broken half baked thing forever. Look son, daddy made this. How annoying would that be for the original devs
Yeah and takes about half an hour if you're really lucky. that means 100 mil/hour max with a full wing of 4 (which is very rare)Have you tried massacre missions as a wing they stack and pay 50 mill each
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It might come as a shock to some players but there are other players who would like the economy and credit balancing across various income streams and ship/module costs to resemble something a bit more coherent and dare I say, realistic - what we have now is a game-y exploit in a way and it should be rebalanced. It also ruins any sort of sense of progression for new players, they will just see Elite as a game where you 'mine until you get your Anaconda, then mine some more to get your FC, then stop playing because there's nothing more expensive to grind for".
The group of players who take the "I'm-all-right-jack" view are a very small minority I reckon. What other players earn or do not earn doesn't really affect my game as such (though I don't play the BGS or PP).
- Reduced the largest possible yield when subsurface mining for Low Temperature Diamonds by around 25%.
Increased the required time you spend away from your kids and responsibilities so you can mine by around 25%
Welp, I'm done with this
Probably, just going to take, well in theory, 25% longer to yield the same profits. Even if that's the case, it's still tonnes of creds. Guess we'll see.
How about doing some weapon rebalancing? E.G. buffing cannons to be something besides worse plasma accelerators and making the different sizes have the same velocity?
How about making regular missiles worth using.
Torpedos?
Can we get more huge variants of weapons?
how about more variants of weapons that AREN'T restricted to powerplay?
Can we PLEASE get a hardpoint module that splits 1 large hardpoint to 2 smalls? maybe even a huge to 2 mediums. People have been asking for weapons platforms for YEARS.
CAN WE PLEASE JUST HAVE A COMBAT FOCUSED PATCH.
Buff Combat pay and make the weapons that NO ONE uses more relevant?
Its been YEARS Fdev, YEARS
How about making regular missiles worth using.
Torpedos?
Can we get more huge variants of weapons?
how about more variants of weapons that AREN'T restricted to powerplay?
Can we PLEASE get a hardpoint module that splits 1 large hardpoint to 2 smalls? maybe even a huge to 2 mediums. People have been asking for weapons platforms for YEARS.
CAN WE PLEASE JUST HAVE A COMBAT FOCUSED PATCH.
Buff Combat pay and make the weapons that NO ONE uses more relevant?
Its been YEARS Fdev, YEARS
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Bounty hunting doesn't take hours to complete. Mining does. So yeah it should be according to effort. Can't believe you combat focused builds actually cried at how unfair people who grind were getting wealthy. Bounty hunting is the fun part of the game, not a grind.