Agree with that statement. Someone used to describe ED like a sandbox, there is no just one way to play this game, you can just play the exploration part, combat part, trading part, as a pirate, align with a power faction, PvP, or you can play a bit of everything. Unlike many other games where they have main missions you need to play through to reach the end game, in ED you can play whichever way you like and enjoy.
ANNOUNCEMENT Game Balancing
- Thread starter Bruce G
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In my opinion when it comes to constantly nerfing mining, Is it fair for the new commanders where I had an advantage with mining then?
Even if I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that most E: D players are noob/casuals, I still have to laugh at this notion, sorry.
Mining has been buffed to exploit levels within a year or two, toning it down is long overdue. What's this "nerfing", bah humbug!
Precisely why fleet carriers are only worth 1b credits.
If getting an Anaconda in a week versus a day is a disadvantage that breaks the game for someone, the community didn't really need that player.
It doesn't matter, you can never be fair to everyone. Just like it has not been fair to the first generation of players who had to "grind" their way to earn credits, taking them a long time just to buy a Anaconda. Only players who joined this game in the past 2 years or so, able to fast-earn with mining. Now the new players just have to earn their credits in a slower way again (still faster than those first gen players).
At the moment, you're unlucky if a wing of pirates comes in at the start of mining and demands 3t of whatever you have. Then you have free reign to go about mining without challenge.
Increase the frequency of the pirates. You either submit and give them what they want but a higher quantity or you fight.
To fight requires weapons that take much needed mining tool space. To house a fighter bay takes up essentail cargo space.
Mining becomes riskier, so therefore balanced.
Yes, FC is only worth 1b credits if it takes 6 months to earn 1b credits in the quickest way. If you can still earn 1b credits in 2-3 weeks, then FC should remain at 6b credits.
Oh yeah, if FDs idea of balance is a YOLO binfire and everything spins an entire Anaconda in an hour, then sure, let's leave it at 5b.
However, i will be sorely disappointed if that's the case, since smuggling isn't even on FDs radar atm.
That's one good suggestion. However the current NPC pirates that tend to check on you before you start mining are often low-level, many commanders who fly a Cutter already equipped with laser turrets and they easily take those lowly pirates out, while they just keep mining, not much of a challenge for them. Unless you also buff those NPC pirates, bring in a wing of 3 pirates with Dangerous or higher combat skill, that will force these commanders to fight or flight.
The 2 principal mining triples are just outside the bubble. No pirates.
In solo or open whatever you can mine to your hearts content.
There's about 200 carriers parked at these 2 principal triples.
Their there to clean up before the nerf. And l bet they'll still be there afterwards cos 600k a ton is still good.
Ive been over there in the open for 3 days solid now. Just sold 4k painite at 950k a ton.
Laser mining painite is Op as its easy and in an hour you'll have 300 tons or more. Voids take alot longer always will.
Ltds on the other hand will become Op. They are a bit slower to mine but sell for more.
Sub surface and deep core are both harder to do especially deep core so prices will reflect that.
How it all pans out is speculation.
61.4% highest rock so far that's a triple.
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In solo or open whatever you can mine to your hearts content.
There's about 200 carriers parked at these 2 principal triples.
Their there to clean up before the nerf. And l bet they'll still be there afterwards cos 600k a ton is still good.
Ive been over there in the open for 3 days solid now. Just sold 4k painite at 950k a ton.
Laser mining painite is Op as its easy and in an hour you'll have 300 tons or more. Voids take alot longer always will.
Ltds on the other hand will become Op. They are a bit slower to mine but sell for more.
Sub surface and deep core are both harder to do especially deep core so prices will reflect that.
How it all pans out is speculation.
61.4% highest rock so far that's a triple.
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I think integrating it more into the game would do more to attract people to it, I know we can now join the queue from in game but I was thinking it should be much less stand alone though not to the stage of using proper ships.
Maybe have NPC pirates at a level maybe one lower or at an equal level of the player.
This put the mining OP (overpay) into quite a perspective for me. Been doing a few painite mining runs past few days in a Python, I am not the fastest miner, but still managed to fill 196T of painite in about 1.5 hours, sold them for a profit of 170+mil credits. More than enough to buy an Anaconda. That's why I think the value of all minerals should be slashed by at least 50%,. Even that will still only take 2-3 hours of mining to buy an Anaconda. So throw in a few random pirate attacks during the mining to add some more "excitement"
No just the accounts who made more than x hours use of such features, the value of x to be determined by a poll in game by docking at the temporary poling station that matches your choice.So we can say that there are a lot of Cmdrs who got outrageously rich, because the game is out of balance ?
It's quite scandalous and unequal for the new entrants.
I propose to reset all accounts and start over when the game is balanced.
Twin class 4 Hammers?
Wouldn't a class 4 hammer basically fire superaccelerated Sidewinders at people?
Players were complaining about the grind at Borann during the height of the pay outs from its triple hotspot. Someone always complains about grind.
I have done things in game I considered a grind, I have done other things that took more time and repetitions that I didn't consider a grind. The difference was that I enjoyed what I was doing in the latter case.
When you compare that to my net of 1.7m from an hour of laser mining, which included a 200t hold half filled with gold, platinum, palladium and other 10k+ items.... well, yeah, game economy is totally busted.
Who'd've thought... those things are a total waste of time