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Great advice. +1
Game is now GARBAGE
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Great advice. +1
AWESOME.
Removed off topic posts (a third of the thread) and fixed the filter evasion.
You moderators are doing a bad job in my opinion, not meant to be rude but you keep accepting threads like this that say the same thing over and over again but you ban replies perfectly on topic and pointing out fallacies in Op's assertions, there is obviously something wrong in this ...
Op is just wrong, the new AI is ok, certain players aren't, they shouldn't fly expensive ships if they don't have the skills to fly them and they shouldn't use them in any case for missions they don't get enough credits for, I personally do missions with ships that don't have an insurance higher than 3-4 times the reward I'm getting from that mission, so I'm sure that 4 missions like that gives me back a return at least the same as ship insurance, I also take into account how likely I am to be blown up during such missions so that I can keep my risk vs profit ratio at a level allowing me to have profits, I also escape if I need to, I won't risk an insurance of 4.6M for a 2M worth mission, escaping is the best thing to do sometimes
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I don't think FD would be doing themselves any favors by deleting the rant posts of obviously frustrated customers.
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Is the point of your post to help the OP? Or to just bolster favor among those who agree with you?
Telling a person that they are "just wrong", when they obviously need help, isn't constructive and will just enrage them further.
It's bad publicity, that harms the game more than what it can help it, specially if customers ask FD to lower the difficulty to tailor the game to their bad habits and lack of skills, if they ever bring AI to the level it was in 2.0 most players will be disappointed and stop supporting FD, after all, the game is supposed to be Dangerous and not a Carebear paradise
To be fair here the OP didn't seem like he was asking for help, it was just a torrent of <Awesomeness>
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I agree with you that many players would be disappointed, but I don't think either of us are in a position to definitively opine on what most players would or would not do.
I wrote suggestions in my post, read them, yes he is wrong, game has changed , Pythons are no longer good combat ships, if you are interdicted by a bunch of pirates you are as doomed as you were in a T7, unless you know how to fight or ascape and what the correct loadout is supposed to be, I noticed lasers are no longer the best weapons against npcs, now it is better to balance laser and less capacitor expensive weapons
More than anything, the game is supposed to be fun.
Yes, it is fun now, earlier it was dumb combat and ncps farming
I had a similar issue with the game as OP when 2.1 was released, in my very finite "wisdom" I decided to do a clean save and start over hoping that it would help me learn to play the game as it now was. To a certain extent I have succeeded I would however raise issue with the "threat level" of USSs. There is a very significant problem as far as I am concerned if you enter a threat level 0 or 1 and get jumped by multiple ships who outclass you in almost every respect. I am running a fully A spec cobra but have at times found it hard to outrun much larger ships even with continuous boosting. Other than this I must say I am for the most part finding the changes to the game to be positive although there is some room for improvement in the detail of some of the implimentations.
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To be fair here the OP didn't seem like he was asking for help, it was just a torrent of <Awesomeness>
As I previously stated, when people are frustrated and enraged, they rarely communicate the need for assistance effectively. The trick is to be able to look beyond their ranting, to empathize with them, and offer sincere and compassionate guidance.
Give this man a round of applause
I have lost count of the number of times I have lost my FAS and FDL trying to RES farm ... my goto activity pre 2.1
Fed up with having to grind credits to fund my rebuys I decided to try out an iEagle. I have never used a small combat ship.
Only thing I can say now is that I should have done this sooner. So. Much more fun, cheaper and more effective than its bigger and more expensive counterpart
If someone is doing something for a long time, doesnt mean he does it good. You are playing before some of us were in nappies and had 55 milion credits? You must be very good at this game.
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And so much faster, too! Man, those things are fast!!!! I use mine all the time now when I need to get from point A to point B quickly!
Great smuggler, if you don't have to carry too much haulage.
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scary thing is that I can now fly rings around Elite NPCs
I am going to have to have a fleet of all the small combat ships
I wonder if I can part exchange my Corvette
Whilst I would usually agree, it seems clear (to me) that the OP has no interest in getting any advice with statements like
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Well, I can concur with that. But I just read it as someone who thinks they are just going to get flamed and is preemptively striking back. Prove 'em wrong. Bees, honey, vinegar... all that.
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That's your view. Others, clearly, have different opinions. They are as entitied to their opinions, and to express them, as you are to yours, without being patronised or insulted.
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It has been shown that the 4th pip to shields makes by far the biggest difference, 3 pips is not really worth it, it makes surprisingly little difference to your shield strength - I would always go with 4 pips when under fire.