There's a reason why you cant use credits - you would just skip new content to get what you want. No gameplay required.Not on a silver plate, but I would pay with creds for it. And I grinded for them long enough, you need a lot of discoveries to get 10bil+
Grind requirements are insane
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Just another drop to the barrel: I can buy 2-3 tons of weapons ingame for the price of one unengineered weapon to use personally
Really, why can't I just take one out of the crate?Just another drop to the barrel: I can buy 2-3 tons of weapons ingame for the price of one unengineered weapon to use personally
Just another drop to the barrel: I can buy 2-3 tons of weapons ingame for the price of one unengineered weapon to use personally
They should have introduced a new on foot currency. Would have solved so many immersion issues.
Microcredits, even just dollars. Something to separate foot from ship.
And I think the headcanon people take with the crates of weapons is they're deactivated or something? The ones you buy have been activated... A nice 150K fee to turn the gun on for you!
I think foot and ship are too separate as it is. For instance the missions: on ground you get only ground missions, on ships only classical ones. Why not integrate them further?
Just another drop to the barrel: I can buy 2-3 tons of weapons ingame for the price of one unengineered weapon to use personally
Those 2-3 tons are nerf guns for office fun, but shhhh... Dont tell anyone.
Especially don't tell my crew
It's a fair point. So if we stick with credits, are guns too expensive or are ships too cheap? Time for another economy balance thread...
Thats a good point. You can invest 10mln credits in a Viper mk4, and a top grade personal weapon has a comperable price...
Its almost as if, weapons became new ships price wise.
I used to think the same way, but after seeing how punishing ground missions are... I think would go bankrupt before I can get my first suit.
For the maverick add the bigger backpack, but yeah nothing you can't do with a G3 also
Considering the size and capabilities of the ships, I'd say that they're way too cheap. A Sidewinder's as big as a small house, after all.
Isn't earning credits considered gameplay?
I get the job done on foot. Grade 3 dominator suit, grade 2 Opressor. But it gets hairy on occasion... I can take on 4 to 5 npc solo, but those are extended gunfights where i constantly use the jetpack, and weapon juggling. Chewing on consumables.I used to think the same way, but after seeing how punishing ground missions are... I think would go bankrupt before I can get my first suit.
Honestly i am not far away of turning my Viper mk4 into a A-10 Warthog with dumbfire missiles. Just blow the hell out of the settlment before dropping on foot and mop up.
The purpose of engineering is to keep players in game longer. There are numbers that show that the longer players are in game the more cosmetics / gameplay items they buy with microcurrency.
When you see something as stupid and grotesque as engineering, if there is a large corporation anywhere within smelling distance, follow the money.
Grind = profit
And if you dont like engineering, boycott the frontier store.
If their income depended more on producing quality software and less on piling on grind to sell suit skins, we would get a better game.
Wont happen, too many people love cosmetic items. I am one of those suckers.
Its a bit like with smoking. You know its a bad habit that is not getting you anywhere, but you still do it. Heh.
No, that's the reward system coming along with the gameplay done.
oh boy - no gameplay associated with new content. There's new DLC, it comes with new content that requires gameplay time to get - it's common practice to add new currency in such event, or in other way separate progress. Why would i pay for new content if it doesn't provide me with new goals?
Perhaps because the content enhances my goals? Like scanning biological samples and such... Also part of the gameplay. ED was always about pick your part of the gameplay you like, ignore what you don't like.