Sadly yes. They look into it.
Holy moly at the exobio pay increase!
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Yes they did. They may have given more of a payout increase than they meant to. They are or will be looking at it. Very early on in the stream, like the first 5 minutes or so... so yeah, don't wait to cash in your exo biology if you like $$$ and quick rank ups. They might leave it alone, but somehow I doubt it
Wow, seriously FDev,
Wow, I can't believe they are going back on what they delivered, seriously. Looks like I'll be finishing up Exobiology ASAP. Thanks for the heads up.
Perhaps they can look into the missing Sirius tech brokers first.
Yeah they're going to FDEV-Nerf it for sure. Thanks to those who - as usual - like to whine about increases, how it ruins their day, and "could you punish us more FDEV plox - we love pain".
Ah, could be alright for the weekend then.
I remember when tons of people complained about void opal payouts back in early 2019 after core mining was introduced - they REALLY wanted Fdev to nerf the value of void opals. It was pretty ridiculous they wanted to make less money, and have others make less.
Well, we will see what Fdev decides to do with the payouts and exobiology. It shouldn't be too big of a nerf.
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sigh, so the folks who just couldn't bear to let explorers make a decent income from chill gameplay got their way.... ah well, I'll be sure to make a note and complain loudly for outrageous profits needing nerfing immediately when something those guys do gets a massive buff, ie thargoid anti xeno combat, etc, what goes around comes around as they say, lets hope the nerf isn't too bad.....
This "crabs in a bucket" mentality has pervaded these forums since 2014, and probably beforehand.
I hope these huge payouts will be fixed soon.
When FDev advertised the exobio payouts increment, I thought about x2, or x3 at least.
But not x-million-ish.
When FDev advertised the exobio payouts increment, I thought about x2, or x3 at least.
But not x-million-ish.
No sh*t! Please see my original post!
I can see the pay being reduced, perhaps 15-20% but I don't see a point to it. Even with the increased payout, I can still make more /hr trading, sure they needed to increase the amount needed to rank, I image it was an oversight, but the pay overall is fine. Why bother mapping a high value planet? It takes a few minutes to fly to it and a couple seconds to fire probes, so, why not?
I'm literally an explorer and think it's too much but it's only too much due to the Rank progression.
Exobiology now earns you more credits than System exploration. You're more likely to come across high paying Biologicals than high paying planets.
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I see that, but I don't see these things as separate, it's all system exploration, or things that I would do while in a new system. If there are high value planets in a system I'm exploring, I'll scan them. If there are biological signals in the same system, I'll check them out. It all adds to the same pot for me.
The patch notes said x2 on normal payouts and x5 on first discoveries, so combining those for an x10 total would have been 3-8 million credits per plant for a first discovery ... still more than an ELW each, and a lot easier to find, though slower to scan when you do. (And yes, mainly this shows how poorly ELW first discoveries pay)
Still a lot more than it paid before, and I think if we hadn't just had three days of it paying 6-30 million credits per plant for a first discovery we'd have been very happy with that...
It does mean people might bother to scan the tenuous atmosphere ice planets with Bacterium Acies on now though. Although that'll still be 150,000 credits instead of 50,000 (then add the first discovered on if applicable).
Everyone would be Elite V in Exobiology by now if it had been like this since release.
I know. Kind of sad really... Nevertheless, I'm going to scan that terraformable Water World, just for old-times sake.
But you can collect planets much quicker than you can collect biologicals.