Hello Will: Welcome:
Caveat question: are you actually going to be responding to players who are critical of Fdev's moves.. like the blowback you're getting from your post over passenger missions being disabled?
Or are the developers going to disappear and just pretend we're not out here? It would be nice to see them actually reading/replying/responding through you to us who have some very valid criticism of your developers that they are getting over this.
Blowback, lol, that would be one word for it.
Please desist in using the euphemism of "balancing" versus nerfing, or more accurately in this case, further breaking that which is already broken.
Listen to
Yamiks and clean up your mess.
The economy is broken. Move decimal places on commodities in one direction in certain types of systems, move it the other direction in others. Not a fix, but something.
Ham handed hacking is not balancing nor a fix. Missions of 22k LY from the bubble now pay, wait for it.. ~300k credits. I've done my best to put screenshots of that up for the ps4 players still around. Which incidentally I know of 3, further along than my noobish month or so of in game time that have deleted the game.
Someone at FDEV likely knows better than I, what impact there has been on the second class citizen world of console players, but I can tell you this. While scrounging for credits today at great expense of my time, I criss-crossed the bubble several times. 15 or so destinations, most 2-300 lys apart. How many systems, I've no idea as there is no codex.
I have Not instanced with another player since yesterday. That was at Jameson and there were 3.
Fix your mess. Beyond looks lovely. Beyond Broke/Beyond already ridiculously rich is unfortunately all we see at the moment.