PSA: Inara badge requirements have been adjusted.
I'm not a badge chaser, so Artie is free to do as he wishes in my opinion.
Inara is a great source for some things, although I use it less these days as I find the newest layout less intuative than the previous one.
Inara is a great source for some things, although I use it less these days as I find the newest layout less intuative than the previous one.
I'm glad I now don't have to reboot 1000 settlements to get to the top tier of the Samaritan badge. Good rebalance.
Well, fact that instead traveller T4 I'm traveller T5 (and if I remember, I "achieved" it 3 times, currently sitting at 33% of #4) means only, that my T5 achievment means less (not saying that I did ANYTHING for inara achievments, it was just thing, which I tracked because I was curious my total travelled distance/bounties/other stuff).
And I don't like it. I prefer one, final badge, which mean something (even if it talk: you did X loop for 5 years), instead 1 participation trophy, which I can "grind" multiple times. "tier 5 explorer 4 times", how it sounds?
"For me it is close to talking after some competition, that "you all are winners". No, you arent. If some day Artie will throw some fancy, gold medal for making account it doesn't mean that it is achievment. Also, it is beyond my perception. I can understand complaining on grind in game. But on "grind" of meaningless achievments on website? Previously some of them showed true dedication to some activity. But of course people cannot be happy, if they see, that they havent 101% progress. Completionist's issue.
I'm to lazy for making meme, so
"I travelled 1.9m lys because I'm explorer, you are grinding jumps for badge, we are not the same"
Also, some of them, even for T5 are hilariously low. 7500 scanns for max level of explorer? I have 270k
And now let's mix it with 10k systems visited. So basically "you are super explorer even if you scann only stars". I don't think, that level 3 scann from inara means mapped planets, because...well. 270k mapped bodies sounds impossible.
meh! what relevance has a medal if you top it really fast?
anyway, i'm not overly fussed about it
the problem is apparently The Samaritan and The Captain are bugged and/or not properly implemented yet. Didnt check everything else so there may be more
I lost a lot of progress fwiw
anyway, i'm not overly fussed about it
the problem is apparently The Samaritan and The Captain are bugged and/or not properly implemented yet. Didnt check everything else so there may be more
I lost a lot of progress fwiw
- The Samaritan >> T2 requiring 5 settlements rebooted, 50 (??) fires extinguished and 10000 (???) civilians rescued
- The Captain >> T2 requiring only 25 VIPS but 15000 (???) plebs (i dont even do plebs, my Python is 1% top of the liners out there)
Being completionists is even more bad.
Because completionist will change everything into grind.
Even WEBSITE achievment "kill baddies".
It's not impossible. It's engaging gameplay and we are meant to like it!
(goes playing Dead Space)
Why hello there #3nice update
well, I scanned 270k bodies, because I like exploration, not because addiction to grind, and grinding game achievments on website
Completionists love the grind, because to them, the grind is the challenge.
Look at those insane people who play WoW and unlock achievements like visiting every zone in the game and collecting every pet and owning every mount. Some of them will run the same dungeon hundreds of times just to get one low % drop. They do this because they enjoy scraping every inch of the bottom of the barrel. I think they're nuts, but whatever.
As far as I’m concerned the change strikes a reasonable balance between toning down how some of the medals were just a bit crazy(how many light years of pure distance did the original traveller tier 5 require? it was a little much with over a billion, unless I misremember), and still leaving it harder/requiring more time to get the final tier.
At the rate it was going I would’ve had space combat Elite before tier 1 or 2 of the bounty hunter medal originally, and I spent a fair time in haz res and other pirate hunting activities. Not requiring 40,000 bounties for the highest tier seems quite fair to me.
At the rate it was going I would’ve had space combat Elite before tier 1 or 2 of the bounty hunter medal originally, and I spent a fair time in haz res and other pirate hunting activities. Not requiring 40,000 bounties for the highest tier seems quite fair to me.
To be fair I see it more like love/hate relationship.
They cannot play in other way, than metagaming, they cannot play other way, than with the best gear, so they grind. They grind with the most optimal strategies, ignoring fun. And after it I read, how bad it was.
I seen enough posts of people, which farmed different things by using meta strategies from only true guide, which after it complained, that it was boring, dull, soulcrushing.
Because not grinding, usually by relog exploit in their eyes is impossible, because other ways are "worse".
2,5 millions, similar to final edsm badge "travel distance between milky way and andromeda". And it sounded fair, it showed true dedication to category. Currently you can hit distance for max badge without leaving bubble.
BH badge is...interesting. I'm close to elite I and I had (I think) t3. But it can be created by fact, that game ranks are based on exp. Inara ranks are based on kills.
Oh, and btw, to be fair thats why I liked inara badges. They werent thing, which I grinded (I could let's say mine next 10k stuff in roids for badge, but why if I currently don't enjoy it?), BUT they usually were better than in game ranks (which outside combat base on ONLY credits) and were longer "goal" than in game ranks, which you can max (to last meaningfull rank- elite) in 1 day). Now they still are quite demanding, but it definetely isn't old level "it show true focus and stuff which player X do).
But hey, currently I can grind badge X 4/5 times for some stupid points and total ranking, where top people sit at 6x elite V, and medals XDDD.
Or grind 1 badge 10 times to get new badge, about...badges
Cool opportunity.
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Who cares about some badges some random made up on the internet. I can make my own badges too.