That won't happen - there are EU countries that would complain a little... (allegedly)
The rest, who knows?
Python MK II Modules Known Issue
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The rest, who knows?
True. OTOH, if already going full dark side, why not do it properly? I'm pretty sure they have good lawyers and I totally trust them to make it court-proof enough to be worth it.
The proclamations of extortion & doom since the P2 was announced for Arx, and price increases in the store nobbling (even my own £12.99 last week) the value of cash spends, do appear to be missing the tiniest detail of all...
Every player has the option to say no to spending any more on the game than the price paid to purchase it - no if's, but's or maybe's - it really doesn't matter what FD do to monetise their games, if the players don't bite, it doesn't work... And if they do, then it was successful.
You, me, Fred Bloggs living just down the road - you know, the one with the pink cadillac? - can all be completely against something FD do (I'm not, but whatever) but if the majority of customers vote with money to improve their game, there is nothing the individual might do, apart from keep saying no, is there?
FD may do as they wish, if they cross whatever line an individual has drawn, they lose the individual, and the potential spend of that person.
Absolutely. But now I really want to join you and Fred on a ride in his cadillac.
I thought you were trying to increase income not expenditure.
Be careful what you wish for not all Cadillacs are things to be seen in.
Behold the Cimarron.
I can't unsee that now...
I'm not trying to do anything, FDev is.
As for the cadillac: it was more about that Fred person, not his car. Even in a Cimarron it would be one hell of a ride, don't you think?
Where did you take a picture of my car?! Are you stalking me?!!
But wouldn't that be bona fide pay-to-win (unlike the alleged "pay-to-win" so far)?
Erm. What is there to "win" in Elite: Dangerous, anyway? It will be an incentive to support the game with money. After all, you would be able to get all the assets by normal game-play anyway, at least in theory. And if you invest more play-time that way, you will also get free ARX quicker. Win-win for everybody, isn't it?
Speaking of, the free ARX earn-rate could also be reduced in order to make the pay route more attractive. So many opportunities.
After discussing the grind a few times I've come to a conclusion. The loudest complainers seem to be people who own a hundred fully G5 ships.
I can't see that it's a grind for a normal player happy with half a dozen ships or so. Especially if they don't feel a need to fill out all the G5 rolls. It's rather just some gameplay to zip around and collect the mats one needs. I'm a bit concerned that this game play is going away and that it'll be even faster to achieve all you want in the game.
This. Clearly balancing ship engineering so that it actually needs more of that gameplay will be the direction. As I wrote elsewhere, taking away the comical random part during engineering might make sense. A bit more like on-foot engineering with steep mat costs, but no random gambling.
Mmhm, i think my sarcasm detector may be malfunctioning
I have 50+ g5 ships and i'm not complaining about engineering
One of those from your first line here.
It can be easily solved so all would be happy - let Felicity learn a SCO upgrade, possible only on G5 FSD.
You forgot to mention those who don't play the game anymore. We have a number of them constantly complaining about everything.
I'm not even complaining about the topic of this thread. I've got plenty to keep me busy until they get this fixed. Some people just refuse to see it that way-there's always something else to do.
Wish console could join in this hurts to just watch the updates fly by us
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...First impressions, I personally think this is a good idea. 
I've got maybe a dozen G5 FSD's in storage, it would be a bit of a waste in time and effort to just sell them off as they are. I don't need the credits, there was more effort and gameplay involved in obtaining these materials than the credit side of things (to engineer the drives), so this 'exchange' would be more......'rewarding' in a general game play sense ?...at least I think it would.
Edit...What are the actual specifications of the 'standard' Python MK 2 btw. as regards core modules, hardpoints etc. etc. ?
Any information welcome as I can't seem to find this information in / on the Frontier store.
Jack
...First impressions, I personally think this is a good idea. I've got maybe a dozen G5 FSD's in storage, it would be a bit of a waste in time and effort to just sell them off as they are. I don't need the credits, there was more effort and gameplay involved in obtaining these materials than the credit side of things (to engineer the drives), so this 'exchange' would be more...
...'rewarding' in a general game play sense ?...at least I think it would. Edit...What are the actual specifications of the 'standard' Python MK 2 btw. as regards core modules, hardpoints etc. etc. ?
Any information welcome as I can't seem to find this information in / on the Frontier store.
Jack
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Same here!... but I thought I'd wait until I arrived back in the bubble, and sold some metals and minerals / expo data etc.
I'm parking up my Carrier in a system near Shinrarta at the moment. Seems that there's still some kind of bug with the module swapping at the moment?
Just wondering if I should hold off buying the Python (Standard) until the bugs are fixed.
Jack
Same here!... but I thought I'd wait until I arrived back in the bubble, and sold some metals and minerals / expo data etc.
I'm parking up my Carrier in a system near Shinrarta at the moment. Seems that there's still some kind of bug with the module swapping at the moment?
Just wondering if I should hold off buying the Python (Standard) until the bugs are fixed.
Jack
Hi
Same here!... but I thought I'd wait until I arrived back in the bubble, and sold some metals and minerals / expo data etc.
I'm parking up my Carrier in a system near Shinrarta at the moment. Seems that there's still some kind of bug with the module swapping at the moment?
Just wondering if I should hold off buying the Python (Standard) until the bugs are fixed.
Jack
If you're in populated space you can get it no problem. if you're out in the black with a carrier imo wait for the bugfix if your carriers shipyard doesn't sell stock to replace the core modules. I'm way out there & bought it just to try it & am stuck with e-rated thrusters etc even though I have stored modules I could fit.