So went to pick up a few rares to help support my bounty hunting (cant bounty hunt and make enough credits to fly my asp or ever upgrade or ever get a bigger ship). And I find no rares stocked. Has there been another nerf to the already ground stomping nerf they did a couple patches ago to rares? Game has very few fun mechanics to it. Not sure what frontier wants me to do but starting to think they just want me to grind trading for months to make enough credits to upgrade my ship or god forbid get a bigger ship. Not sure about every one else but I look for a game to be fun not a grind.
Rares no longer being stocked????
- Thread starter HvMetal
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Not sure what's going on with it. Today's update made some changes to it.
It looks like either the refresh time has been made longer than 10 mins, or you are only allowed a limited supply before it cuts you off completely (I have 9 Eshu Umbrellas at the moment but no more stock seems to be appearing).
So yeah nerfed a bit more I think.
It looks like either the refresh time has been made longer than 10 mins, or you are only allowed a limited supply before it cuts you off completely (I have 9 Eshu Umbrellas at the moment but no more stock seems to be appearing).
So yeah nerfed a bit more I think.
Nerfed.
I picked up 18 tons at one station and that was it.
I picked up 18 tons at one station and that was it.
nope, wont restock until you sell what you have.. welcome commanders, to the new reality of Rare item trading.
This just keeps getting better and better....
They were smart not to show any sort of indicator of how many players are logged in and playing this game. The nerf bat always tends to push a lot of people away. Taking away any profitable venture is
They were smart not to show any sort of indicator of how many players are logged in and playing this game. The nerf bat always tends to push a lot of people away. Taking away any profitable venture is
Grinding 'Rares' is still a grind???
Credits in ED are nice but not needed when you are already in an ASP.
ASP is a explorer ship anyway that was why they nerfed the cargo it can hold.
Kills and/or credits are to a point fun but thats not what Elite is all about.
You can't win because there is no win other than to have fun in the game.
They did just nerf the rares again and why not - they are to be rares!!
Just my 2 cents on it.
KB
Credits in ED are nice but not needed when you are already in an ASP.
ASP is a explorer ship anyway that was why they nerfed the cargo it can hold.
Kills and/or credits are to a point fun but thats not what Elite is all about.
You can't win because there is no win other than to have fun in the game.
They did just nerf the rares again and why not - they are to be rares!!
Just my 2 cents on it.
KB
FD obviously can't make up their minds on this. lets refresh
1. To go from rare's stocked as normal to 1-4 stock every 10 mins.
2. Then to decide thats too low and increase it momentarily 1-10
3. Allow 1 purchase then thats it, you've had enough.
Is this seriously the biggest problem this game faces to the point they have to have a meeting about it.
Fix Trading, Fix Reputation & progression. Fix NPC Wake scanning to follow them to another system, everytime i do NPC's vanish.
you have far bigger problems with this game than a method of income which is comparatively profitable as everything else. Is 640k every 2-3 hours really that unbalanced? because that's how much I was making in my cobra.
1. To go from rare's stocked as normal to 1-4 stock every 10 mins.
2. Then to decide thats too low and increase it momentarily 1-10
3. Allow 1 purchase then thats it, you've had enough.
Is this seriously the biggest problem this game faces to the point they have to have a meeting about it.
Fix Trading, Fix Reputation & progression. Fix NPC Wake scanning to follow them to another system, everytime i do NPC's vanish.
you have far bigger problems with this game than a method of income which is comparatively profitable as everything else. Is 640k every 2-3 hours really that unbalanced? because that's how much I was making in my cobra.
Just go about your business and make a maximum of 10% per trade and repeat that over and over again. This is what they want you to do.. can't you see its the format and style of the game. The british penchant for the mundane seems exciting to some people.
The patch notes explains it rather well.
- After yet another discussion with the rare commodity producers, Commanders should now be eligible to only purchase rare goods up to their own personal allocation, instead of buying everybody else's ration as well.
- After yet another discussion with the rare commodity producers, Commanders should now be eligible to only purchase rare goods up to their own personal allocation, instead of buying everybody else's ration as well.
Maybe the Rare Goods finally get specific names, be it legal or illegal kinds ? Like Onionhead for a start ?
Just a blind shot given my main trade is in heads and "ditched" cargo.
Also:
Just a blind shot given my main trade is in heads and "ditched" cargo.
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I'm confused .. I'm a newbie so bare with me. I spent a lot of time yesterday trading and doing bulletin trades in my trader to build up enough capital to buy a Cobra. In the last trade I decided to give rares a try and basically doubled my earnings in a very short space of time.
Now I decided to do another couple of runs to get a boost. Bought 8, sat for ages, no more came.
Came onto the forums to ask about how long it takes to refresh and find some topics already. Apparently it was changed in the patch. So I check the patch notes ..
- After yet another discussion with the rare commodity producers, Commanders should now be eligible to only purchase rare goods up to their own personal allocation, instead of buying everybody else's ration as well.
What's "their own personal allocation"? .. My max cargo is 36 so does that mean I can still pick up 36? Or am I stuck at 8? .. And why 8? Doesn't really bother me, the profits were rediculous, and I can still make plenty from this, I'll just fill the rest of the space with something else. But if I'm stuck at 8 I'll stop waiting
Now I decided to do another couple of runs to get a boost. Bought 8, sat for ages, no more came.
Came onto the forums to ask about how long it takes to refresh and find some topics already. Apparently it was changed in the patch. So I check the patch notes ..
- After yet another discussion with the rare commodity producers, Commanders should now be eligible to only purchase rare goods up to their own personal allocation, instead of buying everybody else's ration as well.
What's "their own personal allocation"? .. My max cargo is 36 so does that mean I can still pick up 36? Or am I stuck at 8? .. And why 8? Doesn't really bother me, the profits were rediculous, and I can still make plenty from this, I'll just fill the rest of the space with something else. But if I'm stuck at 8 I'll stop waiting
I had high hopes and felt good to be kickstarter backer until 1.0 came on Tuesday, after that it is only going south...
This makes me pretty sad and angry as E: D have much potential but every interesting and fun part is nerf hammered below ground level even before it really starts! I guess this was not The Game after all, I don't think I want to play a year to be able to afford any better than Cobra...
This makes me pretty sad and angry as E: D have much potential but every interesting and fun part is nerf hammered below ground level even before it really starts! I guess this was not The Game after all, I don't think I want to play a year to be able to afford any better than Cobra...
So when I've bought an anaconda I've finished the game? Am I playing a sandbox or?... yeah clearly you don't know what an MMO is. or a sandbox is.
It makes me very sad to say this but +10 to this. So true.I had high hopes and felt good to be kickstarter backer until 1.0 came on Tuesday, after that it is only going south...
This makes me pretty sad and angry as E: D have much potential but every interesting and fun part is nerf hammered below ground level even before it really starts! I guess this was not The Game after all, I don't think I want to play a year to be able to afford any better than Cobra...
Not really a nerf, more like a re-alignment
Yes you can make a lot of money per ton, but now you can't buy a whole ship load.
If the personal allocation is 8 tons that is all you get, so no point hanging round for hours trying to fill up.
it is still possible to make ~17K profit per ton on Lavian brandy.
Yes you can make a lot of money per ton, but now you can't buy a whole ship load.
If the personal allocation is 8 tons that is all you get, so no point hanging round for hours trying to fill up.
it is still possible to make ~17K profit per ton on Lavian brandy.