Re-structure buying ships based on rank
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Only if they remove engineering and make credits meaningful again.
You know, the times of legend when gaining credits was generally hard and repairs were really costly
Well, something is really wrong when a side arm in Odyssey alpha was more expensive than a Sidewinder.
I'm really curious how it will go at release
I really don't think they're ever going to remove engineering. Reckon we might just have to accept that Engineering is the upgrade path once you've found your forever ship.
I wish they could rebalance credits, but what could we do about all the players that have amassed literally billions? And how would it affect the newer players, or even experienced players that haven't spent every waking minute earning.
No matter what economic solution they come up with they'd break someone's game. Either they hike up ship prices and the inflation continues, the poorer players would have trouble while the rich stay in their ivory towers. Or they reduce credit gains, the rich are still rich, and the poor have to grind harder than before.
What's it to you if people can buy a Conda in a week?
That old school crap is just that crap, there was a few Commanders way back in the early days who had Condas in a matter of days/weeks.
Hehe.
I've no doubt that a lot of players will have legitimately earned their way in the galaxy and I've no problem with that.
But let's face it, there have been a ridiculously large amount of credits made. Wing mission stacking, gold rushes, even infamous community goals paying out billions of credits.
Honestly I'm hoping that the Thargoids attack the Bank of Zaonce and cripple the galactic economy.
Odyssey patch 4.1 - Credits have been removed from the game. New currency introduced and every single item rebalanced
seems weird i know, but then sidearms are restricted (see: imports of personal weapons as trade commodities) but ships aren't. So it isn't entirely irrational.
Handgun bad. Huge lasers on spaceships, as well as multicannons the size of a small car, that's fine
Independent Pilots Federation something something something?Handgun bad. Huge lasers on spaceships, as well as multicannons the size of a small car, that's fine
Yea, apparently they can give us massive discounts on ships, but not on sidearms and costumes.
maybe we need dual membership with the Independent Space NRA?
So why lock out the Cutter and corvette based on rank then not a majority of the others. All ships should be rank based then if you want it you put the work in and rank up for it. Either that or rent the ships, bigger more expensive and let players decide based on what they can afford like SC does.
As for playing since before 2016, yes I have and have reset my gamesave twice and I dont mind doing it again, that doesnt come into it either.
Some good suggestions and a couple of weard nasty ones. Ship licenses might be a good move.
As for playing since before 2016, yes I have and have reset my gamesave twice and I dont mind doing it again, that doesnt come into it either.
Some good suggestions and a couple of weard nasty ones. Ship licenses might be a good move.
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President Comacho has a 3 point plan that will fix everything.
1. We got this guy Not Sure.
2. He's got a higher IQ than any man alive.
3. He's gonna fix everything.
Everybody's gonna be rich, and nobody's gonna have any problems.
Their characters exist within and contribute to the same setting my character exists within and contributes to. Everyone else sets the lowest common denominator in a shared multiplayer game and when it comes to Elite: Dangerous, that denominator is so low that I now have a game where a large fraction of gameplay has been rendered entirely moot by effectively removing credit supply constraints. Credits may as well not exist and this undermines much of the fundamental basis and motive for a large amount of what's supposed to be going on in the setting, including many interactions with other player characters.
I can willfully ignore even more of the game and try to pretend that this is a single player game that revolves around my CMDR, setting arbitrary constraints on his progress and refusing to acknowledge the setting the game actually describes, but that's not really a solution.
It's entirely irrational that one can buy a literal ton of small arms, but not open the can they come in.
Odyssey's biggest problem, well except for everything else, is that it treats personal equipment as a form of advancement, a progress mechanism...when it should all be fungible, and effectively disposable, for anyone of any CMDR's means.
Handgun bad. Huge lasers on spaceships, as well as multicannons the size of a small car, that's fine
In firstgrade I got in trouble for drawing handguns and threw a tantrum about the unfairness of being praised for my cut-away diagram of an Ohio-class SSBN which could kill millions, perhaps billions, of people, then getting chided, by the same people, for drawing the same perspective of a vastly less threatening tool.
At first I couldn't understand the message they were trying to convey, then in one of those developmentally significant childhood epiphanies it dawned on me...neither did they, they were all abject morons.