Reasoning behind buffing/nerfing requests

[Chris Simon]

There has been a lot of those, lately.

The game economy issues people are having can be generalized into two categories.

1) "The game activity I enjoy doesn't pay as well as I think I would deserve" = Buff it!
2) "The game mechanic I don't enjoy is paying too well and I feel to be at disadvantage" = Nerf it!

That's it. What I would suggest is to chill the hell out.
If we are unhappy with rewards this or that game activity we should file a bug report and suggest a change in the appropriate forum area. I think at least in this case devs have shown that if a part of the game economy doesn't work as THEY think it should, they will fix it.

But shouting contradictory personal opinions on a general discussion board doesn't help anyone.

What I would like to know, though, and I would encourage someone competent to comment on that (if for nothing else, then for putting our minds at ease) is whether they use some real game telemetry to look into the ways players are earning money and they use it to balance out the extremes, or all the latest hotfixes and disabling particular mission types to rebalance them were only caused by people shouting too lound.
The former would suggest a long term plan, while the latter would show incompetence. Both in thinking the game mechanics through and in PR. So which is it?

 

[verminstar]

Im going with the latter which wont make me too many friends, but Ive been here long enough to take a pretty good guess as to how things work around here. Seen all of this before, no doubt will see it all again as some players just cant help but moan about how others play the game. Game said I could make me own choices...didnt mention any right or wrong choices just suggested I was free to make whichever one I wanted. Seems now Im limited to the choices that others think I should have cos they moaned and whined and frontier used a chainsaw when all that was required was a scalpel.

Im chilled today...not gonna argue or try and reason anymore because its a wasted effort. Now Im just gonna sit back and enjoy the show and the fallout because all the forum warrioring in the world wont help...likely neither will bug reports which is why I wouldnt waste me time with them. One the other things one learns is how effective frontier are at ignoring stuff and not answering direct questions with more than fluff...doesnt exactly inspire me into thinking itd make any difference whatsoever.

But Im done with caring what happens next...I see this as a knee jerk reaction to players who just cant help themselves but constantly moan about how others play the game. That suggest incompetence and on this forum? This community brought this upon themselves...Ive never felt more like a lone wolf player than I do today but I am still playing nonetheless because I love the game...the other players though, well thats another story isnt it?