So the GalNet Article today seemed to be yet another attempt to "further" the sadly underbaked Thargoid-invasion bolt-on narrative. If somehow you missed it, you can read it here.
In the article, one anxious Councillor, Rasmus Tseng, does some dramatic hand wringing, finishing his quote with: "The Thargoids have been striking at starports in the region one by one, and nobody is able to stop them! Why are the powers doing so little?”
We should ask: Why can't someone just buy this Guardian tech at this point? That we can't is indefensibly inane.
[Tl;dr rant]
We should, collectively, ask those governing the Core Worlds marketplaces the same thing. [cough]Frontier[/cough]?
It's inane articles like this one, with its "alien-invasion" disconnect and the lack of weapons being made easily accessible to independent pilots interested in fighting Thargoids that COMPLETELY spoils our ability to continue treating this game's scenario evolution seriously no matter how much we might want to. Frontier somehow continues to see no W-T-F game management disconnect in continuing to ask us to role play participation in a bubble of space encompassing over 20,000 systems and more than 66,000 starports, stations, and outposts -- almost all with some variant of market, modules, and ships for sale driving their capitalist economies -- but an ongoing absence of any single, simple seller of the functioning Guardian tech that makes taking on Thargoid interceptors MUCH more accessible, and cost-effective (perhaps even profitable!) for many pilots.
We're asked to somehow believe that amongst those billions of people running businesses in the bubble, the fiction that NOT ONE enterprising soul has managed to put an operation together that enables any pilot who wants to fight Thargoids to simply go BUY the best equipment, the best tech known to man (Guardian tech, not that kludgy AX crud). No, with the fate of humanity supposedly in the balance, EVERY PILOT must STILL fly 800-1100ly, only to trundle around repetitively solving boring puzzles in what may be the most absolutely undistinguished game play mechanism ever bolted into an online game?
We're to continue accepting that NOT ONE enterprising (NPC) soul has been able to figure out how to market completed modules for sale (at ANY price)? Really?
After all this time, during this agonizingly slow, inexorable advance of a relentless alien race for whom only one effective response is even contemplated in the game, that one huge "ask" takes this whole Thargoid invasion schtick beyond half-baked and pushes it over into fully ridiculous.
[/Tl;dr rant]
Look, I loudly applaud those first brilliant pilots who figured out the Guardian clues, and those who found the first sites. And I applaud those who were the first to figure out the Guardian puzzle, and those who went out of their way to share the solutions with others.
I'll even applaud those who completed the Guardian quest by Ram Tah -- their stick-to-it-tiveness earns even them an attaboy. Even when the reward was 200M credits, I was still so bored by the process that I bailed about 25% of the way through my second set of ruins. That stuff is just not fun for me -- and I'm not alone.
I'll even put out a slow golf clap for those who wanted to be the first to get Guardian tech so badly that they were willing to jump through Frontier's hoops to do so. And perhaps even a longer golf clap for those who were still willing to do it, even after Frontier made an already odious process even more so.
But they've all had their weapons for some time now. They got their content-derived achievement drip of dopamine.
Now enough is enough. Give the rest of us, those who absolutely refuse to spend any more time pedaling a tiresome SRV around some distant world, some way to purchase this tech without having to do that inexcusable grind over, and over, and over...
Because, yeah, we can kill interceptors with that sadly ineffective AX stuff rolled out way back when, but that makes no sense when, in any logical world, someone SHOULD be able to acquire better equipment without being blocked by a transparently artificial game mechanism that makes NO SENSE within the game world.
In the article, one anxious Councillor, Rasmus Tseng, does some dramatic hand wringing, finishing his quote with: "The Thargoids have been striking at starports in the region one by one, and nobody is able to stop them! Why are the powers doing so little?”
We should ask: Why can't someone just buy this Guardian tech at this point? That we can't is indefensibly inane.
[Tl;dr rant]
We should, collectively, ask those governing the Core Worlds marketplaces the same thing. [cough]Frontier[/cough]?
It's inane articles like this one, with its "alien-invasion" disconnect and the lack of weapons being made easily accessible to independent pilots interested in fighting Thargoids that COMPLETELY spoils our ability to continue treating this game's scenario evolution seriously no matter how much we might want to. Frontier somehow continues to see no W-T-F game management disconnect in continuing to ask us to role play participation in a bubble of space encompassing over 20,000 systems and more than 66,000 starports, stations, and outposts -- almost all with some variant of market, modules, and ships for sale driving their capitalist economies -- but an ongoing absence of any single, simple seller of the functioning Guardian tech that makes taking on Thargoid interceptors MUCH more accessible, and cost-effective (perhaps even profitable!) for many pilots.
We're asked to somehow believe that amongst those billions of people running businesses in the bubble, the fiction that NOT ONE enterprising soul has managed to put an operation together that enables any pilot who wants to fight Thargoids to simply go BUY the best equipment, the best tech known to man (Guardian tech, not that kludgy AX crud). No, with the fate of humanity supposedly in the balance, EVERY PILOT must STILL fly 800-1100ly, only to trundle around repetitively solving boring puzzles in what may be the most absolutely undistinguished game play mechanism ever bolted into an online game?
We're to continue accepting that NOT ONE enterprising (NPC) soul has been able to figure out how to market completed modules for sale (at ANY price)? Really?
After all this time, during this agonizingly slow, inexorable advance of a relentless alien race for whom only one effective response is even contemplated in the game, that one huge "ask" takes this whole Thargoid invasion schtick beyond half-baked and pushes it over into fully ridiculous.
[/Tl;dr rant]
Look, I loudly applaud those first brilliant pilots who figured out the Guardian clues, and those who found the first sites. And I applaud those who were the first to figure out the Guardian puzzle, and those who went out of their way to share the solutions with others.
I'll even applaud those who completed the Guardian quest by Ram Tah -- their stick-to-it-tiveness earns even them an attaboy. Even when the reward was 200M credits, I was still so bored by the process that I bailed about 25% of the way through my second set of ruins. That stuff is just not fun for me -- and I'm not alone.
I'll even put out a slow golf clap for those who wanted to be the first to get Guardian tech so badly that they were willing to jump through Frontier's hoops to do so. And perhaps even a longer golf clap for those who were still willing to do it, even after Frontier made an already odious process even more so.
But they've all had their weapons for some time now. They got their content-derived achievement drip of dopamine.
Now enough is enough. Give the rest of us, those who absolutely refuse to spend any more time pedaling a tiresome SRV around some distant world, some way to purchase this tech without having to do that inexcusable grind over, and over, and over...
Because, yeah, we can kill interceptors with that sadly ineffective AX stuff rolled out way back when, but that makes no sense when, in any logical world, someone SHOULD be able to acquire better equipment without being blocked by a transparently artificial game mechanism that makes NO SENSE within the game world.
