Skimmer Exploit is great for Elite
- Thread starter Cmdr Ultra
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Definitely a little. But gold rushes will come and go it doesn't affect how I play the game one bit.
And the Frontier Store does seem to be becoming a legitimate earner now.
The more these guys spend the more chance I have of flying? my Moray Starboat in the oceans of a waterworld.
Over on Reddit players are threatening to charge back there Credit card purchases for Ship Kits etc...if Skimmers missions are nerfed.
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if you make more credits than me, than its an exploit
The argument of every player trying to get FDev to shut down these skimmer missions.
How is an oversight not, by definition, unintended?
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No, nobody belives for a second Frontier meant for anybody to be able to earn a billion credits in a day considering other parts of the game require a lot more effort and skill and certainly don't pay near as much.
Yes, if Frontier didn't intend it, using it is an exploit.
An exploit in gaming is doing anything unintended and unwanted. That can be using a bug, using a loophole in the game mechanics or their implementation, using a balance oversight...
Now we can argue over the idea that people should be punished or not, but there is no question taking those skimmer missions is exploiting. The game's mission generation algorithm can obviously create unwanted edge cases, and this is one of them.
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The game is not about credits. It is about giving enough credits away so that as many players as possible goes to the online store and buys kits and paintjobs for their new hard earned virtual hardware.
KACHING!
"When ideas are worth what people pay for it in real gold."
KACHING!
"When ideas are worth what people pay for it in real gold."
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I don't get, what that would really add?
welcome to elite: gotta catch'em all.
Which is why genuine gameplay doesn't need vast amount of credits.
Cobra MKIII/DBX/Asp Exp/Vulture can do it all.
"Genuine gameplay" is subjective. There isn't a universal definition.
If you read my posts instead of looking for things you can attack, you'd realise I have been very specific in what I think should be done. What concerns me is knee jerking about a certain situation causing an activity to get nerfed across the board instead of in an intelligent manner. I don't consider that what I'm doing is exploiting, I think it's paying a tad high, but I'm not doing what yamiks is doing, at undefended bases, I have to keep the base defenses down while I work, therefore, I want to highlight the difference between an exploit that is clearly not intended, over this oversight that you can be paid highly for going to bases with no challenge, do you see what I mean now? Basically, yes, most exploits are oversights, but every oversight does not represent an exploit.
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Last i checked there was over 15K players going there.. if that doesnt show u that ppl actually doing that to finally enjoy the actual game i donno what it is...
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I think I know where this is going and I think it'll not be what people really want. The reason you can make billions on these missions isn't because the rewards are too high, it's just because people found places with good RNG. Frontier probably won't wipe these systems off the map so the more likely outcome will be an extreme reduction in rewards from individual missions. This will solve the problem as stacking 20 missions worth 500k each still isn't good money. However what happens then to the individual missions that we all once took in regular systems. Nerfed, nerfed so hard that they are total untouchable garbage. No player ever once again takes these missions and no further investment is made by FDev into ground based content. So tell me then, why do I own Horizons if there is no reason to actually land on a planet?
Well it's great for my credit balance and mat collection. Whether it's great for the game or not is up to Frontier and personal opinions. I assume Frontier thinks it's bad. I expect it'll be fixed. No worries.
I expect the required amount of skimmers to kill will increase by a decent amount. Or at least it will scale higher. They cant just obliterate the pay of the intended method of completing these missions. That would hurt people who didn't even break Frontier's rule.
Possibly but then you'd end up having to log out/in to get the required amount to spawn in most locations which then is a touch exploitative. Now if they could reliably make 15-20 skimmers, stingers, guardians and maybe a goliath to spawn then we'd be talking. Complaints of it being too hard and the SRV not being up to the task. Suddenly we get a space tank, I like everything that just got said. Yeah ban the exploit, nerf everything, buff skimmers and instakill turrets
Possibly but then you'd end up having to log out/in to get the required amount to spawn in most locations which then is a touch exploitative. Now if they could reliably make 15-20 skimmers, stingers, guardians and maybe a goliath to spawn then we'd be talking. Complaints of it being too hard and the SRV not being up to the task. Suddenly we get a space tank, I like everything that just got said. Yeah ban the exploit, nerf everything, buff skimmers and instakill turrets
Brony approved. +rep
*Brony as in my username, not...nevermind.