A lot of people are currently using exploits for fast cash. I'd like to see these exploits totally closed but I also realise that for some, the slow progress to the bigger ships is a massive turn off for the game. As such, I propose that one, maybe a small handful of systems go into 'super boom' for a short period of time. Here, for a limited amount of missions (or time), the missions would give out say five times the value of normal boom missions. Once those missions go, that system would return to normal and another system (picked by the background sim but will be hopefully somewhere fairly random location wise in/near the bubble) would go into 'super boom'.
The benefits would be.
* Impatient people has some legitimate way to earn some money fast
* It ought to even things out a bit for people who don't like flying too far from 'home'.
* It'll encourage people to fly to different parts of the bubble more, maybe out of their comfort zones , maybe even to one hostile to them.
* The scarcity of them will encourage people in open to play in the same system
* The variety of missions will be the same as a normal system so everyone's game style is catered for.
* As the system in super boom is moving around, this'll hopefully make it easy for commanders to get a fair amount of money fast but not ridiculous amounts without some effort.
* Not a massive amount of recoding needed (flying blind here, maybe it is but at least it's based on existing game mechanics and not something entirely new)
Downsides.
* do we need get rich-quick-missions anyway?
* still not 'skill' based. We really need more ways of earning money that requires real skill than just grind points
The benefits would be.
* Impatient people has some legitimate way to earn some money fast
* It ought to even things out a bit for people who don't like flying too far from 'home'.
* It'll encourage people to fly to different parts of the bubble more, maybe out of their comfort zones , maybe even to one hostile to them.
* The scarcity of them will encourage people in open to play in the same system
* The variety of missions will be the same as a normal system so everyone's game style is catered for.
* As the system in super boom is moving around, this'll hopefully make it easy for commanders to get a fair amount of money fast but not ridiculous amounts without some effort.
* Not a massive amount of recoding needed (flying blind here, maybe it is but at least it's based on existing game mechanics and not something entirely new)
Downsides.
* do we need get rich-quick-missions anyway?
* still not 'skill' based. We really need more ways of earning money that requires real skill than just grind points