Use of a mechanic unintended by the game developer to gain some material advantage in the game.
Thanks exploiters/cheaters!
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Use of a mechanic unintended by the game developer to gain some material advantage in the game.
I won't dig you specific quote, but there's actually reason why 2.4 started with tons of missions and then FD was forced to cut them down as servers timed out.
That reason?
Mission board flipping related to passenger mission exploit.
So it was kinda self goal. Players excused their behaviour because hey we can't do wrong.
Ergo, ED needs to have unified board for all modes. That will allow much clearer picture and would allow proper balancing of mission generation etc. etc. That's only way.
Problem, in this case, is that didn't actually happen.
It was simply a game mechanic working exactly as intended.
Course, I'm sure some people were exploiting mode-flipping to cherry-pick the best missions but, aside from that, there wasn't anything about this which FDev couldn't have foreseen.
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My god, what haven't you people done?
That's odd, because Sandy said recently that exploiters are a very small fraction of the playerbase. If they unify the board, there needs to be 150% more missions available on each board than there are now.
Couldn't agree with you more.
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No, that's not odd. They are small number of players (I think in-game shows about 3 - 4k max engaging in this board flipping) but their behaviour with flipping impacts servers, as they spam demands to boards.
I agree with more missions and hopefully a bit more dynamic design as current one doesn't really support big number of missions that well.
The real people to blame are the whistle-blowers here in the forums. I know that they try to discourage witch-hunts here, but at this point it’s unavoidable.
For the record, I never visited the system in question (too busy farming Guardian stuff), but, like you, I make a steady income ~20 mil a week) off Skimmers. Now I can’t because a couple of morons threw a tantrum.
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Can i haz ur stuff?
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Here you go.
The issues here and other outlier issues that involves mission generation from the BGS is much more complex than, just fixing board flipping or mode switching.
They are, but skimmer kill missions should be done from a SRV. Shooting them from a ship shouldn't count. That's the only change I'd like to see.
No way. How immersion breaking would that be?! Oh look a 3d printed arduino bot with a couple of rotors can survive a blast that takes down 2000 ton warships, why don't they make everything out of the same stuff as skimmers! Even better, we couldl get guns that FIRE these indestructible skimmers as ammunition.
That is ridiculous. Some people like myself absolutely hate the SRV but still enjoy doing planetside missions. Personally I think every mission should be able to be completed in a ship.
Try to ram one...
I said the same in the other thread. If there was a way to complete the scan and recovery planetside missions from the ship I'd be all over them.
I despise the SRV.
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Skimmer missions are quite fun when done from the ship.
Instead of imposing arbitrary limitations on the physical mechanics, why don't we insist they look into the core of the issue instead, i.e. board flipping, and mission type-spamming.
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