I have been reading through many posts and I see alot of comments about 'The Grind'
You do have to collect things if you choose to add bits and bobs to your game-play like ships and materials and credits.. you get the point.
I do feel it is a little grindy in places e.g. CMDR John Jameson Cobra, you can get the bits easy enough if you collect as normal and have a ship with a decent jump range to trade materials 'down'
I did it because I wanted some things to be different but in it's current state it can take to long.
Now
Do I want to be able to buy the materials to get what I want, well yes within reason, but unlikely to happen.
But I sometimes feel this would defeat the purpose - do I want it to be a little quicker to get the things required to change the game for yourself again 'Yes' but within reason.
This is only for an amount of materials but you have a few more trips / re-logs to do, for instance - Guardian tech and blue prints, Gauss. Corrosive shell.
Engineers - Getting Engineers.
etc etc etc. but this is unlikely to happen to.
If I thought of this purely in the sense of "I want it now, without working" or "Grind" then for me it would detract from the game as I have seen some really nice scenes when gathering said bits that I wanted (I only had myself to blame).
Looking back there have been changes that took me forever to get to that are now relatively easy, that does Winde me up.
So my thought is this "it's only a grind if you Don't really want to work at the current in game rate for what you are trying to achieve" it's the duration that it takes in some cases to get to where you want that is an issue for some.
If I only thought of this as a grind then I wouldn't play it. These days I do pick and choose what evening I want to drop in and do roughly the same things I have been doing for a few years now.
I do love flying the ships, it's a very basic thing but It does feel good.
I know what I would like to happen for the coming expansion. "But it wouldn't suit everyone! so I'll take it as it comes and then play or don't as it is a game and I can do that, play or don't play (think Galaxian-real arcade machine, Manic Miner, Pac-man, Sonic, Q-Bert, bf 1942 desert combat, project cars 2) I could name all the 'Games' if I hunted for them.
This is what my ongoing issue is with fleet carriers, I can't Not do it. but i do continue to play.
Regards
Pug
You do have to collect things if you choose to add bits and bobs to your game-play like ships and materials and credits.. you get the point.
I do feel it is a little grindy in places e.g. CMDR John Jameson Cobra, you can get the bits easy enough if you collect as normal and have a ship with a decent jump range to trade materials 'down'
I did it because I wanted some things to be different but in it's current state it can take to long.
Now
Do I want to be able to buy the materials to get what I want, well yes within reason, but unlikely to happen.
But I sometimes feel this would defeat the purpose - do I want it to be a little quicker to get the things required to change the game for yourself again 'Yes' but within reason.
This is only for an amount of materials but you have a few more trips / re-logs to do, for instance - Guardian tech and blue prints, Gauss. Corrosive shell.
Engineers - Getting Engineers.
etc etc etc. but this is unlikely to happen to.
If I thought of this purely in the sense of "I want it now, without working" or "Grind" then for me it would detract from the game as I have seen some really nice scenes when gathering said bits that I wanted (I only had myself to blame).
Looking back there have been changes that took me forever to get to that are now relatively easy, that does Winde me up.
So my thought is this "it's only a grind if you Don't really want to work at the current in game rate for what you are trying to achieve" it's the duration that it takes in some cases to get to where you want that is an issue for some.
If I only thought of this as a grind then I wouldn't play it. These days I do pick and choose what evening I want to drop in and do roughly the same things I have been doing for a few years now.
I do love flying the ships, it's a very basic thing but It does feel good.
I know what I would like to happen for the coming expansion. "But it wouldn't suit everyone! so I'll take it as it comes and then play or don't as it is a game and I can do that, play or don't play (think Galaxian-real arcade machine, Manic Miner, Pac-man, Sonic, Q-Bert, bf 1942 desert combat, project cars 2) I could name all the 'Games' if I hunted for them.
This is what my ongoing issue is with fleet carriers, I can't Not do it. but i do continue to play.
Regards
Pug
