The Mining nerf was likely the worst implementation of a Balancing in Years...

I suppose the introduction of FC have a significant role in this... Before to have one, I was more than happy with 100 millions in my account. After I bought one, and equipped, I start to worry about "not enough credits to keep this running" and that pushed me to hard mining.
Funny thing, I started to enjoy mining, the rush, the adrenaline when you hit that 64% rock... but fast enough, a billion start to look smaller than 100 millions BEFORE the FC, and the need for more and more credits just grow up....
It's called "economy of scale" and that's perfectly fine. What amounts to "alot" and "a little" is subjective based on subjective costs and the economy of the individual player, that's normal.
 
ok granted, what I was meaning was that you can generally get feedback from the game rather quickly on how much money you're making per hour at any given time with combat and trade. But mining it can be hours or even days to get a final, credits per hour tally depending on when you go to the sell system. And with combat even if you have to turn in the bonds, that's what a 5-10 minute trip in SC to dock and redeem. With mining and exploration, travel time can factor greatly into your total credits per hour calculations.

Which is true, but also upended by FCs (which is not everyone granted). If anything mining and combat share similarities in that a fair amount is RNG (hotspots / POIs etc) while trading is easier to plan since you can know what economy there is ahead of time, what BGS state modifiers there are, what the likely profit is etc.
 
It's called "economy of scale" and that's perfectly fine. What amounts to "alot" and "a little" is subjective based on subjective costs and the economy of the individual player, that's normal.

Did anyone point out there are lots of ways to make more than 40mil per hour?
Only 40 mil / hour means you need to search better deals :p
I think "good deals" starts at OVER 100 mil/hour...

Painite was a VERY good deal. Now, I think is just ONE of the ""good deals", if you get lucky enough to sell at a decent price...
And for sure are MANY other better "good deals" than Painite now, a lot more... Painite is a bit of a dead horse, atm.
 
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Only 40 mil / hour means you need to search better deals :p
I think "good deals" starts at OVER 100 mil/hour...

Painite was a VERY good deal. Now, I think is just ONE of the ""good deals", if you get lucky enough to sell at a decent price...
keep in mind people are operating on averages, not looking for the max prices. eddb.io is showing the market crashed yesterday, it's bouncing back a bit, up to 250k now, so it remains to be seen what number it will settle out at.
 
The irony here is the very people complaining about it being too easy to earn credits are the same folks that last year complained about the grind. I would prefer less grind but that's just me. If people want game satisfaction, then petition Fdev for new gameplay. This idea that somehow making less credits somehow makes the game more satisfying because it increases the grind is a dubious assumption at best. Good gameplay is what makes fun, not moving the goalposts father apart between achievements

I really cant be bothered with the conversation again. Ive posted here on this forum for years and my position on Frontier making the game easier and watering down the experiance has not changed and this discussion keeps happening and its the same arguments over and over again (ive lost count of how many times ive been here). Im so completely bored of it.

Im out because i just dont care enough anymore to thump through the long grass yet again.
 
I really cant be bothered with the conversation again. Ive posted here on this forum for years and my position on Frontier making the game easier and watering down the experiance has not changed and this discussion keeps happening and its the same arguments over and over again (ive lost count of how many times ive been here). Im so completely bored of it.

Im out because i just dont care enough anymore to thump through the long grass yet again.
I get where you're coming from and I do agree, I get it, I really do. But I also recognize that Fdev just doesn't have either the capability nor inclination to really balance things because their gameplay loops for their game are simplistic, now there isn't anything wrong with simple game mechanics, but they turn around and complain why their game doesn't have depth.

And it's been the experience that every time Fdev tries to fiddle around with their economy, they either break it or seriously screw it up, they want to control but then they want unpredictability, they want to give players the ability to "forge their own way" then they want us to "color inside the lines". They can't have it both ways, no matter what design they come up with, the player base will come up with some way to game it to maximize profits. It's the cat and mouse game of player vs developer, it is what it is.
 
keep in mind people are operating on averages, not looking for the max prices. eddb.io is showing the market crashed yesterday, it's bouncing back a bit, up to 250k now, so it remains to be seen what number it will settle out at.
Still a mile away for what the devs trumpeted to be "max price" - 600k. I never saw more than 420k, and even that was just for some minutes in depressing low quantities...
Probably will stabilize at a max of 450, once a week, and an average of 250 on most markets ( to make a similar comparative, the old 1.092 000 you could get once or twice / week before , will be now +- 450k, and the old 792, stable and almost any day of the week, will be some 200-225k ...)
 
Because, as you keep ignoring, this is only Step 1.. There is more to come. Just because you don't believe a word FDev says doesn't mean we all feel that way. But then, you seem to think I'm going to always defend them. What a crock - a poorly performing game leads to ill sentiment, which leads to lower profits. Lower profits mean lower share price. But yeah, you go and tell me how I think again.

Some users a better off on the Block list.

Its Funny how you first talk about me Ignoring it. And then yourself Point out that I am aware of it but dont Trust it.
And No. I dont think everyone Feels the Same. But that doesnt mean I am not Allowed to Voice or Argue my Opinion :)
I know this is Hard to Understand for some People. But just because you dont Agree with People does not mean they are not Allowed to have their Opinion or Post their Opinion.

And Yes. Someone like you is clearly better off on the Ignore list.


My point was that they never announced changes with the other professions in mind, please read what I posted.



They said these changes are coming next. I already provided the quote from the CM team. Please read it.





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Yes. What they have done was nerfing gold rushes and making minor adjustments within a single mechanic. They never made balancing changes with different mechanics. A mining nerf never affected combat so far.

2. Balancing isn't finished yet, so your question is rather pointless.

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Wasnt done this time either. They only Talked about Changes to Mining and Pointed out that they may look at Bounty Hunting in a few Weeks.
More Importandly. In the Past they simply talked about Economy Balancing. Which Includes all Jobs if you ask me.

2.
Actually they didnt. And your Quote actually Points that out.
Because the Quote is Actually only Talking about Mining and Combat.
Pointing out that other stuff might be looked at later but isnt really relevant in their Eyes.

In Fact there is no Talk about any actual Rebalancing here at all.
Effectively the Quote can be Interpreted at them only Nerfing Mining and Looking at Combat Rewards. And thats it. As the rest isnt really Importand.

3.
The Mining Nerf has not Affected Combat this time either. They merely mentioned that they will look at Combat in the Future.
We have in Fact no Idea what they will do or when.
They could just as well have written "Further Changes" soon^tm

4.
Ok. So basicly all Questions and Complaints are Pointless. Because Odyssey isnt Finished yet. The Game isnt Finished yet.
So effectively welcome to the next 10 Years of FDEV doing whatever with nobody being allowed to Complain cuz they aint Finished right :)
Sorry. But I somehow dont think thats how it works.

You are obviously the expert, so we can’t wait to read your judgement. How about making sure you actually understand someones comments before rejecting them? Have fun now.

You can wait or not wait for whatever you want lol.
Someone made a Reasonable Suggestion to me. So I am testing it. Thats all there is to it.
What you think about that is your Choice. I dont give a Fish about that.

How about you learn Accepting that others might not just Say Yes and Amen to whatever you say lol ?
 
Still a mile away for what the devs trumpeted to be "max price" - 600k. I never saw more than 420k, and even that was just for some minutes in depressing low quantities...
Probably will stabilize at a max of 450, once a week, and an average of 250 on most markets ( to make a similar comparative, the old 1.092 000 you could get once or twice / week before , will be now +- 450k, and the old 792, stable and almost any day of the week, will be some 200-225k ...)
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too, sadly. When I saw "Max Price" I immediately read that as boom-time prices in certain systems IF you're lucky. But depressingly, I think you're numbers might be closer, that boom times will be 450 with 250 being the average.

I'm going to take another poster's suggestion and modify my build to try and cram another collector to up the number of limpets to 8 from 6 and see if that increases my rate per hour.
 
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too, sadly. When I saw "Max Price" I immediately read that as boom-time prices in certain systems IF you're lucky. But depressingly, I think you're numbers might be closer, that boom times will be 450 with 250 being the average.

I'm going to take another poster's suggestion and modify my build to try and cram another collector to up the number of limpets to 8 from 6 and see if that increases my rate per hour.
I used to keep INARA on my second monitor, you guess why... I run a small shop of computer repairs, and when I am not working, I am surfing & having some fun in Elite - and from what I watched since the update, this is the direction... I even feel those "average" 250 k will need a solid dose of luck... in the way that market will still be in the need of what you bring, and not closed...
Reason why I put a stop to mining.... too much volatility now, and no means to get a decent prediction...
 
I used to keep INARA on my second monitor, you guess why... I run a small shop of computer repairs, and when I am not working, I am surfing & having some fun in Elite - and from what I watched since the update, this is the direction... I even feel those "average" 250 k will need a solid dose of luck... in the way that market will still be in the need of what you bring, and not closed...
Reason why I put a stop to mining.... too much volatility now, and no means to get a decent prediction...
In my experience, Inara has been inaccurate, maybe because I'm playing on console, not sure. But Inara has been inaccurate while eddb.io is generally on the money, no pun intended.
 
Was there a change to the bulk sales tax too? It seems a bit less severe than it did?

It's certainly more interesting to have 6 or 8 minertals on the catch list and I don't know if it's my imagination but payouts on the osmium / samarium missions seem higher?
 
In my experience, Inara has been inaccurate, maybe because I'm playing on console, not sure. But Inara has been inaccurate while eddb.io is generally on the money, no pun intended.
Cannot say that.... just used the data. from eddb, and "fooled" the same... got there to buy Tritium but was far more expensive than what eddb told me... and the info was only 7 minutes old.... on the same time, Inara was way closer to the price.
 
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got there to buy Tritium but was far more expensive than what eddb told me... and the info was only 7 minutes old....
Seen some very weird behavior in refinery systems that would usually sell tritium for 4k/t. Seen prices going up a 10 fold after jumping my carrier in. Haven't noticed a real pattern yet, as I'm busy doing other things, but something seems off
 
Its Funny how you first talk about me Ignoring it. And then yourself Point out that I am aware of it but dont Trust it.
And No. I dont think everyone Feels the Same. But that doesnt mean I am not Allowed to Voice or Argue my Opinion :)
I know this is Hard to Understand for some People. But just because you dont Agree with People does not mean they are not Allowed to have their Opinion or Post their Opinion.

And Yes. Someone like you is clearly better off on the Ignore list.




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Wasnt done this time either. They only Talked about Changes to Mining and Pointed out that they may look at Bounty Hunting in a few Weeks.
More Importandly. In the Past they simply talked about Economy Balancing. Which Includes all Jobs if you ask me.

2.
Actually they didnt. And your Quote actually Points that out.
Because the Quote is Actually only Talking about Mining and Combat.
Pointing out that other stuff might be looked at later but isnt really relevant in their Eyes.

In Fact there is no Talk about any actual Rebalancing here at all.
Effectively the Quote can be Interpreted at them only Nerfing Mining and Looking at Combat Rewards. And thats it. As the rest isnt really Importand.

3.
The Mining Nerf has not Affected Combat this time either. They merely mentioned that they will look at Combat in the Future.
We have in Fact no Idea what they will do or when.
They could just as well have written "Further Changes" soon^tm

4.
Ok. So basicly all Questions and Complaints are Pointless. Because Odyssey isnt Finished yet. The Game isnt Finished yet.
So effectively welcome to the next 10 Years of FDEV doing whatever with nobody being allowed to Complain cuz they aint Finished right :)
Sorry. But I somehow dont think thats how it works.

You can wait or not wait for whatever you want lol.
Someone made a Reasonable Suggestion to me. So I am testing it. Thats all there is to it.
What you think about that is your Choice. I dont give a Fish about that.

How about you learn Accepting that others might not just Say Yes and Amen to whatever you say lol ?

You said to me: “There really isnt any Reliable Method of doing more Money than Mining” here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...n-of-a-balancing-in-years.559413/post-8818929.

And here you demonstrate that you don’t even know what a simple delivery mission is: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...n-of-a-balancing-in-years.559413/post-8818984

So again - you rejected my and others comments without making sure you knew what we were talking about.
 
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