How about some using the RNG for flavour, making every action in the game potentially beneficial?
As someone with a few tens of millions in the bank, I don't bother with a large number of totally irrelevant actions, like stopping in a USS to get a couple of canisters of Jadeite, or picking up a Data package, large or small, when exploring, or driving for half a mile to find a downed probe, with a data haul worth, well, about 3,000 credits....
Why not push the boat out and add some flavour with the RNG. How about 0.01% of the time, that downed probe has important transmissions, worth 500,000CR, or 0.01% of the time the occupied pod you've rescued is occupied by an eccentric billionaire, who rewards you with 10,000,000CR, or 0.01% of the time, that Gold asteroid drops a couple of low temp diamonds, or 0.01% of the time, that Exploration Data Cache has one of the most detailed scan libraries every discovered, here's 2,000,000 CR !!
Then I'd be excited every time I did one of these menial actions in game.
PS I don't mean there to be 99.99% and 0.01%, obviously there would be a scale of sorts, say 95% is as it is now, 4% is that x10, 0.99% is x100 and 0.01% is x 10,000 or something... Go on, excite us Frontier
PPS This isn't about the money BTW - to answer the "its never been so easy to earn money" point which I'm sure will be made. This is about the stories you can tell, and the breaking up of the steady progression in-game.
As someone with a few tens of millions in the bank, I don't bother with a large number of totally irrelevant actions, like stopping in a USS to get a couple of canisters of Jadeite, or picking up a Data package, large or small, when exploring, or driving for half a mile to find a downed probe, with a data haul worth, well, about 3,000 credits....
Why not push the boat out and add some flavour with the RNG. How about 0.01% of the time, that downed probe has important transmissions, worth 500,000CR, or 0.01% of the time the occupied pod you've rescued is occupied by an eccentric billionaire, who rewards you with 10,000,000CR, or 0.01% of the time, that Gold asteroid drops a couple of low temp diamonds, or 0.01% of the time, that Exploration Data Cache has one of the most detailed scan libraries every discovered, here's 2,000,000 CR !!
Then I'd be excited every time I did one of these menial actions in game.
PS I don't mean there to be 99.99% and 0.01%, obviously there would be a scale of sorts, say 95% is as it is now, 4% is that x10, 0.99% is x100 and 0.01% is x 10,000 or something... Go on, excite us Frontier
PPS This isn't about the money BTW - to answer the "its never been so easy to earn money" point which I'm sure will be made. This is about the stories you can tell, and the breaking up of the steady progression in-game.