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Raxxla is Latin for mining.
waiting for them to fix mining before playing
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Frontier will absolutely bring mining back to something resembling 'not broken', so no need to worry there.
If you are unwilling to try other aspects of the game in the mean time, no harm playing other games til they do fix it. Just keep an eye on updates and forum thread titles until you see it come back.
If you are unwilling to try other aspects of the game in the mean time, no harm playing other games til they do fix it. Just keep an eye on updates and forum thread titles until you see it come back.
I'm a major advocate of revisiting and balancing the rest of the activities in Elite to be up to par/as rewarding as mining. So your issue with Smuggling, I can completely agree with. Why mining as a profession seems to jump the queue is a question for FDev. I've gathered from lots of reading that the jobs in game have had a disproportionate balance since the game's inception. Why FDev has been reluctant to comment on why that is and if it is intended, I've no clue. If mining keeps getting tweaks with no adjustments elsewhere, that's an issue with the developers, not miners.
Although mining works to some degree as you mentioned it's been alluded, it's not exactly complete. With janky hotspots, minerals like Tritium practically disappearing from rings, some minerals popping up outside of their hotspots/rings, it's clear something is wrong and until it's properly fixed, I personally can't say, "Mission Accomplished!", until there's an actual even field to test out the changes. I don't see what's wrong with that above image though, but also, I'm filthy rich so * shrug *
Mining before limpets reminded me of driving a forklift. Another skill with the opportunity for mastery!
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Oh, come on now, Q. If he did buy the game to do "X" and "X" - at least from his perspective - was totally and inexplicably nerfed beyond any recognition of what it had been, that would be disheartening to the young lad.
Mining has been broken for one week. It feels as though it has been broken longer than we’ve had COVID. The absolute drama, tantrums, people announcing they’re leaving like this is Heathrow Departures. One. Week.
Only major issue with increasing other professions to match mining would be they'd also need to revisit the prices of ships and modules... assuming they want to maintain a type of ship progression, I suppose.
Why feel sorry for him? If mining is what he considers fun, more power to him. Different strokes for different folks. I personally enjoy mining as a way to pass the time, listen to podcasts and music. Fantasize myself as a space trucker/hauler, mapping out rings, mining precious minerals to support my psychedelics habit, discovering new worlds and bring home fat stacks of credits to expand my mining armada. The game is really what you make it. Maybe he's one of the new players who got sucked in to "eggsploit", but I won't assume that.
It definitely needed fixing, I will agree, but currently, it's not working entirely either. It's clearly bugged in some areas but because some CMDRs are still a little bitter about the gold rush, they consider a half-broken system as "working as intended" just to spite those who took advantage.
This seems like an awfully petty response. You don't have to feel sorry for him, but he found his niche in the game and he feels it's off-balance. That's not necessarily wrong. And what's with this whole, "it's not called Elite: Mining/mining isn't in the description", narrative that I keep seeing. Since when is a game's title indicative on what someone does in that game or how they choose to have fun? Are we really going to limit people's opinion to what a game's title or descriptions are?
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Make it so, then, Q. Make it so.
I can get behind this idea. I'm waiting for the mining fix to see where mining really is, post-egg nerf, to see how it compares to the other activities in-game. But agreed, there needs to be a variable change in costs for in-game items versus rewards.
*snaps fingers
Done
I save you the wait. It will still outstrip every other profession in terms of relative skill involved, danger encountered, and CR earned.
Exactly the point... mining's not broken. Still plenty of stuff can be done with it.
A lot of "Mining is broken" is actually just "I can't get LTDs or Tritium", which is a whole other issue. Problem being, fixing that will just make mining OP again. Building mechanics on top of other unbalanced mechanics always leads to this.
Petty? Because my sympathy has limits? This being well beyond the threshold? If you bought the game two weeks ago to mine, then you're sadly mistaken. This game isn't even marketed for that. As to the niche part-to me it reads that I lost my cash cow to buy a FC two weeks after buying the game. "So F*ck it, I quit".
I don't think it was petty just straight forward. I've seen enough of these juvenile sense of entitlement threads as of late and it's boring...like mining.
Veiled maybe. Most seem to read very similar.
Probably. Which in turn still means that the developers needs to adjust the rewards from other activities. I see mining as a newer system that's getting the adjustments needed as part of the more refreshed part of the game. FDev needs to apply that same level of love to the rest of the game rather than focusing on what's current and leaving older systems to rot.
Not in the title or OP of threads, but in other threads related to mining or the patch, I’ve seen people talking about leaving, one bloke was advising his friends to ‘drop the game’ because mining is broke.
As the guy who UA bombed Jacques, you've got a lot of chutzpah to be talking about "unbalanced mechanics."
It's... not a bad idea, actually. It would create a credit inflation ripple effect, but would put ships, modules, and non-mining professions in line with mining (once fixed) and current fleet carrier costs.
This wouldn't have much effect on engineering (which is the major difference between a newbie ship and endgame ship anyway) and they could not touch currently-owned ships, basically throwing a small bone to older players in the form of a much lower insurance cost on their pre-inflated ships.