We ALL should protest against FDev while stop playing Elite dangerous!!!
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But that's not the way FD wan't you to play, hence they nerf anything that makes it fun or interesting when compared to the grind of their game play mechanics and the BGS
The missions were a result of edge cases of the PG and BGS systems coming together. It's Fdev's toybox and they can take bits of it away when they feel like it with or without justification.
It's opened up an interesting theme of discussion amongst all the hyperbole and melodrama, and a theme that's got the more prolific Youtubers talking. The same Youtubers who always cause Fdev to sit up and take notice whenever they're critical of the game.
Hopefully it will instigate some change. RNG needs to be seriously tweaked in favour of the players.
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And no, I didn't say that at all.
Sounds like a great idea! Just to really drive the point home "we" should probably also stop posting in these forums too, right?
Yeah, that'll show 'em!
I stopped posting on the forums when they nerfed Smeaton, not posted since as it happens.
For someone who claims they don't care why call it an I-Win-Button?
If you want to grind a way fine grind, like you, I ain't bothered what or how you do it.
But I think you mis-understand, most people don't want a I-Win-Button, they want missions to reflect the effort, are not a repetitive grind and, since it is a game....fun.
FD instead seem to break what wasn't broken and instead of introduce new content make the current stuff more difficult, why exactly?
Any chance I can say No here? .. It's not that bad. I am guessing yes, so I will ... don't send people to my house as I am prepared.
I did as the OP said, I quit playing............
.......I'll be back in an hour though, does it still count then?
.......I'll be back in an hour though, does it still count then?
First, I never said I don't care.
Second, I never grind, I just play the game.
Third, why do you think missions need to pay 300 million credits per hour?
No-one is asking for that. Saying that is just a silly way of deflecting attention away from the real issue.
Which is that you can no longer earn 300 million credits per hour which is basically the same like a free credit button because it's more than the most expensive ship in game.
Of course it's their game, of course they can do what they want, no one is arguing that.
What we are trying to do is give another view of how others see the game and how it could have better balance and make it more interesting and fun, but not particularly easy.
Easy games get boring, hard games get boring.
I don't mind doing grind if there is huge reward, i.e worth my while.
Heck make it dangerous, do it by rank whatever, make new content with bigger payouts.
But they seem to just tweak content and make it pay less and more difficult.
I want to play Elite, I played it as a kid when it came out, so no I am not one of these get rich quick players.
OP, yes please stop playing and redirect your energies to a worthy cause. I haven't used exploits since I'm not in a hurry anywhere. Breaking games makes them broken. As a wise cow once said ( I think his mame was Larson): "As you walk the path of life don't forget to stop and eat the roses."
I'll stick to doing thargoid and guardian stuff. Much more interesting than hauling bio waste from a to b.
No-one is asking for that to be in game all the time though.
Gold rushes by their very nature are extremely short-lived, volatile things and reward those who get there early and have a keen eye for market conditions. They're exciting and give players a renewed sense of purpose when they pop up. Players who might have drifted off to another game or have said 'ah **** this' to the paltry sums of money given by normal missions or the mindless grind of collecting engineering mats. They have a reason to come back. And the existing players, from the Sidewinder greenhorn to someone like me with fleets of Cutters and Corvettes and 1.5k hours will flock to them, because they're fun and negate at least some of the horrendous grind for a while at least.
And then the kicker, I'd love to see the sales figures from the store for Anaconda/Cutter/Corvette paints and ship kits around and just after each goldrush. I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty confident Fdev will be seeing an uptick in revenue from these in-game goldrushes. They will factor these metrics into their development plans moving forward, that's for sure.
