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Maxx Thorogood

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Stupor cruise being what it has always been and exobiology payouts being what they are at the moment, there is no longer any point in mapping terraformable bodies. The payout imbalance with exobilogy simply eliminates any financial benefit of mapping "high value" terraformable bodies. Why spend 30+ minutes in stupor cruise traveling to various terraformable bodies when sampling Stratum yields 20+ times the payout. I've done the math, meticulously. 1.7 billion in exobilogy a week with 30 million in cooresponding cartography. Unless it's your weekend to grind to Elite V in carto (yes it might take a whole weekend), what is the point of doing any body mapping? This is exactly what happens when product management makes balancing decisions while never having played the game they are managing. Anyway, it does not matter. The point of the exobilogy buff was to give players the easiest way possible to pay for AX weapons and rebuys. Whatever.
 
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The Roofus

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Aerendyl

Aerendyl
Maxx Thorogood said:
Stupor cruise being what it has always been and exobiology payouts being what they are at the moment, there is no longer any point in mapping terraformable bodies. The payout imbalance with exobilogy simply eliminates any financial benefit of mapping "high value" terraformable bodies. Why spend 30+ minutes in stupor cruise traveling to various terraformable bodies when sampling Stratum yields 20+ times the payout. I've done the math, meticulously. 1.7 billion in exobilogy a week with 30 million in cooresponding cartography. Unless it's your weekend to grind to Elite V in carto (yes it might take a whole weekend), what is the point of doing any body mapping? This is exactly what happens when product management makes balancing decisions while never having played the game they are managing. Anyway, it does not matter. The point of the exobilogy buff was to give players the easiest way possible to pay for AX weapons and rebuys. Whatever.
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30 million is still pretty good though! Who cares if you get more doing exo? You have to take all the time to map, land, run around finding 3 far-apart enough genomes - it's a lot more work. Personally, I'm enjoying the payouts from both mapping and exo, I hope they keep it as-is.
 

Schattenmacher

Schattenmacher
I have almost 27 billion credits in cash.
I would give every penny to finally get rid of all the bugs.
Making money in the game has never been a big challenge.
 

LughC

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Maxx Thorogood said:
Stupor cruise being what it has always been and exobiology payouts being what they are at the moment, there is no longer any point in mapping terraformable bodies. The payout imbalance with exobilogy simply eliminates any financial benefit of mapping "high value" terraformable bodies. Why spend 30+ minutes in stupor cruise traveling to various terraformable bodies when sampling Stratum yields 20+ times the payout. I've done the math, meticulously. 1.7 billion in exobilogy a week with 30 million in cooresponding cartography. Unless it's your weekend to grind to Elite V in carto (yes it might take a whole weekend), what is the point of doing any body mapping? This is exactly what happens when product management makes balancing decisions while never having played the game they are managing. Anyway, it does not matter. The point of the exobilogy buff was to give players the easiest way possible to pay for AX weapons and rebuys. Whatever.
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So... if you're doing either of these to make money you're doing the wrong activities. Likewise exploration is probably the longest way to get exploration xp and grind elite. Tourist missions are much faster.



Honestly with all the actual bugs in the game I'd rather they get things working then start on the balance.
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
Maxx Thorogood said:
Stupor cruise being what it has always been and exobiology payouts being what they are at the moment, there is no longer any point in mapping terraformable bodies.
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  • Exploration rank for those who are actually in deep space exploring.
  • Tagging planets to say I was here.

Both seem very weak but I don't care about credits. I don't care about credits from exobiology either. After a certain point credits are not a valueble reward.
 

rootsrat

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Maxx Thorogood said:
Stupor cruise being what it has always been and exobiology payouts being what they are at the moment, there is no longer any point in mapping terraformable bodies. The payout imbalance with exobilogy simply eliminates any financial benefit of mapping "high value" terraformable bodies. Why spend 30+ minutes in stupor cruise traveling to various terraformable bodies when sampling Stratum yields 20+ times the payout. I've done the math, meticulously. 1.7 billion in exobilogy a week with 30 million in cooresponding cartography. Unless it's your weekend to grind to Elite V in carto (yes it might take a whole weekend), what is the point of doing any body mapping? This is exactly what happens when product management makes balancing decisions while never having played the game they are managing. Anyway, it does not matter. The point of the exobilogy buff was to give players the easiest way possible to pay for AX weapons and rebuys. Whatever.
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It depends if you do it for money or for the love of exploring the unexplored.

Why do you assume everyone do things for money in Elite? That's rather narrow- minded point of view.
 
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Gut

Gut
Maxx Thorogood said:
Stupor cruise being what it has always been and exobiology payouts being what they are at the moment, there is no longer any point in mapping terraformable bodies. The payout imbalance with exobilogy simply eliminates any financial benefit of mapping "high value" terraformable bodies. Why spend 30+ minutes in stupor cruise traveling to various terraformable bodies when sampling Stratum yields 20+ times the payout. I've done the math, meticulously. 1.7 billion in exobilogy a week with 30 million in cooresponding cartography. Unless it's your weekend to grind to Elite V in carto (yes it might take a whole weekend), what is the point of doing any body mapping? This is exactly what happens when product management makes balancing decisions while never having played the game they are managing. Anyway, it does not matter. The point of the exobilogy buff was to give players the easiest way possible to pay for AX weapons and rebuys. Whatever.
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You could always just map Tera formable planets and not do Bio's or do something else plenty to do in the game.
 

Maidor

Maidor
Credits is the early game. Ofcourse you can aim to have billions and billions. But it's only one of the reasons players will do something.

I never done Planet Discovery for money, because trading was faster and mining was more fun.
Then I spent 2 months looking for the perfect system to put ''my flag''
Be the first one to map an earth like somewhere with 3 suns.

Mapped every planet on that system once I found it, one day I might try to expand a player faction there.

End point is, there are many ways to have fun in the game.
If Making the most profit is part of your fun ideal, but ship exploration was more akeen to your liking; Then you found something you like more than farming credits.
Just because exobilogy is now more lucrative, doesn't mean you need to change how you enjoy the game.
 

Aerendyl

Aerendyl
Maidor said:
Credits is the early game. Ofcourse you can aim to have billions and billions. But it's only one of the reasons players will do something.

I never done Planet Discovery for money, because trading was faster and mining was more fun.
Then I spent 2 months looking for the perfect system to put ''my flag''
Be the first one to map an earth like somewhere with 3 suns.

Mapped every planet on that system once I found it, one day I might try to expand a player faction there.

End point is, there are many ways to have fun in the game.
If Making the most profit is part of your fun ideal, but ship exploration was more akeen to your liking; Then you found something you like more than farming credits.
Just because exobilogy is now more lucrative, doesn't mean you need to change how you enjoy the game.
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