My reasoning for not logging in is much simpler.
got bored with the game...![]()
You should ask your mates, the Winged Hussars. This is entirely up to the groups what they roleplay with their intentions. I just like to liberate the people from oppression and that is what the group I am in does. I find it a bit strange you come here to ask these questions, lol.
You should ask your mates, the Winged Hussars. This is entirely up to the groups what they roleplay with their intentions. I just like to liberate the people from oppression and that is what the group I am in does. I find it a bit strange you come here to ask these questions, lol.
You group sounds a bit like me except I am a one man band. I do sometimes head back to Lugh, my home system and support the Crimson State.
Grind is a relative concept, it means different things to different people. There are so many different aspects to the game that if I find myself "tired of the grind" in what I'm doing, I'll just do something else. I had enough just recently of looking for engineering mats, so I took up on the BH CG. Now that's over, I might visit an engineer and do a bit of upgrading, then haul some materials for the trade CG. In my mind, mixing it up is the key. I'm double elite, but I didn't get there by "grinding" anything.
Grind is a relative concept, it means different things to different people.
Grind is the repetition of a certain menial task multiple times in order to gain an advantage over other players. Grind per sè is an objective thing, people just use the word improperly.
That said it is totally in the game, the fact that you can avoid or dilute the repetition required to unlock a certain feature/rank/blueprint/ship doesn't mean grind isn't there.
I disagree with the 'over other people' bit, that suggests there cannot be single player grind. But yeah, IMHO grind is the requirement of repeating a simple activity devoid of challenge over a long period of time, without a realistic alternative, to obtain a reward that supposedly compensates for the endured lack of fun.
I find that if I give myself an objective, such as obtaining the funds/rank to purchase a certain ship, then I'm actually highly motivated to play despite any potential grind. Then once I have achieved my objective, it's on to a new one. There's also playing with friends, which I highly recommend. I re-bought the game on Xbox just for that reason alone, and it does make a huge difference.
If you really have nothing to aim for, and are not getting any enjoyment out of the experience at all, then perhaps the game really isn't right for you. I've played games which have burned me out completely, and though I thought they were my kind of games at the time, I eventually came to realise that they were having a detrimental effect on my personality. That is to say, I was in a bad mood after playing them, and remained in a bad mood for some time after!
I do generally play this game for somewhat different reasons than most it seems. I play primarily as a survivalist, adventurer, and explorer and consider myself to be more of an "immersive" player than a "meta" player. As a whole I like the game quite a lot, though certain "gamey" type elements of it aren't really to my liking, and those I generally avoid.
Someone just tell me that the Guardian FSDs won't provide further range over maxed out Engineered FSDs. I guess they're bugged or something currently anyway?
Grinding XYZ isn't fun, if you're only playing to grind XYZ, but make the game about something more than that, and XYZ is soon just a means to an end.
Welcome to "the vision".
It's just a little too needy and dependant on commanders to fill in the blanks at times, and relies on people inventing narrative; because there simply is none. Which is fine, maybe? but sometimes it's nice to give the brain case a rest, and let the game you're playing, tell a little story or two.
Frontier still struggle with pacing, or even appear to understand reasons to do this. I digress, however.