We don't spend all day circle jerking PVE stuff. We All have Jobs and a real life. It literally costs Billions of nic to put your balls on the line to hold Beta. We ALL have limited play times. So naturally we find the most cost effective route. This change again neuters part of the time we have to spend less of grind NPCs for Nic.
If you want to change beacons it was VERY simple. Want to know what it was??
You can Only do 1 beacon at a time. Instead of letting us do 3 beacons at a time. That's ALL you had to do. That's IT!!! But you guys always try to balance something that drastically effects something else unintentionally! Like Sparks, or Locking beta stations, or cheap beacons or follow mechanics.
I am a champion for new player development, that's why I didn't scrap PHM and turned it into a recruitment corp. But what do you want me tell new guys who want LINEAR progression upwards?
"Oh welcome to Beta! Oh your a combat guy? Well your choices will be.... can you mine Epi?"
Dev Zoom: I'm sure you'll manage with some skills.
Yeah so I can tell new players, hey look I know you think going to Beta is going to make you more nic per hour just like every other MMO out there, because you have to RISK your bot but truth is if mobs die to explosion damage you lose a can. The one can that is the % based might have dropped a tiered item, or a beacon. Which the beacon you can't really do on Beta. Because if you don't shoot the EXACT bot the developer wants you to shoot you will lose most of the spawn to explosion damage and it drops nothing. Effectively wasting your time.
That what you want? To waste our time?
Your little fixes to production with fragmenting ores + adding more commodities + prototyping bots shot the NIC cost of robots up. How many people you see dropping heavys to pvp in? 5% to 8% of the engagements? A year ago it was like 80% of the time? I should be seeing end game fights, but who wants to waste big bots on fights?
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Really great job the Teams done. Prolly Alfs Idea. Worst. Dev. Ever.
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