oh, rolafan, thank you for the tip,
now i know how to make even more NIC out of Beta harvesting missions!

And by "yourself" I guess you mean you and your 9 other accounts?

it's already been proved, if you were to do missions for tokens and nic you would have so many tokens left over.  I predict a flood of tokens and lack of nic.

You should test it out yourself and see on the test server.  That's what you should do.  Do it solo and stack 10 guys in a squad with you and try it out.  Half these people have no idea what they are talking about.   Hell Zoom, you want to run them on live server tonight, I'll invite you to teamspeak and you can see yourself.

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I'm telling you, grabbing multiple missions isn't faster.

@Zoom if you do what you do with fixing mission give a couple more levels of risk and maybe chain of 7 or 9 we are golden.

And that's exactly what has already happened - everything has got more expensive.

People have NIC at the moment and don't have tokens and so it's easier to do harvesting missions and solo missions. This reduces NIC payout without impacting the amount of tokens you get, but makes the mission very easy. You can do a harvesting mission in easily under five minutes for 310 tokens whereas a combat mission takes longer but will get you a lot more NIC. Now call me crazy but a well balanced mission system should have a reward that matches the time and difficulty it takes to do the mission. Currently it does not.

What this whole fiasco was about came back to the original 'economic crash' thread I made and is around there being no NIC sinks in the game worthy of the name. My point remains the same - the mission system is pumping far more NIC in to the system than is being removed.

There are two ways of dealing with it. The first is what you are going to do - reduce the payout. While this does make sense moving forward from today it doesn't address the amount of NIC already in the game. By reducing the payout you leave the imbalance caused in game as well as demotivated a player base already used to the value that missions produce. You are not taking this approach with tokens - that's what the forced devaluation is about.

The second approach I'm advocating is accepting that the money is already in the game and adapting the NIC sinks to deal with that. By increasing token amounts to 600 and reducing NIC payouts to 25m you are increasing NIC sinks to a good level which should drain money from the system. As there will be a glut of tokens in the game this will make them worth less which is a good thing - this encourages their trading giving the opportunity for more NIC sinks.

In regards to NIC sinks this is a good reason to remove the relations need when buying stuff from the token shop - this will create a bigger market to sell tokens as people can accumulate to buy the black bots and T4+ themselves rather than buying the finished goods.

since when did that connection exist? remember "we need more xy kernels" or "we need more xy fragments" together "we are swimming in NIC, but will only pay you 0.4 NIC per titan ore"

Because in order for you to be able to buy someone has to be willing to sell.