Nowadays it’s quite easy to make money, they did actually 10x the payouts on a lot of things at some point. However, always being online makes me a bit sketched to the point of considering making my own flight sim in space, considering what I enjoy most is the depth and complexity of actually operating a spaceship like that.
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PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Idk, maybe if they didn’t lock down their game to he always online and maybe if they reduced the grind to a point people with a job or a life could play the game and still progress, more people would play their dated space game.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 8 months ago
nottheengineer@feddit.de 8 months ago
It’s an MMO, you can’t just go out and mod that. You could mod it visually, but that would eat into their profits from the store so it makes sense to not allow that as long as the game gets updates.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I miss being able to just swap to my Vulture and go hunt some people down in a CZ, now you gotta have a ship fully engineered or an Eagle will kick your ass.
No thanks, I don’t have the time for making this a part time job.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Around the time the game first came out you could make all your money just by bounty hunting in a sidewinder. It was great because it was the only actually fun way to progress the game by making money. They quickly nerfed the fuck out of that though.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I went off into the black to discover plants and it makes me more money than exploring ever has before.
My first run I went all the way to the core and then took my time back hitting first disc’ on dozens of neutrons and black holes. Almost a year out, made like 40 mil.
Scanned plants for a few weeks in tenebrae sector, made 1.5 billion.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That void opal exploit was fun while it lasted too. They tried to nerf it by making only some traders buy only 1 void opal at a time and for always less than the galactic market. Fortunately, this attempt was bugged and traders would buy an unlimited number, albeit for a reduce price that was still worth it. It took them at least a month to patch it to the point where traders would actually only buy 1 void opal.
Absolutely fuck frontier for their gameplay balance decisions. I still managed to barely scrape together an Anaconda just because I did a lot of drugs back then but still, fuck Frontier.