BP Decryption

[Makk_3]

Recently returned to the game after a 6 year break to see this abomination of a system in the game.

Somebody please explain to me how BP Decryption is good for the game. You are quite literally forced to grind very specific blueprints to progress and it gets stupidly egregious once you reach Sirius, because you no longer can grind the blueprints you want.. when you want. You are at the mercy of RNG of R5 planets having the necessary blueprints to progress and god knows how long you will have to spend time in Sirius just to reach Tau Ceti because you need ALOT of blueprints.

This makes zero sense. Why do we have this arbitrary system in the game? Why are we being forced to sit and wait for the correct blueprints to drop in order to progress? Not surprised some new players quit so early, but atleast they have dodged a bullet.

I am on the verge of quitting for good now because i do not find this sitting and waiting in Sirius fun at all. I want to be in Tau Ceti grinding BP's there.

 

[sergi211]

If you don't skip any planet in around 6mo you should have all siri tech

 

[WoW]

Recently returned to the game after a 6 year break to see this abomination of a system in the game.

Somebody please explain to me how BP Decryption is good for the game. You are quite literally forced to grind very specific blueprints to progress and it gets stupidly egregious once you reach Sirius, because you no longer can grind the blueprints you want.. when you want. You are at the mercy of RNG of R5 planets having the necessary blueprints to progress and god knows how long you will have to spend time in Sirius just to reach Tau Ceti because you need ALOT of blueprints.

This makes zero sense. Why do we have this arbitrary system in the game? Why are we being forced to sit and wait for the correct blueprints to drop in order to progress? Not surprised some new players quit so early, but atleast they have dodged a bullet.

I am on the verge of quitting for good now because i do not find this sitting and waiting in Sirius fun at all. I want to be in Tau Ceti grinding BP's there.

It’s good because you don’t see people skipping tech rotations. Before when BP decryption wasn’t a thing, you could see players getting carried from vega to Sirius in a day and then installing Sirius tech on their ships to increase their levels rapidly.

 

[Makk_3]

If you don't skip any planet in around 6mo you should have all siri tech

Which is quite simply too large of a time investment. We are talking about a single star system after all. No other star system takes this long to complete all the BP's, not even close. To make matters worse, if you do miss one you need, you then have to wait like a month or 2 for it to appear again.

It’s good because you don’t see people skipping tech rotations. Before when BP decryption wasn’t a thing, you could see players getting carried from vega to Sirius in a day and then installing Sirius tech on their ships to increase their levels rapidly.

You are still being timegated when you reach Sirius, no other way around it. BP Decryption atleast makes more sense in Vega-Draconis & TC because you can farm whatever BP any time you want. In Sirius you need X blueprint but can only farm X when X is available on a certain planet on a specific timeframe.

In all honesty, i'd be less against the system, if Sirius BP's were prioritized more in the R5 drop pools (the main reason most players are there after all are Sirius BP's), but that's not the case and you have Vega-Drac BP's polluting the drop pools, thus adding into the timegate.

 

[sergi211]

Which is quite simply too large of a time investment. We are talking about a single star system after all. No other star system takes this long to complete all the BP's, not even close. To make matters worse, if you do miss one you need, you then have to wait like a month or 2 for it to appear again.


You are still being timegated when you reach Sirius, no other way around it. BP Decryption atleast makes more sense in Vega-Draconis & TC because you can farm whatever BP any time you want. In Sirius you need X blueprint but can only farm X when X is available on a certain planet on a specific timeframe.

In all honesty, i'd be less against the system, if Sirius BP's were prioritized more in the R5 drop pools (the main reason most players are there after all are Sirius BP's), but that's not the case and you have Vega-Drac BP's polluting the drop pools, thus adding into the timegate.

Like any other MMO out there stuff locked behind time invested or payment? .........

 

[GOTIL0N]

I fully understand your disagreement, Sirius wouldn't be a problem if it didn't have that mechanic of, if you're not here today, fuck you for months until the BP you needed rotates again, in fact a friend and I call the stage of new players or old ones like you who come back after years, "the Sirius plug stage" for obvious reasons

And I've always thought that most likely new PG players don't continue the game through Sirius, not only because it requires a time investment, which many don't have, but also because the mechanics themselves are very stale, you can really want to get the BP but you are limited, this even caused a mass exodus of players when Sirius was released back in late 2011, many people didn't like the mechanics from day 0, and that's despite the fact that now it's much softer than before, because before it was completely random, there were no fixed deadlines for a BP, in fact in Aurora when the Ancient Myst came out for the first time (the best ship at that time) it took 2 years for it to come out again, and in Gaia I understand that the protector Sirius strong (now long) never came out until they made the Sirius adjustments a few years ago, that kind of things don't happen anymore, but that Sirius mechanic is still annoying

 

[WoW]

I fully understand your disagreement, Sirius wouldn't be a problem if it didn't have that mechanic of, if you're not here today, fuck you for months until the BP you needed rotates again, in fact a friend and I call the stage of new players or old ones like you who come back after years, "the Sirius plug stage" for obvious reasons

And I've always thought that most likely new PG players don't continue the game through Sirius, not only because it requires a time investment, which many don't have, but also because the mechanics themselves are very stale, you can really want to get the BP but you are limited, this even caused a mass exodus of players when Sirius was released back in late 2011, many people didn't like the mechanics from day 0, and that's despite the fact that now it's much softer than before, because before it was completely random, there were no fixed deadlines for a BP, in fact in Aurora when the Ancient Myst came out for the first time (the best ship at that time) it took 2 years for it to come out again, and in Gaia I understand that the protector Sirius strong (now long) never came out until they made the Sirius adjustments a few years ago, that kind of things don't happen anymore, but that Sirius mechanic is still annoying

Funny that you say that, unlike you, waiting for 2 years, askone was waiting for 5-6 years for the myst drop , we got the myst after the rdx gb when bg arc came into place . I believe people should show patience when it comes to bps, its not a thing that gonna be done fast, done and over with.

 

[Sar97]

Decryption system was probably placed just to appease some sad and pathetic part of the playerbase who complained about new players not spending absurd amounts of time grinding just like they did in the past. An extremely selfish and childish way of thinking btw (If I suffer, everyone has to suffer too).

I seriously wish new players could just skip sirius entirely, its an absolute slogfest. It wouldn't be as bad if all bps were available at all times, but alas, you have to grind when the game decides you have to grind instead of when you want to, if you are missing a bp either farm it when it's available or wait 6 months

I bet most new players like you quit once they realize the absurd commitment that sirius entails

 

[GOTIL0N]

Funny that you say that, unlike you, waiting for 2 years, askone was waiting for 5-6 years for the myst drop , we got the myst after the rdx gb when bg arc came into place . I believe people should show patience when it comes to bps, its not a thing that gonna be done fast, done and over with.

It's not a competition to see who waited the longest, and people should be able to get BP whenever they want, and especially whenever they feel like it. Patience doesn't spawn in every human being and say, "Okay, I'm going to wait months for the BP that's got me stuck here on Sirius and preventing me from continuing my progress"