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OK, i've been thinking that draconis will be coming out sometime in the future, so i had better start grinding cryonite for the ships, as the price doubles per system. Now, i'm not one who gets annoyed at grinding, as long as there is somewhere it can be done fairly fast. 3.5-5k an hour is good enough for me. But now the system has been changed, so if you use high rank weapons on a low rank mantis you get a cryonite reduction.
THAT IS STUPID. I have NO IDEA why that was put in place, as if you think that it will stop people getting parsecs. So what if someone gets a parsec? its still a LOT of grinding with the old system. With this one i cannot see how even grinding the 120k for a sol ship fully equipped is vaguely possible.
I used to get around 1.5-2k per maximum energy off the level 45 harvs on mars. Now i get an average of 200. That means i have to refill 3375 TIMES to get the amount needed for a parsec, and that is without the armor. if using all the e, and refilling takes 10 mins ( it normally takes longer) that means it will take a total of 562 hours, that's 23 SOLID DAYS of playtime to get a parsec. Excessive, no?
Finally, lets say im an addict, and i play 4-5 hours a day. that will take me 112 days,
1/3RD OF A YEAR To get a parsec.
then you say, well kill something of a higher level. It takes around half my maximum e (6300 max) to kill ONE harvester, rank 57 with a stun ship. so it actually averages out to be not much better cryonite wise, but takes a lot longer to do.
So now, everyone that has already grinded for a parsec is laughing while we try to find a way of making decent cryonite, even if were not looking for a parsec ourselves.
This brings me onto my next point. 240k (my estimate for the fully equipped draconis ship is around a thrid of the price of a parsec. ish. That means that we will have to grind for around 8 solid days of game time to get a draconis ship. Tell me splitscreen, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??
ok rant over, I hope some of you can see how ridiculous the new system is. :frown:
THAT IS STUPID. I have NO IDEA why that was put in place, as if you think that it will stop people getting parsecs. So what if someone gets a parsec? its still a LOT of grinding with the old system. With this one i cannot see how even grinding the 120k for a sol ship fully equipped is vaguely possible.
I used to get around 1.5-2k per maximum energy off the level 45 harvs on mars. Now i get an average of 200. That means i have to refill 3375 TIMES to get the amount needed for a parsec, and that is without the armor. if using all the e, and refilling takes 10 mins ( it normally takes longer) that means it will take a total of 562 hours, that's 23 SOLID DAYS of playtime to get a parsec. Excessive, no?
Finally, lets say im an addict, and i play 4-5 hours a day. that will take me 112 days,
1/3RD OF A YEAR To get a parsec.
then you say, well kill something of a higher level. It takes around half my maximum e (6300 max) to kill ONE harvester, rank 57 with a stun ship. so it actually averages out to be not much better cryonite wise, but takes a lot longer to do.
So now, everyone that has already grinded for a parsec is laughing while we try to find a way of making decent cryonite, even if were not looking for a parsec ourselves.
This brings me onto my next point. 240k (my estimate for the fully equipped draconis ship is around a thrid of the price of a parsec. ish. That means that we will have to grind for around 8 solid days of game time to get a draconis ship. Tell me splitscreen, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??
ok rant over, I hope some of you can see how ridiculous the new system is. :frown:
