I think that unless some balance/changes are made the new PP2 will become the new "Rare commodity merit grind". We'll have people parking a carrier nearby the best rare stations and camping the clock every 10 minutes to snatch them up.
You're absolutely right. Honestly, though, they need to bump up the other activities to be the level of rare goods trading, rather than nerf rare good trading down. That way, everyone benefits, rather than a game loop be nerfed into the ground. This is why FDev needed to give PP 2.0 to PP players instead of streamers. We would have been able to have leveled all the things prior to launch, so if your first love is ground combat, that would be equal to rare good trading or exobiology. FDev is going to be wielding the nerf hammer for months at this rate.
I agree with the bump in merits all the way around. It becomes especially dangerous when you are bounty hunting, and scooping up the drops at the same time. I hade around 20 or so escape pods in my inventory and enemies were starting to jump in by the groups. My poor vette took a huge beating in the end and used all of the two banks worth of shield cells just to stay alive. I barely got away with 15% hull, no ammo, and some very sweaty palms. Lol. There was at least 12 ships attacking me. 😮💨@vanderaj
I'm at rank 26 so far, mainly because I'm packing my house to move back to Australia, working $dayjob and diplomacy, and helping coordinate our stuff, ... so long story short, I'm spread too thinly! Excuses, excuses, I know.
I think that unless some balance/changes are made the new PP2 will become the new "Rare commodity merit grind". We'll have people parking a carrier nearby the best rare stations and camping the clock every 10 minutes to snatch them up.
You're absolutely right. Honestly, though, they need to bump up the other activities to be the level of rare goods trading, rather than nerf rare good trading down. That way, everyone benefits, rather than a game loop be nerfed into the ground. This is why FDev needed to give PP 2.0 to PP players instead of streamers. We would have been able to have leveled all the things prior to launch, so if your first love is ground combat, that would be equal to rare good trading or exobiology. FDev is going to be wielding the nerf hammer for months at this rate.
I agree with the bump in merits all the way around. It becomes especially dangerous when you are bounty hunting, and scooping up the drops at the same time. I hade around 20 or so escape pods in my inventory and enemies were starting to jump in by the groups. My poor vette took a huge beating in the end and used all of the two banks worth of shield cells just to stay alive. I barely got away with 15% hull, no ammo, and some very sweaty palms. Lol. There was at least 12 ships attacking me. 😮💨@vanderaj
How did you do? I’m at level 87 so far.
I'm at rank 26 so far, mainly because I'm packing my house to move back to Australia, working $dayjob and diplomacy, and helping coordinate our stuff, ... so long story short, I'm spread too thinly! Excuses, excuses, I know.