So, Elite: Dangerous is selling ships for real money now but in a twist they're kind of doing it worse than Star Citizen. Not in regards to the price tag - yet, anyway, but there are about 3 more ships not yet revealed - but in that the ship sells with at least some engineering completed.
If you've ever played E:D then you how straight-up pay to win engineering is vs non-engineered ships.
This is also on their brand new PvP focused ship, which just makes it all the more silly.
If there's a silver lining it's that you can grind out their item mall currency via game play, with some caps to how quickly it's earned in-game. I can't be bothered to look it up but, in theory, players will eventually be able to buy the ship via grinding. How long (or not) that'll take I don't know.
and if Elite is anything, it's a grind. So yeah, that's on brand I suppose.
OTOH, FDev, rather unsurprisingly IMO, is breaking a promise after saying they'd never do this with their item mall.
The funny thing about being P2W is that in Star Citizen you can spend disgusting amounts of money on ships but the bigger the ship, the more necessary the crew. Engineering (actual engineering, not ED's button click RNG) now exists in Arena Commander & is proven to necessitate a crew.
Where as in ED you can buy a big ship and multicrew is a side thought. The ships are intended to fly solo.
Spend the big money in SC & you need a crew to handle encounters. Get a big ship in ED, you fly it solo.
Kind of agree, kind of disagree. 3+ monitors are better than a single large monitor. You could, for example, run 3 monitors at 4K and that would be a better experience than multiple 720p displays.
But if you're choosing between a single 4K display or multiple 720p displays, well, I'd say go for 1440p displays rather than 720p, but other than that I'd agree.
In #StarCitizen land I was able to mine enough material to get a single work order going. It's still buggy ala last night's post, but at least some of the rocks worked today.
Had I known that it was so flaky this patch I never would have rented this Prospector. :nkoFacepalm:
But it is what it is. I'll see if I can get a few refinery jobs going and at least make back the aUEC spent on renting this ship.
...then I'll need a cargo ship, but one step at a time. :blobcatshrug:
Oh no, with the Hull C out I was hoping that this behavior was working fine now. 😅
Well crud. As much as I want the Hull A maybe I'll aim for the Freelancer (base). It's not terribly more expensive (until the aUEC price hikes in 3.23). It's old, but they're polishing it a bit (internals, doors) for 3.23..
Typical. "Rules for thee but not for me". I know that people dislike regulation, but this is why regulation (and existing laws) need to exist and to be enforced.