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Suggestions / Re: Balancing Income
« on: March 28, 2022, 04:05:39 AM »
I disagree about combat being "the fun way" to make money. If it were, the current rewards would feel sufficient (aside from the issue of travel distance - if you're offering a 50k bounty, don't tell me that they're hiding out "just 40 light years away" and expect me to take the job) - they're high enough to turn a (small) profit, and you would be having fun while doing it, so you wouldn't feel bad about having to do more of it to make more money. The reason that the rewards being lower is such an issue is that the combat isn't fun enough to carry the experience by itself - if you do more combat it isn't more fun, instead it becomes a tedious grind (see also complaints about grinding end game fleets for SP). Doing one bounty can be fun. Doing five similar bounties is a chore.
In my experience, the fun way to make money is exploring. Not because of any specific gameplay element that's more fun than combat, but because it offers the most variety of experiences. There are opportunities for combat, opportunities to avoid combat by stealth, more varied loot than you get from bounty fleets, etc.. That's why it's the thing I turn to doing when I don't need anything in particular; it doesn't get old as fast as the other activities, which tend to be more on the one-note side. If I need fast cash I trade, if I need to grind rep with a faction I generally do bounties (occasionally other missions, but bounties are reliable), but if I just want to play and have fun I go exploring.
In my experience, the fun way to make money is exploring. Not because of any specific gameplay element that's more fun than combat, but because it offers the most variety of experiences. There are opportunities for combat, opportunities to avoid combat by stealth, more varied loot than you get from bounty fleets, etc.. That's why it's the thing I turn to doing when I don't need anything in particular; it doesn't get old as fast as the other activities, which tend to be more on the one-note side. If I need fast cash I trade, if I need to grind rep with a faction I generally do bounties (occasionally other missions, but bounties are reliable), but if I just want to play and have fun I go exploring.