So that's you, Dark. I told you to be careful of bushes, didn't I?

@Americranium: I'm finding I don't like star studying much. My issue is this. I can either risk my ship I spent money on, upgrade it....or buy a cheap ship I can make the money back on, easily. Problem is.....

I find CR too spammy in several regards. I think there needs to be a redo of activities. I loved the early game, volcano harvesting was good, and once you got a ship, it opens up (now I've quit blowing mine up I like it a lot). I just feel like the econmy needs a rebalance. I got punted from 70 wayyyy up and lost out due to not getting cash. Fortunately a kind soul's given me money to put me where I need to be

@Dark: If you see Kira Callahan on, just ask on the chat or link to me, I'll happily fly ya to Harmonia, that's my go to area to start my nebula and planetoid runs, so just let me know you wanna go to Harmonia.

Okay, okay, I get it's an IC issue. But for gameplay reasons, I'd rather see Harmonia get its taxi back. Or, hey, I'd rather see from a pure OOC perspective, taxis and rifts to Harmonia and merchants going there to allow new players to get there really.

Also, the spam needs to b toned down with activities.

My current go to is nebula harvesting for money and points, right. I got into a groove of checking the temps, but why should th ecomputer be so eager to announce every little thing? Sure, I could put it on silent, but, but.....that's not the point. I don't want to know rod 2 got plasma. I only want to know about the important stuff. I only wanna know when the temprature changes.

Same with the PD...whatever drone missions, I can't remember that acronym for the life of me, but I don't want to know what everyone else is doing. I want to only know about my drone, honestly. I only wanna know what /my/ drone is doing.

Also, leave it to me to go for a 500 trillion cruiser when there's ships that are less expensive...thank the gods for dry docks. Also chuckling over my IC rant on my ship about weather. Turns out, nope, my ship can't land in bad weatherr.

I got a lot of suggestions, but they won't fit on a support ticket. So, @Dardar: Where do I put my suggestions? yes, I thought of the spring.

As an aside, you'd get a spring after every so many finds, like you do 3-4 finds. You get a spring with between 1 and 10 water, each water fills up your bottle.

On that note, I've hit an impasse. I can't get a crew together for any of the group activities, and the rewards I've got from plasma have nosedived. I suck at star studying, and all of the other stuff is either group (volcano mining, planetoid chunks) or needs higher level stuff (planetoid exploring and ship wrecking).

So here's my suggestions to deal with that.

1. Have a volcano miner that's got NPCs in it. You can either do the group activity. Or you can buy the solo volcano miner. It'd have NPCs or automation that'd mean okay, you're stuck with being the driver, but you can at least /do/ the activity without relying on other players. I asked for a crew to help with an activity, and the response was, quote

You can't pay me enough to do that, then the discussion was how weak the payout was. That shouldn't bee a derermining factor in an activity (Star observing in question)

I'd like to see each of the group activities paired with a solo activity. I mentioned volcano mining.

Let's take the aforementioned star observing for example. I can go on my own, find the place, start it up. I'd be given the pod and facility. I'd do that, but I'd have to do a little more leg work to set up the automation. For example, set up and align the antennas and thins like that. THen I'd have to stay on the facility and wait it out. I'd have to then carry the data back to a certain facility. If I step off the facility, the data stream resetss, or I'd have to repair the computer for example.

Or, for planet exploring, I'd be able to hire NPC mercenaries that follow me around, attack enemies, but they take half the cash reward if I hire them, but to balance it, they'd come with gear suitable for planetoid exploring and surviving, matched to your player rank.

@Dardar: Just a little peeved about this. You said 15 mins of downtime, it's been a bit longer than that, can you try to be a bit more accurate with the announcements on the server. If that's not the hosts putting up what you say then I'll take that back, but when it's said 15mins downtime I expect it to take around 15mins. Not t nearly an hour, unless there's problems, which should really be communicated.

EDIT: Okay, remembered the activities, I got quie a few that suggest no max rank, but I'm rank 797, why would I go volcano harvest, why would I do rank 15 activities? More to the pointt, a klot of the higher rank activities I can do solo don't give point rewards (building deliveries for example or planetoid chunks or the celestial splitting). There needs to be a rebalance of the activities. If an activities state they got no max level cap, I expect to get good rewards. Not for them to give out less and less reward, especially when that one activity is the only one I can do consistently, because players aren't willing to group up for activities that are suggested for my rank range. I've tried asking IC, I've tried OOCly to get groups together, I've tried private comms both IC and OOC. Nobody wants to group up any. And it's not just me with this. Everyone's off doing their own thing. So what's the point of the group activities?

Before anyone says oh, just farm plasma over and over and over. I could, but I've noticed the rewards for that getting less and les and less the more I do it, and, there isn't (that I've noticed anyhow, correct me if I am wrong), a good reliable solo activity I can do consistently for points. I can make a lot of cash easily, that's not the issue. Points and ranking up are the isssue.

You were helping out earlier, so thanks. I've talked with you IC and OOC, Furrath, (I'm Kira Calahan there)....but I disagree.

I don't feel like rank 1000+ should get rewarded for gas/plasma harvesting when there's activities meant for their rank range. Take me for example, I am, as said, rank 797 or thereabouts, I forgot exactly where....so tell me why exactly I should be doing one activity that gives good points and cash? Here's my issue with that....

It's boring. It's boring when I have to either slog through sectors to find nebula, or hope a wormhole takes me to a nebula remnant, or ask for a ride to one. I don't think people aboe a certain rank, and yeah, I'm including myself in this, should get points for higher levels. Here's my idea. Give those activities a levdel cap. Give them a max cash value, and once you're past the cap, you only get the max cash, no points.

Also, yeah, the solo activities need too be a thing.
I do have my factory going between my post about it and this one, but I feel like I need to get to a certain rank to enjoy the game. I'm not going to name names, but I had a very honest and enlightening OOC discussion with a certain person, who was helping out quite a lot and was giving himts on what to do. I do think a lot of the issue is certain players are set in their ways. Personally, if I was a host I'd implement a change to keep playrs around their activity range. Like if Dark wanted help with hand mining and I showed him what to do, that's a level 10 activity. I wouldn't expect any reward for it.

So. How exactly do the level caps work, exactly, is it how I've described?

EDIT: I've been told by quite a few people to stick with plasma till 1000. Problem is I also got told the more I rank up, the less the rewards are for said plasma.

I was offering to fly over and help you out repeatedly, I don't know if you didn't get my messsages, but I did offer several times to go over and take a look to help you out. That offer still stands. Yes, I agree on the documentation part of it.

However, if you'd asked on newbie, you might well have got an answer. Though my offer of help still stands. I've a lot of feedback for the event tonight, the htpc, so I'll bring up the documentation unless you get to it first. I do have a whole idea about redoing activities mind (see my spring example)

I'm getting very good at finding bugs and breaking stuff. I /was/ gonna rank to 871 but then bugs happened so yeah....that's a thing.

And of course,it'd be my ship with the biggest cargo space stuck in an infinite transfer. I got to quit breaking stuff when hosts around to fix them, right?