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Hi,
I will definitely be participating in this birthday event!
Unfortunately, it just happens to start at 10 pm my time, so I'll be in bed, but I'll pop in after sleep for sure!
Here is my latest opinion, regarding the new activity:
The only downside to this is the points. I was, to be honest, very disappointed (no pun intended) in the point reward, but I could see, if I were to do the harder missions, the cash reward becoming very noteworthy, to say the least. Not to mention, it was very engaging and fun, even on easy mode! Going around the star, diving down to find the pods, and then fixing what needed to be fixed and letting them fly away was quite interesting, so overall, a very good activity!

british summertime.

Still no good sound pack for Mush-Z I'm guessing?

It's just really hard to say. Due to the way activities and unlockables are spread out, individual ranks mean less and less the higher you go. A new person at rank 40 might hold the opinion that an hour of activity grinding would be fairly compensated with 5 ranks, or maybe even less, because of how little space there is between ranks. Ask someone at rank 1500, and you'll probably get a very different answer, since they're expected to perform the same activity for potentially for a hundred ranks to unlock the next one. Personally, I'm still more a fan of how Core Exiles does it, where you can do any activity at any point in time and get rewards that insentivise you to do them, based on your playing style, rather than the way CR means you to progress, with you doing some activities until they become redundant. It's especially weird if you consider how highly the individual activities talk about themselves. You'd think a society that still creates lots of planetary polution would place more regard for those who keep doing it, rather than being like "oh, you're at this rank on your piloting license, go suck up some carbon for us a few times, then we'll let you do something else."

@Dakonna: I agree.
@mazen: exactly, I feel you. and they just decided to nerf down the rewards for gas, too.

Hi.
I haven't played the game for very long time. Not because I'm not interested, but simply because of lag of time.
I agree with post #993. Being able to do whatever activity you want no matter what rank you are sounds nice. But, what should ranks then be used for? Unlock ships and items?

@995 there's a decision I'll perhaps never be able to understand. Why are the hosts actively punishing people for doing what helps them rank up? They aren't trying to exploit loopholes or anything, they're doing what, to them, is the only way they have left to gain ranks in a reasonable amount of time. Nerf this, nerf that. They nerfed minerals back in the day and that lead to everyone between ranks 200 and 400 being stuck. As a consequence, they were forced into quickly hammering out a bunch of mindless slog activities like trash cleansing to fill the gap. Why make minerals transferable at planets in the first place if you're going to make the rewards from them so tiny you might as well disallow it? When I used to play the game, I stopped transfering minerals right then and there and only got them for factory related work. But you can't nerf your way to a balanced game.

When I played CR I was really annoyed with about 8 hours of star studying only for 100 or so ranks and being forced to repeat it again. I'm not going to connect to the game again (partially because setting up Vip/Soundpack for the mud is a lot of hassle) so if someone could pass this along I'd be grateful.
I think that point costs for activities should be hidden. I also think that all activities should have random point payout proportional to your rank. So for example, star studying would give you roughly 7-14% of the points needed to rank up. Fishing could give you, say, 5-10%. These values would be hidden from the players and in my opinion would provide a more diverse approach to ranking because you'll still end up leveling at some point in a not too distant future. You can't make that argument right now because if you were to go fishing at rank 1000... see you in 2 or so years. That's how long it'd take you to reach 1001-5. This approach would be applicable to all activities, so if you really like trash harvesting you can still do that at rank 1500. This would also explain how people keep planets clean because somebody rightfully pointed out that you only help combat pollution for like... 3 hours. My argumentation for keeping the points hidden is to prevent min-maxing. If activities are intended to provide enjoyment, adding in "You received XXX amount of points" sorta distracts from that purpose.
Also, consider explaining what ranks actually are. Why are ships locked until a certain rank? Why do I have to be rank 750 in order to fly a 22 pilot ship? Shouldn't piloting certifications have different classifications? Perhaps--and I know this is very drastic--consider how the ranks actually interact within the game and how much sense do they make? Avalon had this approach if I recall correctly, I don't remember it having a major emphasis on leveling and yet that mud was the best one I've seen in terms of mechanics / description.

Star conquest explained their reason for certain things being locked away behind point walls in this way: Building ships, especially large ones, and battlesuit tech is expensive, and they want to reserve the bigger and better stuff for people who know what they're doing and have enough experience to (hopefully) not get blown up. It's a sort of cheep way to handwave game mechanics, but it works in their universe since they don't seem to have access to things like 3d printing, widespread automation or more klarktechy things like rearanging individual atoms to form different compounds. CR, on the other hand, is limited only by the player's imagination, since they let you describe anything. Wanna build a dyson swarm? Put up a factory a few units away from a star and split up the factory into several hubs, then simulate shuttle travel between habitats with a few clever exit messages. And if you wanna turn that swarm into a dyson beam, just put it into your descriptions. There are no laws that prevent you from doing it. CR also seems to have some sort of really clarktechy assembling technology, since if a ship is destroyed, all you gotta do is drop a bunch of metal pannels into a drydock and hit the magic button. Considering how cheep some vehicles are, you can assume manufacturing is trivial in the CR universe, and the costs put on high level gear are mostly artificial inflation for the game's sake. This means that ranks really don't serve a purpose except from a game mechanics point of view. The general opinion is that if you wanna do the cool stuff like moonbases, you're gonna have to work for it, so we'll put it behind a ridiculously high rank wall that you have to grind your way through first. I know I keep referencing Core Exiles, but it just gets a lot of this stuff right. For example, large-skale projects like settlements, companies or Genesis management aren't locked away behind high level walls (all of these things can theoretically be done as soon as you reach level 25). Rather, the limiting factor is that most of these things require large amounts of money and resources, so before you can actually do them, you have to find a way to support the endeavor. I think that would be the best way to go about it.

So I hope this doesn't count as threat necromancy given that the last post was from about a year ago, but I wonder if there is anything I can do regarding help improving the soundpack.
I notice that especially for smaller details there are no sounds or sounds that don't really fit the current szene, for example no footstep sounds, wrong or unfitting ambiances for apartment, shopping centers or the like, no sounds for gliders, bicycles, no sounds for clothing, all those small details that might not impact the game alot, but would fit in nicely into the game in my opinion.
So, instead of suggesting hey, could you put in this or that, would there be a more direct help, stuff like providing sounds, coding them in and so on?

Greetings Moritz.

is there a mush sound pack for this? I was told one is in the works but I haven't heard anything.  And, Hi Cerulean!! How goes bro?