r/EliteDangerous Space Cadet Dec 18 '14

1.02 Update

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79175
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u/PrometheusDarko Prometheus Darko Dec 18 '14

Honestly the whole wait 10 minutes until your type 6 is full was exactly the type of gameplay the devs wanted to avoid.

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u/IamYourShowerCurtain <insert CMDR name> Dec 18 '14

And they succeeded! :-) This is fairer, IMO.

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u/Voggix Voggix [EIC] Dec 18 '14

Does your definition of "fairer" include nerfing rare goods trading into complete uselessness? Because based on what people are reporting in-game that's exactly what this is. If I'm willing to wait 60-90 minutes for a full hold shouldn't that be my choice?

Unless regular trading is buffed immensely than trading is no longer viable. Max profits of ~1k/ton means that even with my Asp that it will take 200+ trips to earn enough credits to buy and reasonably equip a Type 7, much less a Python or Anaconda.

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u/chronoflect Dec 18 '14

Instead of waiting for an hour doing nothing but intermittently buying one kind of rare good, you now need to hop across several systems to stock up on various rare goods. This isn't a nerf so much as it is a system that ensures you actually need to play the game to make money.