Fix the small stuff

I know there's a larger dynamic regarding what's working and what's not, but fixing just a few of the small everyday things that are irritations would make me happy and would go a ways towards making players feel like someone out there is listening.


Repair Credits - ?

Repairs are free, but I keep getting repair credits in gate spins. And they were still inexplicably showing up in the last event boxes. I have nearly 2600 repair credits, with no mention of a plan to make them useful. I have seen ideas floated where they could be traded in for upgrade credits - that'd be great. Being able to trade them for log disks would be nice too.

Boxing - Reload _This_

I used to enjoy just boxing now and then - for all the people who say "It's a PvP game!" that's totally true, but it's definitely not the whole picture, and it's not fair to those who liked to mix things up now and then and intersperse blowing things up with a bit of boxing. That's how I used to play (each to their own), but that whole aspect is completely unbalanced now and has been for some time, even though the box botting seems to all appearances under control.

200 credits in bonus boxes dates back to before Skylab. Now it's possible to make over a million credits an hour by doing nothing - just transfer it from Skylab.

Make bonus boxes relevant again. Either increase credit rewards by a factor of 25 or 50, or change credit rewards to uri, multiplied by a factor of say, 0.025, rounded up. 200 credits becomes 5 uri, 1000 credits becomes 25. If that's too rich for BP's blood, make the conversion percentage 0.005. 200 credits changes to 1 uri, 1000 c. to 5 uri. That's not too much, and even people who pay something to play the game like to feel like they're earning a bit - it's part of the game. Bump up the credits, convert to uri…whatever. Just about every item besides the 20/50/100 in boxes is outdated and needs an overhaul.

Oh, and Jackpot Dollars. It'd be nice to have a way to cash those in for log disks or upgrades for those who never intend to enter, and particularly for those who live in the rather large percentage of the US who are restricted from participating by state law. This adds to the amount of "junk" boxes I pick up, which overall has to be well over 85%.

If all the people who have said they weren't getting the bonus box doubler package anymore actually did stop, that if nothing else should mean something to BP. I have no idea what the numbers on this look like. Maybe there's a bunch of players still subscribing and keeping the boxing situation afloat, and rubbing their hands every time their 200 credits gets doubled, not to mention the most annoying thing…for the Love of All That's Holy, do something to finally get RID of the message:

"You cannot gather laser ammo because your cargo is full."

It's irritating and frustrating. There was even acknowledgement from high up that they were looking into ways to fix that by maybe removing ammo limits, but that was a while ago now. No further response, no updates, nothing. It adds to the feeling that no one's listening and makes one wonder a bit if they're giving up on the cash cow and thinking about opening a hamburger stand instead.

I see some things changing, and some updates, but there's still just these really irritating "little" things that I see every single day - old issues, that nothing ever gets done about or addressed, that would make a noticeable difference to me on a daily basis.

 

If you pvp at all, 10 rep creds lets you insta rep your ship, thats the only good use for a premium member. But it is GREAT when you need it ...insta-rep, then jump cpu back in : )...but i agree 100% about the boxes, they are irellivant to anyone without complete boxing bio, pet fully set with salvage proticals and radar, and box doubler. Something needs to be fixed here, especialy since the "box bots " are gone. Time to reward the regulars : ).

 

rep creds good for repairing drones also and agree with PIE that insta rep is useful...And yes I do think the boxes should least go back to what they was before the box bots now that they are gone no need for reduced box content and think all laser ammo gathered from boxes should be added to ship not that it matters what I think but there it is anyway.

 

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Thought it was 100 of them?...
Yes to boxing. The amounts have remained at 20, 50, and 100 uridium as far back as I can remember. Back when fe was tops and all you needed was 1mil uridium; that was fine. It's not fine when the amount of uridium needed has gone up by over 20 times to get on top. Maybe increase the box amounts 20 times... 400, 1,000, 2,000 jk, but something seriously needs to be done. Yes to removing ammo limits and yes to reloading bonus boxes, especially the event ones. Please get rid of useless items such as credits and R310s in our event boxes.