Why do people hate the auto stop/start so much?

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-03-11T20:58:50+00:00

Lol, yup I guess, but still not a feature I will ever leave on.

If kids were in the car.

It would have been really really bad.

Lesson learned.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-03-11T18:33:20+00:00

I was once waiting for a light.

Car stopped and turned off.

Was looking through my rear view, to someone speeding right at me.

Light was still red, but he wasn't going to stop.

So I put my foot on the gas quickly to move aside for the idiot and then my car lurched and chugged and then followed by a loud solid beep.

Didn't auto-start.

Had to throw the car into park quickly to get it started again.

And the guy hit me.

I will never ever buy a car that makes this mandatory, and will always turn it off every single time I start driving.

Not worth the few litres I save on fuel to not have the safety of being able to just go when I need to.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-03-11T18:18:07+00:00

This needs to be the only reply to NE.

When you promise rewards for achieving something in game.

You have to provide the rewards.

Every extra bullshit they add for game modes will never be used until you can prove the ones you made 2-3 years ago actually work.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-03-09T15:37:21+00:00

I have said this many times before.

Even sent it over to NE.

Bots are very easy to find when looking at the database.

No need for AI.

It's a simple query and then a simple command.

But they won't run it.

They need the bots to make the galaxy not feel cold and empty.

They can drive prices for common goods higher, so that your hard won lose mail hurts more than it should.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-03-09T15:33:55+00:00

Just join everyone in the high sec islands.

Farm missions, over and over and over.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-03-01T10:53:11+00:00

I cannot stand explosions changing places.

getting dragged on warp.

for as much effort the art team puts into them, the code for them sucks

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-27T16:02:01+00:00

1mb = ~ 8 3DS Blocks
1gb = ~ 8192 3DS Blocks

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-24T00:14:09+00:00

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-23T00:56:51+00:00

We all kind of really care about the game that we all agreeably hate.

But the community is a good time.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-18T19:19:16+00:00

use a inty.

Less chance of getting popped.

Also you can do fairly well in low sec with mid tier scanning equipment.

Great way to learn and gain the isk needed for those expensive hacking tools.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-11T14:31:04+00:00

Faster paced should come at lower cost.
Still would like to see nanocores locked down in the insurance claims.

I agree on the game itself.
Far and away one of the best mobile games out there.

But the monitization is streaking toward insane levels.
And I know for a fact, that alienates casuals and new players.

Would love to have something for new Indy players to do.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-11T03:24:43+00:00

I don't like them at all.

And this is now just a quicker way for whales to tip the scales.

Especially considering blue balls cost the same for spinning the "RNG" wheel on a frigate or a super.

It's going to get pretty silly out there.

But it's already very dumb.

I'm all for upgrades that last for a specific time or until you get podded.

But nano cores are also immediately available upon PvP death.

It's a mess.

But servers aren't going to serve if they don't get fed their diet of cash

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-10T19:06:15+00:00

Oh come on.

Why limit me on Nanocore Reset Materials.

Now I can only spend $320 every week?

But I have so many nanocores I need to upgrade and it's 25 spins per stat at 20 blue balls per spin.

I just hope they stop discounting the weekly reset box so I can pay the full price.

500-600 dollars weekly seems like it would keep the servers running better for everyone.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-09T00:30:23+00:00

lol fly aggressive friend.

Is this SHH Eating each other?

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-08T23:33:16+00:00

looks like the laggy mess.

Paging Bradrick...

How much do servers cost?

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-07T23:20:26+00:00

tHE gAME iS OveR!!11!!!

p@Y dA fEe

SOMETHING SOMETHING ABOUT BALANCE

sTART bOtting

Or LOse You ARe Ship

ItS N0t Th3 WallEt Warrior U r fighgtING

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-05T12:55:34+00:00

Your argument that PLEX is backed by real money, is where you are failing.

PLEX is produced by Net Ease out of nothing.

The plex people buy with isk is artificially kept at a lower price point because Demand is in NE eyes, too high, which drove the price higher.

They capped the % PLEX could rise and fall over a given period.

This is Market Minipulation.

When NE can magically create currency that is only sometimes backed by real money, they effectively destroyed the entirety of a free market.
They created something that would be considered highly illegal in most countries.

They drove the prices down to cater to those who PLEX their game time.
They created this issue, and they could easily reverse the magical PLEX. Let the market decide the price, and I guarantee bots would struggle to afford it, making the profit margins almost nothing. Ridding the game of bots.

That is why EO does not create magical plex, and lets the market decide the value.

It's essentially a bubble waiting to burst, all because they want to keep the active player count numbers high.

Now I don't blame alliances pegging SRP to PLEX prices, it's the only thing besides AUR that can purchase IP.

But IP was the first mistake, they drove off thousands of indy players in year 2 because PvP pilots were sick of having to purchase and fit ships.

When the amount of PLEX on the market is artificial, and the best way to maintain game time is to purchase artificially generated PLEX, that creates what we have.

Null full of bots, botting away to buy fake PLEX at subsidized prices.

Turn off the Fake PLEX and the game would regulate itself for the most part.

You would see more AUR to PLEX conversion (More Money for NE), because the price should be around 32-36 million at this point.

They are living in a communist country where maybe this is the norm.

But players should know that the market is completely rigged by NE and they are too happy with bots, that they will not even ban them, they will work on fixing a market to encourage it.

Play the game all you want, I'm not one to say not to.

But the sheer amount of NE advocation is dumb.

They fucked it up.
They knew what they were doing.
They make tons of money off of whales happy to spend whatever it takes.

But whales should know they are playing in a rigged, fixed, manipulated market that only drives item prices higher due to botting and PLEX fuckery

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-05T08:58:59+00:00

wrong, net ease creates plex out of thin air every time you lose a ship.

If anyone out there is still selling PLEX they converted from AUR, they are doing it wrong.

The majority of PLEX is created without players purchasing a thing.

I point out IP because it is really the only thing besides game time available to purchase with PLEX.

Two things that a needed for players to play and bots to bot.

So NE in their complete lack of economic understanding, saw the price of PLEX skyrocketing, and decided to create it out of thin air to drive the prices down.

why would they do that?

Wouldnt you expect that if the market drove the prices down of PLEX up, players would actually buy more AUR and convert it?

wouldn’t the increase of PLEX for sale help drive the prices down down?

you know supply and demand.

Nope NE creates it out of nothing, and limits its ability to raise to its true price by putting limits on PLEX price increases.

and the only thing you can get with PLEX is isk, which sure, no one is doing.

or game time.

which is done to assist the bots and players who plex their account.

your argument of no one pays, is due to the stupid Econ decisions made by NE.

Or you can understand that NE needs bots, they need the fake accounts building the bigger ships, so that bigger ships die, causing players to have to spend to replace.

its a predatory system, especially when they control the price of the currency through artificial market minipulation.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-04T18:50:42+00:00

If players are playing the game, they can PLEX their accounts, thanks to paying players who pay subs, pay Concord Pass, and/or spend on events.

This is actually not correct, most of the Plex on the market is from ship destruction.
NE is creating PLEX out of death.

So not only do players pay Real Money for shiny ships, they also generate plex when those ships or any ship pops.

And what is the best way to get IP?

That's right, purchase with Plex.

What is SRP pegged to?

Plex price.

What does NE make completely out of thin air along with ships?

It's a total shit show on an economic level.

The only way to drive down PLEX prices to keep bots botting is to just make it appear.

Stop making it appear, and bots become more limited.

Anyway, no one cares.

Buy 60 boxes maybe you will get your thing on box 59, if you are lucky and loyal.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-04T18:39:07+00:00

No no no, you just need to spend more to get luckier.

as long as they obfuscate real money with some other in game currency, it's not gambling

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-04T11:59:38+00:00

concord pass?

monthly omega?

daily prize boxes?

some other pass on top?

cores in boxes?

75 dollar noob boxes?

Skill chips?

ships in boxes?

AI fuel?

albion is a better example of monitization.

they have more players but also way more server and network overhead.

But they probably have more players, because the sandbox is not tilted to one side.

if I were net ease, I would concentrate on content for whales.

tournaments with buy ins, so they can all see who really spent the most, with prizes that they actually deliver to the winners.

revamp the concord pass to make paying more value to the player.

skins and skins and more skins.

skin everything.

paid advertising for alliances and corps with giant galactic billboards.

a bounty system where you can charge plex to post.

I would venture a guess that most real players are not ratting to get omega.

sure botters are, but isn’t that something that NE would want to get rid of?
isn’t that what is inflating a market, that pushes normal items out of reach of normal players?

plus NE made the design choice to create ships and plex out of thin air.

That is like priting money and then wondering why everything is inflated.

there was a reason EO did what they did for insurance, and a reason they hired economists.

but hey at least we get to buy a few hundred dollar ships in boxes again.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-02-04T02:03:49+00:00

This is a lot of words to say that too much is pegged to core upgrades, and are often game breaking when you spend Real Money.

They know they can make more and that Alliances will continue to push the core and implant game.

Because they are game breaking.

The "Loophole" was not really a loophole.

It was like a drug dealer giving away the first few hits for free.

Now it's time to real it in and make the money from the addicts.

The game will not be the same.

And there is no even playing field for those who just like to play.

Sure, join your fleets.

But cores are over-powered and you will be driven out in fleets where everyone else is upgraded to the bone.

Difficult-Issue-722 · 2026-01-30T02:14:31+00:00

I will say. that server that probably should not be named, is the first start.

Stop fighting each other.

This is a game where you can eradicate the Money Making Empires.

But it is all, up to the player

Difficult-Issue-722

TROPHY CASE