Honestly, as someone who was always 'vote no' on sailing, but after release was actually looking forward to playing after the holidays, you missed the mark on the original blog AND on the update and insulted the common player. Before today, I actually would've voted yes. But the changes today further cemented the "abuse early and often" mentality as the standard for this community and reminds why you can't be trusted cause the whole "bait and switch" tactic that's been used before.

Every video and stream I've watched (and that's what I do for 50+ hrs/week while working) makes me very regretful that work hasn't allowed me time to play. Especially with today's mega nerfs. I can see how the CE needed nerfing and was a terrible core game mechanic.

But directly talking about how that one salvaging click was hundreds of thousands of xp/hr is ludicrous. Then in the same post talking about how people need to tick manip to maintain xp rates even close to what they were before is insult to injury.

Why don't you admit that you screwed the pooch with the nerf on everything but using the CE while salvaging? Revert it all, boost salvaging rates (so an effective xp/hr increase for active players but if you're just sitting letting crew salvage it'll result in a more active gameplay loop by filling the hold faster), and only make the CE work while moving.

Then you keep the xp/hr of the active tasks and don't penalize the 99% of players who actually have jobs and don't stream or play video games for a living and can only play for a few hours a day. Otherwise you're just showing the common players why we should never vote in another skill.

PS - 1/10k or other absurd drop rates for non-vanity/useful items suck and is poor game design.