TOPIC: You know what really grinds my gears? pt. 1/?

The crafting system has been so useless even from its conception, when they finally change it, you know what they do? They make everything take uranium. I have no problem with that, reduce the amount of scu that come into economy, but making it so something as cheap as a tac insert cost 85 uranium is bonkers to me, the whole point of having a crafting system is so players new to the server have a way to make money without risk/pvp. But no, we make it so new players, the ONLY players who would ever be crafting any items have to go print and pvp without the essentials that they were trying to craft. Ontop of this, having the only printers that you can craft cost more then they'll make is crazy. Again, only new players are going to craft them, this design choice is directly pushing new players away. Sorry for the rant, I will probably post more tbh.

The fucking steel o matic doesnt even work when collected from a printer rack

crackrat wrote: will fix

In the shortest way possible: Alt accounts are the reason the recipes are so damn high. 

Since a player can have as many alts as they want that can place uranium units and mine steel/dumpster dive at the same time, it just makes it hard to really balance a list like that with them in mind, which I get is very unfair to players that don't use alt accounts. Some solutions could be to make it so alts can't place uranium units, perhaps make their uranium units print uranium at a slower rate, or create a new currency item that cannot be obtained by alts and add that to the recipes instead. This is something that would need to be discussed, however, since it would be quite a big change. If you've got any solutions that you think could solve this problem, I would like to hear em

In terms of the printer selection being dogshit that's something that can be changed

Faithful wrote: Or you guys could just ban alt accounts, but then the player count would be accurate

illegalimmigrant wrote: Factual

Faithful wrote:
nerf top players and also nerf new players to theyre near impossible to craft

Perhaps it's time to add the FP Crafting to ZARP

Faithful wrote:

Alt accounts ruined everything related to gaining money, should have been stomped out when they first appeared. Instantly gaining a multiplier (equal to accounts) should have never existed, would have been way easier and a way better player experience to just get rid of alting. Instead things got balanced around alting.

I wish things weren't balanced so heavily around people with 20 gmod's opened 24/7, adjustments should be made to the person and their alts like printing less money, gaining less materials from o matics & units, etc, so they can't gain so insanely quick whilst the average new player will never get a right footing unless they do the same thing which is retarded af. Or go with a simpler solution, only allow one alt at a time or ban them entirely, if people don't follow this, deal with it then.

The issue is only gonna get worse and worse than it already has, years ago, but mitigating the damage instead of letting it happen is a better option than making everything tedious as fuck and whilst we're on the topic of crafting recipes, please redo some of them, they are kinda crazy for what its really worth

I thought about something else but that’s just me I guess.

OnionRings wrote: Glad I'm not the only one!