- insert location indication, if 1, 2, 3 or 4.
- increase expires time to 36 hours to allow those who play only a couple of hours every evening to finish the evening after the escalation identified the night before
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yeah, 24 hours is really too short.
Maybe it’s to avoid them being spawned in the server for nothing ?
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I want shorter distances between escalation chains. Going 8 jumps between very small, single room/wave, multi-part escalations is an annoyance.
hmm
So first you don’t HAVE TO do the escalation. Part of the game is choosing what is good for you and what is not.
Then, it’s not always 8. IIRC It’s between 2 and 9 jumps.
You can have an escalation 2 jumps from your position.
It also depends on your system ss.
However expeditions (so non-ded escalations) can go towards a specific system, so those can require a lot of jumps.
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I would say “Just don’t do the content” is a poor argument in a video game. Content exists to be played. Anything else is a critical failure of game design.
But not all content MUST be played.
So yes, if the escalation is not good, don’t do it. farm more sites and get another, better, one.
IMO the issue is that we should be able to trade those escalations. So that you can sell the ones you don’t like, to people who may like them.
Trading escalations is possible.
I recently got my first escalation (I never did rat much before) and was able to trade it.
It just requires some trust between buyer and seller that the bookmark is indeed an escalation, that you aren’t going to kill them now that you know the escalation location and that you get money in return for the bookmark. But if you have a community where people trust each other it’s easily doable.
Now about 24h escalation durations: I don’t know how common that is but I suspect it was one of the easier escalations?
The escalation I got had a 3 day duration, but it was intended for capital ships.
In other words, longer durations for escalations are possible.
For some farmers, doing the escalations is a waste of time, especially considering 8 jumps away.
They would rather farm during the time it takes to do the escalations, and make more farm, with more security, and more consistent income.
Having to make those jumps is definitely not an acceptable condition for that “trade” to be considered doable.
I know that you can conclude an agreement but it requires to get there in the first place.
When I say trade, I mean, like a redeemable item instead of the escalation, that you can trade, and indicates the escalation name/type/level and the system (like guristas D10 The Maze in G9D, Venal) and is consumed upon activation, allowing you to warp to and complete the escalation in the next 24H. Or even less, maybe say 10H.
You could activate those from the agency, or redeem them, or save them in the agency.