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I dont even use it every move just at and after a junction to make sure I am making progress towards the goal.

Hacking has a mine sweeper feel to me. You need to use logic and the tools at hand to make moves intelligently. Sometimes you have to take risks to get the reward. I honestly love it.

To clear something up:

Polymorphic AVs don't chase. After absorbing a certain number of ops from you, they transform, which makes them do more damage.

AVs should not chase, but scanners are bugged, so ICEs called by scanners will chase you across the grid.

As well, JAM is not a reliable counter (probably bugged).

I love hacking, it's great. At least, it's great until 4 replicating AVs are chasing you across a 20x20 grid and gridscan shows youre 10 rooms away from the array with 0/8 password characters.

Credits on market, especially at the opening of a game, are usually for people like me who would rather drop real life money than spend hours bashing or questing to get marks when there is a scarcity.There’s also a finite number of skills to spend credits on. That’s not even including Hacking or Captaincy, which can’t be bought. So if you’re going to have continued revenue from a game in a year or two years, you need other things for players to spend credits on. Hence artifacts are  needed to continue to drive sales.

 I don’t get this hatred of artifacts outside of lootbox sales and some of the weapon/stat increasers in other games that essentially make combat have an expensive baseline. IRE is a business first and foremost: They’re trying to make money by providing a product that has a demand. Artifacts have a demand overall even if specific people have no demand for it because a lot of people like playing these games in their leisure time and it’s a worthwhile investment for entertainment.

So yeah, if you want to play Starmourn and have it be the same sort of fun game we’ve found it to be, you need those people buying artifacts to keep the ability to have a paid staff spending hours over a weekend tweaking and fixing the game so that you can continue to enjoy it. 

All that that being said, I do think artifacts here will be more along the lines of QoL type stuff and not the gaudy stat or damage increases in other games. 

Cubey said:

Uachet said:

Cubey said:

I like the current selection of artifacts.

How do you expect them to make the money needed to pay Admin and keep the server going?

Tell that to 500 credits currently on the market, and that's not counting whatever people spent on lessons for themselves.

People will buy creds no matter what, artifacts or no. Also minor quality of life or customization artifacts are fine but no game changers please. To bring up a few examples...

What happens once all of the skills are trained up, what are those credits useful for then? Also, you seriously think 500 credits is going to pay for operating costs and continued development? 500 credits converts to about $168.99. That is a pittance. If you said there were over 20000 credits (about $6000 worth) on the market, then you would have been showing something. Even then, that would have just been this month. The Devs pay their bills and eat for a month, but since there is no real reason to purchase anymore credits after you have all of your skills trained the credit purchase drops down to minute amounts. On the amounts you think are significant, the paid developers could qualify for SNAP.

Oh, no, I don't mean the way you obtain Legend Deck cards (lootbox); I just mean the way the effects are activated and charged. Sell the "cards" directly and I'd be a major fan.

Cubey said:

I like the current selection of artifacts.

How do you expect them to make the money needed to pay Admin and keep the server going?