better be safe on oort not 
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There isnāt much need for coins. The only thing worth buying is forged tools/weapons. And hunters donāt need that many - compared to how much coin they could get from the hunt.
If the market is supposed to work, there must be things hunter must want or need. Otherwise thereās no pressure on them to sell part of what they hunt.
Best for the game, in my opinion, would be to just accept that:
a) people want to run more than a single 1x2 portal
b) there is no functioning market in Boundless and there never will be
c) many people prefer to farm their own stuff
Either add additional sources of Oort (farm, mining, add drop rate from roadrunner, add random Oort chests to the world, ā¦) or allow us to work towards permanent portals.
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The game was not designed or expected to have people run huge networks and tons of portals everywhere. The game was designed where a player could have a portal or two that they could manage. Portal networks where supposed to be small and local in nature with rare hops across the galaxy. That is what things were balanced for overall. When you consider that then meteors are balanced just fine and there is more than enough Oort in the Universe.
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I think we shouldnāt consider how a dev team, that is no longer in charge, intended the game to be played 10 years ago. Monumental should take a look at how the game is actually played, and try to improve the game for what it is - not what it never was.
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I think a quick fix would be to make Oort spawn like lucents on Exos. Limited quantities and rare.
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18 rough oort makes 250 portal shards, this can be gotten from about two meteors (3 if solo), and can fuel one 1x2 portal for over a week (which is good for what 2 or 3blink secs?). 3 solo meteors takes about an hour to do, so one hour of hunting for over a week for a portal? And that is assuming run hunting solo with somewhat poor oddsā¦ I donāt think drop amount is the problem, but I do agree with red here
I think they were planned to be on the never released level 8 exos, just add them as a lower spawn to 5-8 level exos and bobs your uncle, now even non hunters can get a better source of oort for their portals (most consumed item, i think hunt attendance will drop to compensate and oort market will barely take a hit)
That update was promised by Wonderstruck. Monumental is under no obligation to release that update. It also wasnāt finished. You really want a half done patch?
Monumental has already stated that the FIRST thing they plan to address is the New Player Experience. Oort is not part of that. Oort is for late game play.
I would suggest going on the Gizmo hunts. We get 200-300 oort per hour.
It was finished but there was a bug or some issue that just needed to be resolved. So I think the update should be considered at some levelā¦
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The previous dev team views should certainly be considered. The game currently is build around that mindset. Monument doesnāt have the understanding of the game enough and the dynamics of how things are played. They can easily mess things up even worse if they arenāt careful.
There is plenty of Oort that a person can get. Sure another stone or two in a meteor might be fine but we donāt need people making things more unbalanced anyway. A person can run things fine and there are enough hunts to help get plenty of Oort. Oort is not at all ārareā or hard to get.
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So, about hunts, and something I didnāt consider with many games with PVP is the fact some people donāt enjoy them and at times it causes some PTSD and/or other issues that hunts could cause.
I remember at least 2 people saying they wouldnāt/couldnāt go on hunts for medical reasons so not everyone can or will go on hunts.
Monumental could very well pay someone from the old team (James) to help with development going forward and also be a part of the new team that is put together.
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They may not be under any obligation to bring out that update. But it most certainly is wanted by the majority of the player base. It was all functional on the testing server.(Iām sure there were some bugs)
I compacted a fair amount of Oort in anticipation of the update. Lol. Unfortunately it was for nothing and I have since built with it.
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What all was in the planned update?
Lots of good stuff.
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Wow, lots of interesting stuff in there. Having another way to fuel portals would be pretty cool.
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Be interesting to know if local universes would still be a thing with Monumental.
Iām still very jaded on the local universes.
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I would prefer they not be a thing so long as public servers are available, but in the event public servers went down, Iād definitely want local universes 100% so i could still play this awesome game.
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Yes. The biggest reason I donāt go on hunts is I am the games biggest coward. But Iām also a bit of a menace, as shoulder issues prevent me from aiming properly, grappling properly, as well as freaking out and being scared all at once. As a general rule the only person I inflict my presence on is Jarohdan when he kills critters so I can gather sweet beans. I figure he deserves it for being silly enough to marry me lol. Iāve considered trying to get a sweet bean Sov world, and building a big critter free enclosure over a good farm spot ā¦ but not sure thatās entirely possible lol
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