After 400+ hours of play, and about a dozen exos, I’ve finally been online and able to hit an exo in the first hour, and I am… frustrated.
I earned almost 2 million coin worth of good in about an hour by random chance. I happen to have been online and available (my kids are finally old enough to play on their own), so my wife and I were able to hop in on the first wave of people going to [Mamesh] --[T6 - Fierce Metal Exoworld]-- [Active], and we were able to just bap away at kindling for about an hour.
So, the thing that bugs me about this isn’t that some people can make a million an hour sometimes, it’s that this is happening mostly by chance, and not by skill. Yes, you have to have knowledge and experience with atlases and exo materials, but the key to this profit is just being able to log in at the right time.
With exos being so rare for so long, even before the drought, this is frustrating. If we had a well-stocked exo pop up in each time zone once or twice a week, this wouldn’t be a big deal, but with just a couple a week, this is… not a great experience.