Pausanias

ArtieWell, as there are hundreds of thousands players registered (and with their stats imported) and only less than ten has all T5 medals at the moment, I wouldn't say it's easy and that the medals lost its purpose with the lower requirements. Even if I take first 100 commanders in the rankings as those that may complete all the medals "soon", all of them are having thousands of hours in the game. Definitely not rookie numbers.

I'm in that top 100 and spent months in the black getting 5000 bios and 100 uniques, I feel it was time wasted now.

Sampi Ogonek

ArtieCommanders, based on the feedback, all medals on Inara were rebalanced and their tier requirements are now much lower, so it should be easier to level them up. But, getting them to tier 5 is still quite a work as only a few percent of commanders are having them. Also, a minor change was made that relevant medals are still contributing to the rankings score upon reaching tier 5 with a few points, so any "excess" progress may still increase your score.

While I am generally OK with the rebalancing, there are a couple of things that seem off:

• I am pretty sure you are mistaken about the “Level 3 detailed scans” stat. I have been tracking this stat for my ED account and it is clear it is tracking the FSS scans, not the DSS ones. (As I said earlier, there does not seem to be any stat for the DSS scans, although there is one for efficiency bonuses received, which at least for me is a very good approximation of the number of DSS scans I have made.)
• 100 planets with organic life and 75 unique species for level 5 do not match each other well. The typical number of life-bearing planets one has to visit is likely to be more than twice the number of unique species encountered, as there is bound to be a lot of repetitions.
• Market network numbers (for the Trader medals) seem to be too low relative to the commodities traded now. Previous ratios seemed to be better balanced to me.
• Likewise, 25 settlements rebooted for Samaritan tier 5 is laughably low, given that rebooting offline settlements is the only method of gathering chemicals & tech for engineering that does not involve theft or mass slaughter.
• 100 VIPs delivered for Captain tier 5 is also too low. (Keep in mind that the (in)famous Robigo–Sothis runs are all about hauling VIPs around.)

Finally, a request: could you please always display the actual value, even when the relevant tier level is exceeded (in blue) and tier 5 is not reached? I would like to be always able to see how much above a particular level I am, without having to hunt for the relevant stat on the Personal Logs / Statistics page.

Gaz UbermickI dunno. I just feel that if completely unofficial pretend medals are somehow ruining things for people, then they might need to go outside for a walk and "touch grass" as the kids are saying these days.

Pausanias I'm in that top 100 and spent months in the black getting 5000 bios and 100 uniques, I feel it was time wasted now.

501 General VenatorPlease revert the medal tiers back to the old numbers. With this recent update pretty much everything is at tier 5, without having to do anything for it.
Im Tier 5 with the exploration medals now despite i have not explored much in my entire elite career.
The medals no longer represent someones prefered playstyle.

Especially the xeno hunter medal nerf annoys me the most. The numbers to get high tiers are so tiny now. Its not fun to hunt higher tiers

Uiros Ueramos

Vortex4932

ArtieCommanders, based on the feedback, all medals on Inara were rebalanced and their tier requirements are now much lower, so it should be easier to level them up. But, getting them to tier 5 is still quite a work as only a few percent of commanders are having them. Also, a minor change was made that relevant medals are still contributing to the rankings score upon reaching tier 5 with a few points, so any "excess" progress may still increase your score.

It's worth to be mentioned that you may see your medal progress being lower than you saw previously, but it's not because you have lost any progress, but because you have reached higher medal tiers. In simple words - none of your progress is lost, you have just got more shiny things for free.

Thank you

My first post here, although I have been an Inara member since 2016.

I do apologize if I may sound harsh, but this decision is very silly, if not plain ridiculous.

The idea to have "ranks" is to have proper differentiation between high-lvl / high free time CMDRs and others who are not so skilled or do not have the time to engage in the game sufficiently to attain high rank.

Making it easy for everyone to obtain the highest ranks, defeats the purpose of ranks entirely and makes them worthless.

Additionally, it makes it so that the players have less incentive to reach the goals, since they have already been attained or a few game sessions will maximize those ranks. In my case, I went from Tier 2 Bounty Hunter to Tier 4. That undermines terribly the high-lvl players that have scored 100x more bounties than me. And this goes for all activities /professions in the game.
All in all, a very poor and not thought out decision.

501 General Venator(snip ... ) Especially the xeno hunter medal nerf annoys me the most. The numbers to get high tiers are so tiny now. Its not fun to hunt higher tiers

Artie[...] Yes, the level 3 scan is FSS, but that's not important (the factor for adjustment was how the numbers for those scans are now counted towards the game stats).

ArtieUncapped numbers for the stats displayed - maybe, experimentally. As far as I remember it was there some time ago and it was confusing people, but I can try that again.

Artie[...] I was however thinking about adding some "medal of medals", let's say named The Decorated Hero that will level up only by reaching T5 medals. So, for tier 1 you need to have 10 tier 5 medals (including post-T5 "tiers") and it will be increasingly difficult, so tier 5 of such medal will require something like 75 T5/post-T5, which is something nobody at the moment have. Yay or nay?

Rotwhylr

501 General Venator(snip ... ) Especially the xeno hunter medal nerf annoys me the most. The numbers to get high tiers are so tiny now. Its not fun to hunt higher tiers

Well, this kind of highlights part of the problem - there will be no pleasing everyone.

I've been playing AX for a long time, and was still relatively low-ranked because I usually focus on interceptors rather than thousands of scouts. If you consider it "fun to hunt higher tiers" that involve lots of hours grinding thousands of absolutely trivial scouts, be my guest. I don't think that's an accurate representation of skill.

Artie
In general, I do not want to put the requirements anywhere near the previous levels, because as mentioned earlier, when more than 90% of the commanders were unable to get anywhere near a tier 3 medal requirements, you know there is something wrong.