And The Carrier Pollution Continues...Plus Market Collapses
18 Jul 2020Scubadog
This is insane. The Powers That Be are engaging in full-on shenanigans. It's not bad enough that everywhere I frickin' turn I bump into a ton of ridiculous fleet carriers. It's not bad enough that the market for...well, pretty much everything as tanked. Now it looks like something has happened to make our scanners unable to pick up as many mining targets as before. Forget the fact that, once found, those hotspots seem to have almost no resources in them and, for your hours of searching the return on the investment is an insult. now you can't find hotspots. I can't help but wonder if some errant massive firmware upload was sent out to all ships to fix one problem but then cause another. This was a planet I regularly went to when I wanted to mine either Low Temp Diamonds or Void Opals. The rings on this world used to show up with more yellow than white because of how many hotspots were there. What the heck happened?
I ended up semi-permanently parking my Python since it's now of virtually no use for mining, and I have plenty of other ships for other things. I decided to re-focus on dumping black market goods onto Bisley Landing to piss of the smooth-brained communists, but discovered that my material-du-jour had also dried up. Ended up selling the T-9 I'd purchased specifically for that purpose some weeks ago. So, it looks like the fates are pushing me to go on extended exploration into the black. Everything is collapsing around me, even out here in Colonia. And all I'm picking up on the waves is more or less the same confusion from other commanders. Some are finding themselves stranded with their big expensive carriers because they can't source out any tritium (serves them right, as far as I'm concerned). That's what you get for not being commander enough to just rely on your ship.
So, I have some decisions to make. For the moment I'm going to head out and take care of some wetwork for a friend of mine, just to take my mind off things.
More to come.