Mechanical Parts readjustment needed

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You have to produce Mechanical parts 31 times at (80 maximum) just to fill one contract. That's just about 24 hrs of continuous production. Need to increase the amount of production or reduce the amounts required on each contract.

SailorVie

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If your speaking of the requirement of 2,500 mechanical parts for the newly introduced contractor, the amount has already been reduced from 25,000.

If your speaking of the requirement of 2,500 mechanical parts for the newly introduced contractor, ...why dose it matter how long it takes? It's a permanent contractor that isn't going anywhere, unlike an event contractor.

Sorry !
I'm a player like yourself, but I bear no sympathy in this regard. I read far too many complaints of how bored players are after completing permanent contractors.

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SailorVie To each his own! For me repeatedly producing Mechanical Parts for (1) Contract doesn't make the game any more enjoyable.

Grork

pixel_player781604437 I'm with SailorVie on this. Contractors should provide some challenge. I actually didn't like when the travel time dropped from 2 to 1 hour !

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Krystyna L has been waiting for 2000 gears since a few days after the start of this event.

pixel_player781604437 To each his own! For me repeatedly producing Mechanical Parts for (1) Contract doesn't make the game any more enjoyable.

ITA. If they want to make the contractors hard then ask for oodles of fish, not factory items. Then at least I’d have some regular use for those 4 slot ships, fetching and delivering large quantities of something not limited by warehouse space.

SailorVie

Grork 😃 I stopped with permanent contractors when the time dropped to one hour. (wished it was four hours) After collecting the the Resolution as a reward for completing a contractors task, there hasn't been any motivation to do such an easy array of tasks for such little reward. (no sense of accomplishment) Today the smallest ships in my fleet can knock them out quickly.

I find my pleasure and challenge in the ever changing event content, up until the requirement of the JobBoard or Expeditions. When I found seaport, I was looking for a transportation game. Not a manufacturing, or hunt & seek game.

KaiPiranha

I don't think permanent contractors need to stay the very same as they always were. They can be solved quickly if you are high above the level they are calculated for and because PF adds new ones very slowly, actually until level 480 while the game meanwhile has 1400 levels, they became very easy after a while.

So of course different concepts could be thought about. For example contractors who needs to be played over a longer time, obviously for higher rewards then.

But Edward Harland was not the test for such a new well thought concept. He has 38 out of 40 contracts which are as easy to solve as ever before, the same rewards as usual and just 2 contracts which are much harder to solve. Because of this it is more than obvious, that PF just miscalculated those 2 contracts instead trying something really new.

And here we are back to the core problem, developers not playing the game themselves and having no idea and feeling what players were already doing when a new contractor joins the game and what they need to do to solve it in parallel. They were just increasing numbers which consequences they do not really understand, in the draft it was even 10 times higher showing how far away from understanding the game mechanics and balance they already are.

And I am afraid this only can be solved by developers getting more realistic views on what players are actually doing. If they had understood their miscalculations for the required amounts of concrete to upgrade the later 4-slot ships, they would not just have resisted to make anything new in the game asking for even more products from the workshop, but they would finally have reworked and rebalanced the output from the cement factory with the game levels and the efficiency of the recipes for cogs and concrete.

As a direct reality check I would highly suggest the developers at PF to just try to upgrade USNS Mercy with a non god mode level 640 account using the outdated concrete recipe from level 320. If after 10 days of fulltime producing concrete 24/7 they still think players have workshop capacities a lot, so workshop products should be even used more, then I will accept the test result, but state they have no life.

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KaiPiranha As a direct reality check I would highly suggest the developers at PF to just try to upgrade USNS Mercy with a non god mode level 640 account using the outdated concrete recipe from level 320. If after 10 days of fulltime producing concrete 24/7 they still think players have workshop capacities a lot, so workshop products should be even used more, then I will accept the test result, but state they have no life.

Yes, and they need to be working the job board all the while.

KaiPiranha

pixel_player979355845 Of course! And they should try to win a competition with the expedition and to play an event contractor in parallel.

SailorVie

My idea to make a permanent contractor more difficult to do would not be to change the amounts requested for each task, but rather simply lower the multipliers.