You've got to chill with the "requires 600 of artifact X missions". Have you seen that foci are selling for a minimum of 500 million each? Nobody keeps 600 foci on them because they use them to make crux amps. And for whatever reason, those things are rare to get from arti pulls. I get 5 times the amount of prisoners and ship-bots in my pulls than I get foci. I know that I'm not the only one and it sucks having to focus on buying specific artis than on playing the game.

agreed. we needed a repeatable mission to get these things before the new mission was released. the scarcity of acf is maddening

Ancient Crystal Foci are sold for 3 GP each in the artifact store. Buying a $50 GP package and getting 550 GP would let you buy 183 ACF per package, or 4 1/2 completion rounds. $20 GP Package for 200 GP is another 66 ACF or 1 1/2 rounds. 15 total completion rounds so $170 U.S. Dollars if you "had" to buy all the ACF with GP.

Alot of missions recently has included rewards that are better if you have XXX GP item installed on your ship. This is the first i've seen that damn near requires GP to finish the mission.

Alot of players have quit recently, maybe Dan is low on Funds to buy that server upgrade he needs for content updates?

You get more prisoners than foci? And you're complaining about it?

I have a moderately high AP, and I still barely see one prisoner every 2 days, but I can usually get a couple of foci each day.

moderately high and you get rescue prisoners once every 2 days? What is your production like 2-3k?

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Back on topic...
First a new NPC as rare(r) than QSEs and now another mission requiring one of the highest demanded artifacts in the game and in large quantities. Doing the same thing more is not considered new content and not a way to keep old members.

I have VERY high AP and a rank 7 AP base. And it is a pain to get the rarer artys we need for the missions, I think it sucks. We get crappy art'ys that only lower ranks would even want. Needed spy probe res was one thing. Dark pyimaids im kinda iffy in the reward for that was awseome but this weeks mission ans many others this weeks being the worse is epic BS! Way to fail!

I'm not complaining about the prisoners. I'm complaining that nobody gets foci. I get 5 prisoners on a decent day, but in the last 3 days I have got two foci. Two.

No way would he be low on funds, i am a big spender of this game and would have put ATLEAST $5k+ into this game, UNLESS Dan is doing something else with this money we are giving him then there is no way he could be, plus there are other big spenders, plus small spenders, all of it would add up.

Had the same thought, but more of the holidays are coming, need some cash!! lol

Yes many have quit AND they were some of his highest revenue people. HIGH END CONTENT fixes that. The answer man is to "feed".. NOT to "bleed".

Part of this game requires you to weigh the benefit of a reward given what it costs to obtain it. Where does it say missions have to be easy and only require artifacts that you don't want and have lots of?

I'm pretty sure most people understand the benefit/cost considerations. But there's no rational reason to construct a mission such that the only people who could reasonably complete it are the same people that won't want to. Just kinda seems like Dan wasted his time on this one.

Ihave to disagree Dan has been wasting his time on most add ons lately , crappy missions and an NPC that is so hard to find its pointles to even have. I have come to the conclusion his Time has no value or GL has no value to him .

it is also said that bi weekly mission artifacts go up in rarity so it is even harder to get foci

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Yes, this isn't funny. I remember the flux probe mission though. Legions would band together to get 1 player through at a time. This mission? This is poop.