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Let's say I can't play for a couple of days (3-4 days), I just loose lots of cash and xp. In the old SM, we could accumulate up to what, 400 or 600 turns in a fairly long period in the slower trade ships (PSF). But it seems to me like there is no way I can keep up with my trading if I don't play every 24 hours.
1) Take Emergency Repairs Gadget for example. Cooldown is too slow to let me play every day at arround the same time. Let's say I use it at 7PM, the next day I won't be able to use it before 7PM, so I use it at 7:30PM, so everyday I must play later than the previous (unless you're REALLY dedicated and wait the good *minute* to play -- I'm not like that)... If one day I play late, it's not worth it to play the next day because my gadget hasn't cooled down. Maybe a 23 hours cooldown could help with this...??
2) It sucks that the cooldown mean you actually lose effiency if you don't maximize it's usage. I mean, there are a lot of casual gamers out there. If I play every other day, I get half as much usage out of my Emergency Repair gadget as someone who plays everyday. Maybe an overcharge could be interesting? I.e., if you haven't played in 48 hours you get (48/24 = 2x) double repairs.
3) Repair bonus: it has been discussed before that as long as you don't do an action that would normally damage ship condition, you should keep your inactivity repair bonus. I think the bonus is way too small though ! It maxes out at 115 repair bonus, in about 3 days (?). That leaves no chance to a player that plays once every 2 or 3 days to compete versus players that pull in 2 hours a day.
4) In my opinion, excavating doesn't get inflicted enough a penalty when your repairs reach -300 or less. That means if I want to 'compete' with other players, I have to excavate until my repairs go down -600 or something. It takes wayyyy too much time to get that low (for me anyways) and I don't want to feel like I NEED to excavate for 1 more hour in order to stay 'competitive'. This point is really minor though and I don't really mind all that much.
Those 4 reasons (well mostly the first 3) are pretty much what keeps me from playing right now: if I don't play each day, I can't really compete with the daily players. I mean, I do a lot of activities and sometimes I don't have time to play more than once or twice a week... So why invest time if I'm only going to get outpaced by everyone?