Re-Balancing
Hi.
It's me again.
I really like the most recent update as Introducing a new currency and increasing the crystal drop rate.
But it's more out of balance than before..
Well, even if its more frustrating than before I created a huge excel-table AGAIN so I can tell you some real world ingame numbers:
Gems/Mine is at 0.238
Crystals/Mine is way above 2k
While a mine takes about 1,76s to kill, it will take ~2100 Mines to upgrade my cargo bay (from lv 6-7; that shouldnt be a high-end level, even level 10 players should have cargo bays at this level IMO).
But it even gets worse when I put another factor into my calculation. Farming 2100 mines takes approx. 3697secs/1h JUST TAKING THOSE MINES DOWN for getting one single upgrade.
Travelling time EXCLUDED.
My suggestion is:
Decrease new parts price (gems) by 50%
Decrease upgrading parts price (gems) by 65% -> there is no reason to upgrade right now
Decrease crystals drop by at least 30%
Increase gems drop chance by 20%
Increase gems drop amount by 80%
I've seen some posts at the forums which complained about the cargo bay size. How about increasing storage room too?
And I have to say that I was about to buy some IG items, not just for getting an advance about other players/boosting myself, more like to support you/the devs/the game. But at this point I'm not willed to pay anything, I'm sorry.

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We are working on more tweaks based on the data we are getting, but your calculation for gems is way off from what it really is.