stein,
I am in the top 100 ... flying is a pure loss-making business for me - the costs are higher than the possibilities to make a profit within a reasonable playing time ... besides, I am now only the owner of a huge useless heap of garbage, who brings absolutely no resources .....
if I continue to play for no money, I will even drop out of the top 100 because buyers buy more useless static points in the form of useless objects by buying resources without realizing that it will no longer be of any use to them ... such is the reality of XCraft ...
yes .. a few years ago the game was good, and you could make good profits with a clever strategy game and skillful use of the fleet ... so my average net profit (minus costs) in 2019 was still around 2.2 billion resources (although in the Summer I reached the top before the next changes massively reduce this income) ...
By the end of 2019 my net profit was ten times smaller - and in 2020 I was flying with only a few million net profit minus depreciation and expedition costs
... And today every use of a naval or gravity cannon would be a sheer loss, in which I consume more gas than to get metal and minerals ...
you only need to look at the alliance statistics and you will disguise the fact that I hardly fly any more (almost not at all) - during 2019 I had a good 5000-10,000 point experience on pirate hunting (which was a lot of resources) + some inactive and active players could attack ... today that is impossible - and even reaching a fifth of that is priceless thanks to the many updates ...
Example: if I tried to use the whole fleet sensibly today to fly as much as 2 years ago, the good 25 million gas would cost me (including depreciation converted into gas + expedition costs to secure the fleet - 5 times more then ago 2 Years) and a good half in metal and bring in mineral daily on average (there are not big goals that can be found every day - hence the average calculation)... I am in the top 100 .... In my opinion, the game is no longer playable from a certain point onwards ... for me personally, as a top 100 player, even unplayable ...
Development for me meant that by investing time and money you can improve your own profitability of the account ... instead profitability has deteriorated 100 times in the last two 2 years due to the updates ...
I have always been against every update that was carried out, as every update only brought worsening ... I never made suggestions for improvement because the game was good a few years ago, I'm just against all the worsening and I still hope always that the administration reverses some of the updates in order to reduce the sum of the deteriorations .....
however, I doubt that these lying idiots will give in .. besides, the operator of the game is also rushing against the top 100 and blames us ... he even wanted to get rid of us directly, and he even wrote that directly in the public forum!
And also made it clear to some of us from the Top 100 that he doesn't want us here - because we don't bring the benefit to XCraft but offer too much help to the offspring via our gates, Al-stations and our military and therefore not the little ones like that were forced to spend as much money as he absolutely wants for the XCraft project .... He thinks of his profit and not of us players!
https://xcraft.net/forum/topic_50597#post-909839 #12 <= it reads like a blow job - but it means colloquially "destroys all of Marek's possessions" ... such requests come from our Xcraft operator when we defend ourselves against updates ... but I'm not afraid because players are human ... nobody followed his instructions to wipe someone out ....