In the first one, I mention that we were out there checking essence (experience).

In the second, I don't even talk about me having been out there at all, it is me suggesting to you how to test for useful data...

And we were out there to check out the experience! And the offerings, a bit, though since we kept getting imploded by dragons that didn't work out so well. We found a couple of bugs with the experience, Roark fixed them, and he's going to keep tweaking it. He may tweak the gold too, but he'll need documented reason I'd think.

Can't, "Because Lawliet says so." be sufficient reason?

Go check gold for me, I can't get a crew together, chop chop

Alas, I don't have trans aethercraft and 100% proficiency in everything on the live server.

I'm actually planning to start learning it in the near future, though.

Get it now, your god commands it

Check my latest announce news post. I have pending XP aether bashing changes that I would like you to try before it is released.

It's open for everyone right? If so I'll test it at earliest opportunity.

Yes, anyone. If you see me on-line then I may be able to give you trans skills or whatever other boosts, and billions in gold.

Saddness that no one is there to test with

Ship proficiencies are not supposed to drop under 50, right?

Also, more of an idea, I would like a way to select which proficiencies drop when others raise.

So what's aetherbashing like these days? Is it worth it?

No! Moooore gooold!

Hitting up three different ships and flashing amongst them, we managed 72528 gold from about 85 tons of dust. This was for about 1-2 hours of work, of which most of the second was from us trying to find the damn ships. We split it seven ways cause we had a stowaway for about 10k a piece. It's acceptable I'd say for midlevel. Once you get to where you can take on the illithoids and other stuff that both can be sold and drop great, its not so much. If you're turret though, it is pretty much effortless.

And technically, that's not even that great of a trading, you could have made more.

I think aetherspace would be a great midrange hunting area if you have some novices and a handful of experienced people to help them.

It was good before, for novices- I remember watching them go crazy when we gave them their 4,000 gold share for an hour of bashing (split 6 ways). If the numbers have gone up, then it's become a good midbie spot, too, and I applaud you!

Hm, maybe I should hand out 2 credits to all my nubs who still have Inept aethercraft so they can take part...

They don't even need two, they get basics on just one.

At the moment the experience from aetherbashing is incredibly awful for me. I was commanding the ship, so not only was the 2 hour trip far more strenuous and demanding than normal bashing, but I gained probably less than a quarter of the experience I would have if I'd been bashing for that long. Overall it felt interesting, but lacking the rewards to make it worthwhile. As has been mentioned before, it sounds like the commander has the most demanding job - why not give a boost in experience received compared to the rest of crew?

Well, maybe it's just the style. We could lay a rupture on the vortex instead and just tank them as they come one by one. Stress suddenly moves from the pilot to the empath, heh.

That would be all KINDS of awesome.