"Just run profit taker."
"They are a rare resource for a reason."
"If you don't have the Old Mate Rank, that's your incentive to keep going."
Okay, let me get this off my chest. These responses are painfully tone deaf to the initial point of the post. Just because they are meant to be a rare resource, they should not be completely RNG gated. Rare can also mean -difficult to obtain-. And by that I mean that you need to do something otherwise difficult to obtain it, rather than pray that the dice roll in your favour.
The medical debt bond farm is a pain of quite some magnitude, just to get the amount needed to rank up from rank 3-4, I spent the better part of 6 hours running the first stage of the bounty that can drop it. Only to end up getting... four. Four out of the twelve I needed. Did I have any other alternative to get this resource? No, all I have is running the same exact activity, in the same exact area, quitting after the first stage to save time each and every time. And sure, in the end I got it. It took me 39 hours worth of 'gameplay' during which I have actively grown to despise running anything Fortuna related.
I got lucky with ticker for the next rank in terms of medical bonds, but I am on day five of trying to get the Advances Debt Bonds. And this is, frankly speaking, rather grim. Do we really want to make playing a videogame a -chore- in order to get access to yet another form of farming that we -need- in order to even get started on grinding -another- faction's reputation?
This current system is promoting a style of gameplay that actively hurts the game and people's desire to want to engage with the game long term.
How many of my rapidly dwindling hours of my free time do I need to devote to be FINALLY allowed to have any sort of progress?
I am not angry at people who defend it, I am confused by them.
