The current state of Cosmic Exploration rewards cheaters

[Valence]

As for winning so many mounts, I throw them away. That's how many items I've won from gambling/piloting. The game throws them at you if you play a lot.

I've done 8 relics so far, spent quite a lot of time on the content overall, spent tens of thousands into gamba, and have yet to see a single orange drop on my end. I think yoshi just hates me.
It's fine anyway, they made them tradable, but I can't believe that I seem to be the only one that keeps rolling garbage no matter what after so many attempts. So many.

[Arohk]

Good if things become cheaper, i dont want to gamble away my time for worthless prisms.

[Rinoa_353]

I've done 8 relics so far, spent quite a lot of time on the content overall, spent tens of thousands into gamba, and have yet to see a single orange drop on my end. I think yoshi just hates me.
It's fine anyway, they made them tradable, but I can't believe that I seem to be the only one that keeps rolling garbage no matter what after so many attempts. So many.

It's been the same with me, like I feel SE is punishing me with horrible RNG since I won my home in LB last June


I have crafted 5 so far and I'm halfway towards number 6 out of 22 since I'm getting the relics for both my catgirls.

[Volgia]

I'm sorry but I fail to see the cheating? Macros aren't cheating, going on a website that tells you how to do macro is as cheating as watching a Hector guide to do savage.

[Doki]

For years anything that falls under "This is too hard or takes a long time" translates to "Only for people that bot and use 3rd party tools" to far too many people. Cosmic Exploration is stupid easy, just like Diadem was. It's just very grindy. I do it with streaming shows on a 2nd screen.

[Jalei]

I'm sorry but I fail to see the cheating? Macros aren't cheating, going on a website that tells you how to do macro is as cheating as watching a Hector guide to do savage.

Lol its not the macros that are cheating. Its the use of a 3rd party tool that uses those macros for you while you afk or do whatever it is that you're doing. Why they worded their post this way idk but surely you and others aren't naive enough to think they are strictly talking macros here.

[PotatoePet]

The issue is, this time around there are people mass farming cosmocredits and Lunar Credits using a third party tool to craft recipes automatically. It abuses the macro system to automatically calculate and perfect recipes based on gear and runs it. It auto eats for you to refresh buffs. It auto repairs with dark matter when gear drops low. Hell it auto extracts materia on soulbond.

A lot of people, me included, use in-game macros or specialized hotbar layouts.

My question is simple. How is this allowed?

If people are using a bot, it is in fact not allowed and can result in a ban.

I don't have a solution for this sadly that isn't just "Make Crafting actions unusable in macros." But something really should be done.

Which is the inherent problem of anything involving grind or skill. You can always cheat and there isn't really an ultimate solution to it. Even limiting the amount of credits you can make per day is just punishing people willing to invest their time in the content.

[Valence]

It's been the same with me, like I feel SE is punishing me with horrible RNG since I won my home in LB last June


I have crafted 5 so far and I'm halfway towards number 6 out of 22 since I'm getting the relics for both my catgirls.

Yeah it's ridiculous, I just checked yesterday and it seems I have done 90 of those gambas (90k scrip invested into it), and the only orange thing I've gotten by now is the minion. I have the lesser rewards like the glasses, orchestrions, and even the emote, but none of those has dropped more than once so far. I got the suit and the mount and the parasol from friends that had spares. Speaking of spares, a friend of mine has done 80 gambas so far, has had the mount, the suit, everything multiples times. Sometimes 5 or 6 (like the suit).
But I guess the idea to make them all tradable is to make the gamba pretty much irrelevant, at least for now. It's going to be interesting when the content becomes dead. Imagine you're a player catching up, or a new player trying this for the first time in 8.0 or whatever, and you have garbage luck with the rng, and everything that you'd like to have is 10-50M on the MB...

[CCheshire]

Yeah it's ridiculous, I just checked yesterday and it seems I have done 90 of those gambas (90k scrip invested into it), and the only orange thing I've gotten by now is the minion. I have the lesser rewards like the glasses, orchestrions, and even the emote, but none of those has dropped more than once so far. I got the suit and the mount and the parasol from friends that had spares. Speaking of spares, a friend of mine has done 80 gambas so far, has had the mount, the suit, everything multiples times. Sometimes 5 or 6 (like the suit).
But I guess the idea to make them all tradable is to make the gamba pretty much irrelevant, at least for now. It's going to be interesting when the content becomes dead. Imagine you're a player catching up, or a new player trying this for the first time in 8.0 or whatever, and you have garbage luck with the rng, and everything that you'd like to have is 10-50M on the MB...

TBH it's p much the latest content and players will always want to get crafting/gathering relics so it'll be fairly active for a while now. Also, it's not like CAR where it's a challenge to find any fresh groups in May 2025 so the hair and mount are 25m-40m now too.

[VeyaAkemi]

I've done 8 relics so far, spent quite a lot of time on the content overall, spent tens of thousands into gamba, and have yet to see a single orange drop on my end. I think yoshi just hates me.
It's fine anyway, they made them tradable, but I can't believe that I seem to be the only one that keeps rolling garbage no matter what after so many attempts. So many.

I feel you, I have almost finished my relics(working on CUL as the 11th as I speak) and I have earned barely anything from Orbitingway, only two of the spacesuit coffer, I have pretty much everything they can offer, but only because of the generosity of FC mates, who gave me everything they got doubles of, I also gave out my extra coffer to someone who wanted it.