Why are people ignoring the gold in gold rush?

[Tazor]

They are like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MAIN OBJECTIVE AAAAAAAAA SIDE OBJECTIVE AAAAAAAAAA SEND DROP POD AAAAAAAAA GG. With so much gold still left on the map.

Why? What are you doing?

[Dae]

Elgi players.

[vanbushi]

Because it's not worth collecting. It's always better to skip gold, and move onto the next mission.

[madracc00n]

Originally posted by vanbushi:

Because it's not worth collecting. It's always better to skip gold, and move onto the next mission.

[GIRL]

Because they're elves. Gold is only SLIGHTLY slower in terms of credits/time spent when compared to just speedrunning missions.

But the thing is, most players don't speedrun missions. Leaving people standing around while they could be mining. Lots of players just heard the "mining gold is inefficient!" thing and never questioned it.

The difference in credits/minute is also only apparent if you speedrun lots of missions, back-to-back. Because the majority of players likely just get on for 2-3 missions at a time, mining gold will actually net them more credits, because odds are, they're not speedrunners.

[Titanium Jesus]

Originally posted by vanbushi:

Because it's not worth collecting. It's always better to skip gold, and move onto the next mission.

Blatantly false.

The ONLY time skipping gold and rushing the mission nets you faster credits is when the mission is tiny, there are no events, and you sell any and ALL crafting minerals in the map. If any of those prerequisites aren't met you get more by mining.

The skipping of gold=more gold meme needs to die.

[GIRL]

Originally posted by Titanium Jesus:

The skipping of gold=more gold meme needs to die.

Agreed. But I also think they should still buff gold a little bit. Either make it a 1-hit mineral, or make it worth an extra credit per unit. That way there'd be no debate at all.

[TheGraveDigger]

The only time I say you should skip gold is if it’s a haunted caves

[Jack]

i like collecting gold if i can reach it, i'm greedy dwarf =D

[Thahat]

Originally posted by TheGraveDigger:

The only time I say you should skip gold is if it’s a haunted caves

or low O2, ♥♥♥♥ pretymuch EVERYTHING if its low o2.

[GiantOctopodes]

I personally have a dream, and in that dream, I have gold rush active, as well as Pots of Gold, and I get a Crassus Bulk Detonator, in a mission where Molly is around. It would make me So happy.

I can understand skipping gold on things like Point Extraction, or if your pockets are full and Molly's not around, or not spending the time to get the edges for 1.1 gold or less. But I will never understand just wholly ignoring the gold and not at least taking those high profit whacks in the middle for 6+ gold ore for 2 seconds of time.

Gold per second evaluations I've seen which came out in favor of skipping gold compared skipping it to painstakingly grabbing Every Bit of gold. I am entirely convinced if you compared skipping it to just high profit swings in the middle it would be more advantageous to grab it than skip it, I don't understand why folks think it has to be all or nothing.

[TheGraveDigger]

Originally posted by Thahat:

Originally posted by TheGraveDigger:

The only time I say you should skip gold is if it’s a haunted caves

or low O2, ♥♥♥♥ pretymuch EVERYTHING if its low o2.

That too

[Cress]

Because I have 3+ million in the bank and have nothing to spend it on. If there are new players in the game I will collect it for them, otherwise it's just a massive waste of time.

[ColinDJPat]

Depends on the mission.

Did a deep dive protecting the drilldozer, and there was little to no breathing room to do anything other than main objective stuff, and Nitra so we didn't run out of ammo and die.

[Frisky]

Personally I just don't like gold's 2 hits to break and find it dull to mind

I'll cover teammates and plat/assist with it when theres nothing around but I'd rather play the objective vs the slow task of mining gold

[Nosteru]

Originally posted by Femboy Thighs:

Originally posted by Titanium Jesus:

The skipping of gold=more gold meme needs to die.

Agreed. But I also think they should still buff gold a little bit. Either make it a 1-hit mineral, or make it worth an extra credit per unit. That way there'd be no debate at all.

I realy would see an 1-hit gold change.