Why reduce the Money credits over to Mass Effect 2

Can someone from EA confirm that there's more money offered somewhere in-game to cover the DLC items that have been added into the economy?

This is an odd change, although I admit, I felt VERY rich coming into ME2 from a max credit rollover myself......but I wasn't complaining.

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@mcsupersport wrote:

I agree with most posted here....but then I am on PC, so I will just use a save editor to give myself the credits and resources I need.  I played a bunch of ME1 and ME2 on original, and have no desire to spend hours farming for resources and credits to play a game I like just about everything else.

I wish they would spend time fixing actual gameplay bugs instead of changing stuff no one was complaining about.  Personally, if you are maxed level at end of ME1, with max money, you SHOULD get a bonus into ME2....and as a Spectre, if some banker stole 9,899,999 credits from me, then I would probably be paying them a visit to discuss the situation.......

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I'm waiting for a save editor to come out as well (if someone hasn't made one already) to do just this for my second and subsequent playthroughs. I didn't mind earning credits on my first or second playthrough years ago when I VERY FIRST PLAYED THE GAME. However, after countless playthroughs, it's one of the reasons I only play ME 2 and 3 on PC. The amount of credits and time you have to spend mining resources could be spent doing more enjoyable aspects of the game. I am playing my first playthrough of the Legendary Edition without any mods and am playing it "as intended". But, being able to go into a save editor and max out the credits and resources is great and saves me time in following playthroughs.. That being said....

You need to realize that not everyone has or wants a gaming PC and prefer to play on console. This was BioWare's chance to make the mining minigame a smaller part of the game. Make the planets award more resources so people don't feel forced to spend hours mining. Make the side missions that have zero consequences and don't carry over award more credits so you actually feel compelled to do them rather then pinching penny's.

For the record, I feel the reduction in credits was not needed. Nothing needed "balancing". Please revert the change back to the way it was before this patch. 

Yeah the save editor on PC isn't a fix here - I'm on PS5, because I like to do my Mass Effecting on my lounge setup...so the save editor isn't an option.

It did feel like I was uber rich coming into ME2, I'll say that much, but yeah - since you have to now buy all the DLC stuff, surely something in the middle is the best option.

Coming in with 10 million credits was absurd. I think they were right to change it.

But changing it back to the original "rich" behavior after adding a bunch of credit sinks into the game is also not optimal.

I'm not bothered if they want there to be some choice in which things you can afford to get in an individual playthrough, but there should be enough credits added to the game that you can still get a lot of the DLC items that you may want while also stocking up on fuel and probes and buying all the original equipment and upgrades.

Which is why I suggested the compromise of 500,000. I also wish we got more credits transferred into ME3. The price for some of the guns is ridiculous. I usually like to give James the Piranha, but it costs SO much.

@Dragoness31 It depends how much was added to ME2. That still may be too many credits. Regardless, I'd rather they do percentage adjustments than just a static cap (in your case, that would be 5%, so somebody importing with max credits would get 500K, but those with below max credits would get progressively less, under 2 million being the point where they get less than the new 100K cap).

ME3 doesn't really bother me as they added a way to grind for credits. There were never enough static credit rewards in the base game to buy everything.

I don’t know if 9,999,999 credits transferred over when I started playing ME2 a couple weeks ago, since I wasn’t paying too much attention to that, but I’m sure I had max credits in ME1 when I completed it.

As of right now, I’m almost done with ME2 and am fairly certain the transfer cap was 999,999 - not 9,999,999. If the latter were correct, I wouldn’t just have about 600,000 credits right now, I’d have significantly more - millions more.

*spoilers ahead*

Either way, it’s kind of a * move. They hide behind it being the “same as the original release,” but it was a * move back then, too. The series is challenging enough if you play it on the harder difficulties, and the RPG elements, upgrading system, and gameplay mechanics make grinding a necessity, which takes significant time investment. There’s no need to add a money grind to the mix. It doesn’t make sense within the theme of the series, either. Shepard is brought back to life by Cerberus, who spent BILLIONS of credits on project Lazarus, but can’t spare 999,999 credits as funding for his mission? No one within the project planned that far ahead? Shepard’s bank <literally> took 99% of his earned money? It doesn’t make any sense. Plus it’s counterproductive, since it forces players to spend more time gathering money rather than paying attention to the awesome universe BioWare designed. I mean, hell, even probing for resources you’ll come across intriguing planetary codex entries. The same can’t be said for scanning a datapad or bypassing a safe.

At this point, with the series being a remaster, they should be focusing on bringing new players to the community and revitalizing the Mass Effect name. Making the whole grind from ME1 almost entirely irrelevant isn’t a good way to do that. It never was.

I agree with making the transfer cap 500,000, or at least 250,000. But 100,000 is a joke.

If the values in the INI are correct, they transfer 10% of the ME1 value and cap it at 100K (with the latest update). So that would have been 1M before the patch if you imported with max credits. If you're on PC, you may be able to just change those values (BIOGame.ini) to make it whatever you want (though I haven't verified if the game is respecting those settings).

Looking at what they added to shops, I think the cap should be 150K or 200K (they should also reduce the import percentage to 2-5%). 500K is way too much unless they've added more than I'm aware.

500,000 if you have Max Credits at the end of ME1 because there is a lot to buy

@devSin where in ME2 BioGame folder? Can you give the exact line also? I could try to test, since I just completed ME1, so good timing.