Talk:2.9.8 Patch/@comment-4632427-20130701210927/@comment-4632427-20130702005430

If you're talking about the Compound, then that's just good business in the free-to-play market. Companies like Z2Live make the majority of their income from the fraction of a percent of people who are willing to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a single game. It pays off for them big time to make it *possible* to spend thousands of dollars, even if the rewards to the player are pretty marginal after a small initial investment.

What's annoying me is how they're ramping up the difficulty of the higher-level missions to the point where it's practically required to invest in Nanopod units, which promptly go obsolete a patch or two later. You *can* do it with only things available with in-game resources, but you'll probably spend a lot of time waiting for your Hospital and Repair Bay queues to finish.