Fair point; it certainly isn't motivating me to spend any more money. But what, then, is the point of tying up your resources online?
Well when you take your game online, you are getting your online materials processing in real time, unlike your offline resources. That said I'm sure for Konami all that matters is making some of your unprocessed resources vulnerable so they can sell you insurance.
Look at how Konami has set this up: a greater portion of your GMP/resources is dumped into the online bank, where you have no direct access to it (can't sell online resources and vehicles, GMP is drawn from your offline pool first.)
I will agree again, it is weird tying resources not at risk from invasions to your online/offline status. I don't think as many people would've been so outraged if they had done the same online/offline resource split they do now (for materials, not GMP/plants/vehicles).
I think it should've been:
Any materials that are online and get processed online stay online (safe from invasions, like they are now), and when you need more resources the game funnels these offline to you, like it does now. You get the benefit of having materials processing when you're not in-game, and have to wait a bit to get those transferred offline so you can use them.
But for whatever reason the game does this, and then throws in all these safe resources online as well, which just wastes time. One reason I thought they might've done that was to confuse players into thinking "hey all your digitalis is up for grabs, better buy insurance!" I'd imagine theres quite a bit of people who think this is the case (I mean hell, I'll admit I didn't read the patch notes very intently, I didn't even know you could stealth FOB infiltrations w/o alerting defenders until 3 days after the update!).
Maybe this little scheme won't work out in practice. Indeed, I've haven't been invaded once. But a scheme it is, and it's still irritating that my resources are sealed away in the ether like this. I can't sell stuff to make a quick buck, and if my internet drops out for even a second - which happens not infrequently - I lose most of my money and hope I don't end up in the red.
It's not so terrible that I'll stop playing the game, but it only makes the experience worse.
Going into the red isn't that big of a deal really, as long as your internet outages aren't super long-term. But you do get a sweet cutscene out of being in the red for a little bit
I hope their little cash-grab doesn't work, I feel really bad for anyone who thinks insurance or speeding up deployments is a good investment. Shit is not worth it at all, and it stinks that we've gotta deal with that in a metal gear game