Don't mean to be disrespectful, but not everyone has that much time. Of course no feature should be for everyone, but 60 hours of hauling? Listen to that for a bit. If you've got 3 hours a day to play, which is normal if you have a job, that takes you 20 days.
Not to mention it's 3 hours a day doing hauling for 20 days straight. I enjoy it to a certain degree... but it's obviously also not a very replayable activity when it comes to content. If somebody is spending 3 hours a day for 20 days building a space station well, it's very likely they'll finish it, call it a day and never engage with the feature again. Doing something like that certainly melts brains.
We could talk about the consequences of pumping out stations and systems too fast, about time constraints, suspension of disbelief (more technically speaking you'd need nearly 3 billion tons of commodities to build a coriolis, not 50 thousand), etc... but as far as gameplay goes, well the numbers aren't entirely reasonable.
Game developers are game designers, they can come up with thousands of different ideas to address any of the problems you may bring up with as far as "completing stations would be too easy". Modular completion, timers, wait times, etc... anything that doesn't get you to haul 300 thousand commodities 700 at a time every 10 minutes though.
I don't really mind taking long to complete something. But you know, it depends how I do it... Hauling alone and nothing but hauling is certainly not something you can expect players to do for 3 hours a day for 20 days in order to complete a single station.
And it's not like you're completing the mother of all stations. It's an Orbis/Ocellus stations. They ain't even that many times bigger than a Coriolis are they? Compared to how long it takes you to build one?
with respect, the numbers is actually reasonable, on this case you are focusing on the fact that you are looking on
making T3 as primary port which will make you haul around 244244 tons of goods with the
+extra % of goods for primary port and you are given
4 weeks to get it done, the fact that the ratio of CMM 1 : 3 of the trio metal (steel, aluminium, titanium) give or take and it is balanced across the board between most stations, and the
massive parameters of the T3 compared to the T2, T1 ports,
T3 requirement is comepletely OK.
again
T3 are not meant to be done solo,
get a group, not to mention for the average/casual player, if you know you
cant do it in 4 week,
get an outpost, and you will get
invinite time to do your Orbis/Ocellus.
ive been running my Ocellus alone for almost a week now, haulling is not my fav activity to do in this game but i enjoy and learn a lot from it so far, sitting at 80% Ocellus atm. im doing this because i wanted to test things up .
also with the issue of CMM is solved and there is less contest to getting it, i dont see any reason for the T3 requirement to be lessen, i will agree with you to make it less, it will be nice yeah, but the current requirement is fine.
80% proggress with the current invalid issue. atm im still pushing.
3rd and 4th pic is parameter difference between Coriolis and Ocellus in beta test, thanks to @bragen for the screenshots
Cheers 07
