Horizons How come the monetary rewards for POIs on planets are so miserable?

[JetJaguar]

How come you can never get the big haul? It's always pittance. Or has anyone else ever got a serious, good haul?

I love this kind of gameplay, on the planet surface hunting POIs, but it sucks that I have to fund it by doing something else...like mining or RES bounty hunting. Why can't we make a nice profit from it...even occasionally?

This evening I was finding lots of POIs in my Federal Gunship that had plenty of mining sites at them. I have to spend maybe 5 minutes neutralising the defences, then another minute or two killing the skimmers, then you'll get the NPC that flies over...have to watch out he might attack you. Then you have to shoot all the mine rigs...then you have "lock" each resource to see what it is (it doesn't say in the contacts list...). Then after all this....what do you get? 95% of the resource will be Bauxite (150cr...) and you might get the odd Bertrandite. This always seems to be the pattern for me; 95% rubbish and 5% below average-to good minerals. When your traipsing back and forth to your ship (SRV 2 cargo limit..) for the 8th time.. you begin to wonder.."what am I doing this for?", with a feeling you could be spending this time making millions every ten minutes in a RES Site.

Other things you can do on a planet that pay pointless amounts:

Those Data point things/Nav Beacons/Satellites: again pittance 100% of the time. I think the max I ever saw was around 30,000. Mostly much, much less than this.

Canister/crash sites: Again, the odd Platinum or super conductors. But it will be 1 or 2 good and the rest, filler rubbish, worth in the low thousands if your lucky.

Would it be really so bad to give us a crash site with 10 Palladium canisters...or 5 Low Temperature Diamonds? Or would it be so bad to give us a the occasional Data point scan that gives you 500.000cr or even 1.000.000 ......something meaning-full? or Perhaps a Mining Rig site with 20 Painite resources?

Imagine the Joy of finding one of these? It would add to the excitement. Like with gambling/lottery, you get the big reward sometimes. This is what keeps you coming back and adds to the suspense/excitement.

 

[Section47ABH]

Found one today where the haul was narcotics and personal weapons... and two occupied escape pods. My kids were visiting and we had a half-hour's fun figuring out the back story to that little diorama.

It's not always about the money. It's about finding the detritus of a galaxy gone decidedly Wild West. And, in some systems, downright Somalia.

 

[Codger]

You're basically knocking over the convenience store. You can't really expect a huge haul, just an easy one.

 

[Para Handy]

I'm sitting here trying to remember the names of the stuff that I often find in those planetary "stashes" that are worth a good deal. Jadeite is one and Taaffeite is another, I could have sworn there was one that was about 35K per container but maybe that was just Painite which I have never been able to sell for more than 20-30k despite it being listed as up to 75k.

The point is, there is money to be had from the containers but chopping up automatic mining equipment produces poor returns in my experience.


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[JetJaguar]

You're basically knocking over the convenience store. You can't really expect a huge haul, just an easy one.

Yeah, but why not though? It's only like that, cause that's the way they made it... What's the harm in the possibility of there being a nice reward occasionally? Is there no chance some one might crash in a ship that has 10 Painite? Seems reasonable to me. It seems much less likely to me that out of all the Commodities in ED I would keep seeing the same ones over and over at POIs

Same for the mining rigs, why can't there some times be 20 rigs with 15 of them Gold and 5 of them Gallite, instead of 18 Bauxite and 2 Uranite?

It just seems somewhat on the side of being overly stingy for no reason I can see.

, just an easy one.

Not really an easy one either, depending on the POI of course. But still, considerably harder than sitting in a RES zone and hitting an Anaconda at 3% health with a beam laser to claim 350.000cr after all the system security ships have done the hard work.

 

[metatheurgist]

I think that's too easy. I flew off a planet once with 16 platinum in my Viper 4. I gathered it piecemeal while hunting for mats. I think that's plenty for little effort.

 

[Alderius]

I've only been playing Horizons for a week, so my exposure is limited but I'd have to agree, the crash sites I've seen did pay out some palladium and platinum but the mining sites paid scrap. I don't think every activity in ED needs to have the same pay/hour, but driving around for an hour to collect a lot of iron/carbon mats and a few canisters of uranite isn't very exciting....

 

[lifeschool-amiga]

I read all over that payouts are miserable for everything in ED. Its all relative really, its all free cash at the end of the day, for not doing a lot.

 

[stilly]

I've only been playing Horizons for a week, so my exposure is limited but I'd have to agree, the crash sites I've seen did pay out some palladium and platinum but the mining sites paid scrap. I don't think every activity in ED needs to have the same pay/hour, but driving around for an hour to collect a lot of iron/carbon mats and a few canisters of uranite isn't very exciting....

Then you are doing it wrong...

Head over to HIP 8865 and grab a type 6 And be sure to dump the shields and get the biggest cargo bays you can get, Also get a Limpet prospector and a controller as well as the largest BIN/REFINERY you can get, you want at least 6 but you might have to settle for 9 if you can afford it, but it is worth it.

The way to afford this is to sit at the RES sites and tag along and kill steal bounties, or while the bad guys are being shot up, you be the chihuahua that snarls and shoots them in the leg, thus getting you the bounty (do not bother with human players, only go where they are not at) after you are careful enough, a few hours and you have enough for your type 6.

As you trade your materials in with your type 6, you will be able to afford a better prospector or collector or ship. EVENTUALLY you will make enough to get a Type 7, and then it REALLY gets fun. As a type 6 I brought in about 1 Million +/- 200k, sometimes 1.4 Million but with the Type 7, running all that I got I get about 176 cargo holds, a 10 bin refinery, a limpet collector that lets me fly 3 of them, a prospector that seems to do very well, and I can go out for about 1-2 hours and come back and sell it all for about 3.5 Million credits plus...

Here is what I do for mining.
1. I head to the planets that have PRISTINE RESERVES and either metallic or icy rings, Metallic is best.
2. Fill up cargo hold with Limpets, about 146/176 is what I run.
3. Show up to CORRECT RING, face the planet and go ziggy back and forth, shooting out prospectors 1 at a time at various rocks. When I see Painite, Palladium, PLatinum, I will start to mine if it is about 12% or higher. I will vent EVERYTHING except Gold when I am mining this stuff.
4. As time goes on you start to get low on limpets, when I get to around 30 Limpets, I will start flying up to rocks and shooting them with the mining laser and looking at the fragments, when I see one of the three Ps at a concentration of about 12% or more, I will fire a prospector into that rock and release two, maybe three limpets (depending on when I want to get back) and mine it till it is empty, then wander around looking for another rock to hit with a prospect.
5.When I am done now, I typically see about 40+ Palladium, 20+ Gold, 30+ PAinite, and 40+ Platinum. Last time Around I had 63 Painite and 70 Palladium.
6. I USED to sell my PAINITE at the local station for 26k or 35k, something low, Oh, for 35k because average shows about 40k, but then once I had a mission that took me over looking for gold and then dropping it off at a neighboring system, and when I was there, they paid CRAP for all of my items, Except Painite was 73990 or something like that, I made several million right off that and was stoked.
7. Finally, advanced mining- Use the mission to supplement your mining. You will find that there are missions that will pay you like 300k for 15 units of osmium or Gallite or WHATEVER you typically throw away as you are hunting your three Ps. EVERYTIME you land at the station in Hip 8865 you should check the missions and grab all of the ones that are looking for xx units of this or that. BEWARE of the gold missions though. They will be douchenozzles and tell you to deliver it to a different location as you are mining and then you gotta take a shot at getting jacked along the way. But hit the mission board as soon as you come in and before you leave. Sometimes, about 30% of the time, I can come in, see that I already have xx units of something and I will take the mission for an instant reward. My pay rate is higher though since I became "friends" with them from the 15+ missions I flew and my trading with them.
8. How to find a good spot to START mining? Simple, Fly over to the spot far away from the shodow on the belt. Pick the CORRECT belt and fly into it, as soon as you land in it, STOP, face the planet, orient yourself and plunge down at a 45 degree angle until you are in the rocks and then level out and fly towards the planet, SPAM that thruster about 30 times, you want about 6 or more solid BOOSTS and that will leave EVERYONE* behind and NOBODY will spawn and nobody will bother you. I heard one person say fly 30km away from the RES but I think the RES is just for bounty hunting. Real miners fly farther away from that mess.

*OCCASIONALLY you will get a persistent cop that will land and he WILL chase you down. I must have boosted about 20+ times one night and this jerk was still coming after me in his viper. I saw that it was a system authority so I just stayed hidden while boosting among the rocks. Well, I decided to let him catch me, and he did, scanned me and told me to be on my way. I gave him the finger and he left and I was not bothered by anyone else, but I still boosted away from that location too.

Sometimes You just can NOT get away from jerks that keep dropping into the rocks when you land, I have seen this about 1/24th of the time. I will then simply boot UP or DOWN and away from the rocks and supercruise to another location a few moments away. Usually solves the issue.

Here is a secret, When I was FINALLY able to afford my Type 7 with Class 3 or whatever Limpet Controller and a higher prospector, I do not know WHAT happened, but all of a sudden my mining grew WAY better by 2X. Instead of breaking off fragments that took away 5%-8% or so of the asteroid, I was breaking off 1.x%-3% fragments and I was essentially doubling my output by mining the rocks. I am glad I can run three limpets, but even at three they rarely collect before it is all over the place. They are still running around picking things up for me and I am looking for another rock, but I will just rotate, not fly around. I only noticed it when I got my Type 7 with the 10x BIN refinery and the class 3 limpet controller and class 2 or something Prospector. The prospector will go far, but something doubled my output. Not sure what. I do know that running three little mining lasers will eat up the power quickly I wish I had a medium hardpoint on that type 7...

NOW GET OUT THERE AND GO MAKE SOME MONEY! BTW, I found that once a system changes status to contested or something, like Hip 8865 did, the price of Painite and I think some other things went down in price.

OH- The other place that I took my Painite to to sell for 74K became contested or something and as a result the Painite dropped down to 33k per unit. I then decided to leave. But I should go back, Hip 8865 has some good mining fields.

I forgot what I did but now I am in Salinknas or salinikinais or whatever it is called,

I have been told to check out Tehuevi, HIP 93377, Pachanu, Timbalderis, and "COL 285 SECTOR UK-N C7-4". But I enjoyed the time at HIP 8865 and now I am at Salinkias or whatever it is called. It is working out decently.


Good luck.

 

[JetJaguar]

Then you are doing it wrong...

Head over to HIP 8865 and grab a type 6 And be sure to dump the shields and get the biggest cargo bays you can get, Also get a Limpet prospector and a controller as well as the largest BIN/REFINERY you can get, you want at least 6 but you might have to settle for 9 if you can afford it, but it is worth it.

The way to afford this is to sit at the RES sites and tag along and kill steal bounties, or while the bad guys are being shot up, you be the chihuahua that snarls and shoots them in the leg, thus getting you the bounty (do not bother with human players, only go where they are not at) after you are careful enough, a few hours and you have enough for your type 6.

As you trade your materials in with your type 6, you will be able to afford a better prospector or collector or ship. EVENTUALLY you will make enough to get a Type 7, and then it REALLY gets fun. As a type 6 I brought in about 1 Million +/- 200k, sometimes 1.4 Million but with the Type 7, running all that I got I get about 176 cargo holds, a 10 bin refinery, a limpet collector that lets me fly 3 of them, a prospector that seems to do very well, and I can go out for about 1-2 hours and come back and sell it all for about 3.5 Million credits plus...

Here is what I do for mining.
1. I head to the planets that have PRISTINE RESERVES and either metallic or icy rings, Metallic is best.
2. Fill up cargo hold with Limpets, about 146/176 is what I run.
3. Show up to CORRECT RING, face the planet and go ziggy back and forth, shooting out prospectors 1 at a time at various rocks. When I see Painite, Palladium, PLatinum, I will start to mine if it is about 12% or higher. I will vent EVERYTHING except Gold when I am mining this stuff.
4. As time goes on you start to get low on limpets, when I get to around 30 Limpets, I will start flying up to rocks and shooting them with the mining laser and looking at the fragments, when I see one of the three Ps at a concentration of about 12% or more, I will fire a prospector into that rock and release two, maybe three limpets (depending on when I want to get back) and mine it till it is empty, then wander around looking for another rock to hit with a prospect.
5.When I am done now, I typically see about 40+ Palladium, 20+ Gold, 30+ PAinite, and 40+ Platinum. Last time Around I had 63 Painite and 70 Palladium.
6. I USED to sell my PAINITE at the local station for 26k or 35k, something low, Oh, for 35k because average shows about 40k, but then once I had a mission that took me over looking for gold and then dropping it off at a neighboring system, and when I was there, they paid CRAP for all of my items, Except Painite was 73990 or something like that, I made several million right off that and was stoked.
7. Finally, advanced mining- Use the mission to supplement your mining. You will find that there are missions that will pay you like 300k for 15 units of osmium or Gallite or WHATEVER you typically throw away as you are hunting your three Ps. EVERYTIME you land at the station in Hip 8865 you should check the missions and grab all of the ones that are looking for xx units of this or that. BEWARE of the gold missions though. They will be douchenozzles and tell you to deliver it to a different location as you are mining and then you gotta take a shot at getting jacked along the way. But hit the mission board as soon as you come in and before you leave. Sometimes, about 30% of the time, I can come in, see that I already have xx units of something and I will take the mission for an instant reward. My pay rate is higher though since I became "friends" with them from the 15+ missions I flew and my trading with them.
8. How to find a good spot to START mining? Simple, Fly over to the spot far away from the shodow on the belt. Pick the CORRECT belt and fly into it, as soon as you land in it, STOP, face the planet, orient yourself and plunge down at a 45 degree angle until you are in the rocks and then level out and fly towards the planet, SPAM that thruster about 30 times, you want about 6 or more solid BOOSTS and that will leave EVERYONE* behind and NOBODY will spawn and nobody will bother you. I heard one person say fly 30km away from the RES but I think the RES is just for bounty hunting. Real miners fly farther away from that mess.

*OCCASIONALLY you will get a persistent cop that will land and he WILL chase you down. I must have boosted about 20+ times one night and this jerk was still coming after me in his viper. I saw that it was a system authority so I just stayed hidden while boosting among the rocks. Well, I decided to let him catch me, and he did, scanned me and told me to be on my way. I gave him the finger and he left and I was not bothered by anyone else, but I still boosted away from that location too.

Sometimes You just can NOT get away from jerks that keep dropping into the rocks when you land, I have seen this about 1/24th of the time. I will then simply boot UP or DOWN and away from the rocks and supercruise to another location a few moments away. Usually solves the issue.

Here is a secret, When I was FINALLY able to afford my Type 7 with Class 3 or whatever Limpet Controller and a higher prospector, I do not know WHAT happened, but all of a sudden my mining grew WAY better by 2X. Instead of breaking off fragments that took away 5%-8% or so of the asteroid, I was breaking off 1.x%-3% fragments and I was essentially doubling my output by mining the rocks. I am glad I can run three limpets, but even at three they rarely collect before it is all over the place. They are still running around picking things up for me and I am looking for another rock, but I will just rotate, not fly around. I only noticed it when I got my Type 7 with the 10x BIN refinery and the class 3 limpet controller and class 2 or something Prospector. The prospector will go far, but something doubled my output. Not sure what. I do know that running three little mining lasers will eat up the power quickly I wish I had a medium hardpoint on that type 7...

NOW GET OUT THERE AND GO MAKE SOME MONEY! BTW, I found that once a system changes status to contested or something, like Hip 8865 did, the price of Painite and I think some other things went down in price.

OH- The other place that I took my Painite to to sell for 74K became contested or something and as a result the Painite dropped down to 33k per unit. I then decided to leave. But I should go back, Hip 8865 has some good mining fields.

I forgot what I did but now I am in Salinknas or salinikinais or whatever it is called,

I have been told to check out Tehuevi, HIP 93377, Pachanu, Timbalderis, and "COL 285 SECTOR UK-N C7-4". But I enjoyed the time at HIP 8865 and now I am at Salinkias or whatever it is called. It is working out decently.


Good luck.

This all very useful and nice, but unfortunately we are talking about planetary Surface POI (Blue circle- Point Of Interest) salvaging. And the guy you responded too was talking about the Mining sites on planets surface, the ones you can raid and rob the materials. Not the actual mining sites in Space at Ringed bodies .

But it's cool, you have a nice description of mining which no doubt some folks might find useful, so no harm

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Dunno, when it comes to planetary POIs it's like "free stuff everywhere".

Note that these small Automated Mining installations can be scanned with the Data Link scanner - will reveal their content.

But personally, can't even recall how many hundreds of tons of Gold, Palladium, Platinum etc. I've left behind there just because I wasn't interested in it.
Arguably, one could be come a Millionaire just looting POIs in a Hauler.

IMHO it doesn't get easier than this, considering its nearly risk-free and the stuff happens to be all Legal Salvage as well.

PS.
Being able to sell off surplus Materials (either into a Materials Market or the Black Market for ease of purpose) might be a useful addition to warrant scooping up all the stuff on Planets.

I only ever visit POIs on Planets when I'm on a Mission to do so - or out of boredom/having nothing better to do.

 

[JetJaguar]

Dunno, when it comes to planetary POIs it's like "free stuff everywhere".

Note that these small Automated Mining installations can be scanned with the Data Link scanner - will reveal their content.

But personally, can't even recall how many hundreds of tons of Gold, Palladium, Platinum etc. I've left behind there just because I wasn't interested in it.
Arguably, one could be come a Millionaire just looting POIs in a Hauler.

IMHO it doesn't get easier than this, considering its nearly risk-free and the stuff happens to be all Legal Salvage as well.

PS.
Being able to sell off surplus Materials (either into a Materials Market or the Black Market for ease of purpose) might be a useful addition to warrant scooping up all the stuff on Planets.

I only ever visit POIs on Planets when I'm on a Mission to do so - or out of boredom/having nothing better to do.

I'm not saying every POI should have 1mill of CR value to gained...but just maybe 1 time in 10 or something... that cashed ship POI has 15 tons of Platinum scattered. Or the that Data Beacon gives 200,000cr scan reward. Or that mining installation has 20 rigs with 15 Palladium and 5 Painite. You know, just the occasional treat to give a reward and making the hunt more exiting/give more anticipation that "this POI might have the big haul!" feeling, rather than knowing it always going to be the same low income commodities etc.

I only ever visit POIs on Planets when I'm on a Mission to do so - or out of boredom/having nothing better to do.

Maybe more people would visit them if they gave out some thing meaningful occasionally. I really like this surface game play and wish it was expanded much further. it would be nice to make it a bit more random and occasionally more profitable...I don't see the harm, just more fun/anticipation/unpredictability/profitable type gameplay. Even with a small boost, its never gonna even come close to the sort of money you can make mining and RES hunting (which is incredibly easy if your careful). I don't want always be forced into combat or mining to make some meaningful money.

I don't think difficulty(eg combat) should have any bearing really in how much money you can make, maybe time investment and difficulty. POI hunting is pretty time consuming and is no easier than RES hunting (you are constantly hassled by NPCs wanting your cargo). It would take quite a while to make 1milcr in a Hauler just by doing POI's, probably 3 hours or more. You could gain a Milcr at a RES site in a Hauler in a half hour or less with little risk or effort. But some how that's ok. :shrug:

 

[Alderius]

This all very useful and nice, but unfortunately we are talking about planetary Surface POI (Blue circle- Point Of Interest) salvaging. And the guy you responded too was talking about the Mining sites on planets surface, the ones you can raid and rob the materials. Not the actual mining sites in Space at Ringed bodies .

But it's cool, you have a nice description of mining which no doubt some folks might find useful, so no harm

That's true, I was talking about planetary mining. Driving around in the SRV is a bit like mining in a depleted ring, there's lots of activity, but it's repetitive and doesn't pay worth anything. Honestly if it wasn't for the fact that I can't find some of these materials anywhere else, I wouldn't bother surface prospecting at all because finding/shooting rocks for 2 hours to find just 1 that I need isn't really what I consider good gameplay. Imagine if you fancied a bag of chips (or crisps I believe is the UK version...), and you had to drive for an hour to get to the store/shop and an hour back home. Worth it?

 

[stilly]

This all very useful and nice, but unfortunately we are talking about planetary Surface POI (Blue circle- Point Of Interest) salvaging. And the guy you responded too was talking about the Mining sites on planets surface, the ones you can raid and rob the materials. Not the actual mining sites in Space at Ringed bodies .

But it's cool, you have a nice description of mining which no doubt some folks might find useful, so no harm

Ohhhhhhh. Damn. Sorry, my attention span is like a ferret on Meth at times. I was trying to figure out whatr the POI (point of impact?) was and then I saw mining and I was like- HEY! I know about that...

OH, so there are things called POIs on planets and you use the SRV to go get stuff. Okay. GOT IT. Sounds like fun. AND it is not illicit salvage or whatever this game calls it?

Where do I sign up? Wait, I will read some more...

 

[c00ky1970]

The way to get money whilst exploring planets is to do Skimmer Destruction missions.

These are offered by factions and initially pay low amounts to knock of anything from 3 - 12 skimmers at a specific base.

As you complete more missions for that faction, these skimmer mission increase payout until you can get between 5-8 MCr for a kill 12 skimmer mission.

Now the great bit, that allows you to earn the cash, as well as scavenge for the cargo, is that any skimmers within about 100km radius of the named base in the mission, count towards your target.

So you earn money from killing the skimmers, earn money from the sakvage and rank up with the local faction and it's aligned superpower.

Win, win, win all round!

Plus as you get friendlier with local factions they will give you tip offs for crashed sites which can lead you to sizeable rewards for finding this crashed ships.

Trust this helps!

 

[JetJaguar]

The way to get money whilst exploring planets is to do Skimmer Destruction missions.

These are offered by factions and initially pay low amounts to knock of anything from 3 - 12 skimmers at a specific base.

As you complete more missions for that faction, these skimmer mission increase payout until you can get between 5-8 MCr for a kill 12 skimmer mission.

Now the great bit, that allows you to earn the cash, as well as scavenge for the cargo, is that any skimmers within about 100km radius of the named base in the mission, count towards your target.

So you earn money from killing the skimmers, earn money from the sakvage and rank up with the local faction and it's aligned superpower.

Win, win, win all round!

Plus as you get friendlier with local factions they will give you tip offs for crashed sites which can lead you to sizeable rewards for finding this crashed ships.

Trust this helps!

Actually this is not a bad idea. I might give this a try, thanks. I have done skimmer missions before, but hadn't thought of using them as a part of my planetary scavenging exploits.

Ohhhhhhh. Damn. Sorry, my attention span is like a ferret on Meth at times. I was trying to figure out whatr the POI (point of impact?) was and then I saw mining and I was like- HEY! I know about that...

OH, so there are things called POIs on planets and you use the SRV to go get stuff. Okay. GOT IT. Sounds like fun. AND it is not illicit salvage or whatever this game calls it?

Where do I sign up? Wait, I will read some more...

No need to apologise, it is actually a pretty nice write up on mining you did! POI is Point Of Interest, those blue circles indicating where things can be found on a planet surface. This game does have more acronyms than you can shake a sidewinder at.



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One other thing that is a bit annoying about surface (POI)Point Of Interest hunting is the amount/frequency of being pestered by NPC ships. It would be nice if they didn't spawn so often and predictably. You can tell NPCs are scripted to show up when the contents of the Blue circle has spawned. You can also tell the NPCs are scripted to spawn when you have collected all the objects at a POI. Both these events happen every time. It's like the way NPC's show up when ever you drop into Meteor/asteroid Ring....every time. These kind of NPC actions break immersion for me and can lead to irritation. I wish they wouldn't make it so predictable.....Space is pretty big after all, alone-time (being left in peace) shouldn't be a thing that never happens .

 

[Codger]

Space is pretty big after all, alone-time (being left in peace) shouldn't be a thing that never happens .

That sums it up quite well.

 

[stilly]

YEah when I did that several times I found that I had a huge bounty on my head for doing such a thing. SO I guess the moral of the story is to pay attention on who you go killing. One was a pirate base and nobody had an issue with it, but the other one against some settlement, man, just killing three got me 400K, but I racked up about an 1800 bounty in the process...

 

[c00ky1970]

Word of advice don't take the "Kill Goliath Skimmer missions", these are a bit badass, and although solo-able take about 10-15 mins per Goliath in an SRV, plus sometimes missions asks for 3 to be killed but base only spawns 1.

Goliaths don't spawn out in the POI's only at bases dfrom my experience.

You will even with just killing POI skimmers occasionally get a fine/bounty for destroying them, these are not huge and either become payable in 24 hours (i think) or a week. I have found that evfen with these bounties on me, i don't get bugged by NPC's as most of teh time I am on surface cruising for skimmers.

 

[stilly]

Okay I get it.

I agree with OP. It took me about 3 type-6 ships to figure it out, but I did. Yeah, for what you gotta do to now get to a POI, you should get a little more. It would really be nice to find crash sites, maybe one in 15 or so where there are cargo canisters all over the place. What I think would be even better would be if you could jam a stake into the ground that is a homing beacon good for 72 hours so that in the event that you lose where you went, you can find it easier with your ship. There was a time or two where there were a LOT of hills between my ship landing and my POI that I found and it took me forever to get back and forth. I had also not discovered the thrusters on my SRV so now that I did it helps, but I HATED that trip. It would sure be nice to take the ship about 1200km closer and find a spot to land it.

I think though that it would be cool to also be able to find mountable items at some of the crash sites. So let me find a HUGE Beam Laser on a Gimballed mount and then either sell it or store it if I please... Things like that- Oh look, I found a 4A fuel scoop! great. Never seen one of those before...

Freelancer did things like this and then you could land at a station and mount the weapons to your ship if you wanted or you could sell them. Just like the materials after blowing up a ship, sometimes you would pull in a gun or other devices.