EDIT: It has been pointed out to me that the title of this thread makes it sound like I am rage quitting. I AM NOT. I am losing the will to grind. Losing the will to make up my own little internal stories to justify the maddening tasks that are needed to achieve anything, and generally losing the will to aim for things like unlocking Guardian Tech and Tech Brokers.
I am beginning to admit defeat...
I've been trying to get to a position where I can do the second Ram Tah mission and unlock Guardian FSD Boosters to aid my desire to explore. So I bought a Krait Phantom and set about engineering it with FSD Grade 5 with Mass Manager and Grade 5 Stripped Down dirty drives. I am falling in love with the ship, but then I find out that for the second Ram Tah you need corrosion resistant cargo...
So off I set, first I have to unlock Marco Gwent, so I worked on getting the rep and getting a Sirius Permit, and then getting 25 units of Modular Terminals (Pain 1).
From there I had to engineer stuff I didn't really want to get the invite to Palin, but I stuck with it, tracking down Material Traders and working my way through engineering the power plant and sitributors to get the Palin invite...
Finally got there... I've already met all the travel needs (been exploring out in the black for months at a time before this), so just got to pick up the sensor fragments. Simple enough, but DULL farming them from a Thargoid wreck. Imagine my joy when I find the best this engineer can offer is 2 Tonne racks. So after all that effort I find out I need to go to a Tech Broker.
OK, so what do I need to get the 16 Tonne rack unlocked. Meta-Alloys, Radiation Baffles and Neofabric Insulation... The first you have to farm from Barnacles, the second you can buy, from a couple of systems in the @rse end of nowhere, and the third you have to get by breaking into the cargo hatches of wrecked megaships... Serioulsy FDev, could you make this a little more convoluted, time consuming and dull? I'm sure you could manage it if you tried...
So last night I spent about 3 hours farming the Meta-Alloys from a Barnacle site... Collect 2 tonnes, drop them off at the ship, log to menu and back in to refresh the site, rinse and repeat. Eventiually I have 16 tonnes (and a vague feeling of nausea from spinning my Scarab around in VR)… So I fly to Delphi, dock at the Oracle and get the limpet controllers, manifest scanner and limpets for the next stage, and call it a night.
Tonight I've dropped in to the Mega ship, data link scanned it, found a cargo hold, data link and manifest scanned that... 5 tonnes of Neofabric. Woohoo! Hatchbreaker works fine and 1 tonne pops out... the tother 4 stubbornly stay inside, but I'll get to them. Send in the Collector. Except the cannister is seemingly glued to the hull of the cargo ship. 3 collector limpets suicide on it trying to pick it up, but nothing is moving this can. I try to scoop it by scraping my cargo scoop along the side of the ship, but that's not working either. Suddenly there is an announcement about a frameshift anomaly detected. Next thing I know the Thargoids have popped up and are blasting the crap out of me. High Wake! . Scoop and hardpoints still deployed. Retract them both and high wake... Destination blocked... . pick another BOOM!...
Hello rebuy screen, goodbye 16 tonnes of Meta-alloys, because of course you can't store the f@@king things, so you have to carry them with you. Goodbye 3 hours of my life and hello to another session of nausea.
Still, I say to myself, it could be worse. I rebuy, restock with limpets and head back to the ship. At least I can get the neofabric tonight... I pop another cargo hatch and it ejects 4 neofabric… EVERY SINGLE ONE GLUES ITSELF TO THE SIDE OF THE SHIP! Collector after collector dies trying to get them. I can't scoop them, or dislodge them in any way. WHAT IS THIS HELL?!? Seriously FDEV, do any of you actually play this game?
The final insult comes when I get attacked by a Wanted Viper, and during the firefight I clip the megaship. 200 Cr bounty for reckless discharge of a weapon. It's going to be one of those nights... I head back to Oracle to pay the fine, dock anonymously, click into the Contact to pay the fine and suddenly get presented with a screen telling me I've been sent to a penal colony. FOR 200 CREDITS?!?!?! Now, not only do I have no meta-alloys and no neofabric insulators but I'm now in a penal colony light years from my intended system... How is this a crime and punishment system? For a 200Cr fine you transport me and my ship light years and drop me in a penal colony?
I wanted so hard to be happy unlocking the Guardian FSD Booster. I tried so hard not to see it as pointless grind, but after the fiasco tonight I am finding it difficult to maintain the will to play. Something that shouls be as simple as getting a Tech Broker to unlock larger corrosion resistant cargo racks has become 3 sessions of dull, repetitive tasks and bugged gameplay of the sloppiest kind. How hard is is to code the cargo canisters to eject from the hold and not get jammed in the scenery? I mean, really FDev. If you played your own game you would realise you are destroying people's souls here.
I don't want everything to be available at the push of a button, but I also don't want to have to hop through flaming hoops, whilst standing on my head, pouring a jug of iced water down one trouser leg and whistling the Albanian National Anthem, which is what some of these ludicrously convoluted and repetitive tasks feels like at times. Surely there has to be a better way? Even if we could just make part payments at a Tech Broker, so I didn't have to carry around 16 tonnes of Meta-Alloys, 22 Radiation Baffles and 12 tonnes of Neofabric Insulation.
Or gicve us Cargo Storage. It's not like you have the complex, player driven economy that sits behind EVE Online, so I'm pretty sure players aren't going to wreck the BSG by stockpiling stuff. Limit it to 100 tonnes (or 50 tonnes) as that would be enough to allow us to hold these hard earned bits other than in the cargo hold whilst we try and collect enough random crap to unlock tech items.
Throw us a bone.
I am beginning to admit defeat...
I've been trying to get to a position where I can do the second Ram Tah mission and unlock Guardian FSD Boosters to aid my desire to explore. So I bought a Krait Phantom and set about engineering it with FSD Grade 5 with Mass Manager and Grade 5 Stripped Down dirty drives. I am falling in love with the ship, but then I find out that for the second Ram Tah you need corrosion resistant cargo...
So off I set, first I have to unlock Marco Gwent, so I worked on getting the rep and getting a Sirius Permit, and then getting 25 units of Modular Terminals (Pain 1).
From there I had to engineer stuff I didn't really want to get the invite to Palin, but I stuck with it, tracking down Material Traders and working my way through engineering the power plant and sitributors to get the Palin invite...
Finally got there... I've already met all the travel needs (been exploring out in the black for months at a time before this), so just got to pick up the sensor fragments. Simple enough, but DULL farming them from a Thargoid wreck. Imagine my joy when I find the best this engineer can offer is 2 Tonne racks. So after all that effort I find out I need to go to a Tech Broker.
OK, so what do I need to get the 16 Tonne rack unlocked. Meta-Alloys, Radiation Baffles and Neofabric Insulation... The first you have to farm from Barnacles, the second you can buy, from a couple of systems in the @rse end of nowhere, and the third you have to get by breaking into the cargo hatches of wrecked megaships... Serioulsy FDev, could you make this a little more convoluted, time consuming and dull? I'm sure you could manage it if you tried...
So last night I spent about 3 hours farming the Meta-Alloys from a Barnacle site... Collect 2 tonnes, drop them off at the ship, log to menu and back in to refresh the site, rinse and repeat. Eventiually I have 16 tonnes (and a vague feeling of nausea from spinning my Scarab around in VR)… So I fly to Delphi, dock at the Oracle and get the limpet controllers, manifest scanner and limpets for the next stage, and call it a night.
Tonight I've dropped in to the Mega ship, data link scanned it, found a cargo hold, data link and manifest scanned that... 5 tonnes of Neofabric. Woohoo! Hatchbreaker works fine and 1 tonne pops out... the tother 4 stubbornly stay inside, but I'll get to them. Send in the Collector. Except the cannister is seemingly glued to the hull of the cargo ship. 3 collector limpets suicide on it trying to pick it up, but nothing is moving this can. I try to scoop it by scraping my cargo scoop along the side of the ship, but that's not working either. Suddenly there is an announcement about a frameshift anomaly detected. Next thing I know the Thargoids have popped up and are blasting the crap out of me. High Wake! . Scoop and hardpoints still deployed. Retract them both and high wake... Destination blocked... . pick another BOOM!...
Hello rebuy screen, goodbye 16 tonnes of Meta-alloys, because of course you can't store the f@@king things, so you have to carry them with you. Goodbye 3 hours of my life and hello to another session of nausea.
Still, I say to myself, it could be worse. I rebuy, restock with limpets and head back to the ship. At least I can get the neofabric tonight... I pop another cargo hatch and it ejects 4 neofabric… EVERY SINGLE ONE GLUES ITSELF TO THE SIDE OF THE SHIP! Collector after collector dies trying to get them. I can't scoop them, or dislodge them in any way. WHAT IS THIS HELL?!? Seriously FDEV, do any of you actually play this game?
The final insult comes when I get attacked by a Wanted Viper, and during the firefight I clip the megaship. 200 Cr bounty for reckless discharge of a weapon. It's going to be one of those nights... I head back to Oracle to pay the fine, dock anonymously, click into the Contact to pay the fine and suddenly get presented with a screen telling me I've been sent to a penal colony. FOR 200 CREDITS?!?!?! Now, not only do I have no meta-alloys and no neofabric insulators but I'm now in a penal colony light years from my intended system... How is this a crime and punishment system? For a 200Cr fine you transport me and my ship light years and drop me in a penal colony?
I wanted so hard to be happy unlocking the Guardian FSD Booster. I tried so hard not to see it as pointless grind, but after the fiasco tonight I am finding it difficult to maintain the will to play. Something that shouls be as simple as getting a Tech Broker to unlock larger corrosion resistant cargo racks has become 3 sessions of dull, repetitive tasks and bugged gameplay of the sloppiest kind. How hard is is to code the cargo canisters to eject from the hold and not get jammed in the scenery? I mean, really FDev. If you played your own game you would realise you are destroying people's souls here.
I don't want everything to be available at the push of a button, but I also don't want to have to hop through flaming hoops, whilst standing on my head, pouring a jug of iced water down one trouser leg and whistling the Albanian National Anthem, which is what some of these ludicrously convoluted and repetitive tasks feels like at times. Surely there has to be a better way? Even if we could just make part payments at a Tech Broker, so I didn't have to carry around 16 tonnes of Meta-Alloys, 22 Radiation Baffles and 12 tonnes of Neofabric Insulation.
Or gicve us Cargo Storage. It's not like you have the complex, player driven economy that sits behind EVE Online, so I'm pretty sure players aren't going to wreck the BSG by stockpiling stuff. Limit it to 100 tonnes (or 50 tonnes) as that would be enough to allow us to hold these hard earned bits other than in the cargo hold whilst we try and collect enough random crap to unlock tech items.
Throw us a bone.
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