Please add a "sell non-essential goods" and "Sell non-essential assets" button at bartenders

[Azmuth Divarchchron]

as the title suggests please add two buttons to be able to sell non-essential goods and non-essential assets at bartenders.

Any goods or assets that are not involved in crafting or unlocking an engineer would be subject to be sold.

This would help cut down inventory managment time.

 

[Straha Yeagar]

This would be great...

up until new engineering and modules are added that use those currently useless things

 

[Dextio]

That'd rely upon the user determing what was non-essential. But yeah, if frontier was nice, they'd offer this functionality to sell goods/assets which no blueprints or engineer unlocks require

 

[dewelcodex1]

All they had to do was add pinned blueprints and any materials needed are highlighted, so you know not to sell them... this game is so dumb

 

[Retropolitan]

Rather than selling assets, I think it makes more sense to trade them up for the highest-valued asset in their class. You keep the value while reducing the volume, so you have that much more to trade later on.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

All they had to do was add pinned blueprints and any materials needed are highlighted, so you know not to sell them... this game is so dumb

Yeah, but if we could pin blueprints then we would never go back to visit the engineers in their very generic looking auto-repair shop looking waiting rooms.

 

[Azmuth Divarchchron]

Rather than selling assets, I think it makes more sense to trade them up for the highest-valued asset in their class. You keep the value while reducing the volume, so you have that much more to trade later on.

I already do this, which is why i suggested to have two buttons instead of one that nuked both types

 

[Erei]

The big question, is why do we have engineering mats AND commodities like item, and use SOME of both for engineering. Why not JUST engineering mat, you know, like in Horizon.
There problem solved.
We don't even use all our engineering mat. It's silly.

 

[dewelcodex1]

Rather than selling assets, I think it makes more sense to trade them up for the highest-valued asset in their class. You keep the value while reducing the volume, so you have that much more to trade later on.

Why not just collect scrap, and trade it for engineering points then?

 

[Azmuth Divarchchron]

The big question, is why do we have engineering mats AND commodities like item, and used SOME of both for engineering. Why not JUST engineering mat, you know, like in Horizon.
There problem solved.

my guess is they plan to do that to the system down the road and just slapped on the old horizons system for the time being

 

[Erei]

my guess is they plan to do that to the system down the road and just slapped on the old horizons system for the time being

They also slapped the very old horizon system of having total storage cap instead of per material storage cap.

I understand why we have performance issues, Fdev have a few years of lag. That's serious.

I also think it was rushed and most uses for the mats where cut, but yeah, it needs fixing.

 

[galahad2069]

@OP, be careful what you wish for. If they added such a button it would 100% remove all of your essential materials, induce insane lag, kick you out of the instance and delete half of your active missions. Not to mention the 23 zombie bugs from 2016 that it would resurrect.

 

[Gleitfrosch]

And add an "illegal" marker to items in the bartender overview

 

[Drelthar]

The big question, is why do we have engineering mats AND commodities like item, and use SOME of both for engineering. Why not JUST engineering mat, you know, like in Horizon.
There problem solved.
We don't even use all our engineering mat. It's silly.

Well, it's trying to be like ship gameplay actually.

You can buy commodities in the ship gameplay, which you trade and stuff - that's what all these useless items represent. Kinda.

The designers are like "Yeah! we can make all these items they can sell for credits! they'll love it!"

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Well, it's trying to be like ship gameplay actually.

You can buy commodities in the ship gameplay, which you trade and stuff - that's what all these useless items represent. Kinda.

The designers are like "Yeah! we can make all these items they can sell for credits! they'll love it!"

I think it runs slightly differently - they're trying to make the bases look like someone actually uses them, so there's personal supplies, industrial byproducts, etc. lying around.

And then they added the ability to sell them for a token (though still useful to a beginner) amount of money - and make them mission targets, sometimes - because otherwise people would ask "what's the point in all these personal computers lying around that we can't do anything with"?

 

[Factabulous]

@OP, be careful what you wish for. If they added such a button it would 100% remove all of your essential materials, induce insane lag, kick you out of the instance and delete half of your active missions. Not to mention the 23 zombie bugs from 2016 that it would resurrect.

While incredibly salty there is a germ of truth in this - any list would be written once and left to rot. It would also have to be quite complex to work - does it sell your Cat Media, but only if you have 20 Classic Multimedia? Would it stop fdev ever being able to to on-foot CGs for 'useless' mats as no-one would have any? And what happens when they add a new engineer with new mats that are no marked as useful? Sure - all these wrinkles can be overcome, but this is fdev

The correct answer is still - per-mat storage limits. Somewhere around 200 (maybe more for MI & Schematics) would work fine.

 

[galahad2069]

While incredibly salty there is a germ of truth in this - any list would be written once and left to rot.

Pre-compiled lists do sound a bad idea indeed. How about a block of code like
- for each item in inventory:
IF IsUsedInAnyBlueprint() == true
SellAwayCrap()?

 

[Factabulous]

Pre-compiled lists do sound a bad idea indeed. How about a block of code like
- for each item in inventory:
IF IsUsedInAnyBlueprint() == true
SellAwayCrap()?

Well, good luck unlocking any engineer after that is put in the code.

 

[galahad2069]

Well, good luck unlocking any engineer after that is put in the code.

IF IsUsedInAnyBlueprintOrGoddamnEngineerUnlock()?

 

[Factabulous]

IF IsUsedInAnyBlueprintOrGoddamnEngineerUnlock()?

Now it's just thrown away all your power regulators.