Brain tree limpet farming - Limpets exploding
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I noticed it the other day and just seen this vid on you tube,
I had to drive around and look for the right items to shoot out of the trees, took a while but got what I wanted.
Great, so raw material gathering has gone back to being intolerable, rendering all they did to improve material gathering last year null and void.
Well, there are a lot (A LOT - I meant to count them but forgot) of cargo racks to blow up at Kolii Discii. I went there last night to fill up with Antimony, Ruthenium and Tellurium (they also give Tungsten and Zirconium) - it is a bit of a faff, driving about amongst the sea of cargo containers and wreckage but at least it isn't hundreds of ly distant.
Yes, I know that method. Thing is, brain tree farming fills all bins, all 4 tiers.
Materials gathering is in need of some improvement, especially considering how much it affects various aspects of the game. Most of my actions are based on trying to get materials for one thing or another, mainly engineering ship modules.
I'm not sure how to improve the situation, but something is needed. It's WAY too...troublesome. Most of it seems like silly busy work.
I'm not sure how to improve the situation, but something is needed. It's WAY too...troublesome. Most of it seems like silly busy work.
It's another system that doesn't fit the game. In Fantasy MMO crafting you might make 2 or 3 armors and weapons in your entire play through. In ED you do core modules, utilities, weapons, and whatever non-core modules for each and every ship you might want. It's insane.
There's your issue, most of the stuff on there is rubbish, BTs were never intended to be farmed with limpets, dig out your SRV.
O7
Like they "fixed" the Elite NPC perfect aiming bug to stop the legitimate activity of Type-10 massacre mission stacking?
You mean that thing that gets stuck on the trees all the time, while trying to get the chunks that got stuck in ureachable heights ? No thanks. I'll farm crashed Anacondas if I must.
What? We have to grind in Elite now?
The Scarab SRV has jump jets, if you bump into the tree using those then that's close enough for the cargo scoop to snatch them, even if the raw material has settled into the crown of the tree.
Oh, the humanity! Unfortunately this is the expected response these days when FD fixes an exploit. “Intolerable”? Then don’t do it! Engineering is NOT required for anything. FD even significantly buffed other methods of gathering raw mats: HGE’s, cargo crates, mission rewards, etc.
Endeavor to preserve.
Breathe.
It will be ok. I promise.
Endeavor to preserve.
Breathe.
It will be ok. I promise.
Was it an exploit? It's not something I've ever felt the need to do myself, the forests can get thick enough that the SRV method has always felt adequate to me. But it only seemed a little bit cheesy to me at worst.
Can't wait for them to fix the exploit that lets people drop into stations extra quick with SCA! 