Fairly straightforward....
After the recent changes to mat' drop-rates made engineering MUCH less of a grind, it seems a bit harsh that similar changes weren't made to the mat' drop-rates for Guardian-related mat's, used to unlock Guardian tech'.
Having "lost" access to the Guardian SLFs when I came back to ED (as well as losing several ships and some paid paint jobs
) I've set about re-unlocking them but trekking around the ancient ruin sites and getting 3x obelisk data drops per scan (with only a 20% chance the scan will actually be what you need) kind of sucks compared to how easy it now is to gather the mat's for even G5 engineering mod's.
Also, maybe it's worth pointing out that you can't even use a mat' trader to trade Guardian mat's so, when it comes to gathering them, you're getting hooped three times - once with the 20% chance of getting the obelisk data you need, twice with the low drop-rates and then a third time because you're stuck with the stuff you don't need and can't trade it.
Seems like, in line with the current paradigm, it might better if each scan/drop yielded 6x or even 9x mat's and, possibly, give some mat' traders the ability to trade Guardian mat's.
After the recent changes to mat' drop-rates made engineering MUCH less of a grind, it seems a bit harsh that similar changes weren't made to the mat' drop-rates for Guardian-related mat's, used to unlock Guardian tech'.
Having "lost" access to the Guardian SLFs when I came back to ED (as well as losing several ships and some paid paint jobs
) I've set about re-unlocking them but trekking around the ancient ruin sites and getting 3x obelisk data drops per scan (with only a 20% chance the scan will actually be what you need) kind of sucks compared to how easy it now is to gather the mat's for even G5 engineering mod's.Also, maybe it's worth pointing out that you can't even use a mat' trader to trade Guardian mat's so, when it comes to gathering them, you're getting hooped three times - once with the 20% chance of getting the obelisk data you need, twice with the low drop-rates and then a third time because you're stuck with the stuff you don't need and can't trade it.
Seems like, in line with the current paradigm, it might better if each scan/drop yielded 6x or even 9x mat's and, possibly, give some mat' traders the ability to trade Guardian mat's.
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