Once you're addicted to the skinner box you won't mind anymore.But the engineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeering
Morons R Us
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It has been said before and I say it again, a way to save a ship's loadout would be really convenient. Swapping modules from and to storage and between ships is already unnecessarily time consuming, especially since module stats are still not completely shown or buryied in a submenu with font size 36.
It must have been more important to be able to read those values from across the room instead of actually making all information available on one screen.
Let me go through my Mining for Morons Checklist that I regularly facepalm myself with when out I'm out prospecting and mining.
Generally, this is due Real life, as I can play for a bit, power down the game, and come back hours/days/weeks later, and try to recall what it was I was going to do.
I might have walked away from outfitting after I started off a ship or module transfer and believing it was "done" the next time I come back to the game.
But seriously
Limpets.
- Forgot to outfit a refinery
- Forgot to outfit some limpets
- Forgot to outfit a mining laser
- Thought I outfitted an abrasion blaster, but it turned out it was a subsurface missile.
- Forgot to outfit some limpets
- Forgot to outfit a prospector limpet controller
- Forgot to outfit some limpets
- Forgot to outfit a Pulse wave scanner
Generally, this is due Real life, as I can play for a bit, power down the game, and come back hours/days/weeks later, and try to recall what it was I was going to do.
I might have walked away from outfitting after I started off a ship or module transfer and believing it was "done" the next time I come back to the game.
But seriously
Limpets.
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My totally scientific guesstimate of the percentages
I hate limpets.
Now i just feel more ashamed as ive ticked off quite a few from that list myself over the years.
TBH, I've always thought it'd be nice if we could sort our stored modules into "folders" which we could create and rename a lot like we do on a PC.
So, for example, you could create a folder called "G5 Modules", "Weapons" or "Shield Boosters" and then put the associated items into that folder.
The trouble is, I guess, that just because modules are sorted into folders, it wouldn't necessarily mean they're physically in the same location, ready to be transferred to a ship.
Course, that could easily be solved by giving us some rudimentary "file handling tools", again much like we have on a PC, which'd allow us to do things like select every module in a "folder" and transfer it to a station etc.
Honestly, I sometimes think that module and ship storage is so obtuse and obscure that it must have been created that way deliberately, perhaps with the intention of creating pitfalls and booby-traps to hinder players.
I wonder if FDev develops the game in a similar way. That would at least explain quality and overall pacing of the project.
Pulse Wave Analyser. Yep.
Limpets. Yep. More than once.
Abrasion Blaster. Yep.
Mining Lasers. Yep.
Refinery. Also.
Forgot them all at one time or another.
But you can all easily forget about the sub-surface missiles.
o7
Limpets. Yep. More than once.
Abrasion Blaster. Yep.
Mining Lasers. Yep.
Refinery. Also.
Forgot them all at one time or another.
But you can all easily forget about the sub-surface missiles.
o7
Still love ya Jimmy!
I can relate to this...I forgot limpets last night. Schoolboy error
The converse happens too, when you're done with mining and you've got more credits that you know what to do with. Then you go take a cargo mission for rep and try to fill up with 200T of cargo only to find - 'fornication! I've got 80T of limpets on board!' - at least the embarrassment is short lived..
Save that for the next “What’s The Dumbest Thing You’ve Done” thread. Should rank in the top 5.