Thargoid sites my: impressions

CMDR Redcrest

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The good: Absolutely awe-inspiring in terms of structure, sense of place and sense of 'alien'! A real pleasure to take it all in.

The bad: SRV driving is already a pain, I take no joy in driving that thing that spends more time on it's roof that it's wheels. Can the new SRV be some kind of hover craft when we get one? Also when we get new ones can we have a bigger cargo bay? Which leads to my next point: NO CORROSIVE RESISTANT RACKS ON THE SRV! I thought I'd spend some time gathering materials for SRV repair knowing that the cargo needed for this was corrosive. By doing this I thought I was taking reasonable precautions. SRV synthesis DOES NOTHING to guard against corrosion effects. Why?
I have just exited the game due to the fact that I spent hours gathering a UA and UP just for my SRV to explode when oxygen ran out due to corrosive effects. Hours wasted. I tried to get back to my ship which had flown away while inside the structure. Nope, kaboom! Corrosion resistant racks already exist in game surely it's a quick thing to put resistant racks on an SRV.

TL;DR: The new structures are great but can we PLEASE have some way of countering the corrosive effects of the required cargo either through synthesis or resistant racks and not be wasting people's time please? Thanks.

Can a mod please move that colon in the title to the right place please? That typo's gona bug me! :) Thanks!
 
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Omicron Psi

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CMDR Redcrest said:
The good: Absolutely awe-inspiring in terms of structure, sense of place and sense of 'alien'! A real pleasure to take it all in.

The bad: SRV driving is already a pain, I take no joy in driving that thing that spends more time on it's roof that it's wheels. Can the new SRV be some kind of hover craft when we get one? Also when we get new ones can we have a bigger cargo bay? Which leads to my next point: NO CORROSIVE RESISTANT RACKS ON THE SRV! I thought I'd spend some time gathering materials for SRV repair knowing that the cargo needed for this was corrosive. By doing this I thought I was taking reasonable precautions. SRV synthesis DOES NOTHING to guard against corrosion effects. Why?
I have just exited the game due to the fact that I spent hours gathering a UA and UP just for my SRV to explode when oxygen ran out due to corrosive effects. Hours wasted. I tried to get back to my ship which had flown away while inside the structure. Nope, kaboom! Corrosion resistant racks already exist in game surely it's a quick thing to put resistant racks on an SRV.

TL;DR: The new structures are great but can we PLEASE have some way of countering the corrosive effects of the required cargo either through synthesis or resistant racks and not be wasting people's time please? Thanks.

Can a mod please move that colon in the title to the right place please? That typo's gona bug me! :) Thanks!
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Ahem, you could have jettisoned the UP & UA inside the structure, carried out some exploration and then utilised them to run the machine or simply return to your ship with minimal damage. Alternatively, you could have left the structure; jettisoned the corrosive cargo; recalled your ship; collected the cargo and transferred it to your ship's resistant racks.

If you do not have corrosion resistant racks on your ship, you can buy them from Palin.
 

CMDR Redcrest

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Omicron Psi said:
Ahem, you could have jettisoned the UP & UA inside the structure, carried out some exploration and then utilised them to run the machine or simply return to your ship with minimal damage. Alternatively, you could have left the structure; jettisoned the corrosive cargo; recalled your ship; collected the cargo and transferred it to your ship's resistant racks.

If you do not have corrosion resistant racks on your ship, you can buy them from Palin.
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I was labouring under the misapprehension that the SRV synthesis WAS repairing the damage being done. Right up until I realised I'd wasn't time collecting synthesis materials (with the UA, UP still aboard my ship) because it doesn't flipping work! At which point the life support broke.
All's much better with 20-20 hindsight but it would've been nice to know this stuff before going in. Or at least had the means to mitigate the effects without the potential to put things down and lose them in some way.
Hours to find the stuff and now hours to start all over again. Yeah I've lost my appetite to play ED for the night.

Edit: Yes I do have resistant racks on my ship, why no resistant racks for SRV's? It would seem logical if we're going to be using the SRV to transport this stuff then give the means to do it without annoyance and repetition.
 
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Jmanis

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Omicron Psi said:
Ahem, you could have jettisoned the UP & UA inside the structure, carried out some exploration and then utilised them to run the machine or simply return to your ship with minimal damage. Alternatively, you could have left the structure; jettisoned the corrosive cargo; recalled your ship; collected the cargo and transferred it to your ship's resistant racks.
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Even better, just jet the UA/UP or UL at one of the main entrances. It will stay open, and all internal doors open without any cargo requirement.
 
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