The Fact that I need at least 2 maps and a spreadsheet to find the data points in a base means that you have done something terribly wrong.
I took me 30 minutes of memorizing the map (that the community provided no thanks to you) and walking through it multiple times before I was able to even pull off a successful run. The whole process is tedious and annoying and is gambling really (and gambling is a sin). having a countdown of only 1:00 is added stress to an activity that I would already consider stupid in its own right. All it takes is a well placed pebble to ruin your day and get you stuck. Simply making it 1:30 would be a sweet spot I think.
Now I need to memorize the other layouts...Looking forward to that. I avoided doing this for a whole year hoping you would realize how bad this is and maybe use that new data link scanner to let our ships actually gather DATA. But I decided to bite the bullet on hunting Modified embedded firmware since it seems you have no plans of making this more approachable and I am sick to death of weapon jitter despite the negligible amounts I have.
Now I wish I had actually bitten a bullet after all this time spent and wasted. Well it would probably be a shotgun shell in my case. Or since we are gambling here any ways I may as well play russian roulette! Every time I don't get any data worth using i'll take a spin. That will at least make this process semi interesting.
Ok ill drop the Melodrama. but my point is that this is probably one of the least enjoyable parts of the materials/data gathering process. Instead of going base to base rinse and repeating I would much rather have earned all these bits and pieces through missions and natural gameplay. Maybe someday an allied faction may out of the blue just send you some data. They could say something along the lines of "Found this thought you would be interested Cmdr" something like that would give us an actual reason beyond the mission boards to get chummy with minor factions. This concept could also apply to Power play and respective Navy ranks. Maybe some data gets slipped in with your power play payment. Taking this concept to Naval ranking could make being an Admiral or King be worth something other than a title only the player can see.
Another thing is to simply increase the minimum data given from Encoded USS to 3-5 range. Nothing is more frustrating that finally getting a USS and getting one bit of data. Simply be more generous with the data we actually need. And cut the rest of the useless data out or rework some of the engineering recipes to include them. (I'm looking at you Modified Consumer Firmware. Long range weapons use you at grade 2 3 and 4. That's lunacy.)
I took me 30 minutes of memorizing the map (that the community provided no thanks to you) and walking through it multiple times before I was able to even pull off a successful run. The whole process is tedious and annoying and is gambling really (and gambling is a sin). having a countdown of only 1:00 is added stress to an activity that I would already consider stupid in its own right. All it takes is a well placed pebble to ruin your day and get you stuck. Simply making it 1:30 would be a sweet spot I think.
Now I need to memorize the other layouts...Looking forward to that. I avoided doing this for a whole year hoping you would realize how bad this is and maybe use that new data link scanner to let our ships actually gather DATA. But I decided to bite the bullet on hunting Modified embedded firmware since it seems you have no plans of making this more approachable and I am sick to death of weapon jitter despite the negligible amounts I have.
Now I wish I had actually bitten a bullet after all this time spent and wasted. Well it would probably be a shotgun shell in my case. Or since we are gambling here any ways I may as well play russian roulette! Every time I don't get any data worth using i'll take a spin. That will at least make this process semi interesting.
Ok ill drop the Melodrama. but my point is that this is probably one of the least enjoyable parts of the materials/data gathering process. Instead of going base to base rinse and repeating I would much rather have earned all these bits and pieces through missions and natural gameplay. Maybe someday an allied faction may out of the blue just send you some data. They could say something along the lines of "Found this thought you would be interested Cmdr" something like that would give us an actual reason beyond the mission boards to get chummy with minor factions. This concept could also apply to Power play and respective Navy ranks. Maybe some data gets slipped in with your power play payment. Taking this concept to Naval ranking could make being an Admiral or King be worth something other than a title only the player can see.
Another thing is to simply increase the minimum data given from Encoded USS to 3-5 range. Nothing is more frustrating that finally getting a USS and getting one bit of data. Simply be more generous with the data we actually need. And cut the rest of the useless data out or rework some of the engineering recipes to include them. (I'm looking at you Modified Consumer Firmware. Long range weapons use you at grade 2 3 and 4. That's lunacy.)
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