Dear Frontier Development,
After killing and pillaging a whole base of innocent NPCs that never did any harm to me I found one Weapon Schematic.
And it felt like "meh, only nine others to get to upgrade my Grade 3 weapon".
I know you don't wanted to spend too much money on the game design of Odyssey, but the cost for the Weapon & Suits upgrades look like you don't even try to hide that:
It's just more of the same material / good / data / tech ect... for each grade.
Grade 2 Suit Upgrade
Grade 3 Suit Upgrade
Grade 4 Suit Upgrade
Grade 5 Suit Upgrade
The problem with that:
It looks and feels like you didn't put much efford into designing that part of the game.
It makes mission rewards like 1/2/3 Suit Schematics ect... not very special, but just a reminder that you have to grind more .
Using materials with Grades 2/3/4/5 instead would be the obvious solution to that problem:
Grade 2 Suit Upgrade
Grade 3 Suit Upgrade
After killing and pillaging a whole base of innocent NPCs that never did any harm to me I found one Weapon Schematic.
And it felt like "meh, only nine others to get to upgrade my Grade 3 weapon".
I know you don't wanted to spend too much money on the game design of Odyssey, but the cost for the Weapon & Suits upgrades look like you don't even try to hide that:
It's just more of the same material / good / data / tech ect... for each grade.
Grade 2 Suit Upgrade
1 Suit Schematic
1 Health Monitor
1 Power Regulator
1 Manufacturing Instruction
Grade 3 Suit Upgrade
5 Suit Schematics
5 Health Monitors
5 Power Regulators
5 Manufacturing Instructions
Grade 4 Suit Upgrade
10 Suit Schematics
10 Health Monitors
10 Power Regulators
10 Manufacturing Instructions
Grade 5 Suit Upgrade
15 Suit Schematics
15 Health Monitors
15 Power Regulators
15 Manufacturing Instructions
The problem with that:
It looks and feels like you didn't put much efford into designing that part of the game.
It makes mission rewards like 1/2/3 Suit Schematics ect... not very special, but just a reminder that you have to grind more .
Using materials with Grades 2/3/4/5 instead would be the obvious solution to that problem:
Grade 2 Suit Upgrade
1 Grade 2 Suit Schematic
1 Grade 2 Health Monitor
1 Grade 2 Power Regulator
1 Grade 2 Manufacturing Instruction
Grade 3 Suit Upgrade
1 Grade 3 Suit Schematic
1 Grade 3 Health Monitor
1 Grade 3 Power Regulator
1 Grade 3 Manufacturing Instruction
Grade 4 Suit Upgrade
1 Grade 4 Suit Schematic
1 Grade 4 Health Monitor
1 Grade 4 Power Regulator
1 Grade 4 Manufacturing Instruction
Grade 5 Suit Upgrade
1 Grade 5 Suit Schematic
1 Grade 5 Health Monitor
1 Grade 5 Power Regulator
1 Grade 5 Manufacturing Instruction
Lower grades could be bartered at the Barterkeeper as any other materials.