Horizons Whats wrong with planet salvage and searching in general...

[Daish]

Well i've been playing a Elitefor a long time beata backer in fact, and I've seen alot of changes but the changes to planet side salvage, wrecks, and general locating stuff is not impressing atm

Sometime ago there was a rant about the only canisters found planet side in heavy guarded area's were coffee & tea whats changed nothing !
I come across a wreck today with visable cans in the open great I thought now landing not so great very uneven ground after some considerable time trying t land I found a spot pointed my nose at the location I wanted to source the wreck and head out withthe SRV, after a further 40mins!!! i was was struggling to find the wreck site with huge use of teh camera suite at the highest level to try locate it once I did missiles were shot at me from skimmers so must be something good in those cans right "NO" to my horror after a total time of neary 1hr 40mins on this site location all I got was surprise surprise coffee and a Brew can!! What is going FD i thought this was addressed ages ago.

Some other notable points.

I was surprised to find that you can board your srvin your ship while your ship is in hover very nice liked that idea alot, so why cant we de-board then in hover as long as we fly near the ground seems backwoods to has any one managed to do this???

Building structures are still not set right they are not fixed the ground properly (or snapfixed) another prolonged disappointment to immersion along with the above :/

SO overall still a massive grind even for the most simplest of tasks which if you want to make money in game this will simple take months to achieve anything, which then makes you find something else to do in game, this is what kills certain aspects of Elite for players and i hop in the coming 2,4 patches / updates these things will be addressed sooner rather than later.

Also does another one know why cans cant be found in space anymore what ever happen to USS filled with Cans

It has been brought up many many times that what is needed is a pin point location scanning system with out all this tedius searching and hours spent on nothing really after all that you find little of no value is just dishearting.

I hope that FD will take not of this soon, I know other players are equally frustrated about this immersion grind. I know this is abit of a rant and rightly so after all it's a community goal for us all who play the game want the best for it as I do.

 

[rrobes]

Hmm, interesting. About half of the canisters I find when bouncing around in the SRV are quite valuable w/ precious metals or minerals.

I usually ignore them because they detract from the job at hand, which is finding certain mats. FD is very good at distractions in-game to get you to spend even more time getting something done. I understand that this is content for some, that is fine if you're are so inclined to play along.

I like the USS that pops up just are you're ready to jump into Hyper, ignored as well.

And it does take time, the casual player is at a disadvantage.

 

[PanTast]

I disagree with the OP.
I found lots of valuable stuff on planets while searching for materials. And there are quite a lot USS´s with cargo - although its illegal salvage. But if you are trying to make a reasonable amount of credits salvaging cargo, you are either roleplaying or doing it wrong. So maybe you had some bad luck finding what you were looking for.

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