Seriously:
Everything in this game has to be so complicated and unnecessarily either boring or just plain frustrating. Why is it that with ALL this ship tech, when you do a Pulse Wave Scan, it just highlights Fissure asteroids, green or purple or something. Hunting for these gets tedious and I wasted an hour in a hot spot trying to get ONE. It makes mining NOT worth it.
Not only that,l you have to carry a RIDICULOUS amount of stuff now when you mine, and fire groups are ridiculous.
Why can't you guys do ONE Quality of Life, and make the pulse wave scanner actually pick up Fissure asteroids, instead of me having to get super close to the asteroid to see it. Why with all this RIDICULOUS ship tech, a pulse wave can't do that?
There is only one type of Asteroid I can tell that is guaranteed not a fissure, everything else is a crap shoot.
WHY CAN'T THIS ONE QUALITY of LIFE be implemented. Why because people want to be super hard core? No, this is just a QOL that MAKES SENSE.
Yes I am whining, but seriously, why can't this be done?
I'll be honest with you. I core mine, and have learnt how to identify the correct yellow ones from a distance by their general shape, and whether or not it would be even worth to approach one and/or spend a prospector limpet on it.
But you have a point in which FDev loves to obfuscate and make things difficult for players. Yes, it is a game. And games are supposed to not allow you a straight line to the objective, but make you go through obstacles.
But sometimes I too feel that excessive obstacles are put in place as a time sink, just to keep players occupied and prevent them from completing a task too quickly.
That said... the high value of VOs makes up for this. So I can't complain much. It takes a bit of effort, but sifting thru a VO hotspot and finding a core asteroid every 5 to 10 mins, and blowing them up for 10 to 15t of VOs, nets you 16 to 24m at the high end of the market. In an hour you could get anywhere from 80m to 200m worth of VOs. I feel that justifies this.
However, if FD decides to reduce the occurrence rate, or the price of VOs, just because too many people are getting rich, then this complain becomes well and truly valid.
The only complaint I have is that for VO hotspots.... the term "hotspot" sometimes means s
t ... because you get so few yellow rocks. And of those yellow rocks, so many of them are non-fissure (false pings), or other kind of useless crap.... like Bromellite.
Come on.... HOTSPOT. At least make sure that the majority of core/fissure rocks are of the right type/content. Not some stray, other-stuff, ones.