Comment on Clutter - what's it all for?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Right now in starfield outposts are just an incomplete feature. There is no reasonable sink for what you get out of them except a meager handful of delivery quests (I.e. a shipyard wanting 600 aluminum) and building more outposts.
I think because fast travel is so incredibly trivial and mandatory they sort of wrote themselves out of being able to have space trucking be a viable option. What we should see is raw ore selling for like 20x what it does today so that mining becomes economically viable… but then it’d just be a free money spout. The whole feature needs so much more fucking work.
I feel like they could have tied outposts into, for example, improving ships- researching and enhancing modules, for example, consuming resources that way; or tying a way to sell direct from the outpost, maybe with a cargo link to bulk buyers that then maintains a stockpile of things.
Also, why can’t i craft ammo? And other necessary things. (And they should maybe make ship weapons take ammo too- like say ammo in eve online.
The speculation is that at some point in development you’d be limited in travel distance by fuel reserves and from that outposts would be vital to extend your supply lines. It was apparently just not very fun so they scrapped the need for fuel entirely and with that outposts lost their primary in game function.
i remember todd saying it was a complete fun killer running out of fuel. but it may come back in a survival mode
thank you father todd
Yeah I agree that ore should cost 20x, but then we would also need more costs in mining, refining, transporting, and selling that ore to balance it out.
Absolutely. I’m not for adding a cheat code to the game - I want an interesting system to interact with.
If I’m going to be honest I’d hold up Elite Dangerous as the gold standard for space trucking that they should aim for.
Yeah Elite is good for trading but X4 Foundations too, it has a pretty decent economy and you can actually follow the cargo/mining ships around and watch them do their deliveries.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty much every mechanic, system and feature in the game needs so much more work.
Its like they got half way through designing the game and just…gave up and stopped.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Gotta get it out so people buy it
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I mean, its been about 5 years since Fallout 76. At some point you have to just say stop and focus on actually getting the game out the door. Don’t want a Duke Nukem Forever.