Artisan Archive

So, it seems like the problem currently is that harvesters cost too much for people who use them purely to get resources to make items out of for sale to other players, but are usable by people who do missions. The objection to using the mission method is that people who want to play pure crafters don't want to waste a lot of time and energy on combat skills that don't fit the character that they wanted to build or the playstyle that they wanted to have, and don't want to spend the next ten years delivering some guy's inheritance to his long-lost nephew or whatever.

So, why not improve the crafting and surveying missions? I don't think "pure crafter" folks would mind going to the terminals and then wandering out to survey for Crazy Steel #1304A or build the Ultimate Foozles of Radioactivity for money. In fact, why aren't there missions to do things like "give this NPC 400 units of Copper" or "build 10 CDEF rifles for a rebel uprising that will happen in X place"? (It'd be neat if the latter actually led to a scripted event, but I realize I'm only dreaming there.) Do these things already exist in the game, and I just haven't seen them? I've managed to find about five survey missions and one crafting mission. Of those, three of the survey missions were unsolveable - they failed with a "survey too close" message no matter where I did them. I think I made a total of about 1300 credits from the ones that I did, which is the same amount that I can make by attacking a single Durni lair. There's something terribly wrong about that.

I agree 100%. I just put up my first Wind Turbine and Personal Mineral Extractor expecting great things. The next day I was in the game and had to put my entire life savings (some 4600) into the two units just to get them back online!

There were lots of evil settlers around that kept attacking me. I don't know if I just picked the bad part of town to put things up and they were vandalised or if this is normal, but it just seems a little out of balance...

Darn, I wont be able to build the 'Ultimate Foozles of Radioactivity' until I get another 33K GCXP! I guess I'll have to grind some 'Mediocre Foozles of Radioactivity' to get there...