Engineering Missions can be rather annoying. Share what you need to build before going to the area?

Not An Engineer shared this feedback 34 hours ago
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An issue I've been having with engineering missions is that you know what needs to be constructed only after you arrive there. This can be rather frustrating when you have an immobile base where you keep most materials, causing you to have to travel back and forth. This is especially the case for missions that make you travel from a station on the surface of a planet to space above that station.

The most annoying one thus far is the construction of surveillance satellites over dustspire station on kemik. Only once one satellite is finished, do you get to know that you have to build another one. Once that one is finished, you are told to build yet another one, causing multiple lengthy trips back and forth.

If this is a deliberate descision to slow things down, alright. To me it is just frustrating.

Other than that, I love what you have created so far and I can't wait for what the future holds!

Cheers

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this is good feedback.


i would add ONE THING.


when we get to the target location, if there is an existing base that we need to add infrastructure to, we "claim" it temporarily while we build/add to it. then relinquish it to complete the contract.


this will fix issues about building on grids that already exist, and the ownership rules that currently cause a lot of drama.

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I would add one thing to the one thing :

[quote]if there is an existing base[/quote]

If there is one, it would be great that the base isn't detected in the green cube (i should have grind one bc 2 grids were detected...)

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I remember the mission with the satellites, I thought it was a bug so I managed to grab the satellite with a landing gear and moved it to the next build location. I did this three times and then the contract was complete, I only built the grid once.

I do agree that the contract documentation should be more explicit so that you can make adequate preparations for each one.

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