Blueprint saved from Creative mode can be built with unavailable components
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A ship blueprint containing a Medium hydrogen tank (5m) saved from Creative mode can be put down and built in Survival mode before the license for the medium hydrogen tank is granted (via one of the Vallation station missions)
I have the same bug
I'm not sure if this is a bug. You can also create a survival blueprint for anything that exists and build it without having the technology. However, if you don't know how to get the components, you won't be able to finish it.
I'm torn about this feature/bug. It's true that being able to build only what we've unlocked adds complexity and replayability.
But it's also interesting to be able to build something for which we have the components.
I'd say the behavior depends on what will be added to the game later: contracts, progression, the incentive to move forward, the incentive to build something and then dismantle it to build something more advanced.
I'm not sure if this is a bug. You can also create a survival blueprint for anything that exists and build it without having the technology. However, if you don't know how to get the components, you won't be able to finish it.
I'm torn about this feature/bug. It's true that being able to build only what we've unlocked adds complexity and replayability.
But it's also interesting to be able to build something for which we have the components.
I'd say the behavior depends on what will be added to the game later: contracts, progression, the incentive to move forward, the incentive to build something and then dismantle it to build something more advanced.
I feel that this will be adjusted in time, it's simply an effect of the current build system.
I tested and did the same with a cargo container, drill, grinders... etc... it's tedious though because the blueprint is difficult to align at times.
However, I will say that finding enemy ships and blueprinting those is nice, as sometimes you want to modify that grid, and as it is now, you have to BP and deconstruct that grid and then re-construct in order to modify anything... so this is really only an issue in the 'campaign' where truthfully it doesn't really hurt much... but I understand how it can break things a bit when you don't have something unlocked and suddenly you paste a warship and have access to all weapons and blocks again and never have a challenge again.
That said, It is both useful and not. I don't think you should be able to build large cargo immediately, but I would put it as an early unlock, perhaps in the second system. Then have things like base weapons and such in the first system. I was more annoyed because I had a gatling ship manually aimed at a grid but you can't see the grid because of the icon (another issue report i'm sure)
I feel that this will be adjusted in time, it's simply an effect of the current build system.
I tested and did the same with a cargo container, drill, grinders... etc... it's tedious though because the blueprint is difficult to align at times.
However, I will say that finding enemy ships and blueprinting those is nice, as sometimes you want to modify that grid, and as it is now, you have to BP and deconstruct that grid and then re-construct in order to modify anything... so this is really only an issue in the 'campaign' where truthfully it doesn't really hurt much... but I understand how it can break things a bit when you don't have something unlocked and suddenly you paste a warship and have access to all weapons and blocks again and never have a challenge again.
That said, It is both useful and not. I don't think you should be able to build large cargo immediately, but I would put it as an early unlock, perhaps in the second system. Then have things like base weapons and such in the first system. I was more annoyed because I had a gatling ship manually aimed at a grid but you can't see the grid because of the icon (another issue report i'm sure)
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