Strange alien artifacts - Can we do anything with them?I realize they were made obsolete with the change to the crafting system.
But, it seems like there ought to be something we can do with them.
Frankly, a bigger question is why they don't remove items (like the weapons plans) when they become obsolete. Seems like a lot of clutter. Or, is it so much effort that it's not worth the bother.
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OR commodities in general....lol....all those people that were playing the exchange buying and selling those for Fleet Projects, now....worthless? It is what it is man. T5 ships used to be king, now they aren't. Such is the ways of MMORPGs. Never ending grind.
Wish they had a trade in option for them.
1 R&D pack or 1 Elite R&D Reward box or 1 Duty officer pack per Alien artifact would be a nice compromise I think.
Really? I may try it just for laughs to see what happens - though if the Doff assignment is anything like the nebula colonization ones or the other chains which require searching across the known galaxy for them, I'm out.
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You can still make the normal consoles but most are undesirable and are worthless on the exchange, except for Phaser and Antiproton TAC Consoles (very rare). Even then, you're not going to get rich off of them. Universal Consoles, Fleet Holding Consoles (i.e. Spire, Lab, Embassy) effectively killed regular consoles.
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but, that's none of my business
"Y'all young 'uns have it easy! Back in my day we had to find Alien Artifacts to make our consoles! We also had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole fleet! And we had to share the rock!"
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Wait, there is a ZONE chat? I have access to: Fleet, Local, ESD Politics, DSP RP, and ESD Religion. When did they add Zone Chat????
If you remove them the very day the superseding item becomes available, it may lead to... unpleasantness. And after a year or so, it would be so far on the back burner that the back burner would be the new front burner, and rightly so. There are far more important areas in the game in need of improvement than occasional obsolete item clogging the inventory.
But speaking of antique useless stuff... Was surprised to learn that old-style crafting schematics still drop in The Vault...
With the crafting system they have become useless.
Why go to all the trouble of making a console with Alien Artifacts (which may not even give you a very rare), when you can click 2 or 3 buttons and craft the same consoles with guaranteed very rare results ?
They make no sense in this day and age.
I'd take a salvage tech per Alien Artifact if they ever offered a trade in option.
Or if they could be used in place of a Very Rare R&D component in a crafting recipe that'd do nicely as well.
Right now I have about 30 of them. And they'll probably never be used.
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Because you have some and there's nothing else you could do with them. Unless...I suppose some collector might pay a few EC to get one off the ex.
Well, keeping them is definitely useless.