Colony Tier 1 ... why add useless grinding places?

geographus

So far our fleet has upgraded Morale and Energy to Tier 1 and thus we now got the option to grind
e.g. Luxury Provisions on the new Beach Bar and Batteries on the Wind Turbines.

What bugs me is, that the new places are on the same cooldown. Why add another place to grind
when you can't get more Provisions out of it, especially if they both use the exact same mini-game?
Also they are basically next to each other, so you don't safe much time either. The additional Grinding
Spot for Batteries is even further away than the old one.

It makes no sense to me.

IMO each new grinding place should add to the number of provisions you can grind, otherwise there
is no point to add them to the game in the first place.

lordsteve1

Yeah it makes little sense really. I would have thought each tier of the farming structure would have either increased the amount you could get per mission or allowed twice as many runs per cool down etc.

As it stands there is not really a purpose to these extra projects other than to complete the holding fully.

starcruiser

To summarize....


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anodynes

Those projects are what increases the automatic provision gathering, so that's the real point of them. I'm just treating the rest as non-functional scenery.

kiralyn

In theory, the new places are "closer" to the main base if you're walking on foot. In practice, however, it's still faster to surfboard to the original spots. (And regardless of how you're traveling, the new Ore location is vastly out of the way, since you still need to run down to the beach for Luxury provisions.)

trennan

Why add useless grind?

So the players do something other than stand around on ESD and run ISA and CCA.

peterconnorfirst

geographus wrote: »

So far our fleet has upgraded Morale and Energy to Tier 1 and thus we now got the option to grind
e.g. Luxury Provisions on the new Beach Bar and Batteries on the Wind Turbines.

What bugs me is, that the new places are on the same cooldown. Why add another place to grind
when you can't get more Provisions out of it, especially if they both use the exact same mini-game?
Also they are basically next to each other, so you don't safe much time either. The additional Grinding
Spot for Batteries is even further away than the old one.

It makes no sense to me.

IMO each new grinding place should add to the number of provisions you can grind, otherwise there
is no point to add them to the game in the first place.

Give it time OP. If the provisions in Tier 1 pose an obstacle to you and your community its suffice to say that you won’t be able to keep up with Dil demands around Tier 2. If a fleet can’t auto collection steps in and you drown in provisions in no time. In short you don’t have to worry about them anymore rather soon.

One a global game wide scale I agree with one thing though: It makes no sense!

warpangel

For the same reason you're here asking a useless question about it.

Because they wanted to.

duncanidaho11

Scenery and a sense of development. We go from collecting ore on a hillside to collecting it out of a mine. It aesthetically presents the idea that we're building this colony. Ditto the other provision types. Old locations remain because...well folks would probably complain if their preferred grinding spot was "taken away." And these don't double up on each other to ensure that single players can't accomplish the grind (easily) on their own (it takes an active fleet to proceed through this as painlessly as possible.) Dev objectives are still maintained even while scenery is being built upon.

*Shrug*

Can't please them all.