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cusashorn
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I know that Nukara Prime is almost the last type of environment to set up shop, but with all the loot that the Tholians drop, is there any chance that a simple merchant, a quartermaster, if you will - can be added to the base camp? Just something we can dump all those excess EV suits and tribbles on instead of taking the bare minimum from the replicator.
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I mean if Cryptic needs a reason to add a quartermaster to the map for us to dump our drops then they could have them sell you Tholian related items and consumables for EC's and Dilithium.
P.S. I wouldn't mind having the exchange and bank access, but I suppose that those are reserved for social maps only.:(
So what 10 seconds to beam up, 15 to fly over, 10 seconds to warp in, and 10 seconds to beam aboard.
OMG those are 35 seconds of my life I'll never get back!! :eek:
Really people? Would you like the Tholians to line up for you too?
We already have far too many services "on demand". Sure its the 25th Century, but its also supposed to be a game. A multiplayer one at that. Going off to the shops is one of the few ways we get to even see other people in this game and it fosters the chance to meet and speak to people.
(I was very glad to see they didn't actually add an EV suit vendor to Nukara either, despite the obvious option of the D-Store. It made some people think "Where can I get my hands on an EV suit then? hmm, perhaps I'll try and find out." A game should challenge one's thinking in more ways than just boss fights.)
While that is true, if it is a mining colony one would think they would have very efficient refining equipment....
Not necessarily. Given how easy spaceflight is in Star Trek it might be more economic to ship ores off world for refining. Also the planet is meant to be extremely inhospitable (at 1st on Tribble things like Turrets and Drones were failing after a few seconds in the atmosphere; kind of like the 1st probes we sent to Venus) so they might not want to place expensive refining gear on the planet. Heck on Voyager we saw old Mk1 EMHs doing mining; the only mining gear on this planet might just be an armor plated holoprojector and some pickaxes.
There are nations today that while resource rich never invested in more than extraction of the resources for one reason or another.
And for that matter a place to BUY an EV suit if you don't already have on on you when you beam down? Even a USED one? I know the first time I beamed down, I didn't have one...
Just saying... Maybe even selling some Sonic weapons of some sort? Common quality, etc.?
~MG
P.S. I'm kind of surprised there isn't some kind of "Defend Base Camp" mission. I doubt the Tholians like having all these Federation/Klingon types around & I'm surprised they haven't "attacked" the base camp en masse to try to rid the planet of the the presence?
You must not have been playing long to only get 4. We played for about 3-4 hours and probably a good 1/5-1/4 of my inventory ended up being EV suits, with another 1/5 being stupid shutdown codes for the portals (at least we can finally DISCARD them "all," well only all the ones in a single slot not actually "ALL" all, so it still takes a while to get rid of every last damned one of them). Not including all the ones I'd already offered up to the replicator G-d for a pittance, keeping only the purple level ones...
~MG
From Cryptic's point of view, it's probably a great reason to buy more inventory slots.
I do agree that they should sell a basic EV suit on site, but anybody can play "Boldly They Rode" and get one for free and it sounds like lots of them drop so there's a pretty good case for assuming you can get what you need without a store.
If there's a good reason for putting in a store, it would be for consumables or possibly other things you might reasonably need without leaving the planet altogether.
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Unfortunately the replicator gives 40% returns, while a vendor gives 50%. So you'd get a 5% return on each item. So you'd make about 15EC per EVA Suit. A VA has 72 Inventory slots. That's only 1080EC per run. SooooOOOOOoooo not worth it.
but what will definitely be nicer to increase the stack of all tholian drops to 250, boxes and "datasamples" or whatever they are called.
Nukara is a terrible farming world so it is, hot and heavy lag, but a merchant would be great
Frankly, the only item drops in this game that are worth going back to a vendor to sell are starship components: engines, deflectors, and shields. Everything else is so significantly less in value that it's not worth the trip to haul that junk somewhere to sell it when you can just melt it down in the basement of your space castle.
open up vendor, click sell, position the window so that active item at the same position as the confirmation window yes button, and click click click.
selling to replicator: right click discard, confirm etc. tedios. like all things in this game.
Unless it got changed recently (as I don't generally sell at the replicator and wouldn't notice) then you should be able to click the replicator button at the bottom of your inventory, click the sell option like at every other vendor, then sell there. I've never had to use the right-click and discard option.
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