With the new ship components being physicalized for 3.19 (some of them), with the tractor beam being gameplay, is there any plan for rare ship components to be loot rewards for ground missions?asked by Virgil
TL;DRMissions don't give item rewards at the moment and likely won't hand out components directly; instead salvaged wrecks act like loot boxes whose components and cargo can be taken and sold.
Well, we wouldn't do it that way, per se. Like your missions coming up, the salvage ones?
I mean, salvage ones, you take them off, yeah.
Yeah, salvage ones, you could take them off. So in which case, I guess the way that we probably would do this is we treat the wrecks as effectively like a loot box. So its loadout is potentially good. It's potentially got cool and interesting components on it. So if you happen to be salvaging this ship that we've spawned for you and it's good, well, your reward is in the cool stuff you find, isn't it? I think we'd do it that way rather than, let's say, here's your reward for completing this mission and it's a component. So that's how I think we think about it, really.
We like to use our missions to set up situations. And then if you are proactive in that situation and you do a little extra due diligence and you search something, we provide opportunities for you to discover other things. But I can't think of a single mission in our game that's specifically "go and do this and I'm going to give you this item as a reward."
We don't do item rewards at the moment, so no.
Again, that's not to say that we won't ever. We've learned never to say never here, but just at the moment, that's not really the direction.
I think a good point on what Ed was saying, and I've said this in multiple Twitch chats, so I guess it's good to say here and put it all in one place, is that when it comes to salvage, your main thing you'll do is hull scraping. However, now with the item port detaching, you can take the guns off and the components and sell them. Not only that, we populate the cargo hold with random assortments of cargo. So there's extra value.
Random, or a bit more chosen to be a bit more interesting to you.
We play with it. So you could go do a ship, you could scrape all of it, take all its guns and then go into the hold and it's full of something that's incredibly expensive. So what goes from being, oh, I've just hull scraped this entire ship and got like 500,000 UEC, becomes a 2.2 million payout because of the items on the ship and the cargo hold.