I am not far enough in to have some real QOL thoughts. so if the below is in the game but I haven’t gotten there yet…my bad!
I spend a lot of time in inventory mgmt.
some nice to haves, to start:
- consume item along with pick up (game changer for food)
- split food from medicine, eat all button
- split magazines from notes; can we get a bookshelf? A
- places that I have visited should have a vendor $ amt based on the vendors I have visited.
- I should be able to fast travel to key POI - my homes, outposts, vendors, lodges, etc from some sort of grid view with sorting (including $$$)
- location variants — seems like a biggy
- trenchcoats (for hiding my shotty from the po po) & capes (for my crimson drip). I love the poncho & farm hat, very very nice.
- shoe cosmetics (we see slippers…) - how about a Mikey Dunx shoe designer?
- A more fine tuned method to place clutter, both in and out of base mode; lockers, fridges & desks should auto stack instead of “toss the orange…oops”
- an option to keep ship clutter, demotivating to clutter a ship then…poof
- ship hab door placement but I get why there is an autopather…
- …how about a walk ship mode in ship builder to change hab door placement?
- Resource cargo that stays in a specific ship.
- NPC feet on coffee table animation; NPC bathroom usage?
- basic ammo manufacturing in an outpost
- an aliens style radar sweep BECAUSE why not
- my watch should have some craftable bitz, like a communicator for talking to my peeps back on the ship, or they can tell me what their ship scanners are picking up. Maybe as a drone controller, other cool stuff.
There is a ton in this game and I feel guilty, so much is done so well. The above are relatively minor — I imagine things to do over QOL in DLC.
However a few seem like low hanging fruit….
I’ve been jotting down notes for when the Creation Kit becomes available, but I may as well add them to this post - maybe someone more talented than I will tackle some of my ideas faster!
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Ship landing on pads changed to orient the bay door towards the city/settlement/whatever. The pads are round, why must my rear-entry ship park nose-in?
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Make the headlamp-looking thing on the Settlers Hat able to light up the way helmet lights do.
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More shipboard controls from inside - for example: the ability to disable the artificial gravity (as per Cora Coe’s request) so we can play in zero-G.
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Option to automatically EQUIP and UNEQUIP suit/helm in safe environments.
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Visible holstered pistols.
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Landing a ship never auto-ejects you to the planet’s surface.
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Some way to upgrade suit environment protections so that they actually function. I want to amble around a frozen wasteland without getting frostbite and hypothermia!!
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Ship subsystem power controls available BEFORE liftoff.
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Ability to assign specific crew to specific habs/stations - possibly for a (minor) related buff, but also to give that crew member a part of the ship to gravitate towards. Perhaps this will lead to less instances of the entire crew loitering in my captain’s quarters?
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Scan jammer should still give a 50% chance to avoid detection of contraband aboard ship but not in cargo! SO many times I’ve warped into a system with like one bottle of Aurora on my person…
A big catalogue of everything I’ve scanned. We’re part of constellation and we go around scanning everything so it makes sense that we’d build up a catalogue of systems, planets, moons, and everything on them.
I’d like a kind of draft mode or ‘save as draft’ option when building a ship. Sometimes Im not quite happy with a design and I want to come back to it later. But currently the only options seem to be cancel the whole design or make it pass the flight checks.
I just finished building a ship where I wanted a cockpit available on New Atlantis, but a reactor I could only get on Akila. So I had to buy a shitty reactor in NA, only to sell it a minute later in Akila (for a fraction of the price). That’s just terrible design, imo.
At the top of my list is to have vendor’s available credits scale with my level. I’m hurting to offload a ton of high value loot, especially after
spoiler
losing access to the Key.
The Den just has the one creepy Trade Authority though. Maybe the guy in the bar if you have foodstuffs to sell. I’ve spent too much real-world time waiting 48 game hours in the chairs by the airlock for him to reset. Kind of a drag.
The Key has 8 vendors all with generous cred limits right next to eachother. I think the next best place is Neon, you can run down the central concourse selling to every shop along the way. Assuming you get any “special acquisition” goods past the scanners that is.
::: spoiler I actually assumed that the UC would set up shop on the Key. It was their station originally, after all. If I had realized the vendors would be gone for good, I may not have finished the Crimson Fleet storyline so early. :::
Well it appears there’s not much issue going the other way on that quest so that’s my plan on my next run.
It would be nice if you could see which of your quests are in the same settlement that you’re currently in, I have to read the description or track the quest to see where it’s sending me and it’s a bit annoying
Main issues I have after 120+ hours: Badly needed:
- character stats screen, especially the bonuses we’ve collected for magazines - like they could be doing nothing and we’d never know lol, do they stack over multiple NG+?
- some way to manage what materials we are tracking - it’s absurd right now like do I need Titanium still? Do I need 1 or 10? Have no way of knowing (might have to start using notepad or something) Bonus points for including the item and upgrade that I want to craft
Nice to have:
- a list of fast travel points would be nice
- catalogue of visited systems and what resources are there (even if it’s only for surveyed resources)
Magazines are a mystery to me. I guess I just carry them around???
Mat mgmt … yes! show the mat qty being tracked on purchase or when mined … that would be cool.
