Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Let's see Technology and research & development at it's best.

Let's take the rarest equipment in the game and make it possible to build them via reverse engineering.
Let make this create a strong demand for this equipment in research and development.
Lets make the scientific field more interesting

So far Science is just a requirement to do something. If you have research agents, you generate research over time. The data cores can be used to manufacture t2 blueprint copies. The copies you make have higher mineral requirements and less efficiency. Take science the next step and let them progress towards building certain modules and copies more efficiently.
T2 modules are good. It's an achievement when you specialize in building a certain t2 mod reach a certain amount of builds or successful research copies. Let this achievement count towards getting more efficient copies, and production time.
Let this achievement unlock the ability to reverse engineer progressively, from meta 4 mods to meta 8 or 9.

Faction, blue and purple mods are rare drops that should be every scientists dream of reverse engineering.
After building the specialized skills they should be able to reverse engineer anything they have unlocked through progressive study. They can improve over time from producing 3-5 run copies to 10 run copies.


Add a new line of components that use a combination of salvage and PI, refined/reacted asteroid minerals & research data cores.The salvage and PI will be in high demand. The mods used in reverse engineering will remain in demand.
Demand for research data cores will go up, which means good loot from data sites.

Adding a new line of components and balancing that into an economy with blueprints is a good bit of work. Getting the blueprints to scale so that the cost to build is high enough to keep prices up.

On the need for resources to build a high grade component. I must go through 100 power conduits and a % of them will fail. This will give us a way to further process salvage into different components. Balancing is in the power 5-20% chance to refurbish salvaged materials. 100 interface circuits can make 5 - 20 upgraded interface circuits. Let success and # of component produced an achievement that allows a greater yields with high skills and practice. 2 tiers of upgraded salvage can be yielded from refinement. A lower tier for faction gear meta 6-9 , higher grade for deadspace gear.
This can be carefully balanced to bring more to the science industry, through advancement and specialization.


Let meta 2-5 be reverse engineered for BPC production and T2 research.
Let meta 6 -9 be reverse engineered and built.
Let Meta 10+ be the end game.
I know this is a bit of work, but it's a good goal. It will work to get research and development a boost.

u realise that what makes that equipment so expensive is because its rare, and its rare because no one can build it. as soon as u make it manufacturable it will be much more common (i dnt think u appreciate just how much more common) and the price will drop significantly, like T2 equipment did when invention was done.

id get behind making meta 1-4 item BPC's being inventable, and the meta u get being chance based. but that is all.