Player Features and Ideas Discussion

For myself, I would like to see there being more input/interaction requirements for the creation of datacores not less. The current system requires very little input from the player, the trade-off being that the process is fairly slow.

So keeping in line with my own preferences I came up with an idea for how Datacore creation could be made “better”.

Make the process similar to reverse engineering. In that you need an item upon which the research is to be conducted that is related to the field of research you wish to conduct. i.e. A frequency crystal for laser physic or blaster module for plasma physics. The item’s quality and specificity in regards to the field of research would contribute the speed at which the research progresses.

Other materials used could be the generic datacores you get from planetary interactions and well as the now obsolete R.Db.’s. These would be consumed with the creation of the target Datacore acting almost like fuel thus keeping in line with the whole modular structure fitting they’ve been discussing some of the other structures. The item that is used as the focus also has a chance to be consumed based on skills and time spent on the item. This setup would be fundamentally the same as the current but with some added components with the intent of making the player feel like there more a part of the research process.

On a side note a mild random output modifier for each cycle could give the research project a bit more of an active feeling. This function would not activate every time but when it did it would not always be a good thing.
An example for something good could be: “The project made great strides and has yielded some unexpected results.” The project this time yielded datacores for a field of research different from that of the target. The item would dictate which from which field based on which fields it can be used for. Or the more likely case would be additional units being produced this cycle.
Now an example of could go bad would be the obvious less units produced. Other options would be item is consumed during the process. The chance of this happening increases the longer the same item it used without being switched out/repaired. Now if things went really bad: “The mainframe contracted a computer virus during our research and has compromised all the datacores for this stage of the research.” The normal amount of materials are still consumed but the cycle only produced a hand full of datacores.

Do these really need to be their own structure and not just a service module? I can see capital assembly arrays being their own structure but for everything else it seems to be unnecessary.

Removing sticky. Still want your feedback but we need room for other thread in this subforum. New pinned thread will be pointing to this one.