[UI] Make Crafting Easier!

While fighting harder NPCs improves your chances of it dropping Scrap, Mucus, Plasmide or Prismatium, it's still agony trying to farm up enough for the one thing you've been saving for. So it makes me wonder, why did BigPoint add consumables such as x3, EMPs etc. to the crafting menu if the required resources are so difficult to come by in large quantities? Sure, players who have farmed up quite enough could buy them in bulk, but let's be honest, would they need it? Probably not.

I'd suggest making it so the drop rate chances from NPCs remain the same, however make it so boss NPCs drop double the amount, and Ubers drop quadruple the amount, this way, tougher enemies seem a little more bearable.

In addition to this, as a player who has every ship there is to offer in the daily & weekly auction, I think the crafting resources should be made available on all auctions, hourly giving the least quantity, daily giving mediocre amounts and weekly giving the largest amount. That way if players don't physically farm for the resources themselves, they can farm credits to get them instead. This would also make crafting ammunition and other consumables more of a viable option.

I'm not saying that farming should be made easy, but farming for over an hour just for a couple pieces of Scrap and Plasmide is just demoralising. I hope there's an easier solution coming from BigPoint should this answer not be the case.

 

I would back an idea like this if it did not affect the NORMAL Cargo Drops. I myself have found trying to get A S Ores/Components is a waste of time and prefer to collect my credits from the cargo collected. I would go further with the AUCTION idea of the Basic Ores being available in hourly, the Craftable Components in the Daily, and the Newest stuff in the Weekly and quantities would have to be high enough to generate the interest to spend MILLIONS of Credits on them.

 

Well, I've noticed that with Pirates, not only do they drop Aurus and Bifenon from time to time, but they can drop all 3 at once, cargo, Bifenon and Aurus. I think if they can do it for Pirate NPCs, why not do the same for the rest?