Don't buy blue prints from traders

[Finkle]

I just bought the level 24 drill prints from a trader for 7 quad, and now it says I need another 7 quad to build. Kind of defeated the purpose, or is this just a bug?

[zephyr_goldwing]

Originally posted by Finkle:

I just bought the level 24 drill prints from a trader for 7 quad, and now it says I need another 7 quad to build. Kind of defeated the purpose, or is this just a bug?

Oh, ouch, no that's not a bug as far as I know - and you've just learned it on a blueprint that you'd have received for free (it would still take 7 quad to build) from the next robot NPC (225km on the moon). I just learned this very lesson, but thankfully on a level 27 print, which I think is the next set of trader/drop blueprints (robot mk2 gives you levels 24, 25 and 26). That cost me about 75 quad (here's to the buffington achievement reward!) and then also needs 1.1 quin to build (plus a couple trillion gold, but eh, what's a capacity limit? xD)

[Outerarm]

Originally posted by zephyr_goldwing:

I just learned this very lesson, but thankfully on a level 27 print, which I think is the next set of trader/drop blueprints (robot mk2 gives you levels 24, 25 and 26). That cost me about 75 quad (here's to the buffington achievement reward!) and then also needs 1.1 quin to build (plus a couple trillion gold, but eh, what's a capacity limit? xD)

Ah, thanks for this insight... I'm getting close to affording the L25 BPs, but L27s are showing up for not much more in the trades. Was thinking about skipping buying L25 and L26 prints, but as it looks like you still need a lot of cash to build the L27s, I'll wait on those trades a bit.