More Accessible Research Parts

[Mattrex]

Having essentially completed the entire game 100% at this point, I'm still missing ten research points to wrap up the last few items. I have completed every Pursuit successfully and, to my knowledge, dredged every single non-respawning dredge point that has a possibility of granting research parts.

The only thing left to me to get the last research parts I need are waiting for the trader to randomly restock them or try to dredge the respawning dredge points around the Marrows, and both of those options frankly suck. At this point it's just a waiting game as I click "Rest" over and over in port to see if there's a new research part for sale.

I'd recommend either salting additional research parts around the map in shipwrecks or the like, adding some kind of repeatable quest to collect things in return for parts, increase the drop rate of parts from dredge sites, or increase the restock rate at the trader.

[AlumiuN]

+1, have been doing the "rotate through the four traders and then back to dredge around the Marrows" dance for the last few hours and am still missing a few parts >.>

[bee]

+1, I'd love to see a low drop rate in some crab traps or something. Would allow for faster endgame as I have way more money than I know what to do with. Could even add a "salvage" option or something, and the pricier the equipment the more likely a part is to be salvaged.

Resting is getting VERY tedious - I'm not sure if there's a max amount of parts you can buy from the trader, but I've done a "stop at one, rest 7 days and then onto the next" 2 times now with no parts up for sale at all!

Where are you guys dredging mainly? I'm not sure where the most respawnable points are.

[AlumiuN]

I have a suspicion the research part refresh is real-time, not in-game timer. As for the dredge points that respawn, there's a few very close to the Steel Point dock, a few scattered around the inside of the Marrows, a couple by the shipwreck on the east side of Little Marrow, and a couple by the shipwreck on the island just south-west of Greater Marrow. These also seem to be on a real-time refresh, so sleeping in-game doesn't appear to help there either.

[Sarda]

I was sitting at the dock on day 110 with 10k just endlessly hitting sleep waiting for her to restock, and rather then waiting about 90ish more days I just said screw it and downloaded a trainer that made researching free to finish the trees.

[Desiire]

+++1 there should be an abundance of research parts. I'm about ready to start a second playthrough simply to unlock the two trees I haven't finished yet because getting parts has become impossible. I've unlocked every achievement except for two trees that I haven't filled. It seems like an oversight and that people might actually want to 100% in one playthrough.

All you have to do is increase the research point drops in salvage. I only got RP from dredging maybe ~5 times. Of course that doesnt help me specifically because after about day 100 I noticed that the dredge locations stopped showing up and now they are completely gone so the only way I can get RP is to wait for the trader to restock. I'm not waiting for that to happen another 20 times.

[Cocofang]

I don't know why so many people have issues with Research Parts.

When I noticed progression slowing down I simply started dredging again. Dredge spots have a chance to give you gears instead of their regular clutter. Combined with the occasional Research Part from the traveling merchant I had everything maxed out before being done with Devil's Spine and all side quests.

I had even stopped salvaging dredge for an extended period of time before. Had I not done that I would've finished research MUCH sooner.

[darkly77]

I'm at the end of the game and I'm missing about 12 research parts. They are way too rare. I dredge everything, always check the travelling merchant's stock, and have completed every side quest. I also tend to put crab pots next to merchants, and they apparently have a small chance for research parts, though I never got one from them.

The balance is a little off to be missing this many. Atm it kinda locks you out of certain ship upgrades. I ignored unlocking most of the crab pots, I don't know if this balance was intentional to push players towards choosing a certain build? It doesn't feel like that kind of game though.

And having an achievement for them seems crazy, I don't wanna spend hours grinding for them when I've done everything else. I hope this can be looked at now that there's more player data to work with

[flamedance58]

Steel Point.
Grab the dredge spots.
Save and Quit.
Load.
Rinse and repeat.

Not the solution of course as it's just using the save/load to refresh the points but it does work.
Would be nice if perhaps there was a purpose for extra materials like wood, scrap, cloth, refined metal. Like perhaps the towns/npcs had extra quests for materials and they reward you with a research part(s) for a set of mats.