Is paying for planets useless?

[PeruvianJoe]

I don't know if it was just a bad few seeds that we got, but when we went to dine and titan there was no loot to actually make is worth paying the 700. should we pay to visit the planets again or leave them?

[Sasha Mason]

The paid moons are absolutely worth it. When using the "scan" command, you can scan how much loot there is on a planet when you land there, and the paid moons always have a lot of loot and very deep dungeons.

Eventually during your run, you will get to the point where March and Offense just won't give you enough loot to meet your quota, so you have to go to one of the paid moons.

In vanilla, I would also recommend visiting paid moons simply because the lower tier ones get a lil boring. Paid moons generally have more going on and with Dine and Rend, you also have the Mansion Layout, which helps keeps things fresh.

[coxgobbler]

paid moons usually have more/better loot, what you want to do is pay to go there once and then you can re-land (dont move locaton) for multiple days for no extra cost.

[Rayalot72]

Publicado originalmente por joedale2011:

I don't know if it was just a bad few seeds that we got, but when we went to dine and titan there was no loot to actually make is worth paying the 700. should we pay to visit the planets again or leave them?

They are absolutely worth it. Paid moons average 1.35-1.65k scrap depending on which one you go to, while the best T1 and T2 moons average only 600 (so, paid moons have more than double scrap on average).

However, you have to actually be able to play well to realize much of this value. The difficulty on these moons is much higher than any T1 or T2 moon, and if you are simply dying repeatedly without getting much out of the building on you will probably get better value from easier moons that you can loot more consistently on.

I would recommend playing Rend before Dine and Titan. It's the easiest T3 moon, with a narrowed spawn pool and lower enemy cap (10). It also has basically no traps, only ever sparse mines. In comparison, Dine and Titan have wider enemy pools, higher enemy caps (15 and 18, respectively), and chances for trap hell seeds (loads of mines and turrets covering the interior; Titan doesn't get nearly as many mines, but turrets are the main threat even on Dine). The difference is enough that even many extremely competent teams prefer Rend over Dine or Titan, simply because you can get such a large fraction of the total scrap consistently.

Also, be aware that the cost to visit these moons becomes "free" later in the game. If you fulfill a quota of 1k, that means that you sold 1,000 worth of scrap, which means you have 1,000 credits in the bank. If there's no equipment you're interested in buying at that point (and there really shouldn't be), you can already afford the cost for every T3 moon.

[Fish-Shaped Crackers]

Publicado originalmente por Sasha Mason🎄:

The paid moons are absolutely worth it. When using the "scan" command, you can scan how much loot there is on a planet when you land there, and the paid moons always have a lot of loot and very deep dungeons.

Eventually during your run, you will get to the point where March and Offense just won't give you enough loot to meet your quota, so you have to go to one of the paid moons.

In vanilla, I would also recommend visiting paid moons simply because the lower tier ones get a lil boring. Paid moons generally have more going on and with Dine and Rend, you also have the Mansion Layout, which helps keeps things fresh.

I dont know if this is bait or not, but March is more optimal until like 3000 quota, especially if you're more lucky with lootboxes.

[Sasha Mason]

Publicado originalmente por Fish-Shaped Crackers:

I dont know if this is bait or not, but March is more optimal until like 3000 quota, especially if you're more lucky with lootboxes.

Pretty rude to assume that, no, it's not. Like I said, there is a certain point where the lower tier moons simply do not provide enough loot to make quota. I haven't specified the exact number at which this happens, but it will eventually happen, as confirmed by you.

EDIT: I don't much appreciate your attitude towards me, so I will no longer be responding to you. This feels targeted.

[3eyc]

Only in late game they are useful, in early-mid you should go for offense/march, usually there's 1-2k worth of stuff, on titan the highest i saw was 6k, usually its 3-4k, and btw if there's a weather like flooded/storm/eclipse then switch planets, foggy and rainy is fine as long as you know the maps.