Why is there a time cooldown on zone recon missions?

[COWABUNGATIME]

If I've gotta farm an abysmal drop rate for a weapon blueprint, why do I have to wait 5 minutes to do a 15-30 second mission or bounce around zones staring at loading screens? The fun part of this game is seeing the damage numbers go up. I've bottlenecked. The only thing that's going to make my numbers go higher are things with 2-20% drop rates (2% being specific modules), and some of those things make me wait 5 minutes before I can run the joke of a mission again just to get the amorphous material to then run a colossus for the 3-15% drop rate.

I played this game for like 80 hours while I was on vacation. I was playing like this was my job, and I was putting in OT. Now I'm opening the game up and just completely listless. I don't even want to do anything because it's all more tedious than it needs to be. Farming the recons is whatever. Doing the colossi fights are whatever. Why is there a cooldown on it? Why do I have to wait 5 minutes to run your 15 second encounter that I'm massively overleveled and overgeared for?

Please for the love of god let me just instantly reset that s*** so I can get my thing and go wait 4 hours for the damn thing to finish building.

[Sweets]

prob because you can do them in 5-15 seconds they had to add a refresh timer between it or it would need to be redesigned

[Shotz]

just spawn into a different section of map and back to farm spot and it resets most of the time
ezpz
also go to albion first and put it on private

[COWABUNGATIME]

Originally posted by Shotz:

just spawn into a different section of map and back to farm spot and it resets most of the time
ezpz
also go to albion first and put it on private

That's what I meant when I said "staring at loading screens" The fact that we even have to do that means it's poorly designed. I'm on private right now and it's giving me a fresh timer almost every time. These missions are hot wet garbage.

[Gaikotsu]

In general, the fact that outposts have a cooldown is logical and, for the most part, reasonable.
But if I were the developers, I would make one change to this.
So that hacking power units using the Sharen skill reduces outpost cooldown time. For example, hacking each power unit reduces time by 30 sec. or 1 minute.

[Devilsouls]

I do missions on the side. Or I'll smoke and have a coffee while I wait, or I'll watch the news, it's quick.

[JackieTheDemon]

The devs already said they're fixing it.

[Shotz]

Originally posted by COWABUNGATIME:

Originally posted by Shotz:

just spawn into a different section of map and back to farm spot and it resets most of the time
ezpz
also go to albion first and put it on private

That's what I meant when I said "staring at loading screens" The fact that we even have to do that means it's poorly designed. I'm on private right now and it's giving me a fresh timer almost every time. These missions are hot wet garbage.

you going to opposite side of map?
almost always resets it for me.
besides they are looking at timers and stuff- the devs are great with this game

[COWABUNGATIME]

Originally posted by JackieTheDemon:

The devs already said they're fixing it.

Good. I didn't realize.

Originally posted by Shotz:

the devs are great with this game

I want to believe. There's just so much jank with it right now.
20% of the threads I see are people fuming mad about drop rates, and I have made one of those threads after spending several hours farming a Sharen stabilizer that's supposed to be a 20% drop rate. 48 runs to finally get it. Ran lower hatchery 14 times yesterday for another 20% drop. I get drop rates, I really do, but there's gotta be a better way. People are optimizing builds for speedfarming (because you literally have to) and others are complaining that Bunnys are just wiping everything and they don't get to play the game.

I totally get that endgame stat gains should be a chase, but I'm trying to build ONE Piercing Light for my Sharen build. When I think about the fact that I've gotta do this three more times in order to fully upgrade the unique ability, I literally alt+f4 the game because the time investment seems so f*cking bleak. I was looking at Warframe on the steam store yesterday after ragequitting. I remember having to grind my arse off in that game too, but It only took 4 hours to farm everything I needed for Tigris Prime back in yon olde days.