Useless upgrades (or not)

[wboson]

I tried by now:
- Mining Platform vs Electric Drill, can make 100x the resources with electric drill with less hassle... So what exactly is the point of the expensive Mining Platform? Deviations in the box will do better also.
- Water Purification- I set it up on elevations now(Collection->Purification_Collection), but since now it´s more hassle to switch the 100 bottles between different slots than just go out by the river, collect 300+ water, and boil it all with 1 click.
- Blueprint Upgrades @lvl 40... 1st you have to move all your accessories and mods then re-calibrate and end result is +16Dmg max on LMG? That doesn´t help me at all going to next are of the map. Not even giving better odds on crit or anything? Would have expected grinding on end game after lvl50... But atm can´t even go to Hard Dungeons to collect some loot...

[Kalafax]

The platforms are passive resource generators, but active gathering will always be batter.

Water purification, well Pure Water is better for Boiled Water for plant growth, and is also required for specific recipes. But really it is just better to hand gather the water, have it go to a tank, and the tank go into a water purification machine.

Blueprint upgrades, you should be getting Purple( Epic ) or Yellow ( Legendary ) blueprints from ingame drops or from the Wish machine, then you upgrade the Tier of the weapon as you progress, the Rarity and the Tiers make a Very large difference in DMG, the Crit and such stats stay the same although you can change the traits.

Hard more just unlocked with Week 3, and Pro mode will unlock on Week 4.

[Kryzx]

Pure water is needed for the brewing station, which provides those ales that prevent any sanity loss for 30 minutes real-time. Extremely useful, especially since it additionally only requires 2 wheat or 2 corn to make them! Ice cubes require them too for some recipes, but I didn't think the bonuses were that great for those that required them. Like Kalafax said as well, it provides better growth for your plants too.

As far as the blueprints go, I wouldn't worry about recrafting if you unlock another star on the weapon/gear. Like you've witnessed, the bonus damage isn't all that huge from a 1-star to a 2-star with no other changes. However, the blueprint stars will roll over every season, so you'll eventually be able to have a slight edge from playing more and unlocking more blueprints to get a purple 6-star compared to a newer player that's just starting out with the same blueprint @ 1-star. Again, like Kalafax said, unlocking the higher rarity weapons/gear (yellows) & making the highest tier will provide the biggest bonuses rather than upgrading the blueprint stars.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by wboson:

I tried by now:
- Mining Platform vs Electric Drill, can make 100x the resources with electric drill with less hassle... So what exactly is the point of the expensive Mining Platform? Deviations in the box will do better also...

That was the very question I was going to ask, so thanks for that. I'll just ignore Platforms for now.

[◬ ☥ 𝕄𝕚𝕝𝕜 ☥ ◬]

The platforms seem completely useless. The woodcutting one breaks (game wise, not in game breaking as in needs repairs, breaks as in it doesnt work) all the time so enjoy waiting hours for 100 wood you can just leave the beaver c hopping by himself and get more passively. It's broken.
I can only assume the mining platform is similar. Sure, passive. True. Also true that is like 800x less efficient than running around pressing F for quite literally 5 minutes

Originally posted by Tachyon:

Originally posted by wboson:

I tried by now:
- Mining Platform vs Electric Drill, can make 100x the resources with electric drill with less hassle... So what exactly is the point of the expensive Mining Platform? Deviations in the box will do better also...

That was the very question I was going to ask, so thanks for that. I'll just ignore Platforms for now.

definitely. get a solar drill if possible with the mining perks on it. I have a solar drill with 15% higher yield of copper, tin, iron, aluminum and tungsten, and also has another perk that makes 100% yield of gold silver and stardust ore, lol. It's OP AF.
Also solar so recharges itself. If you can make it to pve 1 0026 somehow ill give you one through my vending machine.

press F get hundreds of ores ♥♥♥♥♥ tight unforch no silver smithing perk for me so cant use the silver ore at all as far as im aware :|

[wboson]

Tnx. Got the Purification working, From top to bottom, different levels- Gathering->separate pipes to Purification-> big gathering tank. Let it be there, at least it´s 3x more resourceful than boiled water(needs 10x to fill plainting box with Boiled water vs 3x for Pure Water).
-Mining platform was destroyed in Starchrom Purification event, not gonna build anymore.
-Single upgrades on Weapon Blueprints seems useless atm, going from Purple to Gold was huge leap. So just gonna put resources on Calibration atm. Maybe later for last maxing out BP Upgrades will work better