Battery Charger Placement

[The G.O.A.T.]

Just built the battery charger. Can't seem to find a place that the game will allow me to build it. Tried in the escape pod but I couldn't get the 'green' outline to pop up. Always red. Then went to the floating island and tried it in several of the ruins to no avail. Help.

[Maxpowerammo]

You need to build a base first and put it in your base, how are you gonna charge batteries with no power anyway??

[The G.O.A.T.]

Thank you. I'm a noob so I'm sorry if my question seemed rather elementary.

[WhiskeyNinja]

It's a reasonable question. The escape pod has self-charging power cells, and there's no good reason provided that the player can't hook up batteries or buildable items that ought to fit in the escape pod.

[Freak | Yolo]

thats basic in survival games actually build a base first then do rest after.

[SievertChaser]

Originally posted by WhiskeyNinja:

It's a reasonable question. The escape pod has self-charging power cells, and there's no good reason provided that the player can't hook up batteries or buildable items that ought to fit in the escape pod.

Since when is "REASONS!" not a valid answer? Actually it's about balance.

[WhiskeyNinja]

Originally posted by dennis.danilov:

Originally posted by WhiskeyNinja:

It's a reasonable question. The escape pod has self-charging power cells, and there's no good reason provided that the player can't hook up batteries or buildable items that ought to fit in the escape pod.

Since when is "REASONS!" not a valid answer? Actually it's about balance.

It's important that these issues get brought up to address user understanding. I don't know what their stance is, but the devs might be trying to make a game that doesn't require referencing a wiki to play. If the reason the user can't do this is balance, it would be good to make that clear to the user earlier in play (perhaps as part of the build tool's first time tutorial) so they don't get frustrated.

[Sunflash]

When I first started i knew for sure you had to put the battery charger in a base.

I MAY have spent several mintues trying to swap out the ones in the lifepod because it seemed like it might be a good idea....

[SievertChaser]

Originally posted by WhiskeyNinja:

Originally posted by dennis.danilov:

Since when is "REASONS!" not a valid answer? Actually it's about balance.

It's important that these issues get brought up to address user understanding. I don't know what their stance is, but the devs might be trying to make a game that doesn't require referencing a wiki to play. If the reason the user can't do this is balance, it would be good to make that clear to the user earlier in play (perhaps as part of the build tool's first time tutorial) so they don't get frustrated.

This game? Without a wiki? As a noob, I can tell you that it's nigh-impossible.

Originally posted by Sunflash:

When I first started i knew for sure you had to put the battery charger in a base.

I MAY have spent several mintues trying to swap out the ones in the lifepod because it seemed like it might be a good idea....

Self-recharging power cells? Definitely a good idea to try to salvage those.

[WhiskeyNinja]

Originally posted by dennis.danilov:

This game? Without a wiki? As a noob, I can tell you that it's nigh-impossible.

Right. I guess the question is, is that the dev's intention? :)

[Maxpowerammo]

The PDA's Data Bank should contain a sort of tutorial about buildables and any other items that could potentially be confusing: how to build them, what you need, what they do, etc. It would be another option instead of shift + tab and search the wiki.

[rditto48801]

Originally posted by Maxpowerammo:

The PDA's Data Bank should contain a sort of tutorial about buildables and any other items that could potentially be confusing: how to build them, what you need, what they do, etc. It would be another option instead of shift + tab and search the wiki.

That woudl be nice.
Although the lore suggests there is a reason to have the PDAs be limited in their data, even the basics should be included in the 'congratulations on not dying' side of things.

With some 'flavor text' to indicate it is 'general purpose' data not 'specialized' for handling an aquatic survival situation. So the info could have stuff for other environments also, although the aquatic one would be the only thing of use.

For added fluff, there could be stuff mentioned that is not available, with side notes for why they are not available.
For example, mentioning an armored door for hostile environments (there is I think mention of volcanic conditions), stating such schematics will be 'unavailable' in 'environments with high moisture content', or maybe silly mentions of schematics being disabled due to budget limitations and issues with renewing licenses for use of said schematics.
So it is both useful for survival situations, let also gives the feel the information is setup for all sorts of situations, and not just surviving on a water planet, and that corporate meddling has prevented us from having the good stuff.

[SievertChaser]

Originally posted by rditto48801:

Originally posted by Maxpowerammo:

The PDA's Data Bank should contain a sort of tutorial about buildables and any other items that could potentially be confusing: how to build them, what you need, what they do, etc. It would be another option instead of shift + tab and search the wiki.

That woudl be nice.
Although the lore suggests there is a reason to have the PDAs be limited in their data, even the basics should be included in the 'congratulations on not dying' side of things.

With some 'flavor text' to indicate it is 'general purpose' data not 'specialized' for handling an aquatic survival situation. So the info could have stuff for other environments also, although the aquatic one would be the only thing of use.

For added fluff, there could be stuff mentioned that is not available, with side notes for why they are not available.
For example, mentioning an armored door for hostile environments (there is I think mention of volcanic conditions), stating such schematics will be 'unavailable' in 'environments with high moisture content', or maybe silly mentions of schematics being disabled due to budget limitations and issues with renewing licenses for use of said schematics.
So it is both useful for survival situations, let also gives the feel the information is setup for all sorts of situations, and not just surviving on a water planet, and that corporate meddling has prevented us from having the good stuff.

I actually found the intro surprisingly fun. And the "congratulations on not dying" left me in tatters.

[The G.O.A.T.]

Originally posted by Maxpowerammo:

The PDA's Data Bank should contain a sort of tutorial about buildables and any other items that could potentially be confusing: how to build them, what you need, what they do, etc. It would be another option instead of shift + tab and search the wiki.

Agreed!