Time capsule tool gifts disappear

[electrodoc68]

So I haven't found a timecapsule in my recent play through as yet but I've seen recent players mentioning tool items going missing after getting them from T/Cs.??

Is this a bug or are butter fingered players to blame.?

[morbosfist]

I've never experienced such a thing, and I have found time capsules that had a full selection of tools (far too late). Into the locker they went, and stayed there when I went back for other stuff.

[WillieSea]

Yeah, the time capsules are worthless the way they were implemented. By the time you actually 'find' one, you already have everything that was in them tool wise. And that is what makes them worthless for tools.

[Bleep]

... unless you're looking for the last laser cutter blueprint and come across a time capsule with....

[[ERROR]]

Originally posted by WillieSea:

Yeah, the time capsules are worthless the way they were implemented. By the time you actually 'find' one, you already have everything that was in them tool wise. And that is what makes them worthless for tools.

I got a Stasis Rifle from one in the Grassy Plateaus.

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by ERROR the Peeper:

Originally posted by WillieSea:

Yeah, the time capsules are worthless the way they were implemented. By the time you actually 'find' one, you already have everything that was in them tool wise. And that is what makes them worthless for tools.

I got a Stasis Rifle from one in the Grassy Plateaus.

I was not talking about luck. Anything is possible with luck.

I have only ever found them at the very edge of the world (the seamount, I don't know why they call it a crater). Which by the time you can get to those locations you have everything.

I can only see them helping long time players who know where the things are located already.

[Ez Duzit]

Originally posted by WillieSea:

I can only see them helping long time players who know where the things are located already.

No one knows where they are located. It is purely random where they land

[dragonbornzyra]

They add a neat lil bonus feature and people complain about it.

Also, they call it a crater because that's what it is. It's an under water volcano.

Mentions he wasn't talking about luck, but then turns around and talks about how unlucky he is with his Time Capsules.

Lol this guy.

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Originally posted by WillieSea:

I can only see them helping long time players who know where the things are located already.

No one knows where they are located. It is purely random where they land

Oh, so they are random and not fixed? I did not know that. Thanks!

Originally posted by dragonbornzyra:

They add a neat lil bonus feature and people complain about it.

Also, they call it a crater because that's what it is. It's an under water volcano.

Mentions he wasn't talking about luck, but then turns around and talks about how unlucky he is with his Time Capsules.

Lol this guy.

I see you don't have an understanding of words any more than the developers.

Submarine volcanoes that do not reach sea level are called seamounts. In addition to magma supply, plate tectonics play a large part in determining which submarine volcanoes will eventually form islands.

cra·ter
noun
1.
a large, bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on the surface of a planet or the moon, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite or other celestial body.
"the blast left a crater in the car park"

LOL this guy!

[dragonbornzyra]

A volcanic crater is a bowl- or funnel-shaped depression that usually lies directly above the vent from which volcanic material is ejected. Craters are commonly found at the summit of volcanic edifices, but they may form above satellite (flank) vents of composite and shield volcanoes.

A "seamount" is

Seamounts — undersea mountains formed by volcanic activity — were once thought to be little more than hazards to submarine navigation. Today, scientists recognize these structures as biological hotspots that support a dazzling array of marine life.

Ok, we establish a seamount is essentially an underwater volcano. Cool.

However, there's a reason it's called the Crater and not the seamount.

The "seamount" has a crater.

This is where the game takes place.

Thus, it's called the crater.

I don't know how but, congratulations, you made yourself look even goofier, lol trying to argue semantics.

There's a difference between having your own personal thoughts and opinions and copy pasting a google definition, and having genuine intellectual athleticism, able to debate and articulate the facts they select to help empower their points.

Another difference is one side being able to admit when wrong, it has something to do with the Dunning-Krueger curve. I'm not sure though. I could be wrong. Just saying.

[electrodoc68]

LOL..

The guy I was watching is on YouTube "GrandaddyGamer".
He'd Just started a new play through for the 2.0 update and he'd been playing for ten minutes and it was his first dive..

He found the best T/C it had a Base Fabricator, Laser Cutter & a Scanner.

I Thought the scanner might of had an ION battery in it as it seemed a lot of thought had gone into the capsule preparation and the scanner just seemed odd.

I commented he ought to check the battery type and if it's an ION type to drop it on the sea bed and scan it for a cheeky early blueprint.

I'm still unsure if that will actually work so if anyone knows.?

However everything except the scanner disappeared but in a more recent stream it turned out only the Laser cutter had disappeared.

So TBH I think he accidentally dropped it ;)

On the subject of time capsules, even though they were the best idea ever and new ones are no longer spawned despite going through the motions when you leave the planet..

The contents left within say a lot about the type of person who left it for you which probably deserves a WIKI style comment thread of its own.

Cheers & TTFN

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by dragonbornzyra:

A volcanic crater is a bowl- or funnel-shaped depression that usually lies directly above the vent from which volcanic material is ejected. Craters are commonly found at the summit of volcanic edifices, but they may form above satellite (flank) vents of composite and shield volcanoes.

A "seamount" is

Seamounts — undersea mountains formed by volcanic activity — were once thought to be little more than hazards to submarine navigation. Today, scientists recognize these structures as biological hotspots that support a dazzling array of marine life.

Ok, we establish a seamount is essentially an underwater volcano. Cool.

However, there's a reason it's called the Crater and not the seamount.

The "seamount" has a crater.

This is where the game takes place.

Thus, it's called the crater.

I don't know how but, congratulations, you made yourself look even goofier, lol trying to argue semantics.

There's a difference between having your own personal thoughts and opinions and copy pasting a google definition, and having genuine intellectual athleticism, able to debate and articulate the facts they select to help empower their points.

Another difference is one side being able to admit when wrong, it has something to do with the Dunning-Krueger curve. I'm not sure though. I could be wrong. Just saying.

Ah, but YOU are the one that argued semantics first, so that makes YOU the goofiest one.

And there IS NOT a crater in this seamount, there are openings in the seamount that go below it. Probably more like lava tubes going to chambers emptied of once liquid lava. A 'crater' would form IF THE seamount collapsed into these voids, thus creating a crater. Your complete lack of geologic knowledge is astonishing.

"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." - Thomas Sowell

[electrodoc68]

Guys, Guys, Guys.

There are No Craters, No Peepers, No Bladder Fish, No Lifepods,
No Magical Tools from the Future, No Land, No Sea, No Precious Minerals or Threats from Alien Sea Creatures, Definitely ZERO Life forms exist which blow themselves to pieces in order to save their eggs..

There are only Pixels and not worth arguing about..

There is, however, A Moon the size of Jupiter about 1000 miles up and it isn't even pulling a tide..!!

That should be more geologically concerning than correctly naming pixels..

LOL.

[dragonbornzyra]

Originally posted by Somebody Arguing Semantics First:

Originally posted by ERROR the Peeper:

I got a Stasis Rifle from one in the Grassy Plateaus.

I was not talking about luck. Anything is possible with luck.

I have only ever found them at the very edge of the world (the seamount, I don't know why they call it a crater). Which by the time you can get to those locations you have everything.

I can only see them helping long time players who know where the things are located already.

I'm not enjoying any "moral superiority" How can one feel superior by pointing out the way someone chooses to use their words? I mean, that's a nice quote, Mr. Sowell is quite the scholar of this generation, and I agree with the quote. I'm not sure how it's supposed to be applied here though?

Unless that implies you assume I have taken a "morally superior" stance, which I guess that would undermine my points and put me into the box that Mr. Sowell describes. But then again, I wouldn't want to assume that about you, so I won't make that strawman argument against you. Fair enough?

Originally posted by electrodoc68:

Guys, Guys, Guys.

There are No Craters, No Peepers, No Bladder Fish, No Lifepods,
No Magical Tools from the Future, No Land, No Sea, No Precious Minerals or Threats from Alien Sea Creatures, Definitely ZERO Life forms exist which blow themselves to pieces in order to save their eggs..

There are only Pixels and not worth arguing about..

There is, however, A Moon the size of Jupiter about 1000 miles up and it isn't even pulling a tide..!!

That should be more geologically concerning than correctly naming pixels..

LOL.

Now you're asking the REAL questions!

*EDIT* There's a PDA entry involving the Garguantuan Fossil that I could directly quote to prove my point, but I'll leave it up to anyone curious enough to look that up for themselves! <3

[dreamrider]

Originally posted by electrodoc68:

Guys, Guys, Guys.

There are No Craters, No Peepers, No Bladder Fish, No Lifepods,
No Magical Tools from the Future, No Land, No Sea, No Precious Minerals or Threats from Alien Sea Creatures, Definitely ZERO Life forms exist which blow themselves to pieces in order to save their eggs..

There are only Pixels and not worth arguing about..

There is, however, A Moon the size of Jupiter about 1000 miles up and it isn't even pulling a tide..!!

That should be more geologically concerning than correctly naming pixels..

LOL.

Uuumm...the moon in question is just 2-D pixels, also. To even make fun of the debate effectively, we MUST enforce some logical consistency!

Otherwise the Gremlins win!

[Bleep]

aside from humor, i just got a time capsule with a stasis rifle. i rushed to the base, and..... no stasis rifle. i guess i must have lost it while i was driving straight to my base. must be under the seat. STUFF DISAPPEARS!! i don't have butter fingers (good candy). i just did not have a scan of the rifle. so the game says: "no, you can't have this". or something. but to answer the OP: yes, i can agree. sorry for the others who did not take you seriously