Trading

[Tux]

So I saw this video and then in that video I saw what one could buy (which was underwhelming) .
Then I thought? why?
but it is cool. I assume the system as a whole will have future plans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdO9A6y7xmU&t=2340s

[LoboFH]

Underwhelming why?, I built one of the max size and it was a very fun...and pharaonic project.

I warn you, with the new changes the pumps system takes foreeeeever to vent the gass (the pump is faster tho), or perhaps I did it wrong.

I also built a system with the big powered vents and that's way faster, the venting is some seconds.

[Tux]

Originally posted by LoboFH:

Underwhelming why?, I built one of the max size and it was a very fun...and pharaonic project.

I warn you, with the new changes the pumps system takes foreeeeever to vent the gass (the pump is faster tho), or perhaps I did it wrong.

I also built a system with the big powered vents and that's way faster, the venting is some seconds.

what I saw on her of things to purchase where things like

cables
gas canisters.

Underwhelming

just to clarify from my orginal post

I saw what one could buy (which was underwhelming) .

[Witgang]

my only problem with the new trading system is how slow the medium and large dish move and the fact that you can't use smaller dish to track big traders...
also complete nonsense when you have 3 dishes of same size arranged same vertical angle but increasing on horizontal angle by 10 and you find better signal on the ones at the ends but lower signal on the one in the middle of the range...also added further dishes to expand the horizontal range and found out that they also decrease in strength .. almost like same ship tells it's location from 2 different spots in the sky... also is not a matter of vertical angle either as i've tested some dishes with different vertical angles and same horizontal range and got no signal at all..

[Tux]

Originally posted by Witgang:

my only problem with the new trading system is how slow the medium and large dish move and the fact that you can't use smaller dish to track big traders...
also complete nonsense when you have 3 dishes of same size arranged same vertical angle but increasing on horizontal angle by 10 and you find better signal on the ones at the ends but lower signal on the one in the middle of the range...also added further dishes to expand the horizontal range and found out that they also decrease in strength .. almost like same ship tells it's location from 2 different spots in the sky... also is not a matter of vertical angle either as i've tested some dishes with different vertical angles and same horizontal range and got no signal at all..

I am sure its fun to plan it out, build it etc.
I just do not see an advantage in all that to buy cables.

that was really my point.

to be clear I do understand doing pointless things for the fun of it, however, I am thinking the longer term is to make the airfields useful for a different reason. what reason I dont know

[LittleShade]

I am using the trader well. I use one deep miner and trade with resources from it. This will allow i to mine ores only at the very beginning of the game play and replenish the rest with trade and deep miners. Ore, alloy, plant, food, fuel,,,,

[Tux]

Originally posted by pippin2006:

I am using the trader well. I use one deep miner and trade with resources from it. This will allow i to mine ores only at the very beginning of the game play and replenish the rest with trade and deep miners. Ore, alloy, plant, food, fuel,,,,

cables and tank canisters is what i saw.

granted I have no idea if they sell useful seeds that one can not get otherwise but...cable and tank canisters?

[G-Man]

How old was the video? After the trading updates this year the traders offer much better trades. You can buy things like ores, alloys, exotic seeds, and bulk gas. Before you could only buy small amounts of gas in canisters, now you can fill entire tanks on the landing pad. You can do much better than cables and canisters now.

[Witgang]

I can confirm that since the trader update I have bought a lot of stuff using currency I made back in the old days ,most usefull things were seeds to restart my farm and lots of alloys I needed to make a phase change cooling system for the base since the old AC exploit would not work anymore.
funny enough I burnt trough 15k in no time and only now started to sell some volatiles(vulcan) and it seems it takes a lot more work to earn that cash nowadays since the gas must be at room temperature so isn't just a matter of capture and filter anymore.
also i do agree with the guy in the video about the long wait for reset of options and also hate the "missed opportunity" thing it brings with them on a timer ... many times it was already too late when I spoted a trader in the area because it would take me most of 10 minutes to just get a lock on it with how painfullu slow the dish moves and then fills that bar..

[LoboFH]

The tier 3 human traders sell plants that we can't get from the low level traders, like darga fern, winterspawn, etc, so it's really useful.

[veryinky]

I hope they add to this system, Tourism. Like the Hospitality mod for Rimworld, have shuttles carrying 4-6 NPCs who need a room, bed, water and food for 7 days. With them pathing (without suits) from the pressurised shuttle hangar to their rooms. Player getting paid (or something) when they successfully leave.

Reason to build bases with amenities.

[LoboFH]

You should write that suggestion here: https://stationeers.atlassian.net/jira/projects

It's a great idea.

[Tux]

Originally posted by veryinky:

I hope they add to this system, Tourism. Like the Hospitality mod for Rimworld, have shuttles carrying 4-6 NPCs who need a room, bed, water and food for 7 days. With them pathing (without suits) from the pressurised shuttle hangar to their rooms. Player getting paid (or something) when they successfully leave.

Reason to build bases with amenities.

I think they should add astronomy making the end game basically trying to contact specific set of aliens who then land on your base, provide you with some object. Collect all the objects and it creates something that is end game (a portal perhaps...whatever).

This is assuming the entire build your own mothership is off the table, which I dont know if it is or not.