PDA inaccessable after rapid use

[Gaffgarion]

I've noticed that if you access the PDA too often on a derelict that it will become grayed out (inaccessable). Found this to be the case when your inventory is getting full and you have to convert scrap to energy to make space. Consistently reproducible (on normal, at least), although haven't determined if there's a specific number of "opens" you get before it locks up. As mentioned in other PDA discussions, returning to the station will fix the problem, although it can occur again.

[DrakenKin]

It's directly tied to full inventory. The whole game freaks out when you have no inventory space.

You can't save, you can't load, SOME abilities and passives also break and won't restore when you free space. The only way to restore broken abilities is to remove them then retrain them back from the station with credits.

A good example of abilities that break are the scavenger's "repick 2-all cards on match start", and repick 3 cards each turns start. Some other passives and STATS like how much shield you can heal or topoff with a technicien also break. You will be topping off something like 50 shields, then your inventory is full, start a new fight, and the same ability now only adds 15 shields.

[Gaffgarion]

Interesting. I've noticed a few times my inventory size seems to change, too. ie, I would max out at 5 pages, but sometimes on returning to the station I'd have up to 7 pages worth.

When this happened, inventory items wouldn't organize properly as they got sold off. Instead of everything beneath the 'sell point' shifting left when the item disappeared, the slot would get filled with the item from the very bottom of the inventory and nothing would shift. Once enough items were sold off to return to the correct inventory size, the error would fix itself, and the inventory size maximum was restored (could not naturally amass more than the 5 pages again).

[DrakenKin]

Your inventory size does not change. Here's what happens. If you're looting a tile by searching it, you cannot carry what you find if your inventory is full. But if you FIGHT, you will always be able to carry the loot from monsters.

Because of this, you have virtually unlimited inventory as long as you fight and skip searching tiles. I do that all the times, since searching very rarely yields something worthwhile. Unless i am coming back to the ship for another reason and those tiles are on my way.

To be clear : looting everything means some extra credits from selling crap. But it also means you have to come back multiple times as your inventory is tiny, and this has a cost in energy. I feel like i get a lot more money saving energy and selling the loot from monsters than i would get from looting every single tile. It is also less boring to focus on fights and missions then move on to higher ships.

[Gaffgarion]

Ahh ok, that makes sense. Good to know too.