[Suggestion] Red Exotics extracting & organic residue cleanser balance

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It takes a lot of work to make it to the far end of tier 4 to mine the red exotics, which is OK. It currently takes two organic residue cleansers with water to almost keep up with one red exotic extractor ring. During the extracting process, it's a bunch of just sitting around and waiting... animals do not bother us and it's a very slow process. We had two red exotic nodes on a prospect and spent hours basically AFK while they did their thing...which is boring and hurts the end user experience. We would like to see a ratio where we only need 1 cleaner per extractor, which maybe can be done with some perks or upgrades to make the cleaner work faster to keep up. It would also be a better user experience to have the extractor work much faster, but spawn waves of animals to attack... similar to radar scans. We need to keep the prospectors engaged. I think it took us about 3 hours per node, which should be something like 30-45 minutes per node to keep players engaged.

Under consideration Balance QOL Suggestion Suggested by: Frog (26 Aug, '23) • Upvoted: 01 Apr • Comments: 2

Comments: 2

05 Oct, '23
KaffeLex
I agree, the extraction is way too slow. It's painful to sit for ages and just wait.
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20 Apr
Derkatron
I think a fine solution to this would be to double the speed of the red extractor, but halve the speed of cleansing reds. This will allow you to mitigate the time by using more cleansers, or just wait it out with one, and lower the 'stand around staring at the tree' time tremendously.