I'd like to say "good job", but "good luck" seems to be more appropriate
They are based on trader level. So you having a higher level or using Daring Adventurer or completing quest tiers will help you to get them to show up. I've only seen one so far and it was quite a while after seeing the first solar bank.
Not really because i not asked to developers if there is a problem with magazine system or trader/loot/quests.Yes it is oviously a "sender/receiver" problem after all.
All faatal said was that balance is a subject to change until gold, not that they acknowledge that you have identified a balance problem, and have it fixed in the way you like better.
But anyhow, no pun intended, I apologize if I have misunderstood your talking,
and I hope the game balance will be adjusted according to what you want.
I still think though, there always has to be some grade of "luck factor" within this system, e.g. I have not invested points into mechanical engineering, so I will progress very slowly in vehicle crafting.
Right now I'm at day 23 and have way under 20 "vehicle magazines", so still in the "bicycle age" and there's very low hope to get to crafting the gyro at all.
So my intent is to buy it some day from the trader, when it's in stock and I can afford it.
If that wouldn't be possible, it would be bad balance because one would have to invest into vehicle crafting just for the sake of being mobile in later game stages,
which is obviously a very important part of the game to be able to get to far away locations fast.
So there has to be a chance that the stuff you didn't invest points into, still is available for you at the traders.
Seen from the perspective of a player who actually invested points into vehicle crafting, it of course then seem odd, because he will also be offered this stuff.
And then he's like "why am I being offered stuff that I also can craft, and sometimes the offered one even in better quality"
Maybe the "trader loot tables" could be adjusted in a way that they will not offer you stuff that you perked into, or at least not often, but "concentrate" more on stuff you didn't invest points.
Don't know if that's possible, but I think this would help preventing the situations you described (if I finally did get you right?)
The problem isn't magazine and perks itself.
The reason for this is that the medicine magazines do not have to share their place in the loot table with other magazines. In every medicine pile you will find a medicine magazine. In contrast, the vehicle magazines have to share their place in the lot table with at least the magazines for salvage tools.
I honestly doubt that they will ever really be able to balance it so that it works for every playthrough and every playstyle.
Crafting is one way to progress your weapons and armor. Purchasing, looting and quest rewards are others. You can use any combination of these to progress. There are ways to increase the speed of each of these depending on which method you prefer. For example, putting points into Daring Adventurer will make it so the trader will offer better gear for sale sooner than normal. If you want to buy items, you can use this perk to get the items faster (I think this also affects quest rewards but am not positive). If you want to mainly loot items to progress, put points into Lucky Looter and you'll get better equipment in loot faster. You can also loot in higher biomes than the forest to increase the loot quality. If you want to craft faster, put at least one point into the relevant perk(s) for the magazine(s) you want to loot more of and then go out and start looting magazines from every mailbox and newspaper stand you find as well as all Crack-A-Book stores. If you're looking for specific magazines, focus on the locations most likely to give you those. For example, Forge Ahead magazines are found very often in workbenches and cement mixers and forges. So checking POI that have these, like construction sites and especially trader compounds will help speed these up.
I would argue that it doesn't even work in single player. Especially in the early game, there are items that you can find if you're lucky, but it's sometimes a long way to go before you can craft them yourself. These include the wrench, a toilet pistol and the toilet knife. All of them are usually of low quality and therefore have to be repaired often.
In A21 you need to be at least trader stage 55 for solar items to appear and you should have a trader Bob as he has more electrical items.
That he actually created that POI and that particular gas station canopy and secretly increased the hp of the blocks supporting it to 100k….
This means that, in a manner of speaking, he has built his horde base from scratch.That he actually created that POI and that particular gas station canopy and secretly increased the hp of the blocks supporting it to 100k….
I usually think your takes are spot on, but I'm going to disagree here. I think this argument sounds really close to that made with certain horde base designs that took advantage of blocks zombies wouldn't cross/break to stay safe through the night, and then people would say 'I'm just playing the game the way I want, why is that a problem to you?'
Are you referring to items you can buy from the trader or quest rewards? These are two different tables that need to be balanced separately.
