Well you did call then exploits though but now it's unnaturally speeding which makes no sense. Again you are saying pace myself. Limit the quests I do, limit this, limit that, don't do this don't do that.
Everything you are saying gives legitimacy to what I say that progression and many other things in this game are broken if I have to put in so many limitations and not play in a standard way such as doing quests, buying from the trader and looting.
Everything I pointed out and asked are normal play styles. How exactly am I rushing if I'm doing 3 quests a day or not doing a questing and going for a bookstore instead? How exactly is it rushing if the trader offers a Chemistry station or sells a work station that takes away from me having to progress through the forged ahead series to unlock it?
You and a few others keep saying I'm speed running this or exploiting that when I'm literally giving examples of a normal playstyle yet it keeps being ignored and called rushed/speed runnning or exploiting.
If the devs wanted to make a role-playing game then it should have been that from the start not an open world survival sandbox but I guess they did decide to ditch that mid development into this weird rpg we have now with potions I mean candy. We even have dungeons with treasure chests.
What exactly is the preferred way to play by the developers then? Because if they consider questing, looting and buying from the trader to be rushing or exploiting then they really need to fix the problems they created.
The point being made is that if you don't like how things are with the way you are playing, then do something differently. Most complaints about the end game or content in general tend to come from people who rush through the game as fast and efficiently as they can. And, in most cases, they mention looking at YouTube videos. If you're going to use those to find the fastest way to "win", then you are likely to get tired of the game quickly. It is too late now for you to
not look at those videos, so you can't fix that you know how to go as quickly as possible in the game. That means you really have a few choices - either you keep playing the way you're playing and just get bored of the game, or you choose to play differently and focus on other tasks rather than only questing -- building, mining, exploring, etc. -- so that you're progressing much more slowly and experiencing more of the game, or you play an overhaul mod so you have a different experience. If you choose the overhaul mod option, I strongly recommend that you do
not look at YouTube videos. I understand why people like to look at those for games so they can play games as "best" as possible, but they take away all of the time you can spend learning things yourself and getting better yourself, which is all part of enjoying the game. You are actually hurting your game experience when you watch YouTube videos about how to play efficiently and beat a game as quickly as possible. Some people like that and are fine with it, but clearly it is having a negative impact for you, so you should consider avoiding that in the future. You'll find that you like games better that way.
Btw, there isn't anything wrong with an open world sandbox game that is also a role playing game. This is hardly the only such game. Considering the number of hours people put into this game compared to any other game, it clearly works very well for most players. It may just be that open world sandbox games aren't what you enjoy. There isn't anything wrong with that. It just means you should look for other kinds of games to play instead. This game is designed to give players a variety of options to play the game. You can craft everything and never buy a thing from the traders. You can avoid doing any quests and get everything only by scavenging. Or you can use the easiest options of questing a lot and/or buying a lot.
For me, I quest regularly because I enjoy doing the quests. It has nothing at all to do with the rewards for me, and I'd do it even if the rewards were much lower. I also very rarely buy anything from the traders. I don't see any need to do so. I know I'll find what I need, so it just feels like a waste of money. I'll buy things that can't be found, like the dew collector mods or solar stuff, but otherwise I almost never buy anything. On rare occasions, I might buy a med item if I'm away from my base and need something right then, or I might buy a magazine if I'm only one or two away from being able to craft something I really want to craft. Otherwise, the trader never sees my money. I also rarely craft things except the final tier Q6 items because I prefer finding stuff as I scavenge or quest. I play 2 hour days, and playing this way tends to get me to the max gear by about day 14, which would be about day 28 on one hour days. That is still fast, but the way I play, most of my enjoyment comes after reaching that point. I enjoy building stuff, and that is easiest to do once you have a lot of resources, so once I'm at max gear, it's now time for me to build and I can spend another couple of weeks just enjoying that before I decide to start a new game. I also enjoy having fun doing melee only on tier 6 quests for the challenge of it, which adds more enjoyment even after having max gear. So end game for me has nothing to do with reaching max gear. There's still much more for me to do after that. But if that's the end of the game for you, then slowing down will definitely make your game more enjoyable for you... if you can talk yourself into slowing down, which may not be possible for you.
In any case, as I mentioned, it is unlikely that this game will ever have the type of end game content that you want. This just isn't that kind of game and probably never will be.
