Feedback on Crafting

After about 3 hours in - the game is generally solid. I have had one crash. One thing I notice is that crafting is well, boring.
Getting resources is random, and so crafting is random. Therefore there is no tie to any decision I make game play wise. It would be great if resources were tied (to a degree) to jump locations, or missions. So that if I wanted to craft X, and I was short of scrap to do that - I could make a decision to jump into this hard jump point because I knew it was a ship graveyard. The risk is higher, but I knew I would have the chance to get the resources I wanted. That's just an example, but I hope you see what I am saying. That way, my progress in the game would be driven by some sort of desire - not just a random mouse click.
As it stand right now, it doesn't really matter what decision I make in the game. And that makes it a little, well, boring. *shrug*
Thanks,
Tanarious
Getting resources is random, and so crafting is random. Therefore there is no tie to any decision I make game play wise. It would be great if resources were tied (to a degree) to jump locations, or missions. So that if I wanted to craft X, and I was short of scrap to do that - I could make a decision to jump into this hard jump point because I knew it was a ship graveyard. The risk is higher, but I knew I would have the chance to get the resources I wanted. That's just an example, but I hope you see what I am saying. That way, my progress in the game would be driven by some sort of desire - not just a random mouse click.
As it stand right now, it doesn't really matter what decision I make in the game. And that makes it a little, well, boring. *shrug*
Thanks,
Tanarious
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Someone else also mentioned being able to convert resources, such as using gas to make batteries. I think that may help solve your concerns about not being able to influence what materials you have available.
Regular asteroid field, you will get ore
In an ice field, gas.
If a mixture of the two chances you COULD get both if rng smiles at you.
Haven't figured plasmas tricks out yet that one does seem random.
If you are in the vertical asteroid field chances are you will find fuel asteroids.
Black hole, dark matter/ dark energy, chance at both I think, but MATTER is guaranteed. Crystals are ALWAYS(usually, can still rng none though) in the giant asteroids you can fly into.
Scrap is a -BEEP- shoot for the most part, though chances are high if you jump into a graveyard zone