2019-11-26 Brains, Server Deadlocks

[Deantwo]

every usable ingame item should be useful at all times

Lol, those darned infinitives; be careful with them. Your assertion is false. A nuclear fuel rod is not useful if you don't have a nuclear power plant. A gravity drive module is not useful to someone without a spacecraft or the ability to make one.

That is not what Anr meant. Those things are materials used to get something. As long as gravity-drive is useful, the materials used to make it will always be useful. Same with nuclear fuel rods, they will always be useful while nuclear power plants are useful.

What Anr means is that end products should be useful. For example some gunpowder/kinetic weapons could be good against some armor types, and energy weapons could be good another others. Same with ship weapons.

There will likely always be some beginner equipment that won't have a use, especially in a game that wants a progression like we have in Hazeron. But they can be made to be somewhat useful in special scenarios.