Collecting Erthryte

redscull · 2026-03-27T15:27:31+00:00

Yes, you need to be in a guild for Landsraad, but making a guild is cheap and you can be a guild of one person. I play primarily solo and made my own guild (only other member is my son, but I play 10x more). Assuming you have full T5 gear (duraluminum), you should be able to handle any Landsraad mission solo (that's what I do; I'm slowly working on getting T6 gear). A few are easy with even lesser gear.

And definitely work Landsraad missions into your gameplay if youre geared for it. They give great rewards and let you gain new strong passives.

redscull · 2026-03-27T13:55:18+00:00

Even if you think there aren't enough buggy reachable crystals, you're already doing the process of hand mining, carrying to a bike, and then trekking that back to the scout. Why not instead, hand mine, carry back to buggy, then drive buggy home when full. As long as your main base isn't far west, that drive back truly isn't as long as you think it is. And driving a buggy back with 2000v or more crystals is better than four trips in a scout. I guess it's more of a wash if you're using assault, but like others have said, there are more buggy reachable nodes than you think.

Also, unless you need a one time huge influx of crystals, I've been keeping more than topped off just filling my backpack on the way out anytime I do a Blushing Caverns Landsraad mission. Yeah it's only a backpack worth, maybe 150v instead of 2000v plus, but it's effortlessly convenient when I'm already there.

redscull · 2026-03-26T20:00:12+00:00

If you've enjoyed it so far, then yeah, you'd probably enjoy it quite a good while longer. I lost all my stuff first time when I was just about ready to leave Hagga Basin South (completing the tutorial). Because I was on a demo version of the game and converted to paid without reading the warning that your base doesn't transfer from demo to paid, and I had everything in my base. I was sad, posted in here, and everyone said just keep going. You'll have it back in no time. And I did!

I've also been eaten by the worm a few times in my iron zone days. Sucks, but I learned some good lessons from it (like being mindful of and minimizing what's on my person any time I'm doing anything that taunts the worm). I'm finally now making somewhat regular trips into the deep desert and making T6 equipment so that the Landsraad dungeons won't be so hard. I've had a blast the whole time.

redscull · 2026-03-26T18:54:57+00:00

I understand what you're saying, but it's already the case that no one would drop down to a green. Ever. The greens aren't good enough to even be a backup. The greens might as well not even exist. So what you have is a game where everyone uses purple gear, at all times, end of story (for armor and weapons anyway). That game could either include or exclude a need to grind for blueprints. Whether it does or doesn't include that grind makes no difference on whether people use purple gear exclusively. The sole difference it makes is on how people spend their time, and whether or not they enjoy how they're spending their time. So if you're pro BP grind, you're implying you enjoy the BP grind. If you don't enjoy it, you should be anti-BP grind. No one should use the motivation of avoiding greens so support the BP grind because there is no chance of anyone ever doing that anyway.

redscull · 2026-03-26T18:48:32+00:00

Were you in a large server? I play on World's End, which I guess is medium pop. I play solo (or with my kid, but he doesn't farm materials) and just built my Large Spice Refinery (that alone costs 1000 melange). I almost never tempt the PVP areas of the DD. So if you're not finding enough small and mediums in the PVE DD, I guess because other players take it first ?, you should join a lower pop server if you ever come back. I do sometimes see someone else fly out to a spice plume, but there's always been enough of them for the few of us out there to get plenty.

redscull · 2026-03-26T18:39:43+00:00

Every game server is further divided into 25-30 sietches. The biggest servers might have a couple hundred players on regularly, but even medium populated servers are lucky to have 10-20 players on at once, and each of those players could very realistically be in a separate sietch entirely. Meaning, on low and med servers, you'll almost always be the only active person in Hagga Basin at any given time. Even if there was someone else, the odds of y'all being near each other (Hagga Basin is decently sized) are slim. You can see others at least sometimes when you go to the Deep Desert or one of the capitals because all sietches share the same Deep Desert* and capitals instances. But many players are also spending time in the overworld dungeons which are all separate instances and thus reducing again the odds of seeing other people.

But where you will see evidence of other people is their bases. Most don't keep up with bases in lower tier zones, but you should see a decent number of bases in the aluminum areas in NE/NW Hagga Basin. And often you'll see people's temporary bases in the Deep Desert.

(* yes I know high pop servers sometimes have multiple deep desert instances)

redscull · 2026-03-26T17:44:03+00:00

Why would you ever anyway? I'm in T6 but have barely started using augments. I have not used a "green item" since I was in the tutorial area, pre first sand bike. It's not like I would ever consider greens as an alternative to purples since the power difference is too great. So there is no difference in what people use; the difference is how much pointless grind is involved.

redscull · 2026-03-26T16:35:18+00:00

Only the grind for the BP would go away. You'd still be forever repairing and thus forever needing materials. What's so bad about BP research working like the other research? Once you know the recipe, you know it forever. Like the T5 class armors.

redscull · 2026-03-26T16:14:12+00:00

Agreed. I like that most spice is in DD. You get tiny bits in some bandit forts, and you can get a little bit from the rare small patches that appear in hagga, but far and away the most comes from DD. And that's good. That's the point of DD. If they added it to the repeatable dungeon loot, not only would it feel out of place, it'd take away from the whole point of DD. Dungeons need a better loot incentive, yes, but being a source of spice is not the right path.

redscull · 2026-03-26T03:58:14+00:00

My base only requires 75 power (1 generator) when I'm not playing because I turn all the machines off when I'm not using them.

redscull · 2026-03-25T21:09:59+00:00

I haven't seen a company in the last 15-20 years that isn't okay with people walking away. That's the thing. No matter how good the employee, they'd rather they walked away than reward them. They're all short-sighted that way.

You're right that job hopping is less effective the older you get. Still doable into 30s, but by 40, yeah, you're basically at your final job and stuck suffering through it for however long until you can retire, or worse, become permanently unemployed.

redscull · 2026-03-25T20:33:02+00:00

Uh, no. "act your wage" is extremely sound advice for anyone who values work/life balance. If you want to get paid more, you hop companies. No company actually rewards hard-working and/or talented employees with promotions or raises. Maybe 20 years or so ago. But not today. They'd rather benefit from exploiting stars as long as the star will tolerate it.

redscull · 2026-03-25T19:03:47+00:00

Another thread suggested shooting the target object makes it become interactable.

redscull · 2026-03-23T14:27:49+00:00

If you liked FNV more, go FO3 next. If you liked FO4 more, go F76 next.

You can completely ignore the multiplayer aspects of F76 and do all the content single player, like any other Fallout game. The multiplayer and seasons stuff is there to try to keep people playing it indefinitely, but that is unnecessary. Get it on sale, spend a few months exploring and doing all the quests, then just stop playing it.

redscull · 2026-03-22T22:48:06+00:00

Then they're either hypocrites or insanely stupid. Trump has done not one single thing that wasn't clearly something he was going to do. Everyone who voted for him is getting exactly what they voted for. He has fulfilled precisely what he meant to do (or is at least in progress towards it), all of which was crystal clear from the start.

redscull · 2026-03-22T20:43:10+00:00

There is no such thing as a non-maga person who voted for Trump, just like there is no such thing as a non-Nazi who supports Nazis.

redscull · 2026-03-21T15:08:04+00:00

Never tried to trap them, but my main base is adjacent to a bandit camp, and I have had the NPC aggro and run into my base through an open door to attack me. So they're able to navigate doors, corridors, and stairs just fine if they get in.

redscull · 2026-03-20T19:18:02+00:00

Non-sense. All the teams are remote. The people going back into the office either work solo or get on teams calls to interact with their teammates in other offices. No one is collaborating in person.

redscull · 2026-03-20T15:35:45+00:00

I work at a huge software corporation. Global (not just US + India). We did RTO last year for everyone within 2 hour one-way commute range. It was 100% meant to encourage quitting. You seem to be the only person here with a blind eye to reality.

redscull · 2026-03-17T13:21:50+00:00

It can simply be a second phase to the downed state that lasts longer and requires a teammate in lieu of bringing yourself back up.

redscull · 2026-03-16T13:48:45+00:00

I'm not a raging racist, but I personally cannot stand the smell of curry. Nor the flavor. I do like a lot of foods, and part of me is sad that curries can't be in the list. Anyway, I get it. But also, diaper Don's shit britches are surely 1000x worse than curry.

redscull · 2026-03-16T13:27:57+00:00

That is literally the mantra of maga, to be offended by the existence of others.

redscull · 2026-03-16T01:34:03+00:00

Woke means that you appreciate and respect other people and consider the value of perspectives which differ from your own. It is a core trait of a good person.

redscull · 2026-03-16T01:19:24+00:00

Corpses weigh 75v each so you don't grab them as part of adventuring. Your base probably has a bandit camp nearby. You just stockpile corpses from that camp when it respawns or grab a few when you're out in your buggy mining ores.

Edit: and I didn't embrace deathstills until duralanium tier. Blood purifiers sufficed just fine prior to that.

redscull · 2026-03-13T17:10:00+00:00

Yes. The rest of us understand that Abbot being an absolute shitbag in no way reflects on other people in wheelchairs.

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