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Got a ton of manipulator modules and tech cards

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by soopytwist, Aug 16, 2016.

  1. soopytwist

    soopytwist Pangalactic Porcupine

    ...and nothing to use them for. I've got all the tech's, Multi, Pulse, Rocket and Wall Jump; Dash, Air, Blink and Sprint; Distortion, Spike, Sonic and Aqua Sphere... it really didn't take long to have enough tech cards to get all of them. I assume that's all there is because I've only got two more artifacts to get in the main quest and nothing new is happening.

    I also have a crap load of useless matter manipulator modules, having fully upgraded it weeks ago. What am I supposed to do with them? Sell them?
     
  2. Puce Moose

    Puce Moose Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    I'm making a stash of both of them, just in case they add additional uses for either of them in the future.
     
  3. Dante1120

    Dante1120 Astral Cartographer

    Get mods that add new techs or expand the manipulator module?
     
  4. soopytwist

    soopytwist Pangalactic Porcupine

    My MM is fully upgraded, just got a load of modules and tech cards for no use. Other than what Puce Moose says.
     
  5. Iris Blanche

    Iris Blanche Pudding Paradox Forum Moderator

    Since the universe is shared between all characters you could build a "character storage base" where you store those things for usage on other characters.

    ~ Iris ~
     
  6. MidniteSteve

    MidniteSteve Phantasmal Quasar

    Use them for other characters, save them for future updates, or sell them to other players on a server. It takes 30 upgrade modules to finish a ship, maybe a discount if they buy in bulk?
     
  7. Shadencile

    Shadencile Phantasmal Quasar

    They are also worth a nice little bit of pixels if you need some quick cash... However I have been stockpiling most of them. xD have nearly 1000 now of each.... #hoarding problems.
     
  8. soopytwist

    soopytwist Pangalactic Porcupine

    Yeah, I'm a hoarder. Trying to build a warehouse on a barren world to store all my crap, ships too messy.
     
  9. Aimbot

    Aimbot Void-Bound Voyager

    I just did it! and i have 512 modules and 349 tech cards! (Must fight urge!... To sell crap!)
     
  10. Poison Dagger

    Poison Dagger Void-Bound Voyager

    I just sell everything. Makes for a crap ton of cash. *cha-chings*
     
  11. Dante1120

    Dante1120 Astral Cartographer

    Good god, and I'm having problems upgrading to a 3x3 area.
     
  12. Lintton

    Lintton Guest

    you'll eventually make your way up with enough box searching.
     
  13. Iaeyan Elyuex

    Iaeyan Elyuex Cosmic Narwhal

    I think I'll start selling mine once I get 1,000 of them. I even hoard gravity garbage blocks. Someone might need them. See, I'm the Go-To-Guy on my server. Need MMods quick? Ask Iaeyan! "I'm out of blocks!" Iaeyan. "Can I get 1,000 iron pls?" I actually charge quite a bit for stuff that's glaringly easy to get. I call it the "lazy tax".

    2,000 units of fabric? What could you possibly want with that much?
     
  14. Mooncalf99

    Mooncalf99 Spaceman Spiff

    Since I'm a chronic alt-itis sufferer, I save that stuff for other characters. Sure, it's fun to have the challenge of getting started slow (and I don't want to upgrade the ship until after the Pagoda mission due to memory issues), but eventually you get tired of grinding when you know your other player has a fat stack. Since you earned them fair and square with that guy, there's no shame in sharing, right?

    A big communal storage building is also a great idea. I have one for blocks and furniture (I am an incurable hoarder) and I'm thinking of extending it for clothes and other collectibles.

    Selling, though? Naah. Money's cheap, and asteroid mining is ridiculously profitable. And who knows if a future update suddenly requires me to get 600 tech cards?
     
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  15. HarmonicRev

    HarmonicRev Subatomic Cosmonaut

    They are worth a lot and I tend to sell them off. They are my main source of income.
     

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