What is the point of fuel as a gameplay mechanic?

Does the game still have those frog-people merchants? Moons should have some kind of unique little race to trade with/steal from/fight with depending on how friendly each particular community of them is. That would be awesome. Maybe they would routinely trade erchius for..I don't know, ores or something- it doesn't matter what.

 

i think they need add like moon dungeon or something that hold the fuel but we have fight for it

 

Keep in mind that the purpose of fuel collection may not be what you think it ought to be. While I agree that the moons could use structures of some kind to find, I do not think they need challenge. There is value and importance to leaving spaces in a game that are peaceful and let the player relax. While I have not played above casual, yet, I imagine the moons are a VERY nice place to relax after fighting through mobs and npc on hardcore difficulty. I have always found the moon to be very peaceful, quiet and meditative. I think if it had less fuel pools it would actually be boring. I do believe that Erchius crystals and more ores of some kind would be reasonable. Maybe a rare and large abandoned moon outpost every few moons you visit. But, I think the devs intended it to be low key. Especially as the rest of the game on higher difficulties is not so. Also, for all we know the dev have bigger plans for moons they haven't talked about. yet. I for one look forward to building a mobless peaceful moon base in the future.

 

I'm down with that. I actually do like the peaceful quality of moons. The trouble is just how homogenous and monotinous they currently are.

I'm actually loving the idea of a peaceful race of moonpeople or whatever who you could trade with if you want, or else just go and dig up your own moon juice. And yeah, some ores and maybe some "vegetation" or mineral growths or something to add a little color to the environment would be great.

 

I have to say it does seem pretty pointless right now with how boring the moons are. It's better than the old system but that's not saying much[DOUBLEPOST=1422734521][/DOUBLEPOST]

I don't think being a peaceful stop should be the moons purpose. Especially with how early the game is in development and I'd assume further down the line we're going to get big cities to visit on certain planets that could act as a peaceful stop, or some kind of local system outpost.

 

They could have bubble cities in craters. Crashed ships of various races. Ancient ruins of the mysterious race. It does not need to be any more dangerous than it currently is. Just More environment hazards. Leaking powerplants etc. They may be planning things like this already. But we don't see roadmaps of things they plan to add so .....

 

Would be even better if moons wouldn't be so empty.

 

It's no contest for most of the game - mine for it.

 

If it was only the fuel mechanic witch was broken, I would be happy...