Cosmic Exploration progression is poorly handled

[Ardeth]

If it was tied to your personal progress, people would cry it's not "community content" as was advertised. It would be Doma, but with actual work not just giving money.

As for content being boring - if someone spends 7 hours grinding it (yes, I saw posts like this), sure they would get bored very quickly. Personally, I just added it to my daily "roster", which includes other activities. This way I'm not getting burned after two days.

But crafting/gathering is not for everyone. So if it's not your cuppa, then you will not have fun doing it.

I like gathering. But I hate leves. So, for me, the Diadem is still 100 times better. It's an actual zone that has mounts, and when you fill the bar, you get to bazooka enemies and get more materials. It's just night and day.

Crafting is never going to be fixed for me. I've always hated it. Too convaluted for too little gain. I like being able to craft things for myself like gear and glamor, but the stat caps and the min maxing of it all turned me off it completely. Now I just keep them to 100 and get my master books and 100% NQ glamours and go on with my life. Once I got to master crafts, I knew I wasn't going to get gold rank anymore and just kinda gave up.

At the end of the day, I've set myself up to get the rewards I want, and then I'm abandoning it until new rewards come out. I don't care about relics unless they look cool, so I'm really just cred farming.

[Regis_Paran]

At the end of the day, I've set myself up to get the rewards I want, and then I'm abandoning it until new rewards come out. I don't care about relics unless they look cool, so I'm really just cred farming.

And that is absolutely fine. In fact, I'm doing exactly the same - I will farm (not the best word, but I don't have better) currency to get what I want. Like with fates. Like with other content gated by any currency.
And while doing all that, I'll help progress little story of rabbits going to space (pity not the pigs, but oh well). And we'll see when we get to go when we build our starship.

And I bet it's the same for most of players.

Getting up in arms and upset about it - just why?

[Ardeth]

And that is absolutely fine. In fact, I'm doing exactly the same - I will farm (not the best word, but I don't have better) currency to get what I want. Like with fates. Like with other content gated by any currency.
And while doing all that, I'll help progress little story of rabbits going to space (pity not the pigs, but oh well). And we'll see when we get to go when we build our starship.

And I bet it's the same for most of players.

Getting up in arms and upset about it - just why?

I'm not upset. I'm just disappointed in it. It could've been so much better.

[Regis_Paran]

I'm not upset. I'm just disappointed in it. It could've been so much better.

That's why I'm trying to avoid having preconceptions about new content. Otherwise it will inevitably leads to disappointment. And yes, everyting would be so much better if we could craft our, private game and have every piece of content exactly as we like. No argument there.

Imo this whole "issue" was completely blown out of propprtions. There are bigger ones - like why some Fisher missions are timed, when getting the actual fish it totally rng. That's the actual shitty design.