Cosmic Exploration Opinions

[AstreMcClain]

So I was eager to see if there was any spot on the forum here about Opinions on Cosmic Exploration and I just see "Progress" Threads, so I think I'll start one on here.


Starting off I went in not expecting much but I was let down by the lack of mounts, and the artificial difficulty of the tasks.

There's so much running around that I'd rather just have a mount for. The timers on gathering feel extremely tight; I had to pop a Hi-Cordial just to barely inch close to gold and I still didn't meet it. My BTN and MIN are 92 so I expected it to be more like foundation in the mission regards, I just popped C+ Missions for them and found the jump in skill extremely surprising with the D Missions being no trouble at all and the C+ with me scraping by. Oh... I had to WAIT between missions because I was out of GP after a Mission.

I don't wanna touch crafters because I've yet to do my job 'quests' but I wanted to see what this was like and It's a bit more disappointing for me that thought it would be- Like I would rather fly everywhere than run or use the odd board points and I would much rather have the standard 10:00 Timers on the gatherer leve stuff because 1:30 - 2:30 Minutes per is just HARD!

Obviously some easy Solutions would be to enable mounts, adjust the timers, and fix the GP/CP issue of not fully refilling after a mission.

[Jeeqbit]

You get a perma sprint and there are transporters and /return

[Supersnow845]

What the game doesn’t make clear is that because of level sync you really don’t want to do these missions at odd levels even though it’s supposed to be levelling content

By default d ranks sync to 10, c’s to 50, b’s to 90 and a’s to 100. However being stuck in the middle of a level range can get you a really wonky sync. For example you are level 92 so you are getting synced to a hypothetical distribution of craftsmanship/control or gathering/perception that is between 90 and 100, but in reality crafters and gatherers don’t actually work like that, you are supposed to use 90 gear to jump straight to 100 gear. So you are basically forced to use level 90 gear to try to hit theoretical 92 breakpoints, BUT level 90 breakpoints seem to be balanced around pentamelded indigators which nobody owns anymore

It seems like realistically the stats are only balanced for 4 positions

1) current level 100 pentamelded-> has a good shot at completing everything
2) EXACTLY level 90 with late 6.0 gear-> has a good shot at b, c and d
3) well above 50 but below 90-> has a good shot at c’s and d’s
4) well above 10 but below 50-> has a good shot at d’s

The level range between 90 and 100 seems the most difficult to hit proper breakpoints especially if you aren’t using penatmelded 6.x gear like indigators which levelling people won’t have anyway

[Fawkes]

They said it was supposed to be like Ishgard Restoration and Island Sanctuary, but I don't really see any of the bones of Island Sanctuary other than like the on-screen UI. Feels more like the old Ixal beast tribes with how gimmicky some of it seems.

[Espon]

There's a button that shows you exactly where on the map the quest takes place before starting it.

[Stasya]

Still, it's just bad design to have to start the timer to even see where the leve is, and then spend a minute surfboarding and sprinting over to it when you only get like 3 minutes on the timer. We're going to need to have a wiki so we can check where a leve is before we start it so we can actually complete it in time.

Don't bother, this is square enix community worker trying to "reason" with angry people at forums.

Just sound from character running is annoying as hell. I understand there might be anti botting commitment with random map locations for quests, horrible ui design and completely pointless surboard points on the map, but overall it's offputting to grind this content. I only did one special fate so far and i have no clue who thought to separate gathering and crafting points in such distant places on map.

They legit put cracks in terrain just to waste your time, not to make terrain look more like "moon".

I did not do ishgard restoration and only know about it as it is now. I would rather participate in ishgardian fates with moogle/piggy etc guys again then spam 1 button in mech fate (because the only way to pilot it is to buy ticket lol) or do mindnumbing "i dont need rank 1 relic points anymore, so i am forced to grind just one quest that gives relic points 2 and pray next batch of quests will give me easy one with rank 2".

Pretty bad uninspired content. Can't wait for DT bozja to let me down too.

There's a button that shows you exactly where on the map the quest takes place before starting it.

Yeah it's really amazing to click on it then run to that point on the map, engaging. Why you can even start LEVEQUEST when you are not near zone to do it?

[hydralus]

Critical missions are so overtuned that it makes the rest of the content obsolete aside from some tool xp drops. I got more tokens in 20 minutes of critical missions than 2 hours of fishing.

[Supersnow845]

Critical missions are so overtuned that it makes the rest of the content obsolete aside from some tool xp drops. I got more tokens in 20 minutes of critical missions than 2 hours of fishing.

Critical missions only give major amounts of currency, they are barely better than any stellar mission you can do at any time for research progress

[Fatch38]

overall meh, got some complaint :

- jobs scales poorly, i struggle less with my 90 unmeld crafters on doing missions (even criticals events) than on my 100 crafters with i720 and meleded
- rewards outside of critical are really f-ing low, i won't even talk about the pilot thing because there is almost no point going in assist on those (the buff giving you only +10 of each coins, what a joke)
- items cost an arm and a leg (see previous point)
- game not giving you a timer for when next event will appear when ishgard did this pretty well
- the bunny roulette miigame is fun but some rewards in it are... questionnable like cordials and not hi-cordials
- too much invisible walls
- gets repetitive and boring real fast (because as stated in previous point, lack of events spawning unlike ishgard)

copy pasting what i said in the other thread

[hydralus]

Critical missions only give major amounts of currency, they are barely better than any stellar mission you can do at any time for research progress

They give research progress too. For fishing at least (think the only research it didn't give was III). Pretty sure it worked for mining too. Saved me from doing dozens of missions for rank IV research. On top of that I got about 3500/6000 currency which would take hours when doing anything else.