I've been playing again recently for the first time in two years, and exploring/working on Cosmic Exploration and the expansion's relic tools for the first time. I wanted to flag an issue with the tool aesthetics that I don't doubt people have already noticed, but that I didn't see any threads mentioning.

Specifically I wanted to point to the various tool 'work benches/work tables'. Except for ALC (previously), the benches did not share the tool glows, but it was clear that the various tables were a step up aesthetically from the starter tools. With the max level benches having extra tools hanging off the sides or a water cooling trough or extra magnifying glasses, etc. WVR is of course the exception here, it doesn't have a crafting bench.

All the past relic tools have had the most detailed looking benches, but these Hyper tools seem to all be using the base level 1 bench. I presume it's because these tools are slowly upgraded from level 10 versions of the tools? At least, that would be my guess for why. Not only that, for ALC, the bench no longer shares the glow of the tool, unlike the Skybuilder and Lodestar tools.

Supposedly we're getting one more version of these Hyper tools in 7.51? I'm hoping this minor aesthetic miss gets fixed then. At the very least, I wanted to open the discussion on it, flag it as an issue, even a small issue. (Should I report it as a bug?)

BSM Hyper tool:



BSM Skybuilder tool:



ALC Hyper tool:



ALC Lodestar tool: