Harclubs

Unfortunately, the numbers obscure the tool tips of the turret loot, so you can't tell what you found. It would be fantastic if players were allowed to choose where they want this info displayed. A fully customizable and movable ui would be best, but a toggle will do.

I've done it! Thanks to my 13yo son took pity upon me when he saw me tearing my already sparse hair from my head so he went looking for a way to help me. He found a nice little script thingy on Reddit /run Entity():addScript("lib/entitydbg.lua") Which brings up an icon on your screen next to the insurance and lets you do all manner of things. Anyhow, I spawned in a merchant, got my artifact, made my way to a crossing point, was on my second ship when guess who shows up? Another merch with an artifact in his inventory. This also means that it was RNG god who was messing with me before... Thanks for the suggestions everyone :)

Nice. My own thread to have a whine in :) So, does anyone know if it's a specific equipment merchant who sells the artifact or have I been cursed by the RNG god?

Thanks everyone, I'll give those a go but my computer skills aren't what they should be. The main purpose of my rant is to let the devs (and others) know that that part of the quest line to get to the centre is a tad annoying at this point. It may be an idea to have one of these artifacts spawn on stationary merchants every so often, but charge double to the price? Wouldn't you know it, an equipment merch spawned a few minutes after I gave up trying to do those scripts. And he didn't have the artifact. So I logged out and back in again. And he still didn't have what I wanted. Did it another dozen or so times, which makes me think that there is a specific merch who sells. I remember one of the travelers told me of an artifact selling merch in the area but I can't remember where. If it isn't a specific merch then this can't just be RNG hiccups, it's God having a little joke at my expense...

It's now moving beyond a joke. Been 25 hrs of gameplay since I got the 7th piece. Have salvaged over 1,000,000 tons of Xan, and another 1,000,000 tons of the rest. Had over 1000 drops. Can't really build my ship because with the trading nerf, crew costs can't really go over 1,000,000Cr an hour. Seen at least a dozen traveling salesfolk in that time, which strikes me as way too low (one every 2 hrs of play is nowhere near enough), and uncountable numbers of hostiles. Frustrating your players is not a good way of building a base of dedicated fans.

I think he's already made it to the galactic core rift, but is struggling to get the artifact you need from the travelling equipment merchant to actually get into the core. Yep, still waiting. Sat in a single sector salvaging wrecks for 3 hours yesterday. got 2 turret merchants come through and about 4,323,542 pirates. I think the the aliens ate the equip merchant :P :'(

It's been over 10 hours of gameplay and the merchant has still not spawned. I've had masses of mat merchants, even a trader and turret merchant or two. But no equipment merchants at all. Is it a bug or a terribly unlucky RNG? It may be an idea to have the item spawn on stationary equip merchants because just tooling around at the rift's edge stops being fun after an hour or two.

Waited for that stupid equipment merchant to spawn. If I get one one more travelling material merchant, JUST ONE MORE, I'm going to scream. Lots of nice ships in this thread, btw.