Mod workbench

I used to hold so many mods around and hope one day they'll have some uses.
I am wrong,

If you've looked at that unequipped mod 47 times now, sell it off.

It's the equipped trash mods that are the problem for me. It takes time to shuffle all the junk off my mules and put new good mods on.

Also, I disagree that it's as simple as "Speed > X, I keep, else trash". For tenacity, potency, CC, CD, and offense sets, there are other secondaries that can be just as important as speed. So if I have a meh speed roll but great Offense% rolls on an Offense set mod, I want to keep it. Not to mention, some tanks really don't need speed at all. So there's a backlog of mods with lower speed but great defense secondaries lying around. Finally, if you've played long enough, that speed threshold is going to increase.

So, depending on the set, the slot, and what my mod mules have equipped; it is not always evident whether a newly rolled mod should be trashed or not. And the time it takes to determine that is unreasonable, imo.

You guys aren't coming up with novel strategies. Your strategies are known. They're just time consuming.

"Ragnarok_COTF;c-2454104" wrote:
It's the equipped trash mods that are the problem for me. It takes time to shuffle all the junk off my mules and put new good mods on.

Also, I disagree that it's as simple as "Speed > X, I keep, else trash". For tenacity, potency, CC, CD, and offense sets, there are other secondaries that can be just as important as speed. So if I have a meh speed roll but great Offense% rolls on an Offense set mod, I want to keep it. Not to mention, some tanks really don't need speed at all. So there's a backlog of mods with lower speed but great defense secondaries lying around. Finally, if you've played long enough, that speed threshold is going to increase.

So, depending on the set, the slot, and what my mod mules have equipped; it is not always evident whether a newly rolled mod should be trashed or not. And the time it takes to determine that is unreasonable, imo.

You guys aren't coming up with novel strategies. Your strategies are known. They're just time consuming.

and then add to that if they are in a loadout some where. You can't delete them till you remove them from the loadout. I have some that are this way and finding them are a pain

"AdmiralSnackbar0;c-2453932" wrote:
Sincere question, as I’m curious - is there really a benefit to keeping so many mods that you hit the limit? I have a pretty large roster and good mods, and I’ve never hit the limit. I wonder if all the mods you’re sitting on are truly valuable or have good potential.

For me it is 100% I am to lazy to go thru and prune them.

My hope is to get enough loadouts for my roster.

"HokieFiend;d-267747" wrote:
It would be nice if CG could give us a mod workbench of say 20 spaces to collect mods from mail/buy mods and be able to upgrade and decide to sell or not. The constant selling off of mods to make space has long been tiresome.

I think this is useful but no just because of the cap, because you can clearly see the new mods and you don't need to look for them after upgrade among all the ones you already had.

"herd_nerfer;c-2453975" wrote:

"SidVicious444;c-2453974" wrote:

"Stokat;c-2453973" wrote:

"SidVicious444;c-2453972" wrote:

"Ragnarok_COTF;c-2453960" wrote:
I wouldn't call it lazy. It takes a lot of time to upgrade your mod mules and sell your new worst mods off. Last 2 times I did it, it took about 2 hours each.

Inevitably, people will say, "then when people hit the cap of X, they'll complain it should be higher." Okay... so? The cap could be 1, and mods would still function. No matter what limit you set, someone will hit it and complain. So what's a reasonable limit?

There's no practical reason the limit shouldn't be higher. Memory costs next to nothing. So set a free limit, say 500, and let us use resources in-game to acquire extra slots. Those that are happy with 500 would still be happy. Those like me would gladly spend crystals to expand their inventory. Whoever is left would have less standing to complain.

My pipe dream...

IMO a reasonable limit is 500 for every mod type for example:
health=500
defense=500
cc=500
cd=500
speed=500
offense=500
tenacity=500
potency=500

So a simple increase from a cap of 500 mods to 4000 would be reasonable?

Yes, Yes, Yes.
This is the way!
It is NOT 4000 total but 500 cap per mod type.
If you reach the 500 health cap it goes too inbox.
If you reach the 500 defense cap it goes too inbox.

Some mods have more utility than others - Does anyone really need storage for 500 tenacity mods and 500 defense mods? Why separate them? Does anyone actually have hundreds of defense mods that are all so good, they can't find any that they can live without?

I'd argue that no one 'needs' more than 500 mods in storage. I'd be really surprised if someone had enough specialized mods that they really utilized more than 100 or so slots for mods they actually used that aren't always equipped on another character. I don't think it's going to hurt anything to increase the storage cap, but I also don't think it solves the problem. Developing a method for curating your mod collection quickly and efficiently is the cure - but that's not something CG can do for the players - players have to do that on their own and find what works best for them.

I missed anyone saying they "need" more to function. It's that the current limit places more tedious burden on the player, so we (royally) WANT more.

No one needed squad loadouts, fleet loadouts, mod loadouts, improved mod management, sim tickets, filters, sorts, shortcut buttons, etc. Why should this QOL improvement be any different than the others? Obviously, many people find 500 to be a burden. And some don't. I didn't really care about fleet loadouts or the improved mod management tools (HU user), but I can appreciate why others did want those things.

Actually, I think a full roster mod loadout is the most analogous QOL request I can think of. No one needs it. I don't even care about it personally (HU user), but that doesn't mean it wouldn't improve the player experience.

"Ragnarok_COTF;c-2453977" wrote:

"herd_nerfer;c-2453975" wrote:

"SidVicious444;c-2453974" wrote:

"Stokat;c-2453973" wrote:

"SidVicious444;c-2453972" wrote:

"Ragnarok_COTF;c-2453960" wrote:
I wouldn't call it lazy. It takes a lot of time to upgrade your mod mules and sell your new worst mods off. Last 2 times I did it, it took about 2 hours each.

Inevitably, people will say, "then when people hit the cap of X, they'll complain it should be higher." Okay... so? The cap could be 1, and mods would still function. No matter what limit you set, someone will hit it and complain. So what's a reasonable limit?

There's no practical reason the limit shouldn't be higher. Memory costs next to nothing. So set a free limit, say 500, and let us use resources in-game to acquire extra slots. Those that are happy with 500 would still be happy. Those like me would gladly spend crystals to expand their inventory. Whoever is left would have less standing to complain.

My pipe dream...

IMO a reasonable limit is 500 for every mod type for example:
health=500
defense=500
cc=500
cd=500
speed=500
offense=500
tenacity=500
potency=500

So a simple increase from a cap of 500 mods to 4000 would be reasonable?

Yes, Yes, Yes.
This is the way!
It is NOT 4000 total but 500 cap per mod type.
If you reach the 500 health cap it goes too inbox.
If you reach the 500 defense cap it goes too inbox.

Some mods have more utility than others - Does anyone really need storage for 500 tenacity mods and 500 defense mods? Why separate them? Does anyone actually have hundreds of defense mods that are all so good, they can't find any that they can live without?

I'd argue that no one 'needs' more than 500 mods in storage. I'd be really surprised if someone had enough specialized mods that they really utilized more than 100 or so slots for mods they actually used that aren't always equipped on another character. I don't think it's going to hurt anything to increase the storage cap, but I also don't think it solves the problem. Developing a method for curating your mod collection quickly and efficiently is the cure - but that's not something CG can do for the players - players have to do that on their own and find what works best for them.

I missed anyone saying they "need" more to function. It's that the current limit places more tedious burden on the player, so we (royally) WANT more.

No one needed squad loadouts, fleet loadouts, mod loadouts, improved mod management, sim tickets, filters, sorts, shortcut buttons, etc. Why should this QOL improvement be any different than the others? Obviously, many people find 500 to be a burden. And some don't. I didn't really care about fleet loadouts or the improved mod management tools (HU user), but I can appreciate why others did want those things.

I'm not saying don't raise the cap. If CG decides to do that, I'm fine with it - I'm saying why separate them into buckets of 500 of each mod type? Many people no doubt have way more health mods than they do any other mod type - those people would end up hitting the new cap on health mods long before hitting the cap on another mod type and the frustration returns that much faster - so why bother with that and not just increase the cap on all mods without adding new restrictions? It seems unnecessarily complex.

I can appreciate why people want a higher mod cap too - and I'm not opposed to it - my point is that if people are actively managing their mods and taking a realistic approach to what they should be keeping and selling, it becomes a much less frustrating issue. I think a reasonable cap is somewhere around 6 * the number of characters in the game + 500. That gives enough room for every character to store one spare loadout and 500 mods 'in flux'.

People will still hit the cap though, and they'll still be frustrated by this if they don't change their mod management habits. The problem is not that we can't store enough - the problem is that people have a hard time discerning what's worth keeping and what needs to be sold so they just don't fool with it until they hit the cap. By that time the job is so huge and time consuming that it feels like work, and ain't nobody got time for that.

By all means, increase the cap. But that's a symptom of a larger problem that WILL return as long as people don't change their mod management strategy (or refuse to develop one).