One of the reasons I don't farm prime stuff is because there are so many relics even within one tier of relic and once I'm out of whatever I was target farming I then have to do research to figure out what else there is that I want, what mission types are available, and what rarity the item is so I know if I should save it for radianting in the case of rare rewards or just spam them in the case of common rewards. Often my friend will ask me if there are any good fissures up and it ends up taking around 5 minutes to find a mission and relic I want to crack because I also have to check my spreadsheet of stuff that I want, figure out what relic it's in, run it, and repeat if I get the item I want. This is especially bad on endless missions where you're given roughly 15 seconds to find a new relic to crack which often ends up with me picking whatever I have the most of and often has forma as a common reward. What I suggest to help bring some of the "accounting" from the google spreadsheet and into the game as well as making it easier to see what you want to farm in a given fissure is a priority system.
I can see a few ways to go about this; a simple priority added with one click that brings the relic to the top of the list with a symbol showing it is priority, a more advanced version that allows you to add rare, uncommon, and common tags depending on what kind of reward you are after, and the most advanced one including the option to pick the specific part within a given relic you want to farm.
Option 1 would be a simple right click to add a symbol to the relics you want to crack which moves the relic to the top of the respective list. This would allow you to quickly decide what relic to choose from, be it a stack of common forma relics or entire sets of relics to get the most recent prime releases. This runs into the issue of having to remember what you are farming for out of that relic which could lead to a relic you wanted rare drops from being used without being radianted, and having to remove the priority after the item you get the item you want. Still, a simple and powerful tool.
Option 2, however, would allow you to see which rarity items you are going for so you know that if you only have a handful of a certain relic for rare rewards you could tell at a glance from a marker that shows in the relic selection screen which would allow you to prioritize radianting it instead of accidentally picking it. One of the issues I often run into is wanting to save up my void traces to radiant the rare rewards I want but I also don't want to either not crack relics because that's leaving ducats or plat on the table, nor to I want to run a random relic when I know there are common and uncommon rewards I still need to collect but my goldfish brain can't hold more than two relics at a time. By adding this system, one could easily mark each relic they want to farm with a bronze, silver, and gold diamond/pip/starfish in the relic screen to make it easier to choose the relic they want on the fly. This would allow players to farm items in endless missions and easily swap between common rewards for getting common pieces they need while also farming up the void traces they need to radiant the rare rewards, in part easing the farm of void traces by making people feel like they are still progressing.
Option 3 would take a lot more work to implement but would take a lot of the accounting out of relic management. The system would work similar to option 2 except that you can right click the specific reward you want. If you are farming Wisp prime systems you would find the relic, right click the systems, and then a marker would appear on the relic similar to option 2 showing that you have a rare reward chosen, maybe even highlighting the reward you had chosen earlier when choosing the relic before and during the mission so you know what to look for. To take a bit more of the management from players and automate it for ease of use the game could then check after the mission is complete to see if the player has any items from their checklist in their inventory and unmark those rewards from the relic. This would allow you to go through and check every item you want from all relevant relics and only have to recheck it when new prime stuff comes out because the prioritized rewards would be removed from the pool when they are collected. There could even be a way to lock a reward as something that is always priority, such as requiem mods, forma, and riven slivers so you always know you can run that relic when you run out of other things to farm. This could be indicated with a blue symbol to differentiate.
If any of these options were added to the game I would finally have the drive to farm out more than just warframe parts. The current system makes it difficult to keep track of what I want without having a spreadsheet open on my second monitor that I have to personally update every time there's new prime stuff or I get something I wanted, and even then it's a rush to find the right relic in endless missions when you have a time limit. Adding a priority list to the game, even in the simplest way, would allow players to see the top ten important relics they want to farm instead of looking through the 50+ unique relics they have to find the right one.
Constructive criticism welcome, I hope you all have a lovely day.
