A couple ideas to improve Conservation as of Deimos

[Cobalt313]

Pretty much exactly what it sounds like, a couple minor ideas I had that could improve the Conservation experience for the Heart of Deimos update:

1. Allow 'Good' and 'Perfect' captures to award extra Tags. As much as I love the Entrati Tokens as a form of storytelling through gameplay, there's no denying replacing direct Standing rewards for animal captures with this system of trading tags for Son tokens has kinda made Conservation on Deimos less fun than it should be, especially now that Good and Pxcellent captures don't award more Standing than bad captures. A simple solution would be to let Good and Perfect captures award bonus tags instead, anywhere from Good offering a 50-50 chance of one or two Tags and Perfect a flat 2 Tags to perhaps even letting Good and Perfect award 2 and 3 Tags, respectively. This would significantly decrease the number of Conservations needed to earn enough Tags for trade should you consistently perform well, translating into a probable increase in Son tokens earned, and if applied retroactively to Cetus and Fortuna offers no game-breaking side-effects besides making Floofs easier to stockpile.

2. Introduce an Infested Tranq Rifle upgrade with relative direction indicator as a high-level reward. Pretty much what it sounds like. Animals small, verticality annoying, why not let us buy a blueprint that lets us combine our Tranq Rifle with some Infested bits and/or some predatory animal tags or two to implant our trustworthy tool with an Infested augmentation that more or less gives it a sense of smell, represented in-game by a colored glow on the borders of our scoped view indicating the direction of any nearby conservation targets that are within detection range but not currently on-screen. Jury's out whether this would be a straight upgrade to the Tranq or perhaps an optional trade-off that is less stealthy when fired, or even if it's simply a purely detective tool that can be switched out for the Tranq until you've found and are ready to bag your quarry, but either way I would very much like to have some means of where in this 360-degree dome of open space and climbing spots I'm supposed to be pointing my scope to find the Avichea I just summoned.

[SolidSnake8774]

Wouldnt this had been better suited in the deimos feedback thread or feedback sub forum?

[(XBOX)KawaiiAsa]

I think conservation is fine except for one small thing thats heavily noticeable on Deimos... its super easy to lose where your target is after tranquilising them, especially birds since its hard to judge just where they are. I spent 10 minutes wandering around because your tranq rifle only highlights them if you are far away, not up-close. put a minimap icon where tranq'd animals are so that they are easy to find or get to

[Cobalt313]

3 hours ago, (XB1)KawaiiAsa said:

I think conservation is fine except for one small thing thats heavily noticeable on Deimos... its super easy to lose where your target is after tranquilising them, especially birds since its hard to judge just where they are. I spent 10 minutes wandering around because your tranq rifle only highlights them if you are far away, not up-close. put a minimap icon where tranq'd animals are so that they are easy to find or get to

That's kinda what the "scent tracker" upgrade thing for the Tranq Rifle is supposed to do. The beeping tells you that an animal's there, the glow helps point you to it.