This (3rd) expedition is my last one...unless...

I am sure that I am not alone.

The first one was whatever, played tons was planning to do it. The 5 mil was still insane.

Second one was...fine, i didn't play nearly as much but I got the 3 mil in time.

This one though, im done. I am so just done. If its 3 mil again, god. It will be a struggle. I already asked my friend for help.

I only planned to do 3 expeditions from the start by the way. But my god, the slog is real. The millions you need for points is just obnoxious...on top of expedition quest itself. It is 100% not casual coded.

People have suggested alternatives or tweaks to earn expedition rewards...one being reaching max lvl and doing quests. Hell no. The quests are boring and having to do them every 2 months would be worse than grinding stash value.

Reaching level 30 wouldn't be a bad requirement, but MAX? Hell no, pretty sure i can gather 5 million before reaching 75, cause i reached 3 million by 40 last expedition.

Honestly, there just needs to be more incentive. The juice aint worth the squeeze.

"Its optional"

Yes, but no. It's the only real source of progression and we all know it, so don't try downplaying its importance with nonsense like that.

SOLUTIONS I HAVE HEARD AND THINK WOULD HELP

Mostly revolve around blueprint retention. Literally the main reason people don't want to reset.

Some solutions i read mention how you should "find" random blueprints from your old character once your new one moves in.

Not a bad idea. Though personally I would tweak it to further reward serial expedition taking

MY SOLUTION

Each expedition gives you ONE blueprint "safe pocket". If you have the blueprint learned, you can "save" it. You can only do one per expedition. This way players can save at least their favorite, or favorites over a couple expeditions, or for the hardcore, do every expedition they can to maximize BP slots down the line.

This will do wonders to incentivize expedition use. Because I think most people wouldn't mind doing the expedition if they could keep their favorite bp *cough* anvil *cough* every expedition, then keep more every time, in case they want to keep a rare bp they found *cough tempest *cough*.

It would also take a LONG time just to build up a handful of permanent blueprint slots, so for that minority of people that think its too generous or whatever, they have little standing, since its literally 1 every 2 months, and the bp count is at like 60 or 70? Which also grows every update.

I also wouldn't prefer this, but there could also be a project every expedition that requires completing in order to save said BP.

It should be small and engaging, not obnoxiously demanding or expensive.