Topic: Artifacts
Those dev's are tricky!!
So the new geo scan based treasure hunt ties nicely into the latest change in resources.
There are now 2 reasons to spend EP on those scanning skills; better resolution on ORE and now artifacts. Excellent.
"Every island will have an ever-changing collection of hidden spots"
Nice. No waypointing and going back to the "X" to farm artifacts! And every island means beta too, the reward for beta finds is probably going to be greater than for alpha. I do hope however that there are not certain items that can ONLY be found on beta, but agree the rewards for beta caches should be higher than alpha; and they can be much rarer on alpha.
I also like the fact that your going to need an industry and a combat player to get at some of these.
All around a good idea, looking forward to the implementation.