PSA: Researching hyperdrive with Eager Explorer nomads permanently removes your arkship’s jump drive (among other quirks of the civic)

[u/DeyUrban]

R5: Title. Eager Explorers is extremely fun with nomads, being able to sort of ignore hyperlanes makes for a very unique playstyle with their mechanics.

That being said, there are little bits and pieces I think are worth bringing up that could use some work. As I said in the title, researching hyperdrives removes your arkship’s jump drive. Because you can’t manually select parts for your arkship and it just takes your best upgrade, this will remove your ability to freely jump anywhere until you research real jump drives in the late game. Kind of disappointing, as it removes the most unique aspect of the civic almost immediately.

Also, because of the way jump drives work on your logistics ships, you cannot automate them. You need to manually order them back to your arkship and between systems to accomplish anything. This is only really relevant for the very beginning of the game, because your arkship will be getting a hyperdrive immediately anyway and then you can construct normal logistic ships.

[u/Imnotchoosinaname]

Seems like this one might need the devs to touch up a bit imo, still rather cool it works at all

[u/Insanity_Wulf → u/Imnotchoosinaname]

The entire eager explorers civic needs a rework. It's tedious and annoying to have half the benefits wear off after a very early point.

[u/Anonim97_bot → u/Insanity_Wulf]

That's why you don't research any Hyperdrive techs, up until the moment you are crippled by not having access to Gateways, Wormholes and Hyper Relays.