u/NoseInternational794

I am on my 3rd playthrough of Subnautica because it's one of the best games ever made. I fired up Below Zero for the first time and I really liked returning to the ocean and exploring and crafting. Lovely.

Except I finally got to the glacial section near the robotics lab and I got lost for maybe 3 days of play (I'm a shift worker so I can only play about 2 hours a day) and then found the robotics lab by accident because the landscape looks way too samey. Then I fell through the bottom of the ice map into the ocean and died because I couldn't get out again and I kinda cbf anymore.

The story seems fairly linear but for all the PDAs I'm finding, there seems to be a LOT of filler and very little task orientation in-game. On top of that, the artefact waypoints seem to show up arbitrarily and then scanning them seems to bear little relevance to what I should be doing. I honestly was pretty stoked on the game but I've started googling what to do or how to get somewhere which I very rarely did in the first game. There's a lot to love but yeah I am pretty bored atm I almost just want to build a bigger base and forget the story.

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Do this thought experiment with me:

4 people buy 3 ETBs each.

First person takes them home and burns them.

Second person takes them home and puts them on FBMP for 35% more than what they paid. If they sell all of them they'll make back the cost of 1 ETB.

Third person takes them home and opens them with their family. They get maybe 1 X sir and 3 ex cards and a Holo energy. They sell the sir trainer and make back the cost of 1 ETB.

Fourth person takes them home and puts them in a cupboard for 8 years. After that time, each ETB sells for approx 3600% of it's original retail.

In 3 scenarios after purchase, that product is no longer available in the current print window. The person reselling (and the buyer because there are two sides to a transaction) has put the product back into rotation. The person who ripped and the person who burns the ETBs have destroyed the product but the people who ripped them also put a card from the set into rotation on the marketplace.

Is there any tangible difference in any of these scenarios? Product is purchased. Product is altered/deleted/recirculated.