Wikelo sucks. He is ass as a game mechanic. Improperly implemented. People complain about him all the time, almost nonstop. When this many people actively hate something, please listen to why and actually do something about it. Problem: The turn in system is ass. This games inventory management will fight you the entire time and cargo elevators are notoriously unreliable. It's far too grindy, even for the basic ships. Requires players to attend what are essentially org events for one singular person to get a medium ship. You removed RNG from reward only to place the RNG into material quality. RNG SUCKS ASS. No matter where in the chain, RNG sucks. No alternative recipes for ANY of his items, you WILL go to a PVP area to kill 400 npc's like the goddamn terminator to get a small cargo ship worth 1.5 Mil AUEC. Regularly gets ships before they're added to the in game shops. To the point that the old timer of ~3-4 months after release a ship would be available for purchase in game is ignored entirely. Multiple ships are still missing even after your "we'll do better" speech you gave in an ISC. Has 3 separate, identical locations, where he is located at simultaneously? He should have one station that he actually inhabits and is an actual NPC like Miles. Phone calls aren't immersive. Solution: I'm going to be constructive here as much as I can but holy shit it's bleak guys. You guys have to figure out a better turn in system for the guy, cargo elevator is NOT the move. Especially not in the current state of the game but also not ever. Have it magically pull stuff from our inventory or something but placing one at a time on an elevator that can yoink your stuff is NOT it. Grind is not fun. Grind for the sake of grind is not fun. Doing the exact same thing repeatedly to get a rare reward maybe, is not fun. Some grind is required sure, but it's excessive. I shouldn't need all of my friends to get together to go kill megaworm (still not located where it was supposed to be) so that I can get a connie sized ship while they get fuckall. It's fine to have it, but it's a requirement to run one of these major events for basically ALL of his items. RNG sucks hot ass. Unbelievable ass. It is beyond awful game design. I shouldn't have to grind one aforementioned big events for several hours just to HOPE I get the special "pristine" item and if not I have to do it over and over and over again. Nevermind if my friends also want the pristine one. You need alternate recipes that aren't giant worm teeth or specialized red rocks (pristine). Some of the items should really be as simple as 20 SCU Iron, 40 SCU laranite, 100 SCU copper, and a chili dog. Not everything this guy has needs to be some kind of uber material. Holy shit add ships to the in game shops. Not doing so breaks immersion, is a slap in the face to your players, backers, and the like, and is just horribly frustrating to see that you know the ship needs to be available in the game, but somehow forget to add it to shops every 5 months. We complained before and you issued a "we'll do better" apology and we have YET to see that "better" come into play. Another immersion issue, how does this guy "exist" at three separate places at the same time. We never get to meet him, just give him shit on a rock and hope he'll get it and we get our stuff? Dumb, stupid, and poorly thought out. Wikelos only redeeming quality is this: He's the first alien that's "in the game" (phone call). That's it. Oh and his rock is cool to look at I guess. Otherwise he's poorly thought out, difficult to use, overly grindy, and just a pain in the ass. This one alien alone has started to make me think that maybe Xenothreat was onto something because what the fuck man.