The drop pod was asking for 15 copper sheets. Since you had 9 in your inventory it was showing 9/15. To open the pod you need to acquire another 6 sheets
I do eventually figure this out, as well as other things that are ridiculously obvious to players with even a small amount of experience. I'm playing this (mostly) blind, and relying on the info on the screen that's immediately visible. There are some things I never do figure out, but most of the time, some several episodes down the line, I'll have found out how to, say, enter numbers directly to over/underclock machines. There's a more egregious example of not noticing things in my Outer Wilds playthrough. Without going into too much detail, the info I needed *was* on the screen, but I was a bit too preoccupied to notice it was there.
The drop pod was asking for 15 copper sheets. Since you had 9 in your inventory it was showing 9/15. To open the pod you need to acquire another 6 sheets
I do eventually figure this out, as well as other things that are ridiculously obvious to players with even a small amount of experience. I'm playing this (mostly) blind, and relying on the info on the screen that's immediately visible. There are some things I never do figure out, but most of the time, some several episodes down the line, I'll have found out how to, say, enter numbers directly to over/underclock machines.
There's a more egregious example of not noticing things in my Outer Wilds playthrough. Without going into too much detail, the info I needed *was* on the screen, but I was a bit too preoccupied to notice it was there.