Engineers Will I ever have to drive for materials?

DidierDrbois

DidierDrbois
Since I'm looking to hop back tonight after a ~7-month absence to see what's what, I've a question if I may:
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Will I ever have to drive on planets for materials to build some decent upgrades? I mean, ever? Because if yes then I'm not going to bother in the first place... words can't describe how much I hate that [insert at least 9 pejoratives] RC toy thing.
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Thanks in advance and sorry if a repeat - searched but found squat.
 

Jpotter

Jpotter
I don't know if you absolutely have to use the SRV - I believe you can still get all the planet materials from missions. But man, that would be an awful, awful grind trying to get everything from missions rather than picking up on planets with the SRV.


EDIT: ^^^ Ah yes as posted above you can find them mining as well. Better source than missions for sure.
 
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DragoonKnight

DragoonKnight
DidierDrbois said:
Since I'm looking to hop back tonight after a ~7-month absence to see what's what, I've a question if I may:
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Will I ever have to drive on planets for materials to build some decent upgrades? I mean, ever? Because if yes then I'm not going to bother in the first place... words can't describe how much I hate that [insert at least 9 pejoratives] RC toy thing.
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Thanks in advance and sorry if a repeat - searched but found squat.
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As someone who hates driving teh SRV, I would advise the following
Use the SRV if you are looking for the following:
vanadium
arsenic
germanium
You can get them through missions, but I think the SRV is quicker. They are fairly common on some planets. Try Junga 5.

You can get the following from mining
iron
nickel
sulfur
carbon
phosphorus

Yttrium (for grade 4 fsd upgrade) seems to be a pain to get. Try farming barnacles in the SRV (not what you wanted to hear, I know). Maybe you'll get lucky and see it as a mission reward.
Polonium (for grade 5 fsd upgrade) seems to be more common, at least for me. I have seen some missions that offer it as rewards. I would suggest taking those.

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I would also advise stacking mining missions if you like mining. But only stack the ones that give you materials as reward. Many of them give you anywhere from 2-6 days to complete them.
 
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Lucifer Hate

Lucifer Hate
DragoonKnight said:
As someone who hates driving teh SRV, I would advise the following
Use the SRV if you are looking for the following:
vanadium
arsenic
germanium
You can get them through missions, but I think the SRV is quicker. They are fairly common on some planets. Try Junga 5.

You can get the following from mining
iron
nickel
sulfur
carbon
phosphorus

Yttrium (for grade 4 fsd upgrade) seems to be a pain to get. Try farming barnacles in the SRV (not what you wanted to hear, I know). Maybe you'll get lucky and see it as a mission reward.
Polonium (for grade 5 fsd upgrade) seems to be more common, at least for me. I have seen some missions that offer it as rewards. I would suggest taking those.

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I would also advise stacking mining missions if you like mining. But only stack the ones that give you materials as reward. Many of them give you anywhere from 2-6 days to complete them.
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I can confirm arsenic and vanadium can be found mining though a bit more rare
 

Quineloe

Quineloe
The problem for me is Yttrium and Polonium, which seems to be space buggy only. Those are required for the FSD range increase.

And the space buggy definitely still handles like a GTA car on <0.1g worlds.
 

Sylow

Sylow
LameoveR said:
SRV controls been adjusted. No more tumbling even on low-gravity worlds.
You'd like it :)
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Really? Now, that's interesting. I guess tumbling is something different to the spinning out of control when trying turn at more walking speed? If not, this upgrade has not reached my installation yet.

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And on having to drive on planets: if you have the patience, you can also try to get those materials from missions. This might even be the faster way, as driving on planets is just a frustrating implementation of a lottery. You can be lucky and get what you want at the first asteroid you find, or the RNG hates you and you get nothing despite doing that stuff for hours. (And don't worry, it's very likely that some people will pop in again now, tell me that they got everything in a very short time and thus everybody else who was not that lucky very obviously is wrong, doing stuff wrong and has to git gud. )
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
Sylow said:
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Really? Now, that's interesting. I guess tumbling is something different to the spinning out of control when trying turn at more walking speed? If not, this upgrade has not reached my installation yet.
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Maybe you are doing something wrong? I can control the SRV just fine.
 

goemon

goemon
Quineloe said:
The problem for me is Yttrium and Polonium, which seems to be space buggy only. Those are required for the FSD range increase.

And the space buggy definitely still handles like a GTA car on <0.1g worlds.
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all engineer materials can be get via msiisons.

some are very rare as mission rewards, too - but my quota of polonium via missions and polonium via surface prospecting is still 5:1.

@OP no need for driving, see above. in some cases srv will be a faster way to gather materials then the mission board. anyway - i personally recommend taking the slow path to engineer upgrades. i could stand upgrade oriented gameplay 48 hours, since than i do what i did before ingame (backing my minor factions, exploring stuff and game mechanics). i have a speadsheet of materials i want, check the mission port at every station i dock, and pick up missions which bring me what i need. after 2 or 3 sessions i have another upgrade ready. that's just me, other for sure enjoy a race to upgrades.
 

Sylow

Sylow
babelfisch said:
Maybe you are doing something wrong? I can control the SRV just fine.
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Maybe. In my personal case, the control pattern might be part of the problem. While I am all happy with my ships setup and how flexibly I was able to configure it, I just can't find a way on my HOTAS how to steer the SRV, which meets all my needs. But I guess that's something for a separate topic, I just wondered if the mentioned tumbling would be the same or something different to the spinning.
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Luniticisi said:
I think the problem some people have with the SRV is that instead of driving it like a moon buggy, they go all Lewis Hamilton ..
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Hehe. Kinda. I can handle my SRV acceptably as long as I travel and shoot rocks. But once I attack a base and need to maneuver fast to not be blown to pieces, I tend to loose control quite often.

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And: "acceptably" means, I usually have to drop the throttle to almost zero to make turns, which is far from "fun". But as mentioned, perhaps my control setup could use improvement, I just don't know how, as long as driving with the turret deployed requires to have two lateral axes available.
 

tomalus

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You can get pollonium from missions,but give srv a chance, its not that bad as you say, its actually quite enjoyable nowdays. Despite what people claim pollonium is quite easy to find, for example I harvested mine on a moon in shinrarta dezhra, a place thousands of commanders pass trough every day.
 
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Darrett

Darrett
LameoveR said:
Here is a plenty threads with certain places and tips where to find MMs with certain mats. Really.
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Even applying the tips, the spawn rate of MMs is extremely low. This weekend I found somewhere around 12 VR materials in about 6 hours, on the right planets, searching in craters. That might be the intended rate of collection, but it certainly doesn't make for exciting gameplay.
 
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