This is precisely the answer I've been looking for. Stupid SRV aside, if I'm forced to do what I don't enjoy (i.e. not being a space hobo) then screw the upgrades I say.
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Thanks all and wish me luck or else... I'm starting another AI thread!
Engineers Will I ever have to drive for materials?
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This is precisely the answer I've been looking for. Stupid SRV aside, if I'm forced to do what I don't enjoy (i.e. not being a space hobo) then screw the upgrades I say.
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Thanks all and wish me luck or else... I'm starting another AI thread!
It's possible to get everything from a combination of mining and barnacle farming, so you can avoid driving round searching..
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Shame we can't have a more direct approach towards getting paid with what we want. If only we could communicate with the AI factions in some way to let them know what we need.
That would be truly revolutionary game design, right?
As it is now, both approaches involve looking at stuff we don't want as we try to find the stuff we do want. And it's a little frustrating after a few hours of not getting what we want.
Srv is more controllable with assist off, make sure you bind a key or select default to off in options. Makes a huge difference.
Are we related ? Because I abhor that piece of....... . Yes I hate driving it vehemently. So I do not. I hate the Engineers even more.
Cheers Cmdr's
From another thread where I posted this info:
Metallic source
Lots of
Iron
Sulphur
Carbon
Nickel
Phosphorus
Osmium
Praseodymium
Samarium
Some
Chromium
Vanadium
Germanium
Manganese
Zirconium
High Metal Content
Lots of
Iron
Sulphur
Carbon
Nickel
Phosphorus
Osmium
Praseodymium
Samarium
Some
Chromium
Vanadium
Germanium
Manganese
Zirconium
Once every few hours
Cadmium
Icy
Frak all of note. Same old things like Germanium, Phosphorus, Sulphur and Carbon. Resources you get there are worthless too. For the most part don't bother going Ice mining unless it's for a mission, and expect a very dull and drawn out time of it.
That's from sampling over a dozen different areas, spread across low reserves up to pristine... there's pretty much no distinction. No matter where you go for mining resources tied to engineer use you'll get a narrow set of resources that never differ. Want things beyond that scope? Then it's done to planets you go lad where destination source actually means something!
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If you want other elements your choices are either:
1) Run missions and hunt for missions that reward the materials you want.
2) SRV exploration.
Whilst the occasional poster has claimed to have found wider ranges of elements from mining, if 2 days of solid mining across a half dozen locations and different abundance levels is pretty much giving nothing but the same pool over and over again, then for all practical purposes it's best to just consider mining a no-go for such elements.
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Yesterday I spent an hour driving round to find a single, solitary MM.
I shot it.
Checked Contacts.
Iron
Iron
Iron
Well they DID say metallic.
This, I found the buggy much more controllable with assist off. Also helps when you need to fire those thrusters to get it up on top of a building to scan that comms array to an assassination mission. I can't fly high with assist on.
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Well since they always come in pairs of 3, I would suggest looking for more in the vicinity of the one you shoot, there might be others.
Firstly, 'pairs of 3'?
Secondly, nope, just a single, lonely little MM with nothing else around.
According to some folks around here, you can "eventually" get everything via mission rewards, but the big question comes down to HOW LONG is that going to actually take? And... Is that claim 100% accurate?
I pretty much bailed on Engineers after the first visit to Farseer and my first FSD "Downgrade". Notice I said "Downgrade"? Thats because it was! Despite all the work and time I spent collecting all the gold coins.... Errr..ahh... I mean "Materials", I ended up with a BAD ROLL and my so called FSD upgrade ended up lowering my Python's range instead of extending it.
That was all I needed to see thank you very much! I basically shut the book on Ye Old Engineers that very day and haven't bothered with it since. Before I left the Farseer Complex however, I did save the Blueprint for the next FSD Wild Goose Chase aka GRADE 2.
Despite the fact that I have expended ZERO effort or focus into gathering all the required Magic Tokens.... Errr... Ahh.... I mean "Materials", I have at least half a dozen of the three "Micro Resources" listed on the Blueprint. But the "Commodity" required (1 unit of PRASEODYMIUM) has not as of yet shown itself in the course of my daily ED gaming sessions which are comprised primarily of doing missions off the mission board.
The description of PRASEODYMIUM says that it MUST be "MINED", so apparently there are a few exceptions to the often bragged... "I got all the materials I needed by doing missions" solution.
I can't tell you the precise number of missions I have done since I stopped bothering with Engineers back on May 27th, but it has got to be over 100 at least. Might even be as high as 250 individual missions completed.
So... Take all this how you will. More than likely at some point you are going to need to do some Asteroid mining with your ship.
And... Is that claim 100% accurate?I pretty much bailed on Engineers after the first visit to Farseer and my first FSD "Downgrade". Notice I said "Downgrade"? Thats because it was! Despite all the work and time I spent collecting all the gold coins.... Errr..ahh... I mean "Materials", I ended up with a BAD ROLL and my so called FSD upgrade ended up lowering my Python's range instead of extending it.
That was all I needed to see thank you very much! I basically shut the book on Ye Old Engineers that very day and haven't bothered with it since. Before I left the Farseer Complex however, I did save the Blueprint for the next FSD Wild Goose Chase aka GRADE 2.
Despite the fact that I have expended ZERO effort or focus into gathering all the required Magic Tokens.... Errr... Ahh.... I mean "Materials", I have at least half a dozen of the three "Micro Resources" listed on the Blueprint. But the "Commodity" required (1 unit of PRASEODYMIUM) has not as of yet shown itself in the course of my daily ED gaming sessions which are comprised primarily of doing missions off the mission board.
The description of PRASEODYMIUM says that it MUST be "MINED", so apparently there are a few exceptions to the often bragged... "I got all the materials I needed by doing missions" solution.
I can't tell you the precise number of missions I have done since I stopped bothering with Engineers back on May 27th, but it has got to be over 100 at least. Might even be as high as 250 individual missions completed.
So... Take all this how you will. More than likely at some point you are going to need to do some Asteroid mining with your ship.
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Well even Lewis Hamilton doesn't accelerate in every curve
I find the throttle controls don't scale very well for surface conditions on most planets. I've got my controls setup to mimic my ship controls, so I use the LB and RB for throttle up and down with the CONTINUOUS setting. I use an Xbox One Elite Controller, so my underside paddles are mapped to my throttle controls.
The issue I run into is that the throttle response is too coarse. I would like to find a way to create a more granular throttle response. What would be IDEAL would be the ability to create a throttle TOGGLE that behaved like a car's gas pedal. I would be willing to give up my Right Trigger for this gas pedal if such a scheme was possible. As best as I can tell from going over the settings for VEHICLE numerous times, there is no such option.
I make no claims other than my personal RNG. Drove 56 hours SRV scavenging - not ED play, I mean 56 actual SRV only time using wave scanner to hunt for metallic meteorites.
I recently broke the the curse and found some MM, but I went about ~50 hours and over 1000km SRV drive without spawning a single, not one single MM to even get chance at seeing if polonium or yttrium pops out
am now in what others said was their xp of about 1 MM spawned per hour of SRV. So no claim - just fact, depending on how bad your RNG is, despite being on guaranteed right planet, right method, it is certainly possible to go frustratingly long periods without finding single rare that limits certain mods (e.g yttrium no polonium)
ive seen and gotten 2 polonium via missions on other hand. But never seen yttrium yet and not found one player willing to go on record (and rep) that yttrium was awarded via mission.
a lot of planet side common and less rare mats can be gotten space mining, but the very rare ones - never seen yet.
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I'm in the DRIVE THROTTLE section right now, and I do not see any control setting that would give you a TOGGLE and a PROPORTIONAL increase using a TRIGGER.
The only INCREMENTS you have available is either CONTINUOUS or Percentages for each push of the assigned button. You have the option for FORWARD ONLY and then an AXIS for Accelerate and Decelerate.
Nothing as simple as assigning a TRIGGER to throttle that would allow proportional speed control and throttle OFF when released.
If such a thing is possible, they sure don't make it very obvious based on what I am looking at here. I would say that I am 99% sure that this STANDARD throttle control option found on every racing game on the planet IS NOT available for your SRV.
Where is that option? I don't want to change any GLOBAL settings since I am happy with my existing ship controls. There is no Digital/Analog option in any of the DRIVING sections.
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Yeah... That is getting way too complicated. I'm happy with my other control settings and took me forever to get everything dialed in. I'm not going to risk screwing all that up for this.
What FD needs to do is simply make such an option readily available and CLEARLY identified. Considering such throttle control is such a universal standard in any driving game, this option should be there and it shouldn't require jumping through a dozen flaming hoops to set it up.
I will just suffer with the existing yet woefully lacking control I have been using.
Thanks for the input!
Go into SRV Drive Throttle controls and assign the bumper to Throttle Axis not Acceleration Button. Give it full range as wellWhere is that option? I don't want to change any GLOBAL settings since I am happy with my existing ship controls. There is no Digital/Analog option in any of the DRIVING sections.
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Yeah... That is getting way too complicated. I'm happy with my other control settings and took me forever to get everything dialed in. I'm not going to risk screwing all that up for this.
What FD needs to do is simply make such an option readily available and CLEARLY identified. Considering such throttle control is such a universal standard in any driving game, this option should be there and it shouldn't require jumping through a dozen flaming hoops to set it up.
I will just suffer with the existing yet woefully lacking control I have been using.
Thanks for the input!
In the beginning, the little rover was fun. It chugged along and the views were interesting. But after I tore a rotator cuff and started meds for pain, the nausea induced by the SRV drives over long periods became intolerable. Maybe it was the meds. But I can't stand driving anymore.