OK, let's not do that ever again, FD!

My "gameplay" over the past week has been to equip 21 ships with "new" G5 DD including Drag Drives at Palin. Collecting the materials, using the material traders, grinding the credits to have the ships transported out there (35 Million just for the Corvette...), doing the upgrades...

Not "fun" at all.

But, I'm happy with the performance upgrade, so...where's the new content that will let me use them?

Thanks!

It will be Emerging into your Immersion Soon™.
 
I like how the OP did something they didn't enjoy but felt compelled to do it anyway, and then a whole bunch of other people felt compelled to tell the OP how they had done it all wrong.

Top thread.
 
I like how the OP did something they didn't enjoy but felt compelled to do it anyway, and then a whole bunch of other people felt compelled to tell the OP how they had done it all wrong.

Top thread.

I think we are just giving alternatives which is different. There seems to be a number of approaches you can make with this. Options is good.
 
I think we are just giving alternatives which is different. There seems to be a number of approaches you can make with this. Options is good.
But the OPs question was "what do I do now?", not "how should I have done this?"

But the knee jerk response was to point out that they could obviously do it better.

Made me laugh
 
But the OPs question was "what do I do now?", not "how should I have done this?"

But the knee jerk response was to point out that they could obviously do it better.

Made me laugh

Yup. I suppose it's too late for that. As to what to do now, whatever he enjoyed doing before he was engineering.
 
Wrong? Really? Because everyone owns a cutter? Everyone wants to care enough to Empire rank grind?
Let me guess, even when you are proven wrong, you're still right? Love the new generation... It's like the movie Idiocracy is coming true.

Anyone with a bit of reading comprehension would realize that you can initiate the process at whatever ship you want to start with.

The Cutter is the only ship with Class 8 thrusters, anyone who doesn't have a Cutter could also use an Anaconda if they have one to cover 7A - 5A thrusters. The concept is still the same, Start with a ship that has the best range for the highest class thrusters you need to engineer.

FSD's are a bit different in that you can put smaller drives onto large ships. i.e. a Cutter, Beluga, or T- 10 can engineer all FSD's - don't have one of those, just use your best ship with largest FSD to do all your FSD's if you have enough mats.

Apologies if my original post was too hard to follow for some.


Thanks for playing
 
Yeah, that's very correct. I wasn't able to use that method though because my Cutter has the 5A shield (from this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ial-Cutter-and-Class-5-Shields-is-it-possible), which means I'm unable to swap out ANY modules unless I get rid of the shield generator, which obviously I'm not going to do.

Odd - I swapped a 5A Prismatic on one of my Cutter's last night. Why would swapping FSD or Thrusters force you to get rid of the shield gen? Shields are in optional internals, not Core internals? I have several of these and haven't had to do anything with them. Upgraded a Cutter last night with a 5A Prismatic installed last night - one that I took off a stored ship.

I don't see the problem your're describing.
 
Odd - I swapped a 5A Prismatic on one of my Cutter's last night. Why would swapping FSD or Thrusters force you to get rid of the shield gen? Shields are in optional internals, not Core internals? I have several of these and haven't had to do anything with them. Upgraded a Cutter last night with a 5A Prismatic installed last night - one that I took off a stored ship.

I don't see the problem your're describing.

So here's what I did. I placed the modded pre-3.0 Class 5 G1 Shield generator on my Cutter. Then I removed the modification, and finally I Engineered it to G5. A Class 5 G5 shield generator is way strong, but it doesn't have the required maximum mass for a Cutter; it can stay on, but any time you try to swap out ANY module a box pops up stating the mass of the ship is too great for the shield generator. The only way around is to remove the generator, which can never, ever be put back on again (because it's a Class 5, G5 generator after all).

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Anyone with a bit of reading comprehension would realize that you can initiate the process at whatever ship you want to start with.

The Cutter is the only ship with Class 8 thrusters, anyone who doesn't have a Cutter could also use an Anaconda if they have one to cover 7A - 5A thrusters. The concept is still the same, Start with a ship that has the best range for the highest class thrusters you need to engineer.

FSD's are a bit different in that you can put smaller drives onto large ships. i.e. a Cutter, Beluga, or T- 10 can engineer all FSD's - don't have one of those, just use your best ship with largest FSD to do all your FSD's if you have enough mats.

Apologies if my original post was too hard to follow for some.


Thanks for playing
Stating someone is wrong because you have a different approach... yeah hard to follow the hubris. I actually used the conda for my thrusters, but I don't see the point in declaring someone else's method 'WRONG' because it involved ship transfer.

It is rather easy to post alternatives without being blantanly self-righteous.

I like cheese-wiz.
 
Totally. But I think I maybe stuck indoors with the missus watching Jessica Jones S2.
I feigned sleep during a cliffhanger episode, so she thinks she passed me up and moved to watch it in the other room. Now I am free and clear. Can only pull that off every 6 months or so though...
 
Stating someone is wrong because you have a different approach... yeah hard to follow the hubris. I actually used the conda for my thrusters, but I don't see the point in declaring someone else's method 'WRONG' because it involved ship transfer.

It is rather easy to post alternatives without being blantanly self-righteous.

I like cheese-wiz.

Well, I guess I just factored the cost of module transfer vs. ship transfer a bit too heavily for some tastes.

Apologies.
 
Well, I guess I just factored the cost of module transfer vs. ship transfer a bit too heavily for some tastes.

Apologies.

I agree actually... just the word 'wrong' is so objective... Cheese-wiz is subjectively good, but I pretend everyone loves it... Crap, that totally makes me a hypocrite. Sigh, this is why thinking is dangerous.
 
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