I need them, now what?

EMM4

EMM4
Ok, so I've been trying to mod my ship to improve it's performance with Search and Rescue.

I NEED a lot of materials and I have a lot of materials.

My problem is this.

No one has cross referenced what materials materials traders will trade for.

I don't have what they want for them, but I have a lot of other stuff to trade for the things they do want.

Example:
I need Thermic Alloys. I forgot what I traded for them before. I need to know what they will take for the Thermic Alloys so I can get what I need.

I don't need to retool and reoutfit myself to do yet another job specialty just to improve my equipment. I'm suffering from grinding burnout.

It's a shame you can't pay credits to the engineer and wait a period of time for them to have the missing materials shipped to the engineer doing the work on your ship.

Can anyone tell me another way that is NOT A GRIND OR DOING ANOTHER SPECIALIZED JOB GRIND to get what I need. Remember, I'm suffering from grinding burnout. I don't want to loose my interest in the game and I'm not ready to take that kind of break from the game.
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
Thermic Alloys are Manufactured Materials, so you’d need a Manufactured Material Trader, and you can use anything you find in USSs. HGE mats would be best (and you may even find the Thermics you’re after).
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
"No one"

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You can easily get G4 upgrades just from playing the game. G5 requires grind. Grind is a choice.
 

EMM4

EMM4
Uhg!
Looks like I get to be the first to chart the Material Traders Trade preferences.
I seriously hate making flow charts. I think I flunked that chapter from whatever class that was in school.

Don't expect me to include the trade ratios for the materials either.
 

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If you have an INARA Account and have your Info updated via any suitable Tool (i.e. EDMC), you can create detailed Engineering Lists.

As a Bonus, it'll tell you which components you still lack for your Engineering schedule and make precise Mat Trader suggestions to attain what you still lack.

I've used it extensively and have found it a true lifesaver more than once :)
(can't think of any Engineering helper that'll make things more organized)
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
FalconFly said:
If you have an INARA Account and have your Info updated via any suitable Tool (i.e. EDMC), you can create detailed Engineering Lists.

As a Bonus, it'll tell you which components you still lack for your Engineering schedule and make precise Mat Trader suggestions to attain what you still lack.

I've used it extensively and have found it a true lifesaver more than once :)
(can't think of any Engineering helper that'll make things more organized)
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It does indeed do all the brain work.
But never let an elegant solution get in the way of a good rant
 

Morbad

Morbad
I was fighting some wars for BGS purposes not long ago and a few newbies got the idea to follow my CMDR around with collectors and harvest all the materials I was ignoring. Since I was averaging a kill every 40 seconds or so, I'm sure they made a living and a killing of my labour. I only had to shoot at them once or twice when they were cheeky enough to try to scoop the rare G5 material drops I actually paused to scoop.
 

Reggit

Reggit
Morbad said:
I was fighting some wars for BGS purposes not long ago and a few newbies got the idea to follow my CMDR around with collectors and harvest all the materials I was ignoring. Since I was averaging a kill every 40 seconds or so, I'm sure they made a living and a killing of my labour. I only had to shoot at them once or twice when they were cheeky enough to try to scoop the rare G5 material drops I actually paused to scoop.
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This sounds about right.
Limpets are your friend OP!
Hoover up everything as you find it....Trade for the rest...should be good!
BUT....
Be careful who you follow.

I was on an assassination mission a couple of days ago. I dropped into a nav to scan it and saw a Krait was in there Bounty Hunting and scooping up materials. (He was a wanted Enemy too, but i had a mission to complete so whatever) As i finished scanning the beacon, my mission target (A Vette) dropped in, and all hell broke loose...
So i take out the Vette....i don't get a bounty claim....eh?
Then it happens - i hear the message come in "Mission Failed".
I wasn't sure what happened at first....then i turned around and saw Mr. Krait deploying fresh Limpets right next to me.........yyyyyyeah....
So i killed him 😜 (He tried to run but i crippled his FSD mwhahaha!)
Point is....most cmdrs won't mind you picking up their unwanted materials....but be careful OP!
 

ChrisF0001

C
Now that we have mat traders I really don't think it's necessary to go for specific materials anymore. Just get a load of the overall type you need - raw / manufactured / encoded - and trade for what you need.

Sure, it's not trivially obvious exactly what the trade rates are unless you, you know, actually go to a mat trader and look, but specifically going after even one particular row is just going to lead to pain. In the time it takes to track down one HGE and be disappointed by it I could easily have got a couple of dozen random type 3 / type 4 stuff from a CZ and had much more fun in the process.

So yeah, just bring collector limpets everywhere you go and hoover up everything you can.
 

EMM4

EMM4
I am rather disappointed.

Very little has been helpful and the rest is repetition of information I already know or figured out long ago.

I do appreciate the help very very much.

Lately I feel like discussions of the actual mods and outfitting for purpose specific ships yeild the most info.

As for the actual how to gather the galactic garbage. The only answer is to grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, or grind. And if you don't like doing it that way, waste your creds to buy something else you might not want and grind, grind, grind, grind, or grind with it.

Again, I would like to thank all of you for helping.

Did I mention I'm really hating the grind?
 

aRJay

aRJay
EMM4 said:
I am rather disappointed.

Very little has been helpful and the rest is repetition of information I already know or figured out long ago.

I do appreciate the help very very much.

Lately I feel like discussions of the actual mods and outfitting for purpose specific ships yeild the most info.

As for the actual how to gather the galactic garbage. The only answer is to grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, or grind. And if you don't like doing it that way, waste your creds to buy something else you might not want and grind, grind, grind, grind, or grind with it.

Again, I would like to thank all of you for helping.

Did I mention I'm really hating the grind?
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So just play the bits of the game you like picking up data/elements/manufactured stuff as you do and when you see a message that your storage for something is full go visit a trader and trade for something you are short of. The only person setting time pressure that something in the game has to be engineered by whenever is you.
 

-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
metatheurgist said:
"No one"

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You can easily get G4 upgrades just from playing the game. G5 requires grind. Grind is a choice.
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Even then G5 upgrades don't need to be a grind. The ones that I have, I have not done any grind for. Sometimes I trade G4 mats for G5 mats, sometimes its G5 for G5 and sometimes I have just got the right mat by playing the game.

But my style of play is not like others.
 

ChrisF0001

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EMM4 said:
As for the actual how to gather the galactic garbage. The only answer is to grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, or grind. And if you don't like doing it that way, waste your creds to buy something else you might not want and grind, grind, grind, grind, or grind with it.
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Okay, what do you actually enjoy doing in the game? Maybe there's a way to get mats out of it.

If there isn't you can probably get enough stuff to make what you want in a couple of hours of doing something you don't enjoy so much. If even that much is intolerable, well (deep sigh, since this is a thing that seems to start arguments just by itself) ...perhaps ED is not the game for you.
 

pzykozomatik

pzykozomatik
With that attitude you should maybe step away from ED for a bit and come back in a few weeks. Many players burn out from time to time, myself included. Or change your expectations of what you want the game to be.

It's only a grind if you let it.
 
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