materials

Hey Commanders, Has anyone heard if Frontier has any plans to restore the glossy, reflective look of ships? After recent updates, many ships now have a dull, matte appearance, which takes away some of their visual appeal. I know some players prefer a worn look, but having an option to keep the...

This has probably been suggested before, couldn't find a thread though... Even though it has improved recently, material gathering has always been a bit of a time sink right? How about we allow the player to recycle old unwanted engineered modules and regain 50% of the used materials? The trade...

(Skip to next paragraph for actual proposal) I don't think I've met a single person who likes the material grind mechanic, but it's not a horrible mechanic--It's just far too exhausting because the loop is hardly a loop at all. Spending hours on end to grind for the elite ranks or the faction...

Now that we have the SCO frame shift drive, a lot of people are probably going to throw away their standard drives, or let them rot in the shed or personal junkyard. I really think FDEV should take some responsibility here and allow us to recycle engineered modules. Let us take old modules...

My new video on where to find on foot engineering materials.

O7 Commanders Today I would like to suggest a concept to improve the management of materials from the right panel. The management would like to bring small improvements very similar to those already usable in sites like Inara (for example). The difference at stake becomes the availability of...

Hi, For now, i can get these materials/data: In-Space: - Thargoid Interdiction Data (class 3, data) => you need to be interdicted by an interceptor/scout. In Thargoid Mealstrom: - Thargoid Caustic Generator Parts (class 3 or standard, manufactured) => when a caustic generator (a...

Today I opened a ticked asking how to remove materials from my blacklist. I explained that i knew that you can just find the resources one by one and them un-blacklist it in the "contacts" tab. Since a lot of Materials are harder to find and you have no way to see if your blacklist is empty, you...

I was just thinking and hoping that someone at FDEV reads and takes this to heart. If you're going to make mat grinding, for M, E, and R as ridiculous as I think it is, with the menu logging for data and for HGE, the straight log out of game and back into game, hit SC and flip method...

Hi folks, I have been trying to collect data materials by going to Bug Killer and scanning the 3 communication boxes. Until recently I had issues with always being full, but I did find a reddit page that has these listed: Adaptive Encryptors Capture Atypical Encryption Archives Cracked...

I understand correctly, through the bartender on the FC can not be organized offline exchange between players: data, goods and assets? As it happens now in the online exchange.

many things improve in the game regardless of what happens you always collect 3 mateiras for each unit, this pattern follows and manufactured materials, raw materials... data, ground beacon... missions also after all rewards you for a misery. many players stop playing elite due to the...

Good day! I would like to raise the topic of the respawn of materials and data provided by the Guardians, as well as materials on the surface of the planet. Today we have a system for extracting the above game objects through the client's relog. Maybe it's time to change that? For example...

So, I have nothing to add on ship interiors as a matter of their addition. Obviously, the community wants it and hopefully one day they arrive. This is focused on how existing gameplay loops could finally be merged together into one cohesive, rewarding loop through making good use of those...

Hello Commanders. I'm recently returning to the game after a VERY long hiatus. ED might have still been in beta when I last played. When I was last playing, as far as I'm aware, there were no engineers. Now, it seems to be all the rage. I'm following a guide to get the Engineering done...

I cannot even fathom right now... WHO thought this was a good idea? And why? Also, permanent upgrades that can't be swapped? The hell are they slotted in with? Old-school superglue? This is pretty sad to see. So now you're re-adding tedium that EVERYONE hated in the first place, and offering no...

Given the whole planetary generation system is changing, this would be a great time to make Selenium behave like a normal Grade 4 element when surface prospecting. It would also be a good time to clean up the places where legacy element grades (e.g., grade 5 in inventory despite only grades 1-4...

Hello Just wanted to say, sitting in Mawu System, and LOTS of HGEs. Dropping mostly Core Dynamics, Radiolic, Military Grades, Proto Heat Radiators and some other G5's. There's so many HGEs, that when I get done scooping up one load and hit Supercruise, there's at least a new one, if not a few...

Hello. I was just wondering, since I am going to start this Engineering stuff (maybe I shouldn't if I don't know this) and was wondering... does it matter what ship I collect things like "Conductive Components" or "Manganese" in? Do I need to collect these things IN the ship I plan to use for...

Maybe i don't understand something or doesn't Core Dynamics composites should appear in systems and HGEs at the state of None? For some reason i can't attach images, so here's the link for Imgur post with screenshots

Credits make sense to me. Materials that are completely separate and not exchangeable with credits makes way less sense (especially those common materials like iron and zinc). And now we have Arx, which is something we earn in the game, yet it's completely unrelated to either credits or...

I have been thinking. I like the idea of the new advanced multi cannons, especially because they are not included in the experimental limit of weapons. but, to use them in AX mode, we need to use an entire T of materials in some cases. people are put off needed to have so much guardian...

Hello! Since few days I'm doing some engineer work on my new ship. I noticed that engineers need different amount of materials now. Recently I've been in Liz Ryder, Hera Tani and Broo Tarquin workshops. I wonder if you have the same situation. I think that change is good, more balanced. For...

When I went to a raw material trader to get selenium for thruster engineering, and saw there were only grade 1-4 elements. It would be nice to see grade 5 materials, maybe from period 7 on the table. Maybe hatnium, tenessine, radium, astatine, or bismuth. Just some suggestions

HGEs still aren't really spawning much in Outbreak and Civil Unrest systems. The few that I have come across have been more common G4-G5 materials like Imperial Shielding and Core Dynamics Composites. Difficult to find Pharmaceutical Isolators and Improvised Components. Spent the last few hours...

I would really like to be some use to my squadron. They're all off doing the Thargoid-fighty thing, or whatever it is proper players are doing at the moment, and I certainly can't be any use to them in that respect. In previous games where I've been in similar situations I've been able to...

Dear FDev: I'd like to issue a golf clap for your starry-eyed BGS fiddlers, who've finally created a galaxy without famine and managed to keep it that way for MONTHS! Truly a remarkable achievement. Now, please task one of ye olde underlings with an assignment to clean up that short-sighted...

Since there’s currently very little use for these materials beyond unlocking tech broker modules and restocking specialty weapons, I think it would be very good to be able to exchange them for more useful materials. If possible (within the game’s programming, I mean), you could make exchanges...

And it should auto-remove them from the ignore list as soon as we have space for them again, of course. Just a minor quality-of-life improvement.

Do these materials still exist? Has anyone figured out what bgs states cause these to spawn? I have been searching for days, flying the galaxy over, scouring every civil unrest system trying to find improvised components. Military supercapacitors I have already given up on. Yes I know about...

Dear Frontier, It is really ludicrous, there is no easy, consistent way to get certain materials. Now it is just impossible to find pharmaceutical isolators and improvised components. The farming of HGE has now been 'nerfed' (3.3.02) without a corresponding balance patch. After the removal...

So, after confirming that the deep core mining multi-chunk bug got stealth fixed, I went looking for HGEs prior to doing some engineering. Made a circuit of the systems that have been spawning HGE's reliably since 3.3. I hope my experience is indicative of nothing more than RNGesus being in a...

I'm trying to decide what planets are worth mapping and which are not. Atm I'm only mapping... HMC that are terraformable Waterworlds Earthlikes Ammonia worlds Gas Giant's with life swirlies And the rings/moons surrounding each of those types But there are lots of surface landable bodies...

*** THIS METHOD HAS NOW BEEN NERFED AND NO LONGER WORKS *** With everyone focusing on Void Opals and credit farming, material farming has been ignored by the community thus far. Hopefully this little mini-guide can help folks get a full hold of G5 and other manufactured materials for...

Is it best to stay in the same system and wait for new HGE to spawn? Or jump from system to system? Also, I've heard/read that system population matters in HGE spawn rate but I haven't noticed any difference. Is that just a myth or is it actually true?

Link: Logo by Qohen Leth (original concept by Hi-Ban) with assets borrowed from Frontier Developments PLC Animated by Placyde The launch of the expedition is rapidly approaching and we're sure that everyone's excited to take off into the void and let the journey commence on the...

TL;DR - there is a random chance of a secure settlement appearing very close to one end of the site. It's not Davs Hope. Growing tired of the grind that is Mats hunting, I decided that I'd head over to Hyades Sector DR-V C2-23 and see what everyone's always on about regarding Dav's Hope. Jump...

Hi everyone. Can I ask a silly noob question about data? Is it inherently a whole lot more difficult to accumulate it than raw and manufactured materials? Or is there some reliable way of getting data (particularly rarer forms) other than pointing a wake scanner and hoping for the best? What...

VIDEO LINK HERE So High Grade Emmissions.. the random encounters are "core gameplay" for engineering and....I just don't know what to say else! Anyways: post below your favorite blueprints and what you need to do for them!

While Engineers were improved in 3.0, the actual logic behind them bothers me to this day, and I really wish Frontier had implemented an entirely different system. Engineers feel like a copy-n-paste of the crafting system in games like ESO. In that game, you "farm" materials - plants for...