My experience of engineers so far.
First let me say I'm quite a casual player I've had the game since the mercenary (beta) release. I think for example I've played since Sunday 4 hours the kids are asleep and wife is knitting/crocheting, keeps her quite I don't care, anyway I bought her dishwasher so I'm allowed some game time and a few beers this week. Enough of my domestic life...
So I got an invite from that Todd blaster what's his face and I headed down to go and see him, more than a few jumps in my imp. Courier. I wanted to take my main ship down because if there was a chance I wanted to relocate I didn't have to move backwards and forwards. Completely forgot to fit a fuel scoop half way there and I had to visit the rebuy screen, Well what can you do. So fitted a fuel scoop and got there after some "honk your friendzone is charging" etc.
I had on only just got rid of the smell of fish the rebuy helped in that regard, the first level mod only requires 3 items awesome. Time for bed.
So next session I had been reading where to find different things I started to search the planet surface for rocks this was actually the first time I had done this I had landed on planets previously but really I was a flying guy. Awesome after about an hour of bouncing around jumping and causing damage to my SRV i found a rock to zap and found what I was looking for first time out, from reading the forums it seems I'm quite lucky. Bed time.
So next I was looking for some cracked industrial firmware, I had been flying around in space going to nav beacons doing some hunting so had already picked up some materials and got the hang of choosing what to pick up and discard, also I went to a USS and scanned something pulled in quite a lot of data. This is where I see a lot of complaints it seems if you have stuff in your hold, materials, data or cargo you get interdicted and vaped. So from my experience of only an hour or 2 flying round in SC looking for targets (I'm combat level competent) I had only been interdicted once by a cobra mostly harmless I think he lasted about 1 minute, I killed him before the cops came. I thought I'll try and see if the NPC's really are harder so I interdicted a master DBX. It was actually quite a fair fight we got each other down to one ring of shields but I had time to let mine charge up, the cops came, but they didn't appear they were sending radio messages like they do when in instance but they weren't actually visible or shooting (is this a bug should I report it) so I decided to jump because I didn't want to lose my ship or what I'd already collected overall for me a good fight. Off to bed
So I had been reading about people not being able to find firmware after hours and hours of play and I was a little worried, this was the goal for my next game session. Went straight for a surface medium security base in the next system. I don't like to poo on my own doorstep etc. Flew in close had a look around couldn't really see what I had to do so I landed and approached in my SRV for a closer look. Went up a ramp and got stuck on a red wall I was tired kids had woke me up at 5 am that morning so I went to bed. Spent my dinner at work reading that you need to start version 1.6 and it puts you back in space, cool not a big problem. So next session I'm feeling lucky ..... Decides maybe a medium is a bad idea so I went for a low sec. Surface base flew past got some warnings for trespassing etc. But couldn't see any turrets so I landed and headed of to have a drive round. Got very close and I started to get some fines no problem it's only a fine, took out the turrets with my SRV and scanned a public thing, ok then I found a data point and scanned that, wow a time limit so I scooted round and scanned the rest and did the final with something like 5 seconds to spare and got my data awesome. Headed of into space thought I'll land at the station but now I was wanted, it gave me permission and a pad to land on but as I went through the the door they scanned me and I was trespassing I escaped just about by the skin of my teeth thank god for point defence.
Now I need to find ...... Hybrid capacitors
Overall I can see the worries that people have and I've been very lucky in my material searches, what I have enjoyed the most is actually learning the new mechanics surface warfare and being careful in space because I hadn't really experienced this before. I am trying to figure out if I should try and farm a little materials to do some mods/upgrades at the same time or should I just have a different goal every time I play. For example I'm thinking to visit another engineer to pin a blueprint.
First let me say I'm quite a casual player I've had the game since the mercenary (beta) release. I think for example I've played since Sunday 4 hours the kids are asleep and wife is knitting/crocheting, keeps her quite I don't care, anyway I bought her dishwasher so I'm allowed some game time and a few beers this week. Enough of my domestic life...
So I got an invite from that Todd blaster what's his face and I headed down to go and see him, more than a few jumps in my imp. Courier. I wanted to take my main ship down because if there was a chance I wanted to relocate I didn't have to move backwards and forwards. Completely forgot to fit a fuel scoop half way there and I had to visit the rebuy screen, Well what can you do. So fitted a fuel scoop and got there after some "honk your friendzone is charging" etc.
I had on only just got rid of the smell of fish the rebuy helped in that regard, the first level mod only requires 3 items awesome. Time for bed.
So next session I had been reading where to find different things I started to search the planet surface for rocks this was actually the first time I had done this I had landed on planets previously but really I was a flying guy. Awesome after about an hour of bouncing around jumping and causing damage to my SRV i found a rock to zap and found what I was looking for first time out, from reading the forums it seems I'm quite lucky. Bed time.
So next I was looking for some cracked industrial firmware, I had been flying around in space going to nav beacons doing some hunting so had already picked up some materials and got the hang of choosing what to pick up and discard, also I went to a USS and scanned something pulled in quite a lot of data. This is where I see a lot of complaints it seems if you have stuff in your hold, materials, data or cargo you get interdicted and vaped. So from my experience of only an hour or 2 flying round in SC looking for targets (I'm combat level competent) I had only been interdicted once by a cobra mostly harmless I think he lasted about 1 minute, I killed him before the cops came. I thought I'll try and see if the NPC's really are harder so I interdicted a master DBX. It was actually quite a fair fight we got each other down to one ring of shields but I had time to let mine charge up, the cops came, but they didn't appear they were sending radio messages like they do when in instance but they weren't actually visible or shooting (is this a bug should I report it) so I decided to jump because I didn't want to lose my ship or what I'd already collected overall for me a good fight. Off to bed
So I had been reading about people not being able to find firmware after hours and hours of play and I was a little worried, this was the goal for my next game session. Went straight for a surface medium security base in the next system. I don't like to poo on my own doorstep etc. Flew in close had a look around couldn't really see what I had to do so I landed and approached in my SRV for a closer look. Went up a ramp and got stuck on a red wall I was tired kids had woke me up at 5 am that morning so I went to bed. Spent my dinner at work reading that you need to start version 1.6 and it puts you back in space, cool not a big problem. So next session I'm feeling lucky ..... Decides maybe a medium is a bad idea so I went for a low sec. Surface base flew past got some warnings for trespassing etc. But couldn't see any turrets so I landed and headed of to have a drive round. Got very close and I started to get some fines no problem it's only a fine, took out the turrets with my SRV and scanned a public thing, ok then I found a data point and scanned that, wow a time limit so I scooted round and scanned the rest and did the final with something like 5 seconds to spare and got my data awesome. Headed of into space thought I'll land at the station but now I was wanted, it gave me permission and a pad to land on but as I went through the the door they scanned me and I was trespassing I escaped just about by the skin of my teeth thank god for point defence.
Now I need to find ...... Hybrid capacitors
Overall I can see the worries that people have and I've been very lucky in my material searches, what I have enjoyed the most is actually learning the new mechanics surface warfare and being careful in space because I hadn't really experienced this before. I am trying to figure out if I should try and farm a little materials to do some mods/upgrades at the same time or should I just have a different goal every time I play. For example I'm thinking to visit another engineer to pin a blueprint.
