Engineers Any Tips getting to a particular Co Ordinate on a Planet
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Just in case you are chasing the alloy to unlock the engineer, don't bother with barnacles and go here...
Meta-Alloy sale at Darnielle's Progress in Maia.
The coordinate system shows up the moment you enter Orbital Cruise. Don't take any chances and keep above the 27km glide drop height as you circumnavigate the planet. That and keeping in the +5 - 0 - -5 range should give you decent speed and no dangers of falling into glide while homing in on the destination. When you are around half to one degree away, point nose down and drop.
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Would help more, but I always forget which heading belongs to which x or y coordinate. But the main cardinal directions are heading 0, 90, 180, 270 if memory serves. Once you work out which is which direction, you will have a lot easier time. We used this to find wingmates that dropped out of OC 300+ km away.
As Hunvagy says, stay high in orbital cruise. I just try and make sure the coords are going up/down in the right direction to where my coords are, and if theyre not then I circle till they do. If that helps 
Ye, I tried going for the 1st coord 1st yesterday. Pointless flying around.
Then, I looked at the second coord and realized that it's long/lat. If you point your ship to see a max delta in the lat-coord (2nd number) you're going east or west. Check with the 1 coord and align so it barely changes.
Once you hit your target lat-coord you can go north or south by doing a 90 degree turn (polar orbit). Try to align so the 2nd coord doesn't change as much and you'll find the spot eventually.
It's all done in OC of course.
Not the best solution but fool-proof. Even a scrubby pirate could do it with this information.
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Anyway, I only went there because Obsidian Orbital didn't spawn the damn Meta alloys. The alien thingie didn't either. I then found out it wasn't Obsidian Orbital but Darnelle something that sold meta alloys. They betrayed me!
I'm guilty of murdering alien life now and it haunts me.
Then, I looked at the second coord and realized that it's long/lat. If you point your ship to see a max delta in the lat-coord (2nd number) you're going east or west. Check with the 1 coord and align so it barely changes.
Once you hit your target lat-coord you can go north or south by doing a 90 degree turn (polar orbit). Try to align so the 2nd coord doesn't change as much and you'll find the spot eventually.
It's all done in OC of course.
Not the best solution but fool-proof. Even a scrubby pirate could do it with this information.
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Anyway, I only went there because Obsidian Orbital didn't spawn the damn Meta alloys. The alien thingie didn't either. I then found out it wasn't Obsidian Orbital but Darnelle something that sold meta alloys. They betrayed me!
I'm guilty of murdering alien life now and it haunts me.
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