Double engineered 6A FSD is on the cards, should shake things up if/when it becomes legal
I've mentioned this on the Discord, but posting here with a bit more detail to my thoughts.
As FD have now run several CGs for limited edition double engineered modules, but rarely run them to add the modules to tech brokers, then there's every chance that the 3/4/6A FSDs will be made available again and again, but never be freely available to all players.
I think that the best way forward, for these and for any future "limited edition" modules is to allow them, but with an extra note against the run. So if you equipped one and made a Conda run that beat your existing time, your new run would be noted as "le, ee" for limited edition and double engineered. For the purposes of the A* challenge I'm only concerned about the FSD module.
In this way, I would
always ensure that the best run for each ship-class
without a limited edition module was always recorded, so that a new player would have a fair record to aim for.
I'd prefer to allow pretty much anything goes in unlimited class, and now that FD have gone down the rabbit hole of exclusive modules, I'd rather not have to ever ban a run that had been made in good faith.
So going forward, I'm going to tweak the screenshot requirements to include a shot of the FSD modifications. Any unlimited run that doesn't include that screenshot will be assumed to be using a double engineered FSD - I've been assuming double engineered 5A FSDs since making them legal.
If a run is made with a limited edition FSD, then it will always be marked as "le" on the leaderboard, even if that same module is later made available to all players.
Unless anyone has a really convincing reason for me not to allow this, then I'm going to allow limited edition FSD modules to be used as soon as anyone wants to make a run with one. I sort of feel that "classic class" and "neutron class" will always offer an even playing field, while unlimited class will always allow current players to use the best available modules, and will inevitably get faster over time - if you can ever one-jump to Sadge, then I'll call it a day!