Engineers Can you store modified items?
1. yes, you can store modded modules
2. yes, you can interchange modules between ships, you just need to remember that they are different sizes, so if you have a modded class 4 fsd, it won't perform so well if you install it in a ship that usually carries a larger one (if at all) and it won't fit at all in a ship that only has space for a smaller sized FSD. Same thing occurs with some* of the core modules, you can downsize (commonly done to increase jumprange) but you will have trade-offs like being unable to boost etc. afaik the only ship-specific module is bulkheads - which you can still swap between two of the same ship designs, but you can't swap between different designs
*not playing atm, but from memory powerplant, thrusters, FSD, Power distributor, Fuel tank can be down-size. Life support, sensors and bulkheads can't
2. yes, you can interchange modules between ships, you just need to remember that they are different sizes, so if you have a modded class 4 fsd, it won't perform so well if you install it in a ship that usually carries a larger one (if at all) and it won't fit at all in a ship that only has space for a smaller sized FSD. Same thing occurs with some* of the core modules, you can downsize (commonly done to increase jumprange) but you will have trade-offs like being unable to boost etc. afaik the only ship-specific module is bulkheads - which you can still swap between two of the same ship designs, but you can't swap between different designs
*not playing atm, but from memory powerplant, thrusters, FSD, Power distributor, Fuel tank can be down-size. Life support, sensors and bulkheads can't
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one common tactic for multiple-ship owners and e.g. DD5 thrusters from Palin's, is to buy a whole stack of thrusters of the applicable size* and then go to Palin's, transfer all the virgin modules there, and mod them and swap them out until you've done them all, then return home and transfer your modules back. then fit them as required. MUCH nicer way of doing it than e.g. having to make 6 trips to Maia in a Vulture or Eagle. one trip, 6 modules, 6 upgrades. easy.
* as Wedgetail said, this will determine, or be determined by, the ship that you take to Palin's. obviously your ship must be able to fit the modules you've selected.
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Yes, I always do this with thrusters and FSDs as it makes it much easier to compare what seem to be good rolls, rather than try to optimise a single module.
It's much easier to compare the stats in Outfitting and then decide which modules to keep or which to roll again on.
On the downside, I've wound up with a whole fleet of ship hulls just to store all the extra engines/shields etc in, because otherwise module storage quickly fills up when you use this approach!
Unfortunately it seems that this method may become impracticable soon - as it sounds like every module will have to be engineered through each level 1->5, that'll add a lot of effort to compare multiple modules and pick the best one.