Just been out bounty hunting in an engineered anaconda. 8 multicannons, some with incendiary exp efx and some with autoloader exp efx, wanted npc's going down like flies after a blast of Raid, even elite level pirates! I was pleasantly surprised by how devastating the multicannons become when engineered and the right exp efx are added. Certainly wasn't choking the fun out of my game!
Does anyone actually enjoy engineering?
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I got all my landmines in one go. And I fly an annie so there's plenty of room. As for 1 mat for 1 mod, you do like things made easy for you don't you? Love to see you playing Dark Souls!
Ye, some rare goods. Bunch of stupid cigars. Kegs of booze. And the game isnt even rated for mature.
Yeah, flying around in space in a big f@#$ off space ship is sooo tedious!
Yeah, flying around in space in a big f@#$ off space ship is sooo tedious!
It is. Absolutely. LOL. 25LY range. So short.
We should all have 60LY tanks that can one shot NPC pirates. Now that is so not tedious.
Just done a lot of engineering, my annie is G3 - G5 engineered across all modules and weapons, likewise my FDL and my AspX. Sorta tired of engineering for now so I'm taking the AspX out of the bubble for a bit of exploration, then get some mining done on the way back. The cool thing about this game is if you're getting tired of 1 aspect, you can go and do another for a while, then when you get tired of that, move onto another. There are so many things to do, other than engineering, that I think only someone with a really naff attention span can get bored playing this rather awesome game.It would be repeated tasks done in quick succesion. Not done with plenty of time and other activities between them, if that was the case then nearly every game ever made would be called a grind.
The sad thing is, reading this thread and the super cruise is boring (SCIB) thread, there seems to be a lot of people with short attention spans playing ED. They havn't worked out that a good mindless shoot 'em up would be far better suited to their tastes, and those rather excellent games are designed just for players like them, so they're obviously not the sharpest pencils in the pencil case either! Case in point: I mentioned ED to one of my customers yesterday, during a conversation about games. He said straight away that it would not suit him, he prefers mindless shoot 'em ups. He was intelligent enough to spot straightaway that ED was not for him, unlike the "grinding for mats is boring" crowd (let's abbreviate that to GFMIBC) and the SCIBC.
Nevermind, let's let the GFMIBC and the SCIBC continue to whinge and moan about the many, many ways ED is not right for them while the rest of us continue to enjoy playing ED. Which is what I am going to do right...... now!
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I got all my landmines in one go. And I fly an annie so there's plenty of room. As for 1 mat for 1 mod, you do like things made easy for you don't you? Love to see you playing Dark Souls!
Souls games are great.
I feel like there is quite a contrast to the gameplay methods providing challenge there and what's taking most of the timeframe here with engineering.
Those are completely different games. There isnt even grind like in ED. How would you even want to compare them in this regard?
Some people just like to name games without taking into account relevance or context.
Nicely put. I won't be doing pvp for a while yet, need to be elite level in combat before I go there , with everything G5'd on my battlecruiser and even then I'm probably gonna get my arx kicked a lot!There is wisdom
If a player is (assuming) PvP combat oriented, engineering is mandatory otherwise survival/success just isn't going to happen. By that choice materials have to be gathered, in large quantities, away from a preferred play style. Hence 'grind'.
Outside of PvP a player can be much more relaxed about collecting materials, no need to grind.
I dunno, I remember farming dragons for scales in Dark Souls 1, farming other opponents for armour and shards for upgrading shields, armour and weapons. That's all dependent on RNG too. Different games, but you're still engineering! You even need to fetch keys for careless blacksmiths to open up their shops. Different game, same gameplay! You can even get ganked in both games....
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See above for very obvious similarities!
Some people just like to name games without taking into account relevance or context.
Ye, makes really little sense. Next one probably will bring up some pony unicorn game.
Some people just like to name games without taking into account relevance or context.
"Pony unicorn game"? Please don't take this the wrong way, I don't want to be rude or overly critical, but seeing as English is obviously not your first language, why not use translation software to prevent you making your posts unintentionally hilarious?
Making engineers not a requirement to play the game would be fine on my part.
My only complaint about the whole engineering thing is you can't purchase materials. I love the option to be able to improve my ship better than the A rated stock items by getting materials and doing some engineering. I think it's cool you can scavenge for them. I think it's cool you can trade for them. I think it's fine that the number of material traders is kind of low. I think the business of some materials being more valuable than others forcing you have have more of one material to get a small amount of another is fine. But when I'm trying to complete the engineering on an FSD mod that requires I have half a dozen or so of a very rare material and it takes three days of scavenging and trading to get just one, then I start getting annoyed.
I think we should be able to have the option, with the material trader, to flat out purchase the material from them. The more rare the material, the more expensive and the less they have in stock. But this whole business of needing 1200+ of one common item to get 1 rare item only to have it take forever to hunt down enough common items to get the one common item and then have to do that a dozen times to complete the engineered mod seems a bit excessive.
I think we should be able to have the option, with the material trader, to flat out purchase the material from them. The more rare the material, the more expensive and the less they have in stock. But this whole business of needing 1200+ of one common item to get 1 rare item only to have it take forever to hunt down enough common items to get the one common item and then have to do that a dozen times to complete the engineered mod seems a bit excessive.
I'd say they're a requirement for PvP.
I think Guardian tech will get you most of the way there without ever dealing with an Engineer.
That is my relatively new impression.
I think part of the reasoning for this is that if a ganker cannot afford a rebuy then they're stuck in a virtual time out by having the need to go and farm materials.
It is a way to force gankers into some of the activities they're constantly interrupting.
