Don't turn in Cat Media, Classic Entertainment and Multimedia Entertainment to Bartenders UNTIL you get introduced to Wellington Beck
- Thread starter Happy Daze
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If you go to your right panel in ship and select Engineers, for Wellington Beck it says "You gained access to Wellington Beck by selling a total of 25 Multimedia Entertainment, Classic Entertainment and Cat Media to Bartenders" However it doesn't say WHEN you should start selling to bartenders. rubbish if you ask me.
It's especially rubbish because it doesn't work that way with Horizons engineers. When you go to unlock Selene Jean, for example, she already knows if you've mined 500T of ore. Same with unlocking Palin. You can do your 5000LY journey before you meet him, or even hear of him.
But in Odyssey, it suddenly works a different way. Lame.
And this is true of all the Odyssey engineers. Nothing counts beforehand.
But in Odyssey, it suddenly works a different way. Lame.
And this is true of all the Odyssey engineers. Nothing counts beforehand.
Yep, just like how the thousands of system data you sold, millions of ships destroys, or billions you made before Oddy don't count to the new ranks.
I'm confused, are you giving bottom hat your stuphz or not?
Poor Support having to deal with people trying to use them to play the game 
The sequence for unlocking is:
Get referred
Sell stuff/do something
Engineer unlocked (relogging may or not be required).
I believe there have been posts/comments and possibly "how to unlock engineer videos" about not selling stuff etc until you have had the referral. Could be wrong, but I for one was aware of this issue from public knowledge.
Steve 07.
It might have training wheels on it.
And therein lies the problem. You shouldn't be aware of this from public knowledge, you should be made aware of this from in-game knowledge.
The game doesn't tell you to sell that stuff to the barman before it will count. So the game is fine ... it's the 3rd parties that are the issue.
Having new ranks unlocked or not however, doesn't affect gameplay to the slightest. I'm not sure why people are upset at not having them applied retro-actively (and yes, I would've unlocked a few of them as well otherwise).
That's what I was thinking, I can't recall exactly if you are aware in-game. I'm pretty sure I got it from Inara back then and decided not to sell anything until A) I had 25 of those and B) I was informed I needed to sell them.
I have always been very jealous of my materials in Odyssey and never sold any unless I knew they were useless (apart from the schematics...), because I was wondering whether the progress would go on in the background (like in Horizons) or not, so I decided to play it carefully.
Turns out I made the right call, for once...
The inconsistency between the new Engineers and the old ones is a bit baffling, to be honest, but not unexpected.
Turns out I made the right call, for once...
The inconsistency between the new Engineers and the old ones is a bit baffling, to be honest, but not unexpected.
The Colonia engineers they are adding next will will make this fun - as they will probably use similar mechanisms (nothing counts if sold before asked) and they will undoubtedly use some of the 'useless' stuff. I predict lots more rage threads
(I'm actually stocking up on 'useless' things on my Colonia CMDR to be ready for the unlocks at the moment. Well, I would be, except the FPS for some reason as gone through the floor this weekend
)
Yes, it's again poor and inconsistent design, but unfortunately you get used to it and take precautions.
