Ships Engineer Access

[hawknerd]

I have 2 frag cannons engineered to G4. I want to take them to G5 but with Nemo I only have Level 1 access and cannot return to Colonia for this. Can I use him to just take the frags to G5 from G4 or do i have to have (as I now supect) L5 access to engineer to G5? If this is the case then I will just have to engineer them from scratch to get L5 access with Nemo.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I have 2 frag cannons engineered to G4. I want to take them to G5 but with Nemo I only have Level 1 access and cannot return to Colonia for this. Can I use him to just take the frags to G5 from G4 or do i have to have (as I now supect) L5 access to engineer to G5? If this is the case then I will just have to engineer them from scratch to get L5 access with Nemo.

You'll need to get L5 access with Nemo.

However, you don't need to start over with the frags to do that - you just need to engineer something: roll a couple of new multicannons up to G3, for example.
You can even do it by swapping back and forth on G1 upgrades on a single disposable module - advantage: you only need some spare G1 materials to do the lot, which are dirt cheap traded down from spare G3/G4 materials ; disadvantage: you need about 200 G1 rolls to get from L4 to L5 with them alone, which is a lot of boring clicking: unless you're very constrained on materials, two new weapons to G3 (or one disposable weapon to G3 in two different things) is much quicker.

 

[hawknerd]

If I am going to redo my frag cannons from scratch then I guess I have to get new blank ones as my current ones are already engineered to G4 and this may stop me from redoing them from G1? How do you wipe engineering from a module is what I want to know or confirmation that I need new ones.

 

[hawknerd]

Thinking about it I can delete modifications in the outfitting area on my carrier? But I lose the EE.

 

[metatheurgist]

You can replace the blueprint with another one, but, unless you don't want the existing mod there's no reason to do that.

 

[hawknerd]

Just to be sure I want to know that I couldnt take a G4 frag cannon to G5 when I only have Level 1 access with Nemo? So I wiped the mod in outfitting and then redid the whole thing which gave me G5 and Level 5 Access with Nemo now. all good. But I would like to confirm that I did it the right way as 200rolls to go from lvl4 to lvl 5 would have been too much of a faff. It seemed easier just to start again.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Just to be sure I want to know that I couldnt take a G4 frag cannon to G5 when I only have Level 1 access with Nemo? So I wiped the mod in outfitting and then redid the whole thing which gave me G5 and Level 5 Access with Nemo now. all good. But I would like to confirm that I did it the right way as 200rolls to go from lvl4 to lvl 5 would have been too much of a faff. It seemed easier just to start again.

With L1 access, you can only do G1 mods.

So your options are:
- wipe the existing mod, redo it to G5
- mod another fresh module up to G4ish (or two to G3, or a few hundred to G1) to get L5 access, then switch to the existing module and take than from G4 to G5.

 

[Vetinari]

Can just replace one engineering effect with another, will get a warning you will lose old engineering, or in Outfitting as you did.

Or store it and buy another fresh one, pin the G5 and upgrade it later from most stations through 'Remote Workshop'. Need to visit the engineer to add or change EE though, cant pin that. Other engineers with any relevant Grade upgrades can add the EE to a G5 though so often a choice where to go just for the EE.

You need G5 access to upgrade to G5 yes. Not sure if pinned BPs go up automatically or not or need to be re-pinned though.

 

[Greasetrap42]

I would have kept the original modules at G4 and bought new ones (or different modules you might want later) to level the engineer up to G5. Then you could upgrade your original modules to G5. Then nothing is wasted.