Engineering 3.X jumping grades detrimental?

Boff'in

Boff'in
Okay, I just discovered a new playstyle, after burning out my material storage upgrading my ship (adder)

Load up on pinned blueprints (1-5).
And now you can jump between ships and apply the same blueprint to ships with similar modules. So now I can swap out ships, and
And then you can go about your business, completing missions, bouncing between other activities AND using the remote workshop features to initiate or nibble away at those unfunished modules.

Glorious!

But a little fluffy thought occured.

You know how you apply a blueprint, and you get access to the next grade, but your current grade is incomplete.
say
You just rolled and your grade 3 is at 75%, and you got about a roll left, but grade 4 is now available.
Do you loose out that last few percent of improvement for the overall build by skipping that last roll at grade3?
Or is the grade 3 progress (regardless of percentage complete) is scrapped and a fresh stats automatically applied when you roll at grade4?
I'm guessing the latter, but I just had to clear out the uncertainty from my brain.
 

Ted Striker

Ted Striker
Was thinking about this too. I'm assuming (or hoping) that you don't miss out on anything by not fully rolling the lower grades.
 

Schmack

Schmack
IF you look at the total percentage available, once you get those checks you'll get those points. It doesn't matter how you get there (hasn't for me). In fact, I'd say you use fewer total mats by moving ahead when you can to the next highest grade. But if you don't have that many mats, I think you can just max out where you are.
 

Amargosa

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When rolling G5 upgrades it can sometimes take like 9 rolls to max out, extremely annoying especially when some rolls move the bar up by only 1 single pixel.
 

Lucifera Danzig

Lucifera Danzig
One of the wonderful things about the new system is that you DON'T have to complete a grade fully before starting the next, saving on the materials and still jumping ahead in progress. If you want to fully max a module, the only grade you have to do all the rolls for is G5, and you still get the same final result as if you maxed out each grade below.
 
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