Engineers 3.0

[deleteduser]

Roll your own mods.

Gather mats
Put them in a pot
See what pops out the other side

Each engineering mat has some undefined properties making them useful for particular types of modifications.
If those properties were explicit, rather than just being a description as e.g:

... then CMDRs could find some unique ways to blow each other, or themselves, up.

 

[Koma Pahu]

Would that not just obscure the meta for a few weeks? Then everyone will be back using the same things.

Just seems like a way to make it harder for a newbie to figure things out.

 

[aRJay]

If the system was setup so it wasn’t random and therefore never produced identical modules then it

1. Could be a way to remove meta
2. Would probably be impossible

 

[Factabulous]

Cycle of life - Engineers 1.0 was RNG, people hated it so we got Engineers 2.0 which got more and more predictable as it was updated.

And now the demand is for the RNG back ...

 

[SlickPBW]

Unbelievable. *remembers back to the time when players rolled and refilled the engineer dice thousands of times to try to get the magic unicorn of “141 thrusters”.

***cue the complaining…

 

[deleteduser]

"Roll your own" is a reference to making something yourself... not rolling a dice.

Explicit properties, not randomised properties.
You just end up with a massively expanded range of potential outcomes. Those outcomes would be the same for each batch of a given pot of mats.

e.g.
1 Imp Shield + x1 Sodium + x1 Carbon = Mod Y... every time those mats are used, Mod Y is the result.
For every CMDR. Every time. Just like it is now, but with a far wider range of Mods.

CMDRs could share recipes... or not... and have their wing/squadron running the same loadout.

Ideally the properties would be based on whatever the current 'this mat = this mod' formulas are (though that's probably just lore at work) so you could technically roll... build... an exact replica of exising mods by using the same mats as existing mods.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Ideally the properties would be based on whatever the current 'this mat = this mod' formulas are

As you guessed, there's absolutely nothing consistent underlying that at the moment. The most obvious example: 1xIron is the recipe for all three of G1 Thermal-, G1 Kinetic- and G1 Blast-resistant shield boosters; on Sensor-type modules Iron gives long range, but on weapon type modules it gives Focused, and Sulphur gives Long Range ... and also Efficient.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Every change made to engineering in 2.0 and since was made due to players wanting more consistency.

The last change even made rolls progress the same amount every time. I'm not saying it couldn't be a fun idea, but you're paddling upstream through rapids on this one.