I just hopped across from Merope to the bubble to pick up a new PP for my Anaconda.
Normally I'd get it engineered by Marco Qwent, cos he's right next door to my base in LHS 20.
This time, however, I thought I'd see which suitable engineer was closest to me - and (foolishly, as it turned out) I thought I'd rely on the game to inform me of my choices.
According to the game, Felicity farseer can tune "FSDs, Engines & Thrusters", Hera Tani and Marco Qwent can tune "Power Plants & Power Distributors" and Prof Palin can tune "Engines, Thrusters & FSDs"
Thing is, I KNOW Farseer CAN tune Power Plants so I assumed somebody'd used the word "Engines" instead of the word "Power Plants" in the description of Farseer and Palin's specialities and, as a result, I thought I'd head back to Maia and let Palin tune my new PP.
Wrong!
Turns out Palin, unlike Farseer, can only do work on THRUSTERS and not PPs.
So now I have to schlepp back to the bubble so that one of the other 3 can do the work.
It might be nice if somebody at FDev gave the in-game engineer descriptions a bit of a "polish" to ensure they're all consistent and accurate.
Is there even anything IN the game which is an "engine"?
Presumably they intend to use the phrase "engines and thrusters" to describe thrusters and, at some point, somebody's thought that DID mean "Power Plants" in reference to Farseer's capabilities.
Normally I'd get it engineered by Marco Qwent, cos he's right next door to my base in LHS 20.
This time, however, I thought I'd see which suitable engineer was closest to me - and (foolishly, as it turned out) I thought I'd rely on the game to inform me of my choices.
According to the game, Felicity farseer can tune "FSDs, Engines & Thrusters", Hera Tani and Marco Qwent can tune "Power Plants & Power Distributors" and Prof Palin can tune "Engines, Thrusters & FSDs"
Thing is, I KNOW Farseer CAN tune Power Plants so I assumed somebody'd used the word "Engines" instead of the word "Power Plants" in the description of Farseer and Palin's specialities and, as a result, I thought I'd head back to Maia and let Palin tune my new PP.
Wrong!
Turns out Palin, unlike Farseer, can only do work on THRUSTERS and not PPs.
So now I have to schlepp back to the bubble so that one of the other 3 can do the work.
It might be nice if somebody at FDev gave the in-game engineer descriptions a bit of a "polish" to ensure they're all consistent and accurate.
Is there even anything IN the game which is an "engine"?
Presumably they intend to use the phrase "engines and thrusters" to describe thrusters and, at some point, somebody's thought that DID mean "Power Plants" in reference to Farseer's capabilities.
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