That escalated quickly...
Everything We Know about Engineers and Materials in Oddessey
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Settlement Defense Plans can be a mission target. I have found a mission that required me to go download it from a settlement and bring it back. That guaranteed the drop, so I did collect it before abandoning the mission to keep the data.
Only ever saw that once though, but it's worth reading the mission descriptions, not just the material reward!
Innovative but definitely not faster than just going to an IM
Well, I'm not farming these yet, I'm on Opinion Polls duty right now, but when I saw that one pop up, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. Should FD properly reduce the requirements from 15 to 5, that's already a fifth done on the cheap! (now if they could reduce Opinion Polls requirements from 40 to 20...)Innovative but definitely not faster than just going to an IM
They need to do this. It'll be too late for me though. I'm at 22+ ish OPs now. It's coming "naturally" still (i.e. just blasting every single habitat data port I see as I farm mats in general or do missions). It'll be the last thing I "need" though. I've got everything already for Oden, despite starting that collection a full week later due to the 6 heists issue.
All naturally obtained or via mission rewards with some light focused "grinds" that really don't count because they were so short.
With unlocking Oden, do you need to sell at least 1 of each? Because according to my logs, I have sold 17 genetic research an 12 biological samples, which is way more than 20, but I haven't sold any employee genetic data. He's still not unlocked. So I'm not sure what else could be wrong. I wish they had a count you can see like for ship engineers.
The description says total, or is it actually 20 of each?
The description says total, or is it actually 20 of each?
Everything you need to know:
Better Suits and Weapons are only really needed to help you grind materials, grinding materials is only needed to unlock upgrades and engineers, unlocking upgrades and engineers is only needed to get better Suits and Weapons ... loop until bored or you reach level 5 on everything and become a god of the universe ( maybe it will unlock Raxxla, maybe it will enable you to control your own swarm of Thargoids, maybe it will unlock that free Anaconda at Hutton Orbital or maybe, just maybe, nothing at all will happen - you know, like when you reached Federal Admiral, Empire King & Triple Elite - massive fanfare and free plaque for your wall ? no ? )
Better Suits and Weapons are only really needed to help you grind materials, grinding materials is only needed to unlock upgrades and engineers, unlocking upgrades and engineers is only needed to get better Suits and Weapons ... loop until bored or you reach level 5 on everything and become a god of the universe ( maybe it will unlock Raxxla, maybe it will enable you to control your own swarm of Thargoids, maybe it will unlock that free Anaconda at Hutton Orbital or maybe, just maybe, nothing at all will happen - you know, like when you reached Federal Admiral, Empire King & Triple Elite - massive fanfare and free plaque for your wall ? no ? )
Helpful post. Would read again.
I sold exactly 20 genetic research and it worked. First go to your ship (sometimes triggers the message) then relog (always does trigger it, if target met, bugs notwithstanding).
If that doesn't work, try selling 3 more genetic research. They're commonly available as mission rewards so shouldn't take long.
I never saw employee ones either. And maybe the biological samples are bugged. But I didn't bother selling the few biological samples I found. I reasoned that would just complicate it.
The whole data and unlock process is really messy right now but it does work, sort of. Worst part of it is there's no way of tracking progress for these things.
I have just two - I think from a research settlement, but I'm not sure.
Even Inara isn't yet able to update these mats in real time. It's.... a pain.
Just curious about updating these mats in real time on Inara - how exactly? I am not sure how it's meant.
Just curious about updating these mats in real time on Inara - how exactly? I am not sure how it's meant.
Just that for ship engineering - assuming I'm passing data to you - Inara updates material inventories as they're added in the journal. But Odyssey material inventories are only getting updated (for me, anyway) when you download information from Frontier.
I tried with EDMC, but that was a few weeks ago. Normally I'm using EDDiscovery.
I just picked up another Employee Genetic Data, um, data. It was at the security data port in an industrial settlement. Go figure.
Actually, scratch that. I do have one. Makes sense it's sec data though. They're the least common I think, besides extraction and industrial.
I have them from Lab and Medical Ports too - most from Labs. Still 'not common'
I got worried about selling a few at a time, so I just collected 20 genetic research and sold them all at once and it worked. So he's unlocked. yay. Now I'm worried the opinion polls I sold won't count.
I’m still trying to find out which settlement types have labs or med buildings, can anybody point me in the right direction please.
Lab building are those with LAB ports, med buildings are those with MED ports. Simples
You can also look on the doors. This is a Lab:
and this is Med
You can also look on the doors. This is a Lab:
and this is Med
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These buildings are in Research Settlements which as a type can be found using the POI menu from the system map, try in High Tech systems. They often have Research or Biological in the name too if you want to use external tools. You can spend a few happy hours in the Med bay trying to get the local guards to lie still for a photoshoot on the 3 adjacent sick beds in the larger sites, who said the grind can't be fun? Or maybe that's just me.