Good evening commanders, can you anybody tell me how to get focus crystals for the guardian if Fsd upgrade without combat?
Focus Crystal
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You can do passenger mission, or any other mission, that reward exquisite manufactured mats, then trade them for the crystal. Some of them will even reward the exquisite focus crystal, which is the G5 of the crystal, and can be downgraded for cheaper. I usually do robigo (with allied rep) for that, but it's up to you.
OFC, you can also do dave's hope, and trade the mats, or hit some HSS somewhere, but considering missions reward g5 crystal, and can be downgraded for a lot of crystals, that would be faster that way.
OFC, you can also do dave's hope, and trade the mats, or hit some HSS somewhere, but considering missions reward g5 crystal, and can be downgraded for a lot of crystals, that would be faster that way.
Thanks I appreciate it, at the material traders menu are focus crystals actually listed as such or something else? I’ve visited a few material traders and have not found one that offers the crystals Sorry, I guess I should know this..
There are 3 types of material traders :
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Material Trader
The Material Trader is a contact found at certain stations that offers to exchange one Material for a different quantity of another Material. There are three types of Material Trader, each dealing exclusively in one type of Materials: Raw Materials, Manufactured Materials, or Encoded Materials...
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Focus Crystal's can be gathered at Dav's Hope. Just drive around the base and scoop them up. There are Lots of other materials too!
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A manufactured materials trader has all the things in unlimited quantity. It shows what you have to trade. This seems to confound some.
You Sir don't need focus crystals. You need youtube
Go to youtube and search for what you need. For example, "elite guardian fsd". You will find plenty of guides. If you can find one on Hawkes Gaming, Down to Earth Astronomy or EDTutorials by Exigeous channels, they're bound to be comprehensive.
One more thing about guides on YT in general - make sure to look at the dates. If you find two guides and one is from 2016 and another from 2019+, pick the latest. Things change in the game over time, some guides may become outdated.
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I have been gathering mats doing missions for factions, you get plenty of grade 5 mats both manufactured and encoded, but not raw, and you can use these to trade across to what you need. For instance that's the only method I use to gather manufactured and encoded and currently I have 199 focus crystals, and no I didn't do a single run at Dav's Hope. Getting them through missions also provided credits if you need them.
Well, that's not a well tailored answer to the question. The OP clearly just started, he said outright that no combat expected. He also probably has crappy ship with poor jumprange. Gathering mats with missions is going to be disgustingly slow in these circumstances.
There are many more efficient ways for all material types. Jussayin.
I. Don't. Combat.
Everyone who know me know that! None of my ships have a single weapon!
It's a perfectly tailored response. I can collect up to 5 grade 5 mats for a single delivery mission, I can often complete a half dozen delivery missions at once all rewarding 5 grade 4 or 5 mats.
Nothing in the OP's posts indicate he has a crappy ship with poor jump range, you are just inventing stuff out of nothing because my proffered solution doesn't agree with your standard response of "youtube it", which I might point out is not a response at all, just a standard "do your own research" reply that helps, well not at all!
Always better that they know more options rather than fewer but, at the OP's stage of progression, Dav's hope is the best starting point because it'll boost a lot of useful mats at the same time as providing plenty focus crystals.
Sure, doing just one mission with the reward of exquisite focus crystals then trading down would get exactly what they need, possibly faster... But if they are looking to engineer anything else then getting a solid stock of g1 to g4 is a great start.
Of course, that means relogging. If that's a problem, they can do one Dav's run then go find all the other similar locations but if relogging is an issue then I think stuff like davs is pointless (in theory, just leaving and returning is the same as relogging, so if that's a problem then one run only of Dav's won't likely net enough focus crystals or anything of use). So then the only option beside combat is just do missions. Not ideal though.. Will burn a lot of g5s via trading that way exclusively.
Sure, doing just one mission with the reward of exquisite focus crystals then trading down would get exactly what they need, possibly faster... But if they are looking to engineer anything else then getting a solid stock of g1 to g4 is a great start.
Of course, that means relogging. If that's a problem, they can do one Dav's run then go find all the other similar locations but if relogging is an issue then I think stuff like davs is pointless (in theory, just leaving and returning is the same as relogging, so if that's a problem then one run only of Dav's won't likely net enough focus crystals or anything of use). So then the only option beside combat is just do missions. Not ideal though.. Will burn a lot of g5s via trading that way exclusively.
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You Sir don't need focus crystals. You need youtube
Go to youtube and search for what you need. For example, "elite guardian fsd". You will find plenty of guides. If you can find one on Hawkes Gaming, Down to Earth Astronomy or EDTutorials by Exigeous channels, they're bound to be comprehensive.
One more thing about guides on YT in general - make sure to look at the dates. If you find two guides and one is from 2016 and another from 2019+, pick the latest. Things change in the game over time, some guides may become outdated.
YouTube is the worst place. Spend more than 10 mins on there and you’ll be convinced that you can’t play with anything that’s not G5 engineered and the only way to get those mats is by playing the relog mini game.
Oh look - an oxymoron
Dav's is the most efficient route to getting your first stock of materials if you're serious about doing engineering. An hour at Dav's gets you a ton of stuff across g1 to g4. It'll also get focus crystals so is a great place to start for a new player. An hour is quite fun there.Oh look - an oxymoron
Getting just g5 mats via missions and trading exclusively isn't faster. It's one way, best done in line with others, including hge hunts.
Either way, using only one method isn't efficient due to max caps. Unless all they ever want is focus crystals. I'm guessing they won't but maybe they do.
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If all they ever want is focus crystals and nothing else, missions and trading is the fastest route (or hunting an hge if they're up for that fun time experience, just one hge would probably get them enough crystals via trading)
But that's not always the right answer with engineering. It depends what they want to do next.
But that's not always the right answer with engineering. It depends what they want to do next.
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Focus Crystals - according to Inara and my experience - can be found in Unidentified Signal Sources (USS). Prefer HGEs and Encoded Emissions, both have 'Threat 0' and usually are safe. They are seen nearly everywhere in populated systems. Since Focus Crystals are a 'Standard' component, they should not be too rare and fairly easy to find.
Should you not know how to find USS: Just fly a bit out of the plane and use the FSS, USS will be found (far left on the scale). You can repeat this process, the will respawn, after visitng one or two of them. Avoid every signal source, if they do not have the marking 'Threat 0', and forget things like 'Ceremonial Comms', because you rarely will find anything.
You also do not need collector limpets, all materials can easily picked up with the cargo hatch alone. Avoid picking up salvage (if you have a cargo bay), because this can lead to pirate attacks.
The fastest way to get focus crystals is actually to hang around me when I'm bounty hunting. It's like Dav's Hope but better! I got no use for them, even the exquisite ones.
So true! I wonder how many mats have ever gone to waste due to this. Must be millions. Easily enough to build an Anaconda... Maybe even twoThe fastest way to get focus crystals is actually to hang around me when I'm bounty hunting. It's like Dav's Hope but better! I got no use for them, even the exquisite ones.
You need any Proto Radiolic Alloys? Just follow me into the next HGESo true! I wonder how many mats have ever gone to waste due to this. Must be millions. Easily enough to build an Anaconda... Maybe even two
.Oh I didn't know I stepped on some local celebrity's toes
Please, do explain your method - you can do so here or in a private conversation, I'll be genuinely glad to hear how efficient this can be.
My experience looking for missions with g5 mats as rewards amounts to that they are few and far between, all vastly different, all require being allied with their respective faction and all on the top-end spectrum of difficulty in their respective type. Each of them, the way I see it, would amount to half an hour investment for a handful of G5 mats in an already dekked out ship.
Oh really? A player who doesn't know how to get Focus Crystals, doesn't have the guardian FSD booster (cause that's what he's after) and doesn't know how material traders work (see his second post).
Yep, you're right, that's totally a 2000 hour in game veteran with G5 engineered cutter, right there.
Wrong, unless you show me (please, I'm genuinely curious) how you can get 100 of some G5 mat in 30 minutes using missions. Or even a quarter of that amount. By all means, I desperately want to know. I'd love to be able to get G5 mats quickly without relogging, cause this is how fast I can stock up 100 of any of the High Grade mats within 30 minutes doing the HG reset.
I get that "your method" might feel more "legit" cause it doesn't use any of the "funny things" about this game, like relogs. However, you have to realize that FDev clearly and openly embraced them at this point. Otherwise they wouldn't drop CGs like the Hudson where everybody in FDev and their dog had to know upfront that jameson's crash site beats any other method of procuring the data mats for the CG in efficiency, by an order of magnitude.
Don't want to use my methods, fine, but don't try to deny that they are more effective. That's just not the case.
You're lying, blatantly and demonstrably misrepresenting what I did.
I didn't just say "do your own research". I pointed him directly to where all of the latest, most conveniently presented knowledge is. I showed him exactly how to find what he's looking for. I even told him what content creators produce best guides. I even double-checked if the phrase I told him to search for leads directly to the guide I know has all the answers!
Remember the "teach a man to fish" proverb? That's literally what I did, and far more.
This had about as much in common with a "do your own research" response as calling an ambulance while doing CPR on someone you personally pulled out of the water has with saying "oh my, someone should call a doctor, I guess...".
This is clearly a new cmdr and I disagreed with your idea because, in my experience, it's not something a new cmdr could reliably do, for all the reasons I mentioned.
And you didn't like it, so you started spewing lies and misrepresenting my position. Sad.
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