Has Anyone Filled Their Inventory?
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I do it automatically with EDMC or EDD.
From a clean save it took around 4 or 5 months maybe of playing off and on. The most soul destroying was the high grade emissions struggle. Some systems would have one pop up every 5 minutes, on others you could be waiting 30minutes or more before a spawn. As luck would have it the ones with the long time between spawns were usually the systems that could spawn 3 different grade 5 materials, frequently not the ones I needed.
Next to that the most time consuming was the data gained from scanning thargoid ships with the xeno scanner. It was hard to keep the scouts in range to complete the scan so the most reliable was to scan the cyclops and occasionally basilisk and medusas that appeared in signal sources scanning wrecked ships. The drop rate for data was around 1 in 4 scans.
I havent tried CQC yet, I forgot about that system permit, I guess I will have to give that a try at some stage. The Colonia engineers still need unlocked. Was going to wait till they offer grade 5 mods before making the trip out there.
Next to that the most time consuming was the data gained from scanning thargoid ships with the xeno scanner. It was hard to keep the scouts in range to complete the scan so the most reliable was to scan the cyclops and occasionally basilisk and medusas that appeared in signal sources scanning wrecked ships. The drop rate for data was around 1 in 4 scans.
I havent tried CQC yet, I forgot about that system permit, I guess I will have to give that a try at some stage. The Colonia engineers still need unlocked. Was going to wait till they offer grade 5 mods before making the trip out there.
Hahaha no. In the meantime, I have completed all raw elements, all human manufactured materials, all human data, and sensor fragments. Need to top of Pattern Delta Obelisk Data and various materials from Guardian Sentinels now. I writing this while flying to some Guardian ruins.
After that, I would have to refill the 2 Guardian Module Blueprint Segments I am missing from being full; those were spent on unlocking the FSD booster and shield reinforcement module.
I know that since I have visited Guardian ruins the last time they massively nerfed the obelisks, so I checked out how to get that stuff now...
Yeah not sure if I am going to bother with that. Especially the part where stuff is timed - for the same reason I avoid all the surface installation hacking, I've got no interest in that kind of Do It Again, Stupid gameplay requiring to restart from scratch if you miss the mark, and under time pressure. Especially since it's not just going around shooting ("charging") the pylons, but fighting waves of sentinels in between, as SRV combat is terrible when under pressure because the turret is so awkward, marked^ly un-fun, to use with mouse+keyboard due to the issues with deadzone and power curve.
So glad I farmed that stuff before the nerf.
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I try to be an "inventory half full" kind of person.
I'm about to fill my ship(s) with materials (manufactured and element) and data for the second time.
I started working on this immediately before the last release, 3.3, and it paid off. Some places where I had formerly been able to obtain materials disappeared, others didn't work the way they used to. Plus, each release usually has a new ship or two, so I'm prepared to engineer it/them.
I'm hurrying again, before the 4th release in 2018 for the same reasons.
When I say I filled my ship(s), I mean everything but Boron and Lead (of which I have some), and no Guardian materials at all.
It seems to me that the game is in a high state of flux with regard to Guardian materials and what they can be used for. I'm holding out for: 1) easier material acquisition, 2) a higher perceived return on investment of my time to acquire them, and 3) more stable applicability of the materials to produce results that are genuinely worth the investment of my time. Right now, all my ships are nearing "100% engineered" status. They're a pleasure to pilot and fight with. Until I find myself at a significant disadvantage, I'm avoiding Guardian technology.
I've only had to use the Materials Brokers twice. Then, I was in a pinch to complete some engineering mods and ran out of some necessary materials. For the most part, I've become adept at efficiently and quickly acquiring most materials and data on my own.
I started working on this immediately before the last release, 3.3, and it paid off. Some places where I had formerly been able to obtain materials disappeared, others didn't work the way they used to. Plus, each release usually has a new ship or two, so I'm prepared to engineer it/them.
I'm hurrying again, before the 4th release in 2018 for the same reasons.
When I say I filled my ship(s), I mean everything but Boron and Lead (of which I have some), and no Guardian materials at all.
It seems to me that the game is in a high state of flux with regard to Guardian materials and what they can be used for. I'm holding out for: 1) easier material acquisition, 2) a higher perceived return on investment of my time to acquire them, and 3) more stable applicability of the materials to produce results that are genuinely worth the investment of my time. Right now, all my ships are nearing "100% engineered" status. They're a pleasure to pilot and fight with. Until I find myself at a significant disadvantage, I'm avoiding Guardian technology.
I've only had to use the Materials Brokers twice. Then, I was in a pinch to complete some engineering mods and ran out of some necessary materials. For the most part, I've become adept at efficiently and quickly acquiring most materials and data on my own.
I'd suggest to to use "The Bug Killer" for those data.
https://canonn.science/codex/bug-killer-crashed-anaconda/
You get the the same data, but you also have 3 cargo racks for ruthenium, antimony and tellurium.
You can watch thargoids (harmless if you don't shoot them, gfsd-booster no problem).
Next station for side-etc.-trading also ray gateway.
For MEF (modified embedded firmware) i suggest doing missions (allied status, eg. Robigo passenger missions).
Datamined wake exeptions in a distribution center in famine state or at a big trafficy station or just scan any wake while doing normal stuff.
o7
Edit: THIS is also a helpful guide, i recommend eg. Isinor/unauthorised installation for shield and ship scan data plus g5-mats incl. money for destroying wanted ships
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/91hesw/quick_engineer_material_gathering_reference/
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Does anyone have any advice about getting the lvl 5 shield data drop. "Particularly Peculiar Shield Permutations" or something. I've scanned ships for hours in all sorts of systems but they are SOOOOO bloody rare it's tragic.
Is this a new thing? "Screw engineering, I'd rather fill my inventory and feel good about it" 
Is this a new thing? "Screw engineering, I'd rather fill my inventory and feel good about it"
Yup. Give them nothing, so they will be forced to lower the prices.
I've got them from the encoded materials trader, not sure which ships would even yield them upon scan.
Is this a new thing? "Screw engineering, I'd rather fill my inventory and feel good about it"
I don't think people here forgo engineering in order to fill up the inventory, but rather we have engineered our stuff and like to be prepared whenever we want or need to engineer something new.