How to purchase all those G3 Suit and Weapon upgrades?

Hooplah

Hooplah
If interested when looking to purchase upgrades here's my input.

1. Find large population systems at least in the millions and NOT Agricultural. They don't do well for me. Maybe others do better.
2. The closer the orbiting and planetary stations are the better.
3. In the long run planetary stations tend to have better upgrades. Roll of the RNG dice.
4. Don't bother with player populated systems (50 fleet cattiers?) unless it is seconds after the Thursday maintenance update.
....A few fleet carriers check it out as they may not even be playing the upgrade game (pacifists) or have what they want.
5. If no G3 or G2 with mods on the first few stations I move to another system. It doesn't seem to get better.
6. I fly a 60Ly cool running Asp Explorer with a 6A fuel scoop to quickly cross the bubble in 4 jumps. I don't really need the weapons.
7. I use a Maverick G3 (any suit level can be used) with increased sprint duration to run into a station without tiring out.
8. Having most everything I need to experiment with I help others on The Great Pre-Upgraded Gear Sharing is Caring Thread.

Any other ideas players would like to share looking for the better upgrades?

Lots of suits and weapons with mods provides valuable info and experience so maybe later I'll build them correctly going to G5 levels.

Meanwhile I get killed a lot making silly mistakes with on foot missions using them. Maybe my focus should be more about play the
darn game and quit watching YouTube videos! Like years past with a new player quickly buying an Anaconda without the experience
to use it then wonder why they were destroyed? It seems that Odyssey with all the new toys still holds to the premise since 2014 that
a CMDR needs the experience to be successful and use the toys wisely.

I like that.

OK, back to getting killed and getting the experience to upgrade all my G3 suits and weapons with the whole new Odyssey version
of upgrades and engineers. Frontier took it to another level versus upgrading ships. We'll see.

Regards
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nemolomen

nemolomen
The OP has good advice.

I've been playing Odyssey since launch over a year ago and take a slow burn approach to playing. I place a prioity on not being OP to keep me on my toes...I die fairly regularly (on foot and in space), a few times per month, depending on what mischief I'm up to.

Even now all of my on-foot suits and weapons are pre-upgraded, as purchased, though I am about to start engineering some of it with one modification each currently targeted. I have not upgraded any gear either.

I've played many missions and Conflict Zones (low, medium and high intensity) and I'm having a good time with all of it. I'm getting by with Mostly G3 and some G2 gear.

My best advice is play the game and see what suits your play style...
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
After experimenting with all my suits and weapons figuring how they work I decided on what I will go to grade 5. I have lots of suits and weapons for sale or trade if Frontier will ever let us players do this. Personally I think in the gaming world it is all about the next fisal quarterly report and and if the numbers go down with the Frontier investors then maybe coming up on Christmas looking for positive profits Suit and Weapons trading will be opened up to players. Unless Frontier comes up with another great idea but then add something new radical then we players spend four months sending in bug reports and 12 updates which never quite fixes it.

May I suggest trading suits and weapons at fleet carriers might be worth a look? We already do Odyssey materials. Just my opinion. Or being old school if we get the Panther Clipper with those awesome rotating nacelle engines for Christmas 2022 my life as I have lived it is complete! Joss Whedon who produced the 'Firefly' TV series probabally came up with the idea flying one in Frontier: Elite II.

So any other ideas how to find the best suits and weapons in an efficitent manner? Any groups on Discord playing this mini-game?

Regards
 
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metatheurgist

metatheurgist
This is my issue with a player market. Your expectation is helpful players crafting stuff for others to buy (tho if you believe the "too much grinders" why would anyone do that), the reality is people who can play more will just buy up the good stuff Thursday afternoon and put it on sale for on their carrier with a 1000% markup for cheap income. This just means that any chance that more casual players had to get stuff gets reduced from low to guaranteed zero. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe you could fix it by making it so players could only sell stuff they upgraded from G1 but I can hear the wails of protest already. 😏
 

Mr T

Mr T
I have a tip:
- go looking straight after the weekly server maintenance on Thursday (might be Wednesday for other timezones). That's when the supplies get replenished so you could be the first to find the gem.
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
metatheurgist said:
...the reality is people who can play more will just buy up the good stuff Thursday afternoon and put it on sale for on their carrier with a 1000% markup for cheap income....
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I agree and giving the cost of paying for a fleet carrier I'm OK with it if a player wants to purchase from them. Supply and demand. But whatever Osyssey material only goes so far for a maximum markup on a fleet carrier. You want a power regulator Frontier limits to $500,000. A G3 Dominator suit with two useful mods as in damage resistance and combat movent speed is worth millions. Still Frontier might limit it to G1 max prices on a fleet carrier. The Frontier Devs are evill this way.
 
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Ryox

Ryox
I think the general idea to find those pre-upgraded gears is to search for stations that are not often visited by other Commanders (far from their star, planetary, uninteresting System, etc.).

It seems that those items spawn at each station, with totally random mods, once a week (the server weekly maintenance).

Since it's "first come, first served", you'll find more interesting items at deserted stations, simply because there're less chances than someone came and picked it before you.

P.S. : You can also visit our Discord (in my signature), we have a dedicated channel where people share such items' location for the community.
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
Mr T said:
I have a tip:
- go looking straight after the weekly server maintenance on Thursday (might be Wednesday for other timezones). That's when the supplies get replenished so you could be the first to find the gem.
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I'm -four hours in the UTC time. I use UTC to connect with other Elite players on earth as messed up as me playing this game. The UTC time is on station monitors. Your are from Hamilton, New Zealand. Perhaps over the last 7 years playing the game we might have met or not.

Meanwhile using my OP suggestions I have found awesome G3 Suits and Weapons with mods on the Wednesday before the Thursday mainttenance update. Runing around is all about helping others on The Great Pre-Upgraded Gear Sharing is Caring Thread.

My home is Beta-1 Tucanae but I'm busy doing other evil things in Odyssey. I have a fleet caerrier Apocalypse JHW-G8Z there to replinish your ship with 0 tarrifs but if you ever show up we can go to the Adams Orbital bar, have a few adult beverages and tell tall stories. I would like that.

Regards
 
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Muzz UK

Muzz UK
Touch wood I've had good RNG to date I think my best finds were a G3 Dom with Fast Shield Regen and a G3 Mave with Extra Ammo and Extra Backpack. I'm looking at building a stealth build I have silenced weapons I just need a Mave with reduced foot steps or night vision if anyone fancies PMing me a location in return for say 10 Suit Schematics or something from my carrier. Obv don't post here someone else will ninja it!

Its always best to pick a couple of larger systems without carriers in as the OP suggests then just Apex around.
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
Muzz UK said:
Touch wood I've had good RNG to date I think my best finds were a G3 Dom with Fast Shield Regen and a G3 Mave with Extra Ammo and Extra Backpack. I'm looking at building a stealth build I have silenced weapons I just need a Mave with reduced foot steps or night vision if anyone fancies PMing me a location in return for say 10 Suit Schematics or something from my carrier. Obv don't post here someone else will ninja it!

Its always best to pick a couple of larger systems without carriers in as the OP suggests then just Apex around.
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I have a Mavwerick G3 suit with increased sprint duration and quieter footsteps and another one with night vision. You give me ten suit schematics and a few other Odyssey material and I'll put you on my search list. I'm pretty good at it finding things if they can be found. Let me know want you can help to upgrade one of my G3 to G4.
 
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Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Some of the best G3+engineering suits & weapons I've picked up on my travels have been in systems with just 1,000's of inhabitants... Even picked up on a Wednesday evening in a couple of cases.

All found in systems out on the edge of the bubble, most having been taken over by player factions who no longer housekeep there as 'nobody goes there anyway, do they?' and for them it is just another notch on the headboard.
 

xzanfr

xzanfr
I enjoy doing delivery missions which often take you to unpopular and odd places, many of which have engineered and grade 3 stuff.

In my opinion t's all about finding somewhere where other players rarely visit.
 

HRDiagram

HRDiagram
My chosen home system has low traffic and multiple stars, with the secondary being a few thousand ls away.
The system has therefore a nice number of stations, star ports and outposts.
Not many to lose track, not few to have limited choice.
What i do, when I want to do G3 shopping, is hop on an Apex shuttle and visit all the Pioneer supplies in the system. I like it because I can do it while doing other stuff, and with no time to dedicate to ED.
 
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