How to Unlock Experimental Effects

[ForestKitten]

How do you unlock experimental effects?
Do I need to get the engineer to a certain rank? Or do I need to upgrade a module to a certain rank? And is so, which rank?
Do I need to do this for each engineer?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

On foot: engineers don't have ranks, you just need to unlock them
Ship: the module needs to be one the engineer can work on, but otherwise there's no rank requirements to apply any experimentals they know
Ship remote engineering: you can't apply experimentals

 

[HappyMoonMonkey]

which rank?

no rank requirements

There is a minimal rank requirement in that you need to roll once on G1 engineering on a module in order to apply an experimental effect.

 

[alexzk]

How do you unlock experimental effects?
Do I need to get the engineer to a certain rank? Or do I need to upgrade a module to a certain rank? And is so, which rank?
Do I need to do this for each engineer?

You must have completed any rank on left side (1-2-3-4-5), select this completed rank by mouse click this will allow to add experimental.

 

[ForestKitten]

Thanks for your help. That's why I could not find anything about rank requirements
But I figured out what confused me now. You need to select the current applied modification on the left side before the "experimental effect" button becomes enabled.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

There is a minimal rank requirement in that you need to roll once on G1 engineering on a module in order to apply an experimental effect.

You can't apply experimentals to an unengineered module, certainly, so you'll be gaining rank with someone. But I think you can engineer the module with someone else (or remote workshop) and apply the experimental without having to have gained any rank with that particular engineer

 

[Cmdr Venport]

To save loads of repeat visits to an engineer to apply experimental effects if I'm going to pin a blueprint for something I'm going to use a lot of on my first visit I will engineer one item of the common effect to level 5 to fully unlock the tree, I then buy a stock of the particular item and just do one engineering role on them and apply the experimental effects I want.

I then pin the blueprint and know wherever I am I can get the needed item for a new build with the wanted experimental pre-applied and use the pinned blueprint to get them levelled up remotely with the experimental already done. I then only have to visit the Engineer to re-stock or if I want a different upgrade or experimental.