I have been surprised.

I didn't think Frontier could surprise me, then I looked at the materials trader in 3.0. A factor of 6. Are you serious.
 
*looks at constantly full 1000 material bin that I have to make room by deleting stuff almost every time I play, and knowing that that storage is also increasing* Yeeeah, I'm going to go right ahead and not stress about the conversion rate.
 
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It is, isn't it? :D

Especially if you think, that with the new engineering system it will not be the main concern to get those rare materilas for the final G5 roll, but to obtain crazy amounts of basic materials to go through G1 until G5.

Let's say I want to engineer 4 multicannons with overcharged.

I needed three rolls per 1 Nickel to get form G1 to G2 (3x4) = 12 Nickel for 4 multicannons.

Then I needed SEVEN rolls per 1 Nickel and 1 Conductive Component form G2 to G3 (7x4) = 28 Nickel and (7x4) 28 Conductive Components.

So to finish only one G2 overcharged mulitcannon I needed: 10 Nickel and 7 Conductive Components.

For 4 multicannons with maxed G2 overcharged these sums up to: 40 Nickel and 28 Conductive Components.


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so the mat-trader doesn't even feature elements.

edit edit: was at the wrong mat-trader. There are three types of them, one for salvage, one for elements and one for data. Of courese they are not all in the same system...

But you can trade 1 military supercapacitator for 81 Grid Resistors :D
 
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Is it not easier to use g4 mats when trading for g5?

Why not just get g5 and not bother with the trader at all, since it doesn't seem worth the hassle? Shame I'm not a huge fan of going out of my way to mess around with the Engineers. I generally have other things I'd rather be doing. YMMV
 
Between this and DDs capped at 135% I'm just literally stunned. I can only assume they uploaded the wrong beta.
 
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Tiny_Rick

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So, is the point of beta testing to try out the absolute worst ideas and then gradually dial them back to reasonable changes? Asking for a friend who thinks FD is being stupid.
 
Sandro said in the livestream that the material broker figures were subject to change based on how the beta goes, so they're not set in stone yet.
 
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