Engineers I want to get upgrades without using the moon buggy please

[CMDR M. Lehman]

OP: Your predicament reminds me of an old Spanish saying: "Take what you want, and pay for it."


If you think about it, you're already "playing your way". You're doing exactly what you want to do in the game, which is the entire point. Nothing in the game is making you drive the buggy, which is one of its great strengths. True, you miss out on a few features by declining to drive the moon buggy, but again: that's your choice.

It's akin to how my combat rank is very high because of my choices (lotsa bounty hunting) and my exploration rank is very low because that's not what interested me as a player. Am I denied access to certain types of mission because of my choice? Yes. Yes I am. But that's how a game like Elite works. In order to access the full range of what it can offer, you have to, well- do more than one thing. No one is making you do anything you don't want to do, but insisting that season one-style space combat ought to unlock everything else in the game is much like a demand that Powerplay rating be somehow boosted by using your detailed surface scanner a thousand light years away from the Bubble. It just doesn't work that way.

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

I've hardly used my SRV, I get motion sickness from using it. But I've Maxed out 9 of the engineers and got most of the upgrades I need for several ships. I do a lot of missions and mining though.

 

[Deleted member 102790]

CMDR M. Lehman, I agree with what you are saying except that I feel that to unlock combat stuff eg weapons I should be able to get it by combat.

Not by knitting

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Limoncello, thanks!!

Ditto for me, in my case the cause is food intolerance. You could get most without the moon buggy!!!

That's great!

 

[Toffa]

I've hardly used my SRV, I get motion sickness from using it. But I've Maxed out 9 of the engineers and got most of the upgrades I need for several ships. I do a lot of missions and mining though.

Limoncello,

FireryToad, a fairly prominent player on Twitch, used to have the same issue. I believe there is a setting in the SRV-Control settings that allows you to lock the camera to the horizon or vis-versa. I recommend giving this a try. It may just help you out.

As for the OP: Play your way -> Yes. By all means. But, as other have said, you will miss out on some aspects if you don't fully explore all ways to play.

Like many parents say, 'you only get out, what you put in'.

Carry On CMDRS.

Toffs
( '-')7

 

[obliterator]

I can make it a fourth time if that is necessary for the concept to sink in. You went from asking how to avoid using the moon buggy in your first post, to rejecting the option of mining or running missions, to the idea that everything should be achievable by blowing up ships and doing NOTHING ELSE in the entire game. What exactly do you expect for a response? You are basically saying you don't want to play the game, except for one specific aspect relating to combat, and I am telling you that yes, it appears that you don't really want to play the game.

Elite has clearly been advertised as a game that can accommodate many different play styles, including combat. Saying that someone should uninstall the game just because he's not interested in anything else than combat is just ridiculous. ED is built around the idea that every profession should be viable.

 

[Oogie Boogie]

Is there a way to see the material composition of the asteroids, as there is on the related planets? Or is it the same?

 

[LameoveR]

get those upgrades that doesn't need you use moon buggy.
simple as it is.

 

[Sgopher81]

Is there a way to see the material composition of the asteroids, as there is on the related planets? Or is it the same?

As far as I am aware you need to either mine a single fragment and see its composition or use prospector limpets. The limpets also vastly increase the number of fragments you will get from each asteroid.

 

[Codger]

Sorry OP, that's how the game works. If you want the stuff you gotta do the work. Otherwise you don't get the stuff. I hope you change your mind. There's a lot of fun in ED beyond just shooting things. Good luck!

 

[Oogie Boogie]

As far as I am aware you need to either mine a single fragment and see its composition or use prospector limpets. The limpets also vastly increase the number of fragments you will get from each asteroid.

Not sure if I made myself clear. You can see in the system map what percentage of what materials are available on a specific planet. Are those % figures also valid for a potential asteroid field around that planet? As you can get e.g. Mangese, Iron etc from those and the only indicator as far I am aware is if this asteroid field is "low" or has more materials.

 

[D.G.Cerberus]

Please stay reasonable and friendly Commanders. Telling someone to uninstall their game is not a very helpful advise. Just a gentle reminder. Thanks.

Ah...the Diplomatic approach, as we would surely expect from someone now with their own Star System.....! (PS that was you I guess wasn't it??)

 

[DragoonKnight]

And I was kind enough to provide step-by-step instructions to solve your problem. Elite is clearly not a game you are interested in playing if you feel that you should be able to achieve everything simply by blowing up other ships. It is not that kind of game. Maybe consider Star Citizen if it ever gets past the "alpha demo" stage.

That wouldn't work in star citizen either. He would have to leave the ship at some point and participate in FPS combat.

 

[Chris Simon]

Debate that made five full circles in just three pages? Must be a new record!

OP, unfortunately devs said this very clearly - "If you want to fully unlock the Engineers' potential, you will have to step out of your comfort zone and try every activity the game offers"
It's by design and it has a very good reason.

What that mean is, that you can very well "Blaze your own trail", but if you are using only specific part of available gameplay, you will also get only specific part of rewards.
"I want to drive a rallye car, but I don't like turning the steering wheel. Please let me win the race just by pressing down pedals."

Like others before me said - You can avoid one, or even several activities in game. (For example the mats you get on surface can be also obtained by missions) But you won't get away with doing JUST ONE THING.

 

[rootsrat]

Ah...the Diplomatic approach, as we would surely expect from someone now with their own Star System.....! (PS that was you I guess wasn't it??)

Haha, indeedy!

P.S. Offtopic is no good either

 

[DragoonKnight]

I personally never want to use the moon buggies.

I just want to do like the original trailers advertised - spaceship dog-fighting ONLY.

Now "playing my way" is being penalized.

Please let me choose in a menu to be able to get upgrades without using a moon buggy.

I only did Powerplay when combat was enabled to get points, why can't it be done here as well?

I really don't get this logic. I am pretty focused on combat myself - Deadly rank - but I just don't get it why you wouldn't give the SRV a try after 2.1.05. Even 20 or 30 minutes in that SRV can be very productive and save you a lot of time for finding many materials quickly. Every time you find something, you get 3 units of it. And the sooner you finish your engineer upgrades the sooner you can get to shooting things again.

 

[Chris Simon]

Haha, indeedy!

P.S. Offtopic is no good either

I always thought there is an unwritten rule, that once the OP has been sufficiently answered and discussed over, we are allowed OT for comedy reasons.

 

[Kzak]

Not sure if I made myself clear. You can see in the system map what percentage of what materials are available on a specific planet. Are those % figures also valid for a potential asteroid field around that planet? As you can get e.g. Mangese, Iron etc from those and the only indicator as far I am aware is if this asteroid field is "low" or has more materials.

No, you need to equip a prospector drone controller on your ship, buy limpets, target an asteroid and fire one prospector drone at it. When it hits, it will reveal the exact material composition of that asteroid only, which is most likely different from the other asteroids, each asteroid is unique.

 

[rootsrat]

I always thought there is an unwritten rule, that once the OP has been sufficiently answered and discussed over, we are allowed OT for comedy reasons.

Nah, we'd usually kill the thread with fire let it die out slowly close it, sorry, it seems I can't type today and I don't really know what we do with the threads that ran their course...

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I'd like to be a Thargoid, but there's no option for it.

My way of playing is being penalised!



/Silly mode

You can pretty mich get everything from missions, it's just even more random that learning to use the SRV.
I don't know if you can't use the SRV for whatever reasons (can't figure it out, low FPS, nausea), or you simply hate it.

But I also hate A-B trading, and mining.
Yet I'll do these if the reward is for something I need.
I do love to mess about on the surface though.

Maybe meet up with a buddy and go hunting in the SRV together.
Firstly, it'll just be funny to watch each other roll over all over the place. And secondly, you can chat and just enjoy it.
Nearly all of the boring activities in ED are easily made fun simply by doing it with someone else.

In all my time in ED since i got Horizons, I've never seen another CMDR on a planet, in an SRV. Which is a shame.

Anyhoo, fly safe CMDR!

 

[Noogillim]

Maybe meet up with a buddy and go hunting in the SRV together.
Firstly, it'll just be funny to watch each other roll over all over the place. And secondly, you can chat and just enjoy it.
Nearly all of the boring activities in ED are easily made fun simply by doing it with someone else.

In all my time in ED since i got Horizons, I've never seen another CMDR on a planet, in an SRV. Which is a shame.

Anyhoo, fly safe CMDR!

You never went investigating the barnacles then - there were heaps of CMDRs on the surface at lots of sights.