Engineers Increasing Engineer Ranking without performing unneccesary upgrades

[MassGenocide]

tl;dr How does Hand in bounty vouchers to Broo's Legacy work for raising rep?

I have Broo Tarquin unlocked and i'm currently at the base rep level 1 rank. I've previously leveled reps of engineers by doing upgrades i don't need and then cancelling them and then doing the ones I want.

However, I currently have 4x Beam Lasers that are engineered completely through grade 3 as well as two pulse lasers also completely through grade 3. I don't want to undo that just to have to do it again to raise rank and then provide the same mats I already provided for ranks 1-3 AND there aren't any other modules I can do this with since he only has those two available.

According to Inara (https://inara.cz/galaxy-engineer/15/) you are able to increase rank by handing in vouchers to his station. I came back with ~700k in vouchers just to get a gauge of how many i needed to turn in, but they weren't able to be turned in. I went to a Conflict Zone in another system (with Empire presence) and chose the Empire faction to fight for and ended up killing a dozen ships or so to get the vouchers. This is apparently not the thing that is needed, so what is needed to increase rep via this method?

Also, his system is not in a civil war or war state and thus there are no conflict zones in the Muang system.

Any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[biohazard15]

IIRC in 2.4 handing in Empire bounty vouchers did increase your rep with Broo. But there is no more Empire bounty vouchers under the new C&P. I suggest trying to hand in some local vouchers - if that doesn't work, the only way to gain rep is to do upgrades.

Also, doing "unnecessary" upgrades is WAY faster.

 

[MassGenocide]

It would be faster if all I had to do was just come up with the mats for the fake upgrades. But I need to get those PLUS grades 1-5 because I already have 1-3 done and doing an upgrade on top would undo it.

Thanks for the other info though.

 

[metatheurgist]

Buy some spare modules, transfer to station. Go crazy.

 

[Nero Tacitus]

IIRC in 2.4 handing in Empire bounty vouchers did increase your rep with Broo. But there is no more Empire bounty vouchers under the new C&P. I suggest trying to hand in some local vouchers - if that doesn't work, the only way to gain rep is to do upgrades.

Also, doing "unnecessary" upgrades is WAY faster.

That seems like a pretty large oversight by FDev, they seriously removed at least one engineer's rep mechanic and didn't replace it?

 

[MassGenocide]

Buy some spare modules, transfer to station. Go crazy.

I did exactly that, thank you. Still had to dump mats but better than figuring out his combat rep gain criteria.

That seems like a pretty large oversight by FDev, they seriously removed at least one engineer's rep mechanic and didn't replace it?

It is a fairly large oversight because i cruised the system in super cruise for a good ten minutes looking for a wanted ship to interdict but never came across one, and this was in open. None of the planets in this system have rings either so there aren't any RES to go farm.

 

[Deunan]

Thanks Frontier

 

[Para Handy]

I don't see the problem here - I have a new-start, clear-save commander and at the engineers I have used, just carrying out the mods to go to G5 of the desired mod I went there for took me to level 5 access. So rep by other means seems irrelevant now?

 

[Greybeard_LXI]

I don't see the problem here - I have a new-start, clear-save commander and at the engineers I have used, just carrying out the mods to go to G5 of the desired mod I went there for took me to level 5 access. So rep by other means seems irrelevant now?

I have several ships with G3 Dirty Drives from Felicity. When I get around to Prof. Palin I am going to have to get to G5 access with him. Without rep by other means I will have to engineer levels G1 through G3 again for the rep.

The way it is now I should be able to use the exploration data from my 5K LY trip to get at least part of the way. I also have enough mats to get a couple G4 runs on all my ships, so not a problem until I spend those mats on something else (or buy the Python I've got my eye on).

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

tl;dr How does Hand in bounty vouchers to Broo's Legacy work for raising rep?

I have Broo Tarquin unlocked and i'm currently at the base rep level 1 rank. I've previously leveled reps of engineers by doing upgrades i don't need and then cancelling them and then doing the ones I want.

However, I currently have 4x Beam Lasers that are engineered completely through grade 3 as well as two pulse lasers also completely through grade 3. I don't want to undo that just to have to do it again to raise rank and then provide the same mats I already provided for ranks 1-3 AND there aren't any other modules I can do this with since he only has those two available.

According to Inara (https://inara.cz/galaxy-engineer/15/) you are able to increase rank by handing in vouchers to his station. I came back with ~700k in vouchers just to get a gauge of how many i needed to turn in, but they weren't able to be turned in. I went to a Conflict Zone in another system (with Empire presence) and chose the Empire faction to fight for and ended up killing a dozen ships or so to get the vouchers. This is apparently not the thing that is needed, so what is needed to increase rep via this method?

Also, his system is not in a civil war or war state and thus there are no conflict zones in the Muang system.

Any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated.

If they are legacy mods you'll have to convert them anyhow.
That will drop them one level.

You don't get bounties from CZs.
You get bounties from killing wanted ships.

 

[Para Handy]

I have several ships with G3 Dirty Drives from Felicity. When I get around to Prof. Palin I am going to have to get to G5 access with him. Without rep by other means I will have to engineer levels G1 through G3 again for the rep.

The way it is now I should be able to use the exploration data from my 5K LY trip to get at least part of the way. I also have enough mats to get a couple G4 runs on all my ships, so not a problem until I spend those mats on something else (or buy the Python I've got my eye on).

Can't you buy a cheapo module at Palin and do the low-level mods on that? Never looked at Palin but others have some of the bits they engineer. You get all your Credits back when you sell that module.

I don't know how much progress you get from your exploration data with them, some for sure.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Can't you buy a cheapo module at Palin and do the low-level mods on that? Never looked at Palin but others have some of the bits they engineer. You get all your Credits back when you sell that module.

I don't know how much progress you get from your exploration data with them, some for sure.

Levels 1-3 are so insignificant anyhow, that this all seems rather pointless.

 

[Greybeard_LXI]

Can't you buy a cheapo module at Palin and do the low-level mods on that? Never looked at Palin but others have some of the bits they engineer. You get all your Credits back when you sell that module.

I don't know how much progress you get from your exploration data with them, some for sure.

The OP was talking about Lasers, but I used Palin as an example because I was not interested in figuring out who would have high ranked lasers while someone else earlier in the chain would have lower lasers.

Even if the engineer does not stock anything he upgrades, with the new (3.0) system if you have enough mats you can get a better roll than the one you had. It's not like the old system where you might never get the mods you wanted again.

Levels 1-3 are so insignificant anyhow, that this all seems rather pointless.

yup.