Kongga Ale Brewery stocks crash

Cometborne

Cometborne
In a rare move, authorities at the stock of exchanges of Sol, Achenar, and Alioth were forced to suspend trading in stocks of the Kongga Ale Brewery this morning after the stock dropped 25% in a few minutes of trading. The crash reflects investor's expectations that sales of Kongga Ale will drop shortly in the near future. Most Kongga Ale sales are to independent pilots establishing professional relationships with engineer Lori Jameson of Shinrarta Dezhra, but the latest news out of Colonia indicate that this might stop. Following the precedent set by fellow Colonia engineer Mel Bradon, Etienne Dorn has developed grade five blueprints for life support systems. When asked for a comment, Lori Jameson only sighed and stated "I need a beer".

At this time, it is unclear how this development will impact the Distant Worlds 2 Expedition that is currently on-going. With the bulk of the expedition just 12.000 LY away from Colonia, authorities are preparing for a massive influx of explorers wishing to increase the jump range of their ships.

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Blueprint costs and effects:
Light weight life support grade 5:
- effects: integrity -50%, mass -85%
- cost: 1 conductive ceramics, 1 proto light alloys, 1 proto radiolic alloys

Reinforced life support grade 5:
- effects: integrity +300%, mass +150%
- cost: 1 high density composites, 1 molybdenum, 1 technetium

Shielded life support grade 5:
- effects: integrity +300%, power draw +100%
- cost: 1 tungsten, 1 compound shielding, 1 core dynamic composites
 
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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
It's not just Jameson who needs to worry, either - Qwent has been getting his modular terminals largely on the basis that he knows Jameson and Palin. Palin's key blueprint is now offered by Brandon, Jameson's by Brandon and Dorn, and of course his own blueprints are done better already by Dweller and Tani.
 

GunnerBill

GunnerBill
The Colonia market is too far away from the Bubble to have any effect.

No one will travel ~20kly simply to avoid shipping a few tonnes of beer.
 
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kurush

kurush
GunnerBill said:
No one will travel ~20kly simply to avoid shipping a few tonnes of beer.
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But to get level 4 SCBs? Probably. It looks like doing this 20kly trip in your combat ship will be the new engineering meta :) There was clearly not enough travel grind in the game.
 
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biohazard15

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kurush said:
But to get level 4 SCBs? Probably. It looks like doing this 20kly trip in your combat ship will be the new engineering meta :) There was clearly not enough travel grind in the game.
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Ride neutron highway to Colonia, unlock all four engineers, pin required blueprints, buy a Sidey, self-destruct it and teleport back to bubble, transfer your ship to bubble (that would take about 61 hours and about 130% ship's full price, so better use DBX or AspX).

The problem is that you have to choose between SCB blueprints. IMO, you want rapid-charged if you're into PVP (spin time of 3s definitely doesn't hurt when facing cascade rails), and specialised if you're into PVE (both extra shield reinforcement and heat reduction are nice, and since NPCs don't have cascade rails, you can add Boss Cells on top for even more extra MJs)
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
kurush said:
But to get level 4 SCBs? Probably. It looks like doing this 20kly trip in your combat ship will be the new engineering meta :) There was clearly not enough travel grind in the game.
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Doing the trip in a fast ship, levelling up the engineer, pinning the blueprint, and upgrading the SCBs when you get back is probably quicker.
 
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