Which brings us to playstyle. I don't stop to collect stuff just because I might need it later. That sucks. I'll determine what I want in terms of upgrades then go out and collect the mats.
Sorry if this seems like a thread hijack, but just out of curiosity, if I pin a G5 mod, and buy a new module, whcih would obviously be unengineered straight off the shelf and bone stock, can I use remote workshop to roll mods on it through G1 --> G2 --> G3 --> G4 --> G5 if or when I have the materials for each roll?
Or would I need to roll G1 --> MAX, Pin / Roll G2 --> MAX, Pin / Roll G3 --> MAX, Pin / Roll G4 --> MAX, Pin / Roll G5 ?
Just 'cause. When I feel like using a certain ship I want it to be as good as I can get it.
thats what i did
you can also take legacy to her and they get swapped over to start of grade 3. i've done that to 5 of my ships so far.
for clarification: experimental's stay on the drive during upgrades
Which brings us to playstyle. I don't stop to collect stuff just because I might need it later. That sucks. I'll determine what I want in terms of upgrades then go out and collect the mats.
Just 'cause. When I feel like using a certain ship I want it to be as good as I can get it.
Oh! Good to know!
But you need to stop to see what stuff is there. Might as well pick it up. If you have collector limpets which you should do, then it takes no time at all.
The steps to that method are:
1. Go to Palin (once) and pin the DD blueprints. Mod the ship you're in while you're there, then fly back to bubble.
2. Use remote engineering to bring a drive to Grade 3
3. Fly to Deciat and apply the Experimental you want
4. Fly to a different station and continue the remote upgrading to Grade 5 (because you can't do remote engineering at an Engineer's base - I know, right?). The Experimental effect should remain.
5. Before all this though, make sure you've collected all the G1-G5 mats you think you'll need.
Wrong? Really? Because everyone owns a cutter? Everyone wants to care enough to Empire rank grind?Wrong
Start with a Cutter
Wrong
Start with a Cutter
Before leaving for Palin, store all Class 8,7,6 Drives that need conversion/update
Fly to Palin
Transfer all stored drives 6A or better
While waiting update drive currently installed
When drives arrive, swap into Cutter and upgrade
Return to home base
Transfer updated drives back to base and re-install
Repeat with Asp for Class 4/5
Repeat with iCourier for Class 3/2
Done
Don't forget that you can't do his method if your cutter has the Twilight Sparkle paint job... Palin won't let you land. Hater.Yeah, that's very correct. I wasn't able to use that method though because my Cutter has the 5A shield (from this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ial-Cutter-and-Class-5-Shields-is-it-possible), which means I'm unable to swap out ANY modules unless I get rid of the shield generator, which obviously I'm not going to do.
Don't forget that you can't do his method if your cutter has the Twilight Sparkle paint job... Palin won't let you land. Hater.
My "gameplay" over the past week has been to equip 21 ships with "new" G5 DD including Drag Drives at Palin. Collecting the materials, using the material traders, grinding the credits to have the ships transported out there (35 Million just for the Corvette...), doing the upgrades...
Not "fun" at all.
But, I'm happy with the performance upgrade, so...where's the new content that will let me use them?
Thanks!
Hard to give up some of the rolls on legacy modules we spent hundreds of hours grinding the mats for... just to do it again on the whole fleet.A simpler way would have been to just go out to Palin ONCE, in your best jump range ship, and the pin the Dirty Drives blueprint. Then for all your other ships:
1. Go to Felicity Farseer.
2. Strip the drive modification off and roll up grades 1-3.
3. Apply desired experimental effect (usually drag drives)
4. Go to any station, use the remote workshop, and finish rolling the drives up to/through 5.
This honestly doesn't take many more rolls/mats, and is MUCH quicker than traveling all the way out to Palin for every ship. This is what I've been doing for my whole fleet and it has been a major time saver. Besides, you need to visit Felicity anyway for the upgraded FSD range boosts, as well as possible minor overcharging of power plants (G1) and minor sensor weight reduction (G3).
Only to Grade 3. Dude, how do you not know this?
This honestly doesn't take many more rolls/mats, and is MUCH quicker than traveling all the way out to Palin for every ship.