How much bootleg liquor would you accept in exchange for a fully engineered FSD?
Old unwanted engineered modules. (Take them to the new scrapyard)
- Thread starter Flimley
- Start date
What if the mats were never used on your engineered modules, it was only payment to the engineer for the work done? 
I guess we'd then have to pay the same amount of modules to de-engineer it back to sellable stock modules. That would be a funny change, right? Imagine the outcry.What if the mats were never used on your engineered modules, it was only payment to the engineer for the work done?
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Reminds me of my son's reply to my wife's message (from the showroom) asking him to guess how much we had been offered as a trade in on a car that I'd put about 150,000 miles on over eleven years: "£2.50 and a Mars Bar" - he wasn't far wrong....
I would love to see the Engineers buy back modules that others could then buy used from the engineer. The engineer scavenges the best parts out and then offers it up to other commanders. So noobs headed to Farseerer might find some G2 or G3 drives that they can buy right now and get started without the grind but you're gonna pay. When they want to get past that they still have to do some work but at least they can get past the pain of bone stock drives early on.
Say:
G5/Exp -> G3
G5/4 -> G2
G3. -> G1
Give the seller back one of the G5/4 mats and a few of the other levels they used on it and some credits. Only keep the most recent 50 or so on the market or some number per grade. You have to go to the engineers to get them and you get what's available at the time. Probably would need to have some limit of 1 or 2 buys per week.
Say:
G5/Exp -> G3
G5/4 -> G2
G3. -> G1
Give the seller back one of the G5/4 mats and a few of the other levels they used on it and some credits. Only keep the most recent 50 or so on the market or some number per grade. You have to go to the engineers to get them and you get what's available at the time. Probably would need to have some limit of 1 or 2 buys per week.
It's true. I have so many electronics that I've upgraded with the help of friends using various elements that I've hand gathered over many hours and for some reason can't disassemble to get back.
It would be a convenient feature to have a scrapyard broker in the FC tavern, or so place, that will scrap out old, engineered modules for a minor kickback e.g. maybe 1x return per engineering material type used, per rank installed on the module. It would not be a 100% refund, but something would be nice to clean up stored modules.
one thing came to my mind
as we are seemingly in the business of making the game more approachable, being able to scrap old engineered modules for mats would make engineering much more accessible
to this day good amount of my ships are running on suboptimal engineered modules, because when i started toying with engineering i didnt really know whats what and made bunch of dumb choices. and to be fair even now im not that much smarter and have a good amount of new engineered modules that are... funny...
and i mostly just accept my mistakes and live with my failures and its mainly because the engineering is just... it is what it is, right? despite me being able to fish for mats pretty efficiently and despite me generally welcoming opportunities to play the game more, id rather do other stuff less efficiently with meh equip rather than spend more resources trying again for something that could be good. because lets be honest there are engineering blueprints that are subpar. and if i dont want to just slap the 'meta' on everything, and would still like to try out various things, the outcome is somewhat unpredictable and often underwhelming.
blaze your own trail for sure, but sometimes the blazing is barely flaming, sometimes its only a spark, despite having grade 5 on everything under the hood.
it feels really weird having maxed out module that just doesnt pull its weight and you can either store it indefinitely, gaslight yourself into using it, or get some pocket change credits for selling...
so to not torture the broken record even more let me just say one more thing
as we are seemingly in the business of making the game more approachable, being able to scrap old engineered modules for mats would make engineering much more accessible
to this day good amount of my ships are running on suboptimal engineered modules, because when i started toying with engineering i didnt really know whats what and made bunch of dumb choices. and to be fair even now im not that much smarter and have a good amount of new engineered modules that are... funny...
and i mostly just accept my mistakes and live with my failures and its mainly because the engineering is just... it is what it is, right? despite me being able to fish for mats pretty efficiently and despite me generally welcoming opportunities to play the game more, id rather do other stuff less efficiently with meh equip rather than spend more resources trying again for something that could be good. because lets be honest there are engineering blueprints that are subpar. and if i dont want to just slap the 'meta' on everything, and would still like to try out various things, the outcome is somewhat unpredictable and often underwhelming.
blaze your own trail for sure, but sometimes the blazing is barely flaming, sometimes its only a spark, despite having grade 5 on everything under the hood.
it feels really weird having maxed out module that just doesnt pull its weight and you can either store it indefinitely, gaslight yourself into using it, or get some pocket change credits for selling...
so to not torture the broken record even more let me just say one more thing
i can has scrapyard please? :3
Last edited:
I was thinking this also. I have some G5 burst lasers from the before times. Don't want to sell them, but who uses these???Wish i could reclaim mats from them to go towards something else As selling these weapons for credits holds no value.
All the engineers need do is offer one more option button. Calculations and percentages are what frontier do best, pretty confident this would be relatively easy coding.
Flimley
Was thinking the same yesterday when junking those precious drives.
SCO version of the pre-engied C5 would be amazing also.
SCO version of the pre-engied C5 would be amazing also.
Last edited:
Yeah. I really wish I had waited to transfer my Xbox account. I had early engineered modules under the painful "lucky roll" system, from back when you might engineer five of the same modules for the best roll lol. But the moment I heard the Xbox/ PS games would be end of line, I immediately transferred my "asset worth." Over to PC. At that time progress was not on the offer. So I effectively was a new player with 8.5 billion and no system permits, engineers, Shinrarta and no more triple-elite.
Burst lasers appear to have come a long way since their useless days. They are viable now. I use them in place of beams in many power limited cases now and love them.
Wish i could reclaim mats from them to go towards something else As selling these weapons for credits holds no value.
All the engineers need do is offer one more option button. Calculations and percentages are what frontier do best, pretty confident this would be relatively easy coding.
Flimley
Why not give them to new players so they don't have to bother running the stupid hamstermill nor paying extra bucks for future shortcuts in the cash store?
![[VR] Mad Mike](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/27/27910.jpg?1553527108){kind=avatar}
I do get your point, but do all your ships really have to have max G5 rated of the best gear in the game?
the old drives still work. ok i would say your exploration ship which you use to detail scan all bodies in a system will definitely benefit from one..........
but combat ships or mission runners and what not? i am not saying they wont have any benefit but i would not say its essential to scrap every single drive you have.
in real life much like in this game, sometimes new tech comes along which totally disrupts the status quo.
It wouldnt be an issue if everything could be bought with credits and our G5 drives could in theory still have a lot of in game credit value if balanced correctly.
that ship has sailed (/flown) so personally i think the ability to strip down old items for parts is a good idea.
I would be happy for a system put in place enabling cmdrs to sell old engineered modules from their fleet carriers. Simultaneously making FC's even more viable for earning credits and helping to enhance the player economy. (If quick can be sold to friends on the cheap)
I do have some modules however that i'd like to chop in for mats. Plus, I'm sure some have made tragic mistakes engineering E grade modules To The Max !!! Then later realised the mistake. These are ultimately no good to anyone, cue the scrapyard.
Flimley
Last edited:
It would be nice if commanders could sell engineered modules all together! It could be like your shipbuilders in Eve. I had a buddy that was one of the biggest ship builders in Eve Online. His gaming took a hard turn, when his account was hacked. They would not help him get his stuff back. He said he had something like 45 grand wrapped up into that account, which I didn't know you could do.I would be happy for a system put in place enabling cmdrs to sell old engineered modules from their fleet carriers. Simultaneously making FC's even more viable for earning credits and helping to enhance the player economy. (If quick can be sold to friends on the cheap)
I do have some modules however that i'd like to chop in for mats. Plus, I'm sure some have made tragic mistakes engineering E grade modules To The Max !!! Then later realised the mistake. These are ultimately no good to anyone, cue the scrapyard.
Flimley
We could have player groups that just engineer modules to various specs and auction/ sell them off. Also similar to ESO, or FFXI (back in the day), where players could craft and sell things, with/ without slotted augmentations.
Last edited: