As a returning commander I decided my goal was to outfit a fleet of ships for various purposes. This meant finding engineers and gathering materials.
I found it a challenge to find certain items. I was aware of material traders but assumed wrong how the graphic user interface for the trader was designed. When I would see zero in a category of an item I wanted, I assumed the trader did not have them in stock .Boy was I wrong! A helpful commander educated me to the fact that material traders always had everything in stock and the way to use their interface was to click on what you wanted first regardless of the number in the box ( which indicates how many items I have ) and then click on what I was willing to trade for it.
I was thrilled when I found this out because it opened up opportunities for ship upgrading that seemed impossible the way I was previously looking for those materials. A big shout out to Metatheurologist for sharing that information with me. Online I bumped into a lot of other commanders that were having similar frustrations to mine and I hope they see this post because it makes a hell of a lot of difference in how easy it is to engineer ships.
I found it a challenge to find certain items. I was aware of material traders but assumed wrong how the graphic user interface for the trader was designed. When I would see zero in a category of an item I wanted, I assumed the trader did not have them in stock .Boy was I wrong! A helpful commander educated me to the fact that material traders always had everything in stock and the way to use their interface was to click on what you wanted first regardless of the number in the box ( which indicates how many items I have ) and then click on what I was willing to trade for it.
I was thrilled when I found this out because it opened up opportunities for ship upgrading that seemed impossible the way I was previously looking for those materials. A big shout out to Metatheurologist for sharing that information with me. Online I bumped into a lot of other commanders that were having similar frustrations to mine and I hope they see this post because it makes a hell of a lot of difference in how easy it is to engineer ships.