Engineers Quick Engineer questions!

CMDR Dukie

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Hi CMDRs

I have now accessed four Engineers, but have not yet started the upgrading process. I'm collecting materials/data etc and have cashed in Exploration data which took me to Level 2 with Felicity.

Do I need to progress through each level 1 to 5 for a given modification or can I jump in at any point from 2 to 5 when I have the required items for the upgrade? Am I missing anything by starting at a later level? I'm planning to cash in more exploration data to level up with Felicity and then start upgrading my FSD units. I noticed that the Engineer wanted to know which drive I wanted the mods on so I'm assuming that I will need to mod several FSD units to cover each class I need. One last question. Once I have unlocked a modification for say a 5A FSD can this modification be applied to just one ship or all my ships that use the 5A class unit?

Many thanks

CMDR Dukie
 

h347h

h347h
You have to unlock the rank first then you can use that ranks upgrade.

It is roughly 3-4 mods of each tier to unlock the next and I just had 2 rank 4 shield mods unlock rank 5 so I hope that helps.
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
To make it clearer - You have to rank up, rank by rank, but you don't have to do it for every modification. On, say, rank three, you can craft all rank 3 mods the Engineer have (if you have materials, of course)
 

CMDR Dukie

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Thanks guys

Reading more about this it seems that you can only have one modification applied to say an FSD drive. If the 'benefits' from each Level are not cumulative I will play the RNG game as and when materials are available. If I can miss out lots of repeated lower level crafting which I don't want to use that's great. Selling exploration data works for Felicity/Elvira so I now have a reason to work on my Exploration ranking! Not sure about Tod and the Dweller though.

Cheers

CMDR Dukie
 

h347h

h347h
CMDR Dukie said:
Thanks guys

Reading more about this it seems that you can only have one modification applied to say an FSD drive. If the 'benefits' from each Level are not cumulative I will play the RNG game as and when materials are available. If I can miss out lots of repeated lower level crafting which I don't want to use that's great. Selling exploration data works for Felicity/Elvira so I now have a reason to work on my Exploration ranking! Not sure about Tod and the Dweller though.

Cheers

CMDR Dukie
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The sticky threads have more info on how to rep up with various engineers too so check that out. Inara is also a great website to look at crafting recipes instead of worrying about pinning. Also keep in mind going to rank 5 is an option, I personally like rank 3 dirty drives instead of rank 5. Fast enough but not too much heat build up.
 
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