Remote Engineering

Seonid · Feb 23, 2018

As per https://twitter.com/EliteDangerous/status/967021369425891329

Can we get any indication if this is limited to pinned blueprints only or other restrictions please?

-VR- Max Factor · Feb 23, 2018

Seonid said:
As per https://twitter.com/EliteDangerous/status/967021369425891329

Can we get any indication if this is limited to pinned blueprints only or other restrictions please?

Remote engineering will be for pinned blueprints only. In the new system when you pin, you pin the whole range, so if you pin lightweight multicannon it will pin grade 1-5 of lightweight multicannon.

Dommarraa · Feb 23, 2018

Additionally, it does not contribute to increasing your Rep with the Engineer (but you are level 5 already right, so it doesnt matter), nor can you apply any different/new specials

Seonid · Feb 23, 2018

Max Factor said:
Remote engineering will be for pinned blueprints only. In the new system when you pin, you pin the whole range, so if you pin lightweight multicannon it will pin grade 1-5 of lightweight multicannon.

That makes the increased range FSD a solid pin then, saves some pain of trucking your new low jump range ships around a bit.

-VR- Max Factor · Feb 23, 2018

Seonid said:
That makes the increased range FSD a solid pin then, saves some pain of trucking your new low jump range ships around a bit.

And you can have one for each engineer as well.

Ian Doncaster · Feb 23, 2018

Remember also that you only need a G1 engineer to put a special on - so go over to Palin, pin G5 dirty drives, and never have to see him again because Farseer or Martuuk can add the specials. Depending on what you want to do you may be able to engineer most of your ships to G5+special and only actually need to visit a few engineers in person

Bob McBobblehead · Feb 23, 2018

Just remember you can't convert legacy modules remotely, you have to visit the engineers for that.

XLA · Feb 25, 2018

Do we know for certain if the existing Pins will count in 3.0 or do we have to re-pin the recipes again ?

Dommarraa · Feb 25, 2018

XLA said:
Do we know for certain if the existing Pins will count in 3.0 or do we have to re-pin the recipes again ?

We don't know, but I hope so. It took me a lot longer than excepted to visit them all and pick a pin. It's more complicated that expected, there are plenty of overlaps and clashes, probably need another spreadsheet.

Ian Doncaster · Feb 25, 2018

XLA said:
Do we know for certain if the existing Pins will count in 3.0 or do we have to re-pin the recipes again ?

I would guess that your existing pins will stay - but only at the level you pinned them, so you'll almost certainly want to go back and re-pin them to get the full five-level pin.

(The single-level pins I set up in Beta 1 didn't automatically extend themselves when multi-level pinning was introduced in Beta 2)