Engineers So when do we hear from frontier about plugging the Gaps in Engineers?

Titan1978

Titan1978
Storage
Materials/Data cap
Material spawn eccentricities (ie common materials dropping rarely, some mission only mats not appearing at all in boards etc)
AI Nags
Interdiction Death Squads


Any response with indicative timelines will help assuage some of the flak Engineers has been getting (not just the love :)) . Storage, IMO needs a response as it looks like the biggest miss from the almost universal complaints by commanders.
 

EValve

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AI nagging?

Interdiction Death Squads?
Weren't they done for after the removal of exploited Engineer upgrades from NPC's ?

Material/Data cap?
If storage is inbound, reducing the size of your magic hold is definitely not out of bounds.
 

Bomba Luigi

Bomba Luigi
If you with storage mean Module storage they said its high on there to do list. Cargo storage I wouldn't expect to come unless FD says otherwise.
There answer to Materials/Data cap was that they raised it to what he have now, wouldn't expect them to raise it again but who knows.
Material spawn I don't see anything funky myself, so not sure what you mean.
Last two I too don't really know what you mean.
 
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Bomba Luigi said:
Cargo storage I wouldn't expect to come unless FD says otherwise.
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I'd like to fly my eagle one day again... Or my Vulture, or buy an FDL, or a Hauler, a Sidey... It's slightly disheartening that I'd have to throw away certain commodities I've worked my "derrière" off to get. The missions awarding some of these don't exactly spawn on command... Doing over a 100 missions again to maybe have a chance at gaining some Articulation Motors in a ship that's barely able to accept a 10th of the missions available gets a salty taste in my mouth.
 

Bomba Luigi

Bomba Luigi
EValve said:
I'd like to fly my eagle one day again... Or my Vulture, or buy an FDL, or a Hauler, a Sidey... It's slightly disheartening that I'd have to throw away certain commodities I've worked my "derrière" off to get. The missions awarding some of these don't exactly spawn on command... Doing over a 100 missions again to maybe have a chance at gaining some Articulation Motors in a ship that's barely able to accept a 10th of the missions available gets a salty taste in my mouth.
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you don't have to do mission if they don't give you the reward you want, doing mission will not increase your chance of getting missions with a certain reward.
 

EValve

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Bomba Luigi said:
you don't have to do mission if they don't give you the reward you want, doing mission will not increase your chance of getting missions with a certain reward.
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Indeed, they do however pass time while waiting for a bulletin board refresh, and take you out to other bulletin boards to check if there is one over there!
But I guess resetting or moving to another system does the same...

Anyway, would you know if they fixed the fact you couldn't complete missions when not having the required cargo space to accommodate for the awarded commodities? I'm a bit concerned about engineering both Eagle and Sidey if they only carry a 2t cargo slot.
 

BigFW

BigFW
I think the relative absence of comments from Frontier on the forum on a variety of Engineer topic threads means they are doing some jolly good mulling on what tweaks are needed.

I reckon an update this week or next depending on when they run out of tea and cake in the mulling room.
 

GG7

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BigFW said:
I think the relative absence of comments from Frontier on the forum on a variety of Engineer topic threads means they are doing some jolly good mulling on what tweaks are needed.

I reckon an update this week or next depending on when they run out of tea and cake in the mulling room.
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Their silence is deafening! [uhh]
 

knowles2

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Titan1978 said:
Storage
Materials/Data cap
Material spawn eccentricities (ie common materials dropping rarely, some mission only mats not appearing at all in boards etc)
AI Nags
Interdiction Death Squads


Any response with indicative timelines will help assuage some of the flak Engineers has been getting (not just the love :)) . Storage, IMO needs a response as it looks like the biggest miss from the almost universal complaints by commanders.
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Storage will come with one of the major updates, hopefully 2.2

AI nags/Material spawn will likely be fix in the next few minor updates.
 

Gedemon

Gedemon
Bomba Luigi said:
you don't have to do mission if they don't give you the reward you want, doing mission will not increase your chance of getting missions with a certain reward.
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But what do you do when a mission is giving you a reward you want but can't use immediately ?
 

ChaosCloud

ChaosCloud
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Indeed, they do however pass time while waiting for a bulletin board refresh, and take you out to other bulletin boards to check if there is one over there!
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Or you could give the whole system the same finger that RNG is giving us all the time and just mode hop, still works.

Seriously though, the RNG, material variety and the mix of getting it is awful. I'm bursting with rare crap for the G5 Dirty Drives and can't use that thanks to the huge blockage wall infront of them but I can barely get any G3 materials together.
If the high end stuff is easier to get than the mid range stuff then "high end is harder to unlock" is STILL bad design.

But yeah whatever, working as intended (tm), just as (a) plant.
I wonder if anyone'll get that ref, pm me if you do?
 

bladebss

bladebss
Yea im desperate for the cargo transfer/storage/abolishment. I have a python that i am doing missions with as its the best ship for the job. I earned some micro weave cooling hoses from the mission and this ment i could craft 2 dirty drive upgrades one for my python and the other i want for my fdl... but i cant! I have too much cargo in my python to change ships to my fdl (that has no cargo space at all) so im stuck.

The work around i tryed was to jettison my preciouse cargo juat out sode the station wiz back in swap to my fdl, sell a scb and get a cargo rack, wiz out the station and pick up the cooling hoses and then go see the engeneer.

My first attemp at this did not work as some rude and rather sneaky individual scooped it!

So about 2 days later and i have now managed to find a mission with cooling hoses and get them in my fdl!

This is not ideal.. to say the least!

Next i want to do my fsd.. but guess what.. that needs cargo too so it look like im going to get alot of practice doing this little trick. Or i accept that evey ship i want to upgrade needs a 4tone cargo rack and to be able to do the mission. Gaaaa!

My ieagle is going to gather dust :(
 
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ChaosCloud

ChaosCloud
bladebss said:
My first attemp at this did not work as some rude and rather sneaky individual scooped it!

So about 2 days later and i have now managed to find a mission with cooling hoses and get them in my fdl!

This is not ideal.. to say the least!
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I was about to say to do that on a planetary base and deposit your cargo via SRV, because stuff jettisoned via SRV STILL doesn't trigger a decay, while it does when done from the ship, thanks for consistency FD, FDcistency, conFDisty? Whatever.
That'd require you to have both ships on said base in the first place though so yeah, not helpful : (

Also not saying that SRV jettison should trigger a decay, I'm saying that the damn ships should stop to do it, it makes no sense.

And I feel ya, same reason I can't upgrade my Vulture. Then again, I don't got G5 nor G4 DDT access so I might as well toss the cargo for it and just swap because by the time I find a mission that gives me more hoses I probably still haven't come across all the (un)"common" materials for it. Whenever I feel like playing again more I remember engineers and remember why I stopped playing last time.
 
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