Engineers The Dweller. Fast Class ranking up. What commodities to sell?

Electric Kite · Jun 30, 2016

Hello Commanders o7

The gerat engineer grind continues.
Im currently just at class 3 rank with the Dweller. Im looking at calling in a favour to get the thermal shock weapon effect but when i do ill be busted down to class 1. Was just wondering what commodities are best to sell to the Dweller to buy back the rank essentially without having to scrounge for thoe materials again (i know grade 3 isnt THAT hard to unlock but my time is precious)

Any ideas?

Thanks! o7

Angus · Jun 30, 2016

From memory Animal Meat seemed to be quite good, but check, as I may be mixing things up.

DragoonKnight · Jun 30, 2016

You could just make a bunch of grade 1 mods using materials that are practically worthless and found under every rock. At the very least get him to rank 2 this way. Much easier IMO then hauling commodities back and forth

Jastebro · Jun 30, 2016

If rep is tied to the ammount of profit per sale you make, arriving with a cargo full or rares should get you somewhere.

goemon · Jun 30, 2016

Jastebro said:
If rep is tied to the ammount of profit per sale you make, arriving with a cargo full or rares should get you somewhere.

this,

or mining. there is nothing producing that much profit as mining.

beside that - high value goods from boom systems, which are seriously under galactic average will give you around 800 cr/profit. but compared to mining, you have to do around 8-10 runs for the same profit.

Bod · Jun 30, 2016

Yep, definitely have to agree with mining (if you don't mind doing it).
I dumped a cutter load on him when I started, think it took me to rank 4 if I remember.

Electric Kite · Jun 30, 2016

Yeah maybe rares then or low level gade upgrades. do you HAVE to apply the module upgrade to gain rank or can u just preview, generate and discard (if u dont like it) and still gain rep?

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I would mine but.. for some reason..as soon as you have anything in the cargo hold every pilot in known space decides they need to risk their lives to have it.

MUST HAVE THOSE SOCKS. I NEED THEM. ILL DIE FOR THEM!

*Dies for socks.

Tzukai · Jun 30, 2016

You can discard it and still get the rep. It's spending the materials that gains it.

goemon · Jun 30, 2016

Electric Kite said:
I would mine but.. for some reason..as soon as you have anything in the cargo hold every pilot in known space decides they need to risk their lives to have it.

i mine in a clipper for that reason in 2.1. - simply outrun any pirat. a pristine metallic is only two jumps from the dweller if i remember correctly.

Julio Montega · Jun 30, 2016

goemon said:
this,

or mining. there is nothing producing that much profit as mining.

beside that - high value goods from boom systems, which are seriously under galactic average will give you around 800 cr/profit. but compared to mining, you have to do around 8-10 runs for the same profit.

I wonder what impact goods sold have when they were bought by another player and dropped as abandoned...

goemon · Jun 30, 2016

Julio Montega said:
I wonder what impact goods sold have when they were bought by another player and dropped as abandoned...

good question, not tested.

Jastebro · Jun 30, 2016

Electric Kite said:
Yeah maybe rares then or low level gade upgrades. do you HAVE to apply the module upgrade to gain rank or can u just preview, generate and discard (if u dont like it) and still gain rep?

Just generating the mod is enough for rep, applying is optional. It's a useful way to get rid of abundant stuff like carbon, nickel and sulphur.
That the engineer in question isn't upset because you waste its time by creating useless mods for no benefit is beyond me.

SCTrojanbulldog · Jun 30, 2016

If you mine, that helps too. I'm at four and will be mining for mats..:: I'll be selling the high value stuff to the dweller to gain my last rank.

Electric Kite · Jun 30, 2016

goemon said:
good question, not tested.

Cool. Im totally gonna use this exploit to gain rep for sure.

kwai chang · Jan 19, 2022

DragoonKnight said:
You could just make a bunch of grade 1 mods using materials that are practically worthless and found under every rock. At the very least get him to rank 2 this way. Much easier IMO then hauling commodities back and forth

thanks, helped me out to rep from 3 to 4 for the power distro.... just modded the beam lasers to run up the rep cheaply.